@hyruleguardian , I made a thread that went into detail about this discussion. People on both sides made many good arguments and in the end it was just not possible to determine the true holy grail. In terms of most valuable card it’s probably the illustrator, because it sold for more than the trophies.
As for my totally professional unpopular opinion, I think that almost all non-Japanese vintage cards up to Skyridge are overvalued and overhyped simply because of the fact that they are wotc cards. I do not think that early/vintage cards are overrated because they came first, but I do think that people are hyping up these cards way too much just because wotc produced them and not Nintendo. Just as I believe that you should buy the card and not the grade, I also believe that you should buy the card and not the publisher (if you catch my drift).