Pokemon Day is just around the corner and Amazon wants to keep resellers at bay
Once played, these cards remain in play until you or an opponent do something to remove it
Add in the low supply of many Reserved List cards (which occasionally allows sellers to manipulate the headline price number by listing a copy at an unrealistically high price point, which is how we ended up with Moat at $100,000 this week, even with a BSG 9.5 copy for sale at $3,400 and a played copy at $1,500), and the headline price of a card tends to overstate the price that you can actually get the card for, if you are willing to lower your standards a bit
Savage Beating Savage Beating is a pretty powerful card that forms two-card combos with many cards, like Spellbinder and Chun-Li, Countless Kicks, which explains why its sought after and worth $15
Things get a little confusing when a promo copy is the earliest released foil of a given card
R&D liked the game center because it had a computer LAN (this was before R&D got our own computer lab)