Its 1st Edition Shadowless Base Set, for example, sold in March 2022 for an astonishing $420,000
Non-Roman alphabet languages generally demand a higher price for their cool factor: The cheapest of the tier one languages is Japanese, considered to be the third most expensive but most accessible of foreign language cards due to the fact that most LGSes worldwide have Japanese booster allocations
By way of benchmark, Konami shifted 1.6 million (!) combined copies of Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters 4, another card battle title for Gameboy Color released around the same time as Pokmon TCG2
If you can trigger it during an opponent's turn, that makes all your weak creatures a fantastic blocker that can trade with anything they can block
The other abilities are just in the noise
Still others had some of the most unhinged and ridiculous ideas