Phantasmal Flames Premium Checklane Blister

The premium checklane blister carries a foil promo on top of its packs, which is what separates it from the plain version, and it is stocked by the tills in supermarkets and high street chains rather than allocated to card shops. That distribution is the useful thing to know here: Phantasmal Flames sold through fast at specialist retailers because Mega Charizard X ex is the set's central card, so general retail is where these were still findable weeks later. The set is small at 94 cards in the main run and 130 in total, which improves the odds on a short opening. Availability is regional and patchy by nature, and the specialist shops we sweep tend to take these in job lots rather than stocking them steadily, so they appear without much warning.