The card's value is driven by the perfect storm of factors that no other Pokemon card can fully replicate: it is the most iconic Pokemon rendered in the most iconic card design from the most iconic set, in the rarest and most desirable printing variant, graded at the highest possible condition by the most trusted authority in the hobby
While the Crashing Footfalls Cascade deck caught a ban in Modern, I appreciate the novelty of making the namesake card the only cascade target while retaining cheap interaction with adventure cards like Brazen Borrower and Bonecrusher Giant
Since Cyclonic Rift appears in over 672,000 decks according to EDHREC, its safe to say theres a lot of demand
We havent covered the widespread attention that the newer sets, like Pokemon 151 have garnered for their misprints
About two weeks ago, Nazgul was indeed $2, but then it quickly climbed to nearly $20, an astonishing feat for an uncommon