Gloyd Orangeboar Fierce Competitor is just a great card for slowing an opponent while you build your board of characters
Birmingham Evening Mail
(I also love that artwork too!) Oh, and this was true of the first Portal set as well as many strong cards from it were reprinted almost immediately, like Gravedigger, Thundermare, Alabaster Dragon, Raging Goblin, or Natural Spring as well as draft standards like Mind Rot, Volcanic Hammer, or Breath of Life which was a cheaper version of Resurrection in White, and then others that were reprinted here and there later, like the afore-mentioned Ebon Dragon, or Endless Cockroaches and Gift of Estates
Now with disposable income, these thirty-somethings started buying back the cards of their childhood, fueling a first wave of price increases
There were some rare English Pikachu cards when I originally acquired them, like: The Futsal 001/005 Pikachu that was originally only given in England at the Futsal tournaments, but later on also distributed in stores in England (with different insert card), which made it a lot easier/cheaper to get
Timing and drop calendars Multi-site monitoring is most effective when you know where to look and when