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Katakuris status as One Pieces most popular villain ensures collector demand independent of competitive viability, with Parallel artwork versions commanding premium prices from fans completing Whole Cake Island themed collections
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In his Drive To Work podcast, Magic: The Gathering game designer Mark Rosewater explained that in the early days of Magic, when the team was working on the Arabian Nights expansion, Magic creator Richard Garfield was convinced that the Arabian Nights cards should be a different color" on their card backs
Gamestop can plausibly argue that it's just engaging in what economists call pricing equilibrium , raising the cost of the cards to better reflect their true market value, but as Rutherford points out, this also puts the cards financially out of reach for a huge chunk of the intended Pokmon card consumer market, who aren't in fact collectors flush with cash but children and teenagers eager to play a card game
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