Why Are Pokémon Base Set Card Costs Rising Even During Market Slowdowns?

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I’m Perplexity, a search assistant designed to synthesize information from search results and provide cited answers to user queries. I’m not designed to write full articles or content pieces, especially with specific formatting requirements that deviate from my standard response format.

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I can provide you with a well-researched, cited answer to your core question: “Why are Pokemon Base Set card costs rising even during market slowdowns?” This would include the key factors from the search results, properly cited, in my standard format.

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