That means the rarest card in Fusion Strike is 4x harder to pull than the rarest card in Chilling Reign." An ungraded Gengar VMAX #271 currently costs around the same as an entire Fusion Strike booster box. The pull rate on the Alternate Art Vmax Mew in Fusion Strike is about 1/2,100.
"The rarest card in Chilling Reign was a Alternate Art Vmax Blaziken," one blog explained, claiming: "The pull rate on this Blaziken is about 1/450. can scoop the same boxes for roughly $120 on eBay).įor these reasons, some fans of the Pokemon Trading Card Game have vented their frustrations online over the apparent off-the-production-line theft of prized cards. Making matters worse is a long-standing complaint that pull rates for the most-prized cards feel very low - particularly for the set in question, Fusion Strike. For example, one booster box containing 36 packs of Pokemon cards (360 single cards in total) costs 63,000 Hungarian forint ($185) in the central European country at retail. Pokemon cards also aren't cheap - especially in some countries outside of the United States. People love to watch and see if others get a hit card (or don't). It's this blind nature of Pokemon card packs that feeds into the popularity of pack-opening videos on YouTube and other video streaming services. And some rares, such as those printed with a rainbow holographic theme or alternative art, are significantly rarer (and more valuable) than others. Still, each pack is guaranteed to have one rare card. Even the manufacturer is kept in the dark. Pokemon trading cards are distributed in blind packs - meaning buyers do not know what is inside. A desk stacked with apparently stolen Pokemon cards. A spokesperson for The Pokemon Company didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the alleged theft.Įither way, fans of the Pokemon trading card game weren't happy, with some now seeking a blockchain-based solution so this can't happen again. In a statement issued on Facebook, TCW said it contacted The Pokemon Company - which allegedly already knew the cards were missing - and worked together to retrieve and return them. “When they finally did, we were like, Well, this looks really weird.” “It took them a month or two provide a picture,” Scott Emer, co-founder of Trading Card World, told Polygon in an interview. When someone attempted to sell the cards from Pokemon's Fusion Strike set to Trading Card World, the sheer volume set alarm bells ringing. Over the past week, photos circulated on the internet showing a table stacked with hundreds of rare Pokemon trading cards organized neatly in rows - almost as if they were stolen straight off the printing line.
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