If theres a card-collecting convention coming to a nearby town, many collectors will show up looking for rare cards to add to their collection
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Encounter artificial Future Pokmon such as Iron Valiant ex and Iron Hands ex
Check out the video I posted below which walks through buying a few cards followed by a reveal a few weeks later.
Instead, it's because the tiered decks meet a baseline number of dailies (14 in this case)
Next up after that, the Diamond and Pearl Series was released - one of the most popular series to dates with sets like Mysterious Treasures, Great Encounters and Legends Awakened