Does anyone know what this number is? Is it how many cards they have left of that Virtua Girl? is a a rating or ranking number? I'd really like to find out what it means cause it's totally bugging me

That's the card's number. X number of 571 cards released to date. 574 in a few hours.

Released or sold? So if I buy a virtua girl card does the number go up or down? cause I'm concerned if they discontinue cards if the number reaches 0.

The card is released. If there are numbers missing between two cards such as 40 and 42, that means there is a card marked 41 that has yet to be released. The cards do not do anything but go up as the number of cards increased.

That's weird, heaven's santa cruiz card is 630 and yet there is 584??

pianogrinder - there are cards yet to be released.

The number just indicates the place that the card occupies among all the available cards produced to date. Nothing happens with that number, it's just a progressional number with no other meaning than to keep track of all the cards released.