Selling Raw: A Practical Framework Chase-tier (Zekrom ex 172/086): If your copy is razor sharp (no corner nicks, perfect centering), grading can materially lift value based on the early PSA 10 result
Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Sean is a lifelong gamer who wonders just how long he can game and write simultaneously before his fingers fall off
Five years ago, most counterfeit cards were laughably bad, failing just about every test imaginable and often looking wrong at a quick glance
Normally, Earthquake hits for 70 damage
There are several keys to this, and I don't feel bad about sharing anymore because, 1, someone else independently posted about this 2 weeks ago, causing me a huge amount of consternation and driving me to make a big post and get it out there blitz so I don't get left behind, and 2: very, very luckily, I filed for a provisional patent for this somewhat more than two weeks ago
In response to many fans' suggestions to just print more cards, Ishihara makes it clear that "Those items are seen to be valuable because they're rare or seen as vintage and it's not our place to say that they're not." But with the second hand market being in the state that it is, Ishihara says it "prevents new products from being sold"