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While dubbing Magic the 'Fortnite of TCGs' is usually meant as a prerogative, I find that Fornite is a helpful measuring stick for a game that has hit a sort of marketability saturation point

These cards were originally released by the Top Seika candy company inside packs of apple-flavored gum

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Often considered to be the rarest Pokmon card of all, the so-called Pikachu Illustrator (its proper name is Pokmon Illustrator but no one calls it that) was a print of around 41 cards given to winners of a Japanese competition in 1998

There is also a practical middle ground

The rarity of Shiny Pokemon is marked by a rainbow-colored octagram-like symbol in the bottom-left corner