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Poké-BODY ⇢ Exoskeleton
Any damage done to Donphan by attacks is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
{F} → Earthquake : 60
Does 10 damage to each of your Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
{F}{F}{F} → Heavy Impact : 90
illus. Kent Kanetsuna
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Bbb888
Do Prime cards not have Rule Boxes?? How do you know these are called Prime if it doesn’t actually say so on the card itself?
Sam
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Prime_(TCG)
Bbb888
OK, but a random scalper who doesn’t know anything about Pokemon cards would look at this card and not realize it’s a Prime, because it doesn’t say so on the card.
Strangely, there are NO effects of attacks or Trainers or Energy that specifically targets or mentions Prime cards.
Whimsicast
This is because Pokémon PRIME are not mechanically unique in any way compared to regular cards. They have no tag, no rule box, no name change etc. They’re just stronger cards. We know they’re PRIME because that’s what Pokémon called them (or GREAT in Japan)
Charmaster
Yeah, it’s kind of a similar case to Amazing Rare’s. The game doesn’t recognize them as distinct, they’re just cosmetically distinct and balanced differently. The main difference, of course, is that Amazing Rares at least got their own rarity (But unlike in Magic the Gathering, the game doesn’t keep track of a card’s rarity in Pokémon).
Charmaster
(The other difference, of course, is that prime’s were just stronger than normal cards without a downside, while Amazing Rares had wild attack costs and wilder attacks.)
anon-san
I’d say scalpoids and investorcucks are 2 heads of the same greedy hydra since they feed one another. you have a valid point with buyouts, like why is an uncommon from 20 years ago that was in every bulk bin all of a sudden $56? I get cards like shining mew from coro coro magazine or charizard star, even the crystal pokemon from the early e-reader sets, but seeing stuff no one touched for 5, 10, 15, 20 years go up like that just screams buyouts.
Twylis
I, for one, love it when a card’s value is totally inscrutable to scalpers, and think that that should happen more often
anon-san
Scalpoids tend to stick with modern sets because they’re more accessible. Most of them just buy PSA 10s in order to show them off.
Charmaster
I would say there is a second group of individuals (usually called investors, though speculators might also work) who are responsible for driving up the price of OLDER CARDS instead of NEW PRODUCTS via buyout. There may be some degree of overlap between the scalper population and the investor population, but I imagine most investors keep a safe distance from store free-for-alls. It’s frustrating as a fan to see cards with no relation to Pocket (Like 2010 worlds staples Uxie and Spiritomb) start spiking in price randomly.
Charmaster
Pocket is also partly responsible for older cards rising in price. For one thing, it’s drawn a lot of collectors into the hobby, at least for the time being. For another thing, it actually reuses a lot of artwork from older sets, and, importantly, even from sets that were only ever released in Japan. For example, Gengar from Genetic Apex (https://www.serebii.net/tcgpocket/geneticapex/122.shtml) reused the artwork of Morty’s Gengar from VS (https://www.serebii.net/card/vs/021.shtml), and despite the card being a common, it is now nearly impossible to get for under $150 (granted, it was a Japanese exclusive set with a small print run, but it’s insane that a common now costs more than all but the most premier cards of the Scarlet and Violet era).
However, this doesn’t explain cards like Spiritomb AR, and it ESPECIALLY doesn’t explain Uxie LA (Which uses Ken Sugimori stock artwork, a style that has gotten gradually less artful since generation 1). I can only interpret that as either investors encroaching on the retro format staples market, or an actual rise in 2010 players.
By the way, the comments here seem to be out of order now.