I agree. Also most of these prices tripled in the last months. For me personally it makes no sense, that’s why I didnt update this. But for example Aqua Madoor was 1500 for a long time, now its 4000 usd. I think there is some shady s**t going on in Japan, and I really dont like it. It is not natural growth, there are some poeple and shops trying to make profit out of this. Similar to what happened to english sets.
Shady? What’s the difference between what’s going in Pokemon right now and this? Literally the same thing is happening in Pokemon only prices are doubling and tripling in a span of weeks instead of months. People are profiting off it the same way as well.
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Pokemon market is totally different. Yugioh ocg market consist of all ungraded cards, private sales, and it’s ruled by Asians, who doesn’t share information. A lot of shops are buying all the cards they can, to rise prices, and top collectors are doing the same. So there are no backup sales, or pop reports, or anything. Also yugioh especially english tcg is a market that totally feeds on cross collectors, and the prices they decide for certain cards are not the consecuence of a natural growth over the years, they only reflect other card games prices, as Pokemon or MTG. When paying 2000 usd for a PSA 10 graded card is a everyday thing in those 2 games, because again, its a progress over the years, in the yugioh counterpart they just state those prices so cross collectors blindly purchase them. Because they are used to pay those prices in other games. They don’t know anything about yugioh, they don’t know crap about trophy cards or high end cards, they just blindly follow what these hypers state and end paying stupid amounts for cards that never achieved those prices for their own. It all feed this artificial market that it’s depressing to see, especially if you were active in the hobby since the beggining.
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Kanan the Swordmistress is a pretty decent value for a prize card. its fairly scarce, a cool artwork, and old. I like it.
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Dark Magician Girl is soooo overrated. Kanan is my girl.
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Hey there, really interesting guide. Would you mind sharing your source on the tokyo dome tournament numbers? I’ve seen a number of articles (and the yugioh wiki) site considerably different numbers for the number of attendees and tournament participants. So I’m curious where you are getting those numbers.
Counting the number of official cases released you can come up with the first places numbers 2 4 and 6. Those cards also have around 2-4 spare copies that leaked to the public. The rest are estimates top world collectors use. Also keep in mind that some cards were given out twice due to the tokyo dome incident. Those cards are gate guardian, magician of black chaos, tri horned dragon and sengenjin. Still I considered that when posting the estimated print run.
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Curious where you got the info on the jump festa blue eyes total population? I own the beat up graded copy but was always under the impression a lot less than 3000 were distributed. Would love to learn more
1000 copies were given out per event, but it was distributed in 3 events, therefore the 3000 copies. Unlikely the other 2 blue eyes that were only given out at a single event each. Still festa is the top 1 and most expensive.
Thanks. Only 16 in pop report at the moment, wonder how many are still out there
I would say at least a thousand. Remember in yugioh Japanese collectors started grading not very long ago, it’s still a new thing, not like pokemon.
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There are quite a number of festa bewd hoarders in Japan that own >20 Festas each
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I can confirm this
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Very interesting and not all that surprising haha. Your price point on the first page i guess could change if people start flooding the market
Remember those prices are outdated. They already changed. I will just take them down because I don’t want to confuse anyone.
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So do any of these trophy cards have exclusive art? I’m seeing a lot of reprints
Only T2, T3 and some 1st and 2nd place old match winners. Sadly Konami reprint’s all, personally I hate that.
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Thanks for this guide, @papafrankgod! The OG Dark Magician Girl G3-11 as Secret Rare used to be a collection goal of mine, but it’s completely out of reach by now.
One question though, why did you include the 2017 world championship attendance cards 2017-jpp01, 2017-jpp02 and 2017-jpp03 but not their 2018 and 2019 equivalent?
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Because the guide is not up to date. I stopped at 2017 I think. Also Konami started printing so much crap for the 20th anniversary that I stopped caring xD
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Hey all. I’m getting into SJCS prize cards. Any estimate on dark end dragon? It doesn’t have an estimated number