One of the oldest Leaders in the One Piece Card Game, the ST04 Purple Kaido has always offered a unique ramp-and-deramp playstyle, and recent support has finally pushed it back into competitive relevance
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From spell cards like Snake Rain, which make it difficult to balance Reptile-type decks around the GY, to Mezuki, which has made all Zombie-type decks feel standardized over the years, Konami has printed many centralizing cards that present a problem for game balance
Those are all potential areas for wear, whether by lamp attacks or simply the slow decay of time
Paul is certainly heavily invested in the brand, telling a 2022 interviewer that, Pokmon as an asset class has outperformed the stock market by upwards of 3000% in the last 20 years. Last year was a standout year for card collectors, with the $12.9-million sale of a Michael Jordan/Kobe Bryant signed basketball card setting a new sports card record