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It's a remarkably good offering, especially with the likes of Final Fantasy 7s Limit Break deck still stuck at $72.50

Based purely on pull rates provided in-game, Gold Crown cards are the rarest and hardest cards to pull in TCG Pocket, with an individual pull rate of less than 0.1%

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If a card is legal in the current format, either version works

1998 Pikachu Illustrator Card Theres no better place to start than what many consider to be the rarest Pokemon card in existence, the Pikachu Illustrator

Those rules define what counts as an Authorized Game Card, and they explicitly exclude cards that (unaltered) have gold borders on the front or back