Sandile #551

A 2011 McDonald's Happy Meal promo handed out the year Sandile debuted in English. Holo-foil, usually creased and kid-handled, but clean centered PSA-10 copies trade well above the asking price — Sandile's distinctive face-mask design photographs especially well.

From the February-2023 Scarlet & Violet base set — Sandile got a Special Illustration Rare (numbered past the printed total), the painterly modern alt-art treatment that became the SV-era hallmark. A clean modern collector pickup that rivals the BW-era classics.

Unbroken Bonds was the May-2019 SM-era set famous for the Reshiram & Charizard-GX Tag Team chases. Sandile's Common reprint here is the strongest of the bulk-tier — clean illustration, modest demand.

The original. 2011 Black & White Common — the very first English Sandile, the launch-set print that introduced the sunglasses-croc line to a new generation. Bulk for over a decade with slow nostalgia lift.

Plasma Freeze was the May-2013 BW-era set built around the Team Plasma storyline. Sandile's reprint here is launch-era pack filler — clean BW-era Dark/Ground artwork.

Emerging Powers was the late-2011 first-real-expansion follow-up to Black & White. Sandile's reprint here is launch-era pack bulk — same six-month window as the original BW launch.

Dark Explorers was the May-2012 BW-era set built around Hydreigon and the Team Plasma villains — the perfect thematic home for any Dark/Ground Pokémon. Sandile fits but the price stayed in bulk territory.

An XY-era 2014 Common reprint — Sandile appearing in the Kalos-launch set, the kind of off-generation card XY-era expansions sometimes slipped in. Tied for the cheapest tier in the catalog.

The second Sandile in 2019's Unbroken Bonds — companion Common to #113. Same set, different art, near-identical price tier; the cheapest verified Sandile in the catalog.