The Pokmon Illustrator card also known as the Pikachu Illustrator card is considered to be one of the rarest cards because there are only 39 copies in existence, which explains why someone would drop so much cash on the card
Each class is focused in two colors: Clerics in White and Black, Rogues in Black and Blue, Warriors in Red and White, and Wizards in Blue and Red
The most expensive card to date is a PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator sold privately by Marwan Dubsy to Logan Paul in 2021 , and cost $5,275,000
You could make the argument that MTG cards are so expensive today because they have always been rare
Less than one year after Post Malone broke the previous record with his purchase of the serialized 001/001 The One Ring from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth for $2 million USD, Grading company CGC shared a post to their Instagram page declaring that a Black Lotus from Alpha that they had graded a Pristine 10 had sold for $3 million
There is no shortage of important three-mana artifacts in Standard right now, and Trophy Mage can grab whichever one you need at the time while also acting as more copies of each