eli5 : How does the card trading work?

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I head about trading playing cards for money but what makes them so valuable? Do the companies can’t print more cards? How is a card considered rare and who possesses these cards first? How do we verify it’s authenticity. Also I’ve come to know that there is digital card trading too, How does that work?

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Some cards contain artwork where the company only had license to print a certain number of them. Other times the company just refuses to print more of the cards for various reasons. The copyright issues with the artwork may still apply to digital cards making even digital cards valuable and transferable. But even then the card company often want to limit the number of digital cards of a certain type and force players to buy card packs in the hope of getting the more valuable cards. It is a way for them to make more money.

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