Sokka, Tenacious Tactician Sokka, Tenacious Tactician is a powerful riff on one of my favorite cards: Monastery Mentor
Identifying Which Pokmon Cards are Worth Grading Rare Cards: Cards that are old, Limited Edition, First Editions, and/or Holographic are often better to grade (in terms of added value) than their newer, unlimited and non-holo counterparts
Also, for most sets, Decipher packed 3 random rares with each starter deck, giving collectors additional reason to purchase them (it was sometimes cheaper to buy boxes of starters instead of boxes of boosters, as each box of starters included 36 rares.) In Battle of Helm's Deep and Ents of Fangorn , Decipher did away with the random rares and instead included 3 predetermined rares, with the idea being to make sure that included rares went according to the theme of the starter deck (predetermined rares also saved printing costs, as it allowed the entire deck to come from one print sheet instead of two.) Fixed rares annoyed players, as it removed the incentive for veterans to purchase the decks, and it reduced the value of the 6 rares affected in each set
Whenever a new set arrives it brings a new slate of cards for everyone to poke and prod like a prize-winning tomato that someone else brought to the County Fair
