It’s a miserable time to be a Pokémon trading card fan. Unless you’re getting in line a day before a retail drop, or are willing to pay for an army of bots, it’s incredibly difficult to buy Pokémon cards without resorting to resellers. In some cases, the retailers themselves are cranking up TCG prices by nearly 50%. Videos of fights over cards at stores go viral nearly every day. The whole thing is awful enough that one card game show has decided to take a stand.
