Why Choose Them: Collectors and players choose these sleeves for reliable protection during storage
Incredibly, the early TCG prototypes managed to survive over two decades later to be graded by CGC
The difference with silver-bordered cards is that gold-bordered cards are reprints of cards that are, or were at the time, legal for Constructed play
back in the day, a physical card was included with each Yu-Gi-Oh video game, and thered often be multiple cards to be collected, which no doubt saw particularly obsessive fans buying several copies of the same game to get their hands on more special, promotional cards
The sets value is potentially underestimated due to the low graded populations and the chance to find rare error cards
At 1 in 45 packs, Special Illustration Rares are now twice as easy to pull as the last four sets