The rebacked and old proxy cards can easily be identified by their weight and thickness while the blue core proxies are of very high quality and are a bit hard to identify and need to be tested by looking at the details of their printing pattern and direct exposure to light for penetrability
In this guide, well break down the key differences across all setsusing OP-08: Two Legends as a featured example to highlight why many collectors choose Japanese over English (and vice versa)
Each set of 25th Anniversary Tin: Dueling Heroes includes 3 Mega-Packs, each one containing 18 cards for a total of 54
(Remember, the textured OTP were 1 in 1500 packs!) The easier to find math has to balance out with the shorter print run math, and with Assassins Creed being a smaller run, were going to see a glut early on, and then other cards get hot
In Black Bolt (2025), that means the cards above: they consistently command the highest prices in the set , often from the secret-rare slots beyond the 86-card printed checklist