Super Rod (Hyper Rare)
This is not one of the best-selling cards in the set, with gold cards really seeming to have had their day when it comes to uber-popularity. Right now, Super Rod is in 14th place when it comes to cash value, hovering just below $14. However, it is a very important card in the live game, and so worthy of a place in our list.
The card itself goes back to the dawn of the TCG, first appearing in English in Neo Genesis in 2000, when it relied on a coin flip to see if you could get an evolution card out of the discard pile and into the deck. Come Black & White it was changed such that it now fished out three basic Energy cards or Pokémon cards in the same manner, with no coin flip required.
The only difference for its Scarlet & Violet incarnation is the addition of the words, “up to,” allowing you to choose to fewer cards if you wish. So why is such a classic card of interest today? Because we haven’t seen it since Sun & Moon, meaning it’s been out of rotation for three years. Now the card is back, players are putting it straight into their decks, with its game-changing chance of letting you get a knocked out favorite back into play.
