{"id":285745,"date":"2024-07-12T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=285745"},"modified":"2024-07-12T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T03:18:19","slug":"pokemon-tcg-the-value-of-this-skyla-card-has-skyrocketed-just-like-her-pokemon-plasma-gale-bw7-076-070","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/07\/12\/pokemon-tcg-the-value-of-this-skyla-card-has-skyrocketed-just-like-her-pokemon-plasma-gale-bw7-076-070\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] The Value of This Skyla Card Has Skyrocketed\u2014Just Like Her Pok\u00e9mon (Plasma Gale [BW7] 076\/070)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/12080845\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-5.webp\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Skyla\" class=\"wp-image-285751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/12080845\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-5.webp 1024w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/12080845\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-5-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/12080845\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-5-768x524.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/12080845\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-5-282x192.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the surface, the Skyla card from fifth-generation Pok\u00e9mon TCG set Plasma Gale might not necessarily seem to be the most obvious candidate to experience a massive price spike. While it does indeed benefit from many of the usual features that make a Pok\u00e9mon TCG card highly valuable, it wouldn&#8217;t have struck most fans as the one card which would&#8217;ve been most likely to go through what it just did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent weeks, this Super Rare (SR) card depicting the Mistralton Gym Leader has more than sextupled in value. While this card is indeed a Full Art card that depicts a female character, that in and of itself isn&#8217;t enough to fully explain that type of jump in such a short timespan. After all, the video games set for remakes are Gen 6&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon X and Y, not Gen 5&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Black and White\u2014as such, something like this might have been more expected of a card featuring a female character first introduced in the sixth generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, there are certain elements in play which do contribute to the card&#8217;s immense value. For example, the background of the card has an image of a whirlwind on it; this is an allusion to the fact that Skyla is a Flying-type specialist. In addition, the illustrator clearly chose to play up the &#8220;female character effect&#8221;, positioning Skyla at an angle that highlights her physical features as well as her fairly revealing and form-fitting clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also helps that Skyla is one of the most-frequently &#8220;shipped&#8221; characters of Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s fifth generation.  A large number of fans like to believe that she&#8217;s romantically involved with Elesa, the Electric-type expert who&#8217;s the Nimbasa Gym Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This card&#8217;s English version is card 149\/149 from Boundaries Crossed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following its recent massive price surge, a copy of a Skyla (Plasma Gale [BW7] 076\/070) card now sells for a massive 170,000 JPY (~US$1,068)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other TCG-related news, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/07\/11\/pokemon-tcg-pokemon-card-gym-promotional-cards-set-for-launch-release-date-19-july-2024\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Card Gym promotional cards<\/a>.&nbsp;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?slide=modal?slide=modal?slide=modal?slide=modal?slide=modal\" 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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the surface, the Skyla card from fifth-generation Pok\u00e9mon TCG set Plasma Gale might not necessarily seem to be the most obvious candidate to experience a massive price spike. While it does indeed benefit from many of the usual features that make a Pok\u00e9mon TCG card highly valuable, it wouldn&#8217;t have struck most fans as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":285751,"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-285745","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\/285745"}],"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=285745"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286001,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285745\/revisions\/286001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}