iono's pokemon cards Pokémon TCG: Iono 350/190 SAR Shiny Treasure ex sv4a If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way Iono - SVP124

Theres no way this is legit and he dropped 150k without even comparing it to a picture of a real one

Now the card isnt being respected as a game piece, and is instead purely a cash cow in the same way all those Reserved List cards sitting in PSA grade tiles are

Mind The face of "Mind" is appropriately Jhoira of the Ghitu, one of the greatest minds we've seen spring from Dominaria (which is saying a lot, given that both Urza and Teferi call the plane home)

For starters, if youre using a lot of cards that can create extra mana, whether that be mana rocks or ramp cards, then you can occasionally use fewer lands

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