Tools like TCG Companion and Pokellector offer valuable assistance in tracking and managing your collection
Popular retro gaming account @supersparkster recently hosted a claim sale - where the seller posts a photo of a collectible and its price, and the first to comment claim wins the right to purchase it - and users claimed each $200+ item literal moments after each post went live
The problem with Battle of Wits is that when you consider you will need 200 cards in your deck once it hits the battlefield and that it might take several (or many) turns to get Battle of Wits on the battlefield, you will need to play somewhere around 240 cards to make Battle of Wits work, which means you're increasing your deck size by 300%, which in turn leads to a massive drop in consistency, to the point where Battle of Wits simply isn't worth the cost in competitive decks
The number of cards that can actually meet PSAs highest standard is incredibly low
Unlike other meta leaders Pikachu ex relies on having a full Bench, as its attack does 30 damage times the number of Pokmon there
Vintage collectors especially need to confirm which format they own before ordering protection, since the wrong purchase means returning products and delaying proper storage of valuable older cards