surging sparks booster box - sv08 Pokémon TCG SV08: Elite Trainer Currents crackle and dragons roar in the Pokémon TCG Surging Sparks (SV08) Elite Trainer

I think the amount of trust I was willing to give CGC (and its parent company), the quality of their slab itself and the rarity of the higher grades made it the no-brainer choice for Pokmon card grading

It is also very generic and can be used by any deck

Each portfolio includes a Pokmon TCG booster pack, so you can start filling it up right away

This makes it a more aesthetically interesting card to me, and it's also the rarer of the two given how hard it is to track down English copies of Portal Three Kingdoms cards

The Seven Spirit Gates Unleashed serves as the most reliable floater in the archetype

Monitor enters the battlefield with three scion tokens which you can sacrifice to pay for the Displacer's ability, blinking the Monitor, which comes back with three more tokens, aka infinite sacrifice and entering/leaving the battlefield