The cards Im less interested in talking about today are the known quantities
They are great for children learning to play the game, but they are dead weight in a financial portfolio
A Pokemon fan recently posted a side-by-side snap of new and old cards featuring Entei, Suicune, and Raikou in r/PokemonTCG, asking fellow collectors modern or vintage? In the caption, OP noted how they love the quality and texture of modern Japanese cards but that theres something about yellow bordered vintage that still gets them
Cards like this, particularly bulky Venusaur, highlight why that is so great
I noticed in the early 80s there were card dealers coming to the coin shows selling us coin dealers baseball cards, he told Intelligent Collector in 2019
These are often considered "safer" by some collectors because they are sold individually rather than being taken from a booster box that may have already yielded its high-rarity "hits." The set highlights legendary figures from the One Piece world, specifically focusing on "Dark King" Silvers Rayleigh and Edward Newgate (Whitebeard)