INVENTORY LEVELS After rarity, few factors are more likely to signal an incoming card spike than low inventory levels
Brand: Pokemon Item Type: Single Card Series: Obsidian Flames Company: Miraidon ex Release Date: August 11, 2023 UPC: 756995972852 Stock #: 446818 Our Guarantees to You, Our Valued Customer
Then do it again
Team Whistle, a sports broadcasting company, conducted a study in the middle of our long quarantine winter which found that 77 percent of millennials and Gen Zers felt a desire to engage with comfortable content that will give them a break from the news, with 73 percent reporting that theyve spent money on a hobby within the last month. (A majority of the same sample reported card collecting to be more comfortable than, say, reading comic books or playing video games.) That appetite combines neatly with the unsteady economy, which was in total freefall at the beginning of the pandemic and has shown signs of a faltering recovery in 2021
Thats unreasonable (though Im sure it will happen at some point)
The initial impression of Scarlet & Violet is that its hoping to revitalise how the TCG plays by stripping away a lot of the faff and bloat thats built up over the years, while also providing the usual collector art treatments that made the Sword & Shield era so popular
