I think it ' s kind of hilarious that after all their obsessive searching for easter eggs , ditto is obtained by catching random pidgeysrattatas . <| sep |> You don ' t even know how to use commas right <| sep |> Thank you for this . I am surprised Taunton bay hasn ' t done something special for black Friday . Have you heard anything from them ? <| sep |> i took a stab at it too , not fakeray <| sep |> Well , all except for Quebec . rimshot Seriously , though , I do think that better education helps , but you still have the same sorts of issues with poverty in any country , and that will lead decreased graduation rates and all of the other secondary effects of poverty . <| sep |> There ' s a few types of reasons for buyouts 1 . Collector buyouts sometimes collectors purchase cards over time because they collect them . If the card is older or a rare it can artificially affect pricing . This generally happens with cards in the $ 210 range but can happen with more expensive cards like Moat and JSS lightning bolt 2 . Speculator buyouts Sometimes people who predict pricing trends from cards that place 1 st at their LGS or based on mechanics of spoiled cards for new sets will buy out as many of a card as they can . They ' ll generally make some money but get stuck with too many leftover creating artificial scarcity 3 . top 8 deck buyouts . Many times after an SCG open or protour people will rush to buy cards from top 8 decks before the prices go up . This results in higher prices whether they get lucky or not . I forget which card it was years ago but somebody got lucky and won a big event with a terrible deck . People wasted tons of money building it only to realize it was terrible . 4 . strategic buyouts Cards like Flash , Moat , and JSS Lightning Bolt were strategic buyouts over long term . People picked them up slowly over time knowing they ' d get unbanned or in the case of the bolt , reprinted . I slowly bought out hundreds of the JSS bolts over a period of two years starting at $ 15 all the way up to $ 35 and even $ 50 as I was expecting reprints in future core sets . M 10 reprinted them and they slowly went up to over $ 200 . two guys did the same with flash and moat . Hope that helps