For players who want to get their hands on ’s latest set,, they likely have been combated by scalpers trying to get their hands on the most valuable cards.
It can be a problem for any card game, but the problem gets worse when there are high-value cards that everyone wants involved.
This set featured some very rare variants of two popular Eevee evolutions, making it a prime candidate for both collectors and players to buy up packs as fast as they can.
However, this problem is not going to go away anytime soon. There are a lot of good cards in , and it is a particularly desired set due to the focus. Eevee and its evolutions are some of the most popular Pokémon in the franchise, not just the TCG, and a lot of people collect them for those reasons.
Additionally, the popularity alone would make the set valuable, but add in some of the other factors like the Special Illustration Rares and the scalper problem grows worse.