The toolkit contains over 50 useful cards to power up decks, including dozens of Trainer cards, Arceus V, and Arceus VSTAR, over 100 Basic Energy cards, 4 Pokemon TCG booster packs, 65 card sleeves, a Deck Builders Guide, 6 damage-counter dice, a competition-legal coin-flip die, 2 condition markers, an acrylic VSTAR marker, and a code card for Pokemon TCG Live
No risk of confusing players by showing too many background Pokemonits all alternate art, so the stakes are lower, and creativity is higher
On the last day of spoilers for 2012's Return to Ravnica , a little one-drop randomly showed up in the card image gallery with no hype, no spoiler videos, and no fanfare, and this card was Deathrite Shaman
In the past few months alone, millions of dollars worth of Pokemon cards have changed hands, with one particularly rare card smashing through the million-dollar mark in July of 2022
But that rule changed with Magic 2014
Given how rarely the plan works out in my experience, it's as big a cost as possible