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Originally Posted by watashiwa05
Sorry—I wasn’t actually trying to make a point about desirability. Only that OP has a very narrow definition of a “rookie card”, and yet presented with choosing a free “rookie card” they’ll throw that definition out of the window for a Kaboom because it’s actually silly not to call all cards of rookies, “rookie cards”.
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Your example isn't indicative of what would happen in reality. This is like offering a person, who's only interested in collecting Corollas, an option to own the following cars:
Ferrari Roma
Lamborghini Huracan
Lucid Air
BMW i8
Bugatti Veyron
2023 Toyota Corolla
Even though that person only cares about Corolla, any sane person would choose any of the other cars, even if it's just for the monetary value. They could then sell the super car and purchase the Corolla and pocket the rest of the cash made in the sale. That doesn't distort the fact that the Corolla is still the main collection.
And that's the thing about your scenario, everyone would go for the expensive card, even if their goal is to acquire a true base RC, even if only for the fact that they can sell that expensive card so that they can use that money to buy that true base RC and pocket the remainder. In your example, the prizm base is the only RC, the rest are rookie year inserts.