After all, you need to have a creature card in your graveyard or it doesnt do anything
Buy sealed because you want the box and understand the thesis, not because an article says every sealed Pokemon product must rise
Add in the low supply of many Reserved List cards (which occasionally allows sellers to manipulate the headline price number by listing a copy at an unrealistically high price point, which is how we ended up with Moat at $100,000 this week, even with a BSG 9.5 copy for sale at $3,400 and a played copy at $1,500), and the headline price of a card tends to overstate the price that you can actually get the card for, if you are willing to lower your standards a bit
Many fans tell me that isnt too far off
#5 Night Stretcher Set: Shrouded Fable Printing: Reverse Holo Market Price: $2.36 While its price has dropped after being reprinted in Ascended Heroes, Night Stretcher is still a staple of the Pokmon TCGs Standard format
TPCi confirmed this today on their Instagram story today