Charizard will forever remain an iconic and desirable Pokmon in the TCG, which translates into the extremely high values these cards carry
That means you can bring in Beast, clear pesky items away and see off any characters - hopefully left weakened by their missing items - before gathering up some more lore
Subsequent sets have continued this trend, offering special Japanese-only full-art or alternate-art versions of popular cards
The first Charizard card in the e-Reader series arrived in 2002 in the Expedition Base set, this time with Hiromichi Sugiyama as it's illustrator
It could also be that they figured they needed to add some extra value to FF13 cards to make them attractive to anyone who doesn't like the game
The auction, sold through Goldin Auctions, started bids at US$25,000 and shot up to more than four times that amount in just a dozen bids