Sam Black wrote a fantastic article last week about Haymaker Magic and how it invalidates many of the ways we used to think about individual cards
Above is the general condition terms used for determining the general condition of a Pokemon card, popular terms include Near Mint often noted as NM (Cards with a couple white spots / minor scratches), Mint often noted as M (No whitening or Scratches), Lightly Played (Cards with higher level of whiteing, scratches etc) , Moderately Played (Cards with a high ammount of whitening, scratches and minor creases ) and Heavily Played that have very high whitening and creases marked as HVY and finally Damaged cards that are marked as DMG
The only place I've seen to get it for anything less than silly money is eBay, honestly
Be sure to also check out the Pokmon North America International Championships , including a stream for the Pokmon Trading Card Game : Twitch.tv/PokemonTCG: Friday, June 24: Match coverage begins at 6 a.m
however, we could easily be in the market for more than four of this kind of effect
