$900k PSA 9 Illustrator Transaction

[shinycards]

@pfm

@zorloth

You’re comparing a trophy card with <50 copies distributed to a set card with 1100 copies distributed. It’s apples and oranges. If and when a Pokemon set card sells for more than the MTG sale record, then maybe you could conclude something from that. Personally, as someone who collects both MTG and Pokemon, I could never imagine paying more for a 1st Edition Base Charizard than an Alpha Lotus. In my view, the Alpha Lotus is the penultimate TCG item. Pokemon cards wouldn’t even exist if not for MTG. Alpha P9 are the most important cards from the most important (from a historical perspective) TCG. Nothing can surpass the Alpha Lotus, in my mind. But then again, I’m not in the market for either. So the market may end up disagreeing with me, which remains to be seen.

Regardless, I’m not even aware of a Black Lotus sale for $900k. Not aware of any sale above $500k.

That’s a strange set of goalposts you have there

MTG has certainly became interesting to me after watching a lot of Rudy’s videos. The whole concept gives me hope in that Pokemon has further to grow, but the reason I am so ignorant about it is that Magic never seems to have caught on here in the UK?

I know it does exist on some shop websites and there may be some events, but it seems so niche compared to Pokemon. I don’t think there was ever a frenzy over here to the same scale as Pokemon but I may be wrong as it was a few years before my time. I have no idea about the situation with it in the US.

So in my view 1st Edition Base Charizard will overtake Black Lotus eventually because it’s a bigger franchise that more people worldwide grew up with, and the games, anime and now influencers are acting as a catalyst to the trading cards. Yeah it’s apples and oranges with different sets/populations but I would have to bet on Pokemon becoming the king