>>50373709I don't know but less than 12m.
Something to consider (and this is all sauce from unofficial sources)
Base set got printed 4 times. And according to this guy
(
https://efour.proboards.com/thread/11254/elaborate-attempt-print-run-estimation)
around 3B base set cards were printed
Also this
(
https://youtu.be/cbFiXBmUH1o) gentleman claims that Charizard had a 1/50 chance to be pulled in base set. That's a 2% chance.
Umbreon Vmax Alt according to
(
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonTCG/comments/paitho/evolving_skies_pull_data_from_10000_packs_opened/)
Had a 1/1666 chance of being pulled, which is a 0.0006002401% chance that you will pull an Umbreon Vmax Alt Art. Again this is all unofficial sources, and anecdotal evidence but it's essentially all we have to go on
Yes modern sets and cards are shitted on for being "easy to acquire". But imagine those raw odds (1/50 and 1/1666), which are already completely incomparably stacked against vintage and compound them by 25 years. Because that's the thing, these modern alt arts don't have 25 years of growth to even be able to compared to vintage cards. Yes sure we're in a modern age where people know pokemon is worth something and kids will be taking care of their cards and stuff but just the fact that Umbreon was exponentially so much harder to pull in general than Charizard should say something. I don't know how the market will be in 25 years but people that praise vintage yet shit on modern are retarded. Which i guess is pretty much the point i was trying to make. If you like both, cool. But if you exclusively collect vintage and don't think modern will be tomorrow's vintage, well, we'll see in 25 years where Umbreon Vmax Alt's at
