gold mewtwo pokemon card 24k Mewtwo [Gold Plated] #150 Prices

By the time the cards became hard to keep on shelves, Wizards had already moved on to Shadowless and then Unlimited prints

Furthermore, seeing as the legendary birds have been featured heavily in Pokemons branding over the years, as well as in Pokemon: The Movie 2000, Zapdos commanding an impressive sum on the secondary market makes perfect sense

Those last two don't sound like big drops, but since these cards were close to the $1000 mark, those percentages account for hundreds of dollars of lost value

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Examine the front and back: Tilt the card under light to identify surface scratches or print lines

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