Gengar - Holo Rare from Lost Origin, released in 2022, and illustrated by Narumi Sato. 

There are always going to be certain Pokemon who are so popular that their popularity pushes most of their cards out of affordable price ranges. I am (probably) never going to own the Fusion Strike alt art Gengar, or the Phantasmal Flames SIR Gengar, which makes cards like this such a treat. Narumi Sato has been with the TCG since the early Sword and Shield era, and has illustrated some extremely popular and well-known cards, like the Beedrill alt art from Astral Radiance (a personal favourite) and the Eevee IR from Twilight Masquerade. 

She is most well known for her hand-drawn watercolour style, which gives all her cards this amazing soft and warm, but still realistic feeling. This style is reminiscent of the original Ken Sugimori sketches - and Sato's shading on Gengar is phenomenal (dare I say, phantasmal?!); it's not just PURPLE it's violet, and black, and white, and a whole spectrum of purple. This style also helps her to bring an amazing amount of storytelling into her art - the way Gengar is hanging off the chandelier here automatically makes me think of the Old Chateau from Diamond and Pearl, or some other similarly haunted location from the games. Across all her cards Pokémon seem like they're just going about their business in cozy everyday scenes, and the card is just a window into this small part of their lives that Sato has managed to capture. 

  
Current market value: $2.39 AUD.

Day 3 of posting a cheap but beautiful card from my collection until this hobby isn't cooked.