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Katie Wickens

Pokemon Company CEO responds to fans calls for more rare cards to be printed: "Those items are seen to be valuable [...] it's not our place to say that they're not"

A selection of Pokemon from Stellar Crown, Shrouded Fable, and Twilight Masquerade divided by white lines.

If you've been living under a rock Pokemon for years, you might not have heard that people like to buy up and resell rare Pokemon cards.

It's a problem seen regularly for the best card games, and it's also something the tech industry has trouble with thanks to people reselling the best graphics cards, but of course the Pokemon Trading Card Game is no stranger to the phenomenon known as "scalping" (man, I hate this word). These are a special brand of resellers, though, with some of the more rare cards reaching prices far and beyond the cost of your average TCG card pack. You could build a literal house of cards with the price these things go for. Nay, a mansion of cards.

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