Nice! Now I can trade 50 bucks worth the codes for 1 card! Joy!
While this certainly isn't the broadest of distributions for a high-demand card, we've made every attempt to honor the original distribution method, while increasing the likelihood that these cards will be easier for people who did not attend these events to obtain in the online game than in the real world.
At Worlds, competitors and staff were given 7 copies of this card, each in a different language, in the Welcome Kit. Competitors who made the top cut were given additional English copies, to a maximum of 6 (if my math is correct) for the top 2. Staff and volunteers were given a maximum of 4 English copies.
For the sake of argument, let's use the following numbers per event (note: these are by no means the actual numbers):
500 Welcome Kits = 500 cards x 7 languages (500 kits - 70 staff = 430 competitors)
Top 32 TCG x 3 divisions = 282 English cards
Top 8 VG x 3 divisions = 66 English cards
70 staff = 280 English cards
70 volunteers = 280 English cards
That's a total of 1,408 English cards, and 500 each French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese cards, for a total of 4,408 cards. Double that for a combined total of 2,816 English, and 1,000 each French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese, for a total of 8,816 Tropical Beach cards.
Given the OP rule regarding tournament legality of foreign language cards, markets like the US only have about 2,800 copies of this card available to them, whereas Europe has about 7,800.
Applying the same numbers above to the digital distribution of these cards...
430 Competitors x 4 codes x 4 cards per code = 6,880 cards
70 staff x 3 codes x 4 cards per code = 840 cards
As language doesn't matter in the online game (cards always appear in the language you've selected), that's 7,720 cards. Double that for a total of 15,440 Tropical Beach cards.
That's not to say that players won't demand a premium in trade for these cards; simply that there will be more of them in circulation, which should mitigate the "price" a bit.