You can see that the only investment vehicle with similar returns to the overall rotated Standard booster boxes was the S&P 500 Index
Collector Nostalgia Cards from the 151 set like Gengar, Dragonair, and even Poliwhirl hit players right in the nostalgia
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Hellkite Charger does a good impression, but its a little expensive to play
The price of a Mewtwo GX (Shining Legends [SM3+] 080/072) card is 27,280 JPY (~US$183)
You can counter an activated or triggered ability, and those are harder to counter with your answer suite as most counters only counter spells