As a sealed pokemon card product, it's a strong long-term investment for collectors
Number 394 Language English Legal Formats Brawl, Commander, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Standard, Timeless, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Pauper Rulings (2/2/2024) You'll still cloak the top card of your library even if Cryptic Coat isn't on the battlefield as its first ability resolves
Teach / Blackbeard (OP16-119) is the pricier of the two base SEC prints, sitting around $27-30 on TCGPlayer as of late July 2026, back near the low-$30s it touched shortly after launch after a dip into the $23-25 range in mid-July
One sometimes despairs that anything peculiar one learns will ever come in handy more than once or even just once, but it surely does, with a little patience
Although the quality of games was lower than with more traditional cubes this wasn't a big deal
You can either call this a natural result for a beautiful card thats over three years old at this point, or you can blame the new Mega Darkrai card for bringing the communitys attention back to AKIRA EGAWAs artwork
