Of the 31 stores I spoke to, 27 of them told me they were struggling to sell stock of the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet TCG sets, with some stores reporting sales had dropped by almost 70 percent, causing the need for what they called a fire sale. Part of the reason for the decline is simply that the newly designed cards were called bad, lazy, dull, and a lot less special and interesting by store owners
I feel confident saying all this thanks to Shouta Yasooka not playing the card at his Nationals
Until your next turn, you and planeswalkers you control gain protection from that player
For instance, in Secrets of Strixhaven , play boosters have a 1 in 55 chance of having one (or 1.81%), in MH3 , a Special Guest showed up in one of every 15.5 collector boosters
Amazingly, the pull rate for Base Charizard in Celebrations is not astronomically low