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Scarcity Creates Value The fundamental driver is scarcity

(Pikachu, drawing on the Japanese onomatopoeia of pika and chu, was retained.) Soon enough, the character names, types and Pokdex numbers became shared internationally, allowing players the world over to connect through a shared Pokmon language

A Chris Rush-signed Black Lotus alone is worth close to a million dollars, and before he bought The 1/1 One Ring for an even higher sum, rapper Post Malone revealed he'd spent $800,000 on precisely one of these

Major retailers such as Target, Walmart, and GameStop regularly restock Pokemon cards

While it would be a few more years before the term would be coined, I believe this was the beginning of Vorthos in Magic