Roughly 10 billion Pokmon cards were produced during the fiscal year 2025/2026 alone, bringing the lifetime total to over 85 billion cards
Smprattes video sums it up better as well, but if I could add my own opinion here, it would be that the market today is too optimized to be able to trust that packs which were sealed 20+ years ago now were not already weighed, which would then hurt both seller and buyer of said item down the road when looking to move the product
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If this card is Special Summoned: Send all other face-up monsters on the field to the GY
Firstly, of course, it's a grass type, able to attack into Darkrai for an extra 20 damage a turn
You can sacrifice a high-power creature, generate a massive burst of mana, and then dump it into his second ability, paying six generic mana to play the top card of your opponents libraries for free