… Kuznitz estimates that it could have been graded a PSA 1, a rank reserved for damaged cards in relatively poor condition which can nevertheless sometimes be highly sought after and run for higher prices based on their own rarity. …
… Despite the current mania around cards and collectibles, it’ll likely get a fairer shake now than in eras when the saturation of these games were somehow worse. …
… But the Pokémon Company doesn’t offer a way to throw away $2,500 with the click of a button, and the cards within packs can at least be used to, y’know, play the actual trading card game. …
… So if you were worried this was somehow a way for Pokémon to start making AI trading cards, worry not. …
… Now, the company behind Steam and Half-Life has responded to the lawsuit via a lengthy statement posted on Steam’s support site in which it defends how its loot boxes work and compares them to real-world products like baseball and Pokémon cards. “These types of loot boxes in our games are widely us… …
… Pokémon Trading Card Pocket has some digital “immersive” art that also plays up this idea, with entire worlds in the art for players to scroll through. …
… By Zack Kotzer Published May 10, 2026 | Comments 2 Last March, trading card collectors were startled when rare uncut sheets of Yu-Gi-Oh cards began to emerge across market sites like eBay and Facebook. …
GameStop Pokémon Pokémon TCG By Rebekah Valentine Published May 6, 2026 | Comments 6 As GameStop tries to buy eBay with $56 billion of fictional money , it’s also putting a lot of effort into pump its own profits by price-gouging customers on collectibles like trading cards . …
… At that point, the foolhardy carries on buying packs with the increasingly unlikely chance of filling in gaps for the rarer cards, while the smarter collector switches over to trading and buying singles. …
… Dexerto spotted a post on X from Ryo Saeba that reported the store is asking people to answer a 15-question quiz before they can buy any of the trading card game cards. …