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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Cards are usually valuable simply because they stopped producing them and there are collectors that still want them. In some cases a reprint is promised not to happen by the manufacturer, or the reprint would look different and have less value to collectors.
The value simply comes from people wanting them, so it’s hard to predict wich cards become valuable when you’re not an insider.
Authenticity verification is a service offered by some experts or websites, usually rather expensive unless you plan to order that for a whole bulk of cards.
Prices can also harshly fluctuate based on similar reprints, or players having a sudden demand for certain cards.
For digital mostly the players matter, and the platform they play with digital cards on. The collector aspect is a lot weaker, so prices are mostly about wich cards are in demand to play the game.
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