The Giant Deal Thread

[poke-geri]

@pichufan

@chok

Do these finalists cards share the same artwork with $5 non-holo counterparts?

Yeah, I’m referring to cards like Rainbow Energy from the PCG-P set which have sold recently for $63, even though to my knowledge only between 54 and 81 of these cards exist.

I don’t really get why having a cheap non-holo counterpart would give such a drastic shift in value. The last public PSA 9 Trainer Deck A Machamp, for instance, sold for $1,500 back in 2017; at the same time you could pick a regular Base Set Machamp up in the same condition for $0.99. Another example would be the Sample Set Pikachu which in PSA 10 is a $2,500 card which can be picked up in the same condition for the regular set for $10.50.

I don’t think the argument about it having an alternative makes much sense here. I’m guessing it’s probably more likely that these cards are just less well known and thus don’t attract anywhere near the same level of attention?

These „finalist“ cards how you call them have a much higher distribution number than you think. None of the new back promos are below 100 copies apart from the trophy (winner‘s) cards. No rainbow energy, no Burned Tower, no Cynthias feelings card has a distribution below 100 copies. Even the 2007 Mysterious Pearl has an estimated 300 copies in total and that is considered a trophy card.

In general for new back trophies we can say the leas copies exist the higher the price. I‘m curious about how much other trophy cards with lower numbers than the Master‘s key would sell for at auction