Why Japanese Pokmon cards have historically been a strong investment There are a number of key reasons why Japanese editions of the Pokmon TCG tend to be favoured by investors and serious collectors
Short Sword is a card that goes up with Valduk (see above), but thats a card Im not generally looking to take
Collector Crypt has processed more than $1 billion in cumulative volume by pairing that speed with a simple structure: a physical card gets graded and vaulted, a matching token gets minted, and the two stay linked one to one until a user decides to trade the token, sell it back to the platform, or redeem the physical slab
This is a hefty starting bid, but a Black Lotus sold for $615,000 recently, so it would be no surprise to see bids climbing closer to Tales of Middle-earth's launch
Shiny Entei Got all shiny Entei cards, yay
Of course, this is also a pretty nebulous category of cards, so its easy for some to slip through the cracks