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Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.

It's one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don't want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals

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[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 1 points 15 hours ago

So I couldn't find the episode, but this is an article where he touches on the same subject, from around the time that episode would have been out I think. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/lenticular-design-2014-03-31
12 years ago... Christ.