But who would have thought that the Pokmon industry could grow so much in all this time
In July 2022, one robber stole an estimated $500,000 worth of uncommon Pokmon cards from a 62-year-old collector named Christopher Polydorou from his South Carolina home
However, it also doubles as a way to deal damage
Multicolor Kykar, Zephyr Awakener Marcy: Great for Flicker decks with an oddly decent second option if you have nothing worth flickering and don't want to use the mandatory language trigger by giving you a 1/1 body
Those cards have been well on their way to becoming unaffordable in the original Japanese, so the more of that set we see finally get adapted into English, the better.
Its also gotten stricter over time, according to SGC grader Derek Grady, who told Sports Collector Digest in 2019 that In the early days of PSA, cards that were graded an 8 for the most part now if you cracked them out and resubmitted, they would grade lower. Nowadays, PSA uses the half-point system that many other services in the card grading industry also favor, which can be broken down like this: PSA 10 / Gem-Mint (GEM-MT): a virtually perfect card, according to PSAs website
