Pretty pleased with this return, got 11/15 correct from my pregrades (2 +1 off, 2 -1 off).
This card is a silver lining ending to a story I always kick myself about. In summer 2016, before I got back into Pokémon cards, I travelled to Japan. I still had a soft spot for Pokémon and as a big part of Japanese culture and I still wanted to visit a Pokémon Center.
By pure coincidence, I visited the Tokyo Skytree location on opening week. There were thousands of Poncho Pikachu Rayquaza boxes on the shelves, I was going back and forth between picking one up as a souvenir, but ultimately decided it was too big to take back with me as I was backpacking…
Instead, I picked up 5 booster packs which allowed me to be given this card as a promo. It survived coming back across the world with me, unsleeved in a backpack! When I got back into cards later that year, sat in the back of a binder.
Surprised and thrilled to see it pull a 10, this card means a lot to me 