just because the deck-building metrics tell you you've got a lot of , , and icons in your deck, doesn't mean you're going make use of all of them.
There was a time when you could get Stone Calendar for a very cheap investment
Foils are tricky for the reasons I mentioned in the intro, plus I'm not 100% sure of the distribution, so we'll be running on the same assumption we did for Modern Masters
The main sentiment here is to wait for the price to drop after the release, and then buy it out with the expectation of a slow market build up
So the accurate framing is: First Pokmon cards ever sold: Bandai Carddass, late September 1996 First Pokmon TCG cards: CoroCoro Pikachu and Jigglypuff, October 15, 1996 First Pokmon TCG set: Japanese Base Set, October 20, 1996 The CoroCoro promos are the true starting point of the Pokmon TCG as a game and a collecting hobby
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