pokemon base set booster box 1st edition price 1999 Factory Sealed Choose your variant to see the specific details. THE ULTIMATE COMPLETE 1ST EDITION

a 2005 Pokmon Gold Star Metagross Delta Species card worth about $2,850

Perhaps even a combination of those, with foil treatment extended art cards a possibility, for example

resources just to hit his elevated 6000-power defensive threshold

These are the set holos from Holon Phantoms

In a non-Standard set like Modern Horizons 3 in which reprints are a huge portion of the set, The List doesn't apply

If you are a collector you buy a lot of packs that are about 4$ each and if you are a competitive player you are paying hundreds of dollars just to be able to build the deck you want to play for the current meta, just so you spent a similar amount as soon as the next expansion comes out to stay relevant in the meta