Insertion fees add up quickly, especially when combined with final value fees (which can reach 15% in some categories)
The store had to stop people camping outside overnight when trading cards were restocked, The Verge reported
With only 3 Energy, Genome Hacking uses any attack of the opponent, including their high-damage signature moves
With turnaround times at major grading services ranging anywhere from a few days to over a year, I didnt want to absorb the risk of buying cards, sending them off to get graded, and then have to watch helplessly as the price point/support that I bought the raw card at get decimated as card values were to fall (and I didnt have my card back from the grading service yet)
I say "to a point" because there is not a straight correlation between complexity and skill
Swords to Plowshares, from Alpha, is the poster child of this problem