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Rare trading cards from games like Pokmon and Magic: the Gathering can be worth big bucks an unopened box of 36 packs of the Pokmon First Edition Base Set sold for US$78,000, and a near mint-condition Black Lotus from the Beta Edition set of Magic went for US$26,400, at an auction in March this year

The 1st Edition shadowless print run, where the drop shadow was removed from the card frame before Wizards of the Coast caught the error, is the most historically significant version of the foundational Pikachu card

That relatively low gem rate has actually been favorable for PSA 10 market prices, because it means the gem mint copies represent a genuinely curated subset of the total population

The problem is that Set Boosters are not designed for Limited play