Now possessing significant disposable income, this demographic has fundamentally shifted the widespread perception of Pokmon cards from child's toys to high-end collectibles
Mechanical usefulness, plain collectors value, and sometimes rogue elements, can influence these sudden shifts
Summary Iono's Bellibolt ex is a valued card at $30.45 due to its Hyper Rare gold styling
It shows how little the designers understood the game they had created that this card - which lets you draw three cards for one mana - was assumed to be roughly as powerful as Giant Growth, Lightning Bolt, Dark Ritual, or (of all things) Healing Salve
As Corbin mentioned in his post on June 4th, the dealers had to compete with buylist prices for chase cards like Tarmogoyf because even though only one or two vendors had a high buylist price for the card initially (the $130 and higher range) that meant that everyone else eventually had to raise their buylist prices in order to snag some Tarmogoyfs for themselves
A one-mana play that really shines when mutated upon would be an upgrade, but more than anything Sea-Dasher Octopus needs a two-mana counterspell that really punishes opponents throughout the game