Salamence ex Special Illustration Rare
When I wrote about this set before its release, I mentioned how flat I found so much of the art. That’s true here too! Yet, this Salamence ex is selling for $107 or higher. I wish I had one to sell!
It’s a wild card for the game. Once you’ve evolved it from Bagon and Shelgon, you have a Pokémon that can do 50 damage to every one of your opponent’s benched cards, which is utterly devastating. You could take five out of six prize cards in a single turn! The 300 attack is a tougher ask, requiring at least two energy types, and you lose two of them each time you use it. But with 320HP on this Dragon type, I’d just use it to blast the bench until my opponent walked off crying. If that’s something you like the sound of, the Ultra Rare version of the card is only about $3, and the regular ex is under a buck.
