For all intents and purposes, no. You can argue that victory medals were ‘won’ in a ‘competition’, but they’re so prevalent that they wouldn’t be lumped with trophy cards for instance.
In contrast, the Master’s scroll was earned through collecting points, and not ‘won’ in a ‘competition’. Is that considered a trophy?
To me, Fazool is right - it’s just up to your own interpretation. Don’t let arbitrary classifications take away the value of the card for you. I don’t own any grand party cards, and neither do I like it, but I can’t deny that it is a rare card with cool art. It doesn’t have to be a trophy for it to be rare, and it doesn’t have to be rare for it to be valuable to you.
Pretty strange comment, if you take PSA out of the equation then Grand Party is above Masaki. Grand Party took more effort to obtain & there were way more copies for each of the Masaki promos made than Grand Party.
Condition is only a defining characteristic for cards that are as common as the paper they’re printed on. These cards need the condition qualifier to have value. Rare cards are limited enough on their own that this doesn’t matter as much. I’m sorry but Masaki cards had 30,000ish copies distributed each, which I wouldn’t consider rare. Trophy cards are generally defined through release and rarity, and Masaki doesn’t even come close to satisfying either.
Well Grand Party is closer to a trophy than Masaki cards, and they’re all in the top Japanese Promo category… that’s what you initially had an issue with, no?
Neither is a trophy for anything I never made that argument or used that word, both are promos. My opinion is that the pinnacle for each card (PSA 10) Masaki heavily outweigh Grand Party in value and scarcity. If other people that collect lower grades disagree because marked/damaged cards are plentiful that’s perfectly fine.
Fact is all 5 PSA 10 Masaki pops COMBINED are still significantly less than Grand Party
The thing is, nobody even mentioned PSA, idk what was the point of your post. In general they’re still in the same class which was what everyone was originally saying. No one ever said Grand Party was on the same level in terms of how hard they are to grade. But either way this is a pointless argument lol.
@lolzicost, @miraclegro, There is no documentation of how many Grand Party were printed so you can’t say one is rarer than the other. Grand Party is not a particularly limited card in the sense of amount printed it was available for those who collected 50 battle stamps across Japan at Pokemon events over 2 years in 1999/2000.
Looking over what I said yesterday I’m fairly confident that the lottery claim from Bulbapedia is incorrect so I’ve updated the page to no longer include that. If anyone is somewhat fluent at reading Japanese and wants to tell me I’m wrong please do so and my change can be reverted.
I’ve asked this question in discord so many times. Never though to post on the forum about it. Thanks for everyone’s responses and thoughts on it!
Personally, I don’t think its a trophy card. I own one so I would love to say its a trophy card, but I agree with it being a “Prize” card rather than a trophy card. It wasn’t awarded for a specific placing, but rather a generalized task that one had to complete. Therefore it isn’t a promo card, but isn’t a trophy card either. It lives in the weird world of beautiful prize card that has great history, but isn’t particularly a trophy.
Just because its not a “trophy” card doesn’t make it any less desired or scarce IMO, it’s more so just a specification. I think the method of acquiring the GP was actually quite unique and fun.
It’s probably worth noting that trophy cards aren’t necessarily desirable or scarce. Some trophies are awarded venue-level and span thousands of locations (making thousands of winners), and others have very low distribution numbers but simply aren’t desirable as the card itself doesn’t have any noteworthy characteristics (or is nothing more than a common card with some post-production stamp applied to it).
