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Following are some of the things that I do to save money when playing the Pokemon TCG

No one is discarding Black Lotus to gain mana of any color these days

[IX] Scholars David Buckingham and Julian Sefton-Green went even further, writing in 2004: "while Nintendo is now among Japan's most profitable corporations, it could be argued that the company would have struggled to survive without Pokmon"

Game shops will typically buy any card thats worth more than 50 cents or so, but theyre going to offer something called buylist prices. These are considerably cheaper prices than what they sell, so youre going to take a 10-20% hit on the value of your cards if you go this route

Right now, they're more flavor than function, but as weve seen with gates, theres demand for novel card types like this