Victini BW Rare – Black Bolt & White Flare

On a sensible planet, I’d be about to tell you that this red equivalent of the black and white cards we just mentioned is selling for about $2. It’s hideous! It’s not a particularly original piece of Victini art, if you can make it out at all. It’s not even an ex. This is an alternative art version of a basic card that is currently priced at $0.15, and it’s not even an especially good card to have in your deck.

This sounds like I’m building up to shaking my head in disbelief at the ridiculous price, and that’s partially true. However, it’s so much stupider than that.

Victini here appears in both sets of cards—it’s the only card that does. Even the basic version is only in Black Bolt. But for reasons you would need a celestial being to explain, the two cards—utterly identical but for the three letters in the near-invisible box bottom left—go for two wildly different prices, one $50 higher than the other.

So if you pull this card in Black Bolt, you’ll have an ugly red card that’s somehow worth $450. But should you pull it from White Flare, for some bloody reason it’ll now fetch you $505

Everything is mad.