{"id":231854,"date":"2024-03-22T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=231854"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T03:18:52","slug":"pokemon-tcg-path-to-the-peak-takes-decks-to-the-top-time-gazer-s10d-088-067","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/03\/22\/pokemon-tcg-path-to-the-peak-takes-decks-to-the-top-time-gazer-s10d-088-067\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] Path to the Peak Takes Decks to the Top (Time Gazer [S10D] 088\/067)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With the new Standard format on the way, a Pok\u00e9mon TCG card that served as much as the key to victory for many decks as it was the bane of others’ existence will be making its way out of Standard-format tournament play. First released in Silver Lance [S6H] and reprinted in Time Gazer [S10D], Path to the Peak will now be confined to collections as well as Expanded-format play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to understate just how truly impactful this card has been with regard to the Pok\u00e9mon TCG metagame. Path to the Peak neutralizes the Ability of all Pok\u00e9mon with a Rule Box. Every Pok\u00e9mon V, Pok\u00e9mon VSTAR, and Pok\u00e9mon-ex has a Rule Box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these Pok\u00e9mon have among the most powerful Abilities in the meta. As a result, Pok\u00e9mon with Rule Boxes as well as Abilities in general are staples in almost every deck. Therefore, a large number of tournament decks included Path to the Peak as a countermeasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a visual perspective, the card depicts the Galar region’s Path to the Peak that connects the Tunnel to the Top and the Crown Shrine. This card’s Ultra Rare (UR) version from Time Gazer [S10D] features gold outlines around the trees and the large snowflakes all over the card’s illustration\u2014apt for a card that has played a key role in many player’s road to victory in tournaments all over the world. In that sense, even the very name “Path to the Peak” is a fitting one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the illustration features a Snom in the top-left corner. The Ice\/Bug-type Pok\u00e9mon has gained something of a cult-like following among a sizable number of Pok\u00e9mon fans, especially among younger Millennials and Gen Z fans who may have first gotten into Pok\u00e9mon around the sixth or seventh generation or later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This card’s English version is 213\/189 from Astral Radiance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A peak-condition Path to the Peak (Time Gazer [S10D] 088\/067) card of UR rarity sells for \u00a512,890 (~US$85).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the new Standard format on the way, a Pok\u00e9mon TCG card that served as much as the key to victory for many decks as it was the bane of others’ existence will be making its way out of Standard-format tournament play. First released in Silver Lance [S6H] and reprinted in Time Gazer [S10D], Path […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":231857,"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-231854","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\/231854"}],"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=231854"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231993,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231854\/revisions\/231993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}