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Sure, the hits wont be so good that your hands shake with excitement as you try to put the card in a top-loader, but you might actually fill those binders without having to sell your car.

So when the format simply began to revolve around a one-mana 1/1 that turned into a 3/2 flier...it just felt a whole lot more boring to me

However, this is usually a multiplayer deck, and the life-gain is more of a defensive mechanism for the main game plan

Match the Card to the Display Plan Display value is one of the biggest reasons collectors buy Pikachu, so the card should match the way it will be shown

The simplest protection is to buy from vetted sources with a track record, so you are not authenticating every carton yourself