When the vintage craze peaked in December 2025, Japanese resellers had pulled the card from listings, resulting in a price surge from $11 to $80 in recent sales
The point is, as the hobby continues to be inaccessible to people unwilling to pay stupid prices for childrens cardboard, its worth considering a switch to Japanese (or really any other language), maybe even just temporarily while The Pokmon Company re-evaluates its printing strategies
Youre not the boss of me, Dr
You may find prices as low as $1015 USD per card if youre getting a lot of them graded in bulk, but the service may have to mail your cards out rather than grading them on-site
Greg Weisman: Things change and advance for a dozen Magic: The Gathering characters as they go through the trauma of War
In the G of the name of the card sits Gollum, eternally reaching out to his precious, but it remains just out of reach