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Image credit: Goldin Auctions It was never originally sold and was only released as a prize in a 1998 illustration contest

Of course, if the cardboard prevents you from seeing the light through the card, it's also a sign the card is fake

Originally released in Japan in 1998, two years after the OG base set first hit stores, Pokmon Trading Card Game blends elements of the core RPG series and physical tabletop game to tell the story of Mark, a young boy from the imaginatively named TCG Island

Wizards of the Coast and New York art collective MSCHF are finally releasing their Magic the Gathering Secret Lair collaboration later this week, and it features a card treatment we've never seen in the game before

Prerelease Disney Lorcana Attack of the Vine hype continues to grow, and on July 17 the TCG set crept into local game stores for prerelease weekend ahead of the wide launch on July 24

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