Professional graders, like PSA, assess trading cards and give them a grade for how good their conditions are, with near mints, mints, and gem mints (8-10) being the most valuable
2 | The Wandering Emperor Price: $650 In a nice twist to the pricing trend of this list, The Wandering Emperor isnt expensive just thanks to Commander
4000 Euro in PSA 10 5th place: Skaraborn (Heracross) [1st Edition] #6 Heracross, the beetle-like Pokmon, appears in all his glory on this First Edition card
But this is a mechanically identical reprint, so after you remove all the ice counters from The Boy in the Iceberg, you don't create a friendly little pacifist called Aang: you create a 20/20 flying indestructible token creature called Marit Lage
All too often, get rid of the Reserved List! becomes a proxy argument for Magic is too expensive and I want to be able to be able to play it for a much cheaper cost! Im super amenable to that argument, and I think that its worth having, but its an entirely different discussion
