It takes time for that base to become educated, for tastes and preferences to develope, for information about genuinely scarce sets (like EX-era, e-Series) to disseminate, and for that new, dispersed demand to start visibly having an effect on prices
A few factors have resulted in this latest Pokmon card frenzy
1-3 Gold, Silver & Bronze Trophy Pikachu 1998 Lizardon Mega Battle Tournament ($192,000) While the 2006 Trainer promos are expensive indeed, the original 1998 Trophy Pikachu cards which theyre based off are even more rare and expensive
Thats a historically massive metagame share, second only to the reign of terror by Oko, Thief of Crowns back in 2019
Shay removes any and all of these annoying keywords for the low cost of one generic mana while also growing into a sizeable threat himself in a deck with a handful of targeted removal
Whether the set was a success or not, the 30th Anniversary release is not Magic 's first encounter with controversy and will likely not be the last
