Theyre a sure-fire way to spend a lot of money in a short amount of time if youre trying to chase cards, but for Tales of Middle-earth in particular, theyre even more of a headache at the moment
I did not find any images of reverses from this set featuring such a stripe of different colour on the edge (I am grateful if anyone can provide any), but I did find one for a later set which has the same card layout for the reverses: image579962 229 KB The Charizard from Ex Crystal Guardians features a sliver of non-holofoil yellow on the top of the card
We love how the artwork does a really great job at showing you the sheer size of how big Rayquaza actually is
But they are powerful enough to justify first-picking, and seeing them late is when you really should capitalize on them because that is a signal that nobody else is trying to employ that specific strategy, and you can therefore wheel cards that will be important for your deck
The "Ghostfire effect," as we called it at the time, was the perfect fit