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Events like Auckland Card Show are a hub for those motivated by completion

While Pikachu appears in some of the most valuable sets ever, certain sets have an unusually high number of beautiful Pikachu chase cards to hunt

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For reasons likely to do with the weight of packs (the texture and extra ink of an ultra rare can make packs weigh a few micrograms more, making it easy for nefarious sorts to otherwise filter out the better packs), for a few years Pokmon card packs have come with code cards (cards that have a QR code for the online version of the game) with borders or colors indicative of the quality of the cards within