{"id":228473,"date":"2024-03-15T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=228473"},"modified":"2024-03-15T11:03:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T03:03:17","slug":"pokemon-tcg-pikachu-master-ball-mirror-is-the-franchise-icons-latest-banger-pokemon-card-151-sv2a-025-165","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/03\/15\/pokemon-tcg-pikachu-master-ball-mirror-is-the-franchise-icons-latest-banger-pokemon-card-151-sv2a-025-165\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] Pikachu Master Ball Mirror Is the Franchise Icon&#8217;s Latest Banger (Pok\u00e9mon Card 151 [SV2a] 025\/165)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15092347\/In-article-image-tcg-one-card-2-5.webp\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Pikachu Master Ball Mirror\" class=\"wp-image-228474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15092347\/In-article-image-tcg-one-card-2-5.webp 1024w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15092347\/In-article-image-tcg-one-card-2-5-300x155.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15092347\/In-article-image-tcg-one-card-2-5-768x397.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/15092347\/In-article-image-tcg-one-card-2-5-282x146.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2023\/06\/16\/japanese-pokemon-151-where-to-buy-full-card-set-list-and-pull-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Card 151 [SV2a]<\/a> expansion set was specifically designed to bring a sense of nostalgia to long-time Pok\u00e9mon TCG players and collectors who had been staying with the franchise ever since the first generation was launched nearly three decades ago. Unsurprisingly, the Master Ball Mirror edition of the Pikachu card has amassed the highest value of every card in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the face of the Pok\u00e9mon franchise, almost every Pikachu card comes with a certain amount of buzz. However, this one surpassed the usual hype for two reasons. Firstly, it came as part of Pok\u00e9mon Card 151 [SV2a]\u2014a set that can arguably be described as riding on sheer fanservice. While newer and\/or younger Pok\u00e9mon fans might mock &#8220;Genwunners&#8221;, the reality is that these &#8220;Genwunners&#8221; nevertheless do make up a big part of the fanbase and are especially likely to go after cards from this set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, this card comes in a Master Ball Mirror edition which dots the card with Master Ball silhouettes. Not every card in the set comes in a Master Ball Mirror version\u2014and for those which do, this version is far rarer than the original one. The Master Ball&#8217;s iconic place in the Pok\u00e9mon canon as the &#8220;perfect Pok\u00e9 Ball&#8221; adds further impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In English, this card is 025\/165 of the 151 [MEW] set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most recent prices peg a Master Ball Mirror version of a Pikachu (Pok\u00e9mon Card 151 [SV2a] 025\/165) card at \u00a554,800 (~US$369).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other TCG-related news, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/03\/14\/pokemon-tcg-reshiram-zekrom-gx-display-unovas-true-might-dream-league-sm11b-036-049\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reshiram &amp; Zekrom GX card from Dream League [SM11b]<\/a>. Alternatively, you can also head over to the SNKRDUNK App via the banner below and find the top trending and latest single cards and boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunkappen.page.link\/G4g7_PokemonTCG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/15110337\/TCG.webp\" alt=\"TCG on the SNKRDUNK App\" class=\"wp-image-151767\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Card 151 [SV2a] expansion set was specifically designed to bring a sense of nostalgia to long-time Pok\u00e9mon TCG players and collectors who had been staying with the franchise ever since the first generation was launched nearly three decades ago. Unsurprisingly, the Master Ball Mirror edition of the Pikachu card has amassed the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":228474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,18,19,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-collectibles","category-latest-news","category-releases","category-tcg"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228473"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228563,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228473\/revisions\/228563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}