In order to corner the market, scalpers have been taking out loans, skipping work, using bots to bypass online queues, and recruiting their family members to bypass purchase limits put in place by stores
As mentioned before, and on every EX card, losing one of these powerhouses means that one loses more valuable prize cards than usual
Suppose you Special Summon World of Prophecy and activate his first effect, but then your opponent chains Raigeki Break and destroys him
It is also the most expensive trading card of any TCG ever sold, surpassing Magic the Gathering's 1993 Black Lotus card, which sold for just over $3,000,000
So this confusion would only last for 2 months, but during that time, anyone could've easily found themselves on an arduous journey of inevitable futility that was trying to find a Vial of Dragonfire and falling into a spiral out of being unable to claim the non-existent piece of cardboard
What particularly stood out for me in this new set are the amethyst cards