Pokémon · Evolving Skies · Secret Rare · about three years
Filed under Pokémon. Umbreon VMAX Alt Art tracks Secret Rare from Evolving Skies — a specific card to watch rather than an athlete to bet on.
The accessibility score of 15 is the one to read first. Being right about a player and still losing money is entirely possible, and this is the number that tells you when you're in that situation.
Card upside (85) sits above the breakout score (68), which is the rarer shape. It means the cards look primed to react even though the step up in performance is less certain — usually because market size, playing style or an existing collector base is doing work the stat line isn't.
Set against the 5 Pokémon breakout picks scored here, its breakout of 68 ranks 4th of 5, card upside 85 ranks 3rd, accessibility 15 ranks 5th, and risk 26 is the 2nd-lowest. The closest thing to it on the numbers is Charizard ex SAR, which scores 72 and 87 on the same two axes — if you're weighing one against the other, the difference is in the reasoning rather than the scores.
Three years is long enough that current news is noise. You're buying a trajectory, and the main risk stops being performance and starts being changes in the hobby itself — what people collect, and what they've stopped collecting.
At 26, this is one of the calmer entries in here. Read that as relative: the floor under any card is whatever the next person will pay, and that number can move a long way in a month.
You can realistically find Umbreon VMAX Alt Art cards at a card show and online.
Because this is a player rather than a product, you are shopping for singles: show tables and online marketplaces always have them, and the rest of the list depends on how widely the cards were printed.
Every entry gets four separate scores instead of one grade, because a single grade hides the thing you needed. Full explanation in the guide: how to spot a breakout before the cards move.
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