A copy of the ultra-rare first-place winner's card with a PSA Mint 9 rating sold via Heritage auctions for $18,000 in November 2021
For individual cards and older booster packs and boxes, you will just have to gain a lot of experience and learn the nuances of real Pokemon products and then make educated purchases, ideally with a means of recourse if it turns out you were scammed (some kind of buyer protection program, etc)
In reality, it reached the limit, but in the now-defunct Yu-Gi-Oh Online, it reached the ban
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The land base is another easy way to reduce the cost of Commander decks right now, as so many lands have steadily risen in price over the last few years that if you want to run mostly non-basics, it's going to take up a huge portion of your budget.