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>not buying box toppers

>>57896450
Evidently not since there were two threads with them as the op image and nobody talked about them.

>>57896402
this is why I don’t trust no name graders. There’s 2 white spots on the bottom left edge and some kind of dirt or mega on the pokeball.

This reminds me of the retarded 1/10 femoid I mentioned last thread giving her dragon frontiers shining star charizard and her shining charizard to some random guy at a card show to grade and both getting a 4. Some collectorfags are so dumb that they fall for that shit as well as those slab frames.

>>57896474
Huh, there's a white speck?
-90% value reduction, we hate whites.

Omg blag lotus grade 3? most valuable card in existence! blackkk BLACKKKK!
I hate these people

I just want to be able to go into a store and buy a couple of packs without having to fight with some adult man wearing athletic shorts.
You're an adult why don't you scalp yourself some fucking real clothes.

>>57896592
Anon you know those knickers are a psa 4 at best, they're not going to do well at resale.

>>57896592
there are plenty temporal forces in stock ;)

God damn I was hoping Illustration Rates would be down further in price at this point, fucking hoarders KILL YOURSELVES.
Fifteen fucking dollars for a shitmon like Eiscue, KILL YOURSELVES
One trillion packs of this shit has had to have been opened at this point KILL YOURSELVES

Imagine going to a card show and hearing this
>>57896649
>FUCKING HOARders KILL
>fifteen FUCKING doll SHITmon, KILL
>GILL URSELFS
"sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave. please don't cause a scene"

>>57896649
>hoping Illustration Rates would be down further in price at this point
lmaoing at you're are 're ur life.
IR and SIR are the only cards that matter right now. Holos and reverse holos are considered fucking BULK, and fullarts are all 5ban shit with thick borders and flat background. Gold cards are a joke, BW rares seem better but still not as good looking as textured SIRs.

>>57896649
don't buy a shitmon like eiscue
the poopsidian flames SIR is like 5 bucks btw lmfaoooooooooooo i remember retards on pokebeach hyping that trash up

Mail day!
GX era are the best full arts even with retarded subjects like pic related, Eiscue IR on suicide watch.

>check Collectr
>collection value has gone down 5% in the last month
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH PANIC SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL NOW!!!!!!!!

>>57896908
>Collectr
why don't these retards let you filter your portfolio by sealed/cards/graded?

>>57897020
Because graded is for faggots and sealed is for niggers

>>57897093
I boughted many grade 10 cards in 2020
Profited on every single one
Now i owned nothing sealed, nothing graded, & just complete a set in a binder.
Collecting as it was always intended. Since ignoring that arbitrary score/rating stuff pushed by influencers, I'm actually enjoying the hobby for the first time.

Unfortunately, it's only the cards i owned growing up that interest me.. english unlimited jungle/fossil damaged beyond recognition, 200 dollars per holo. Everyone wants a premium on their shitty, poo smeared, booger nosed, armpit sweat stained torn cards. Setting a dangerous precedent

>at the point where I need another new binder and more sleeves
I think I'm in too deep bros

>>57897134
>148 slot 4x3 binder that was supposed to be my special binder for the best cards is already 70% full
You are here forever

>>57897168
Don't know why I typed 148 but I meant 480

>sealed 1st edition Base Set booster box with confirmed Shadowless Charizard inside, and every pack containing Red Cheeks Pikachu, X-ray verified and authenticated.

I just realized I'll have to waste money on mega sets later this year

>I appreciate the art!

>still buying vintage

>>57896500
What a fucking retarded response. The point was that these people would give a card like this a 10 and then ask for the same amount of money as a PSA 10.

>>57897386
You don’t have to waste your money on mega sets. You don’t have to give in to fomo.

>>57897464
yes i do

>>57896444 (OP)
Checked. I miss these TCG set wallpapers.

>>57897409
Is this is the most text printed on a Pokémon card in any language?

Fuck I keep buying Journey Together packs if I see them even though it's a shit set with no cards I think I really want

>>57897402
Nice looking Raikou

>>57897409
Where the fuck is rowlett?

>>57897567
i want the Furret IR

>still buying modern

Reminder that statistically 98% of your collection is fake but you'll never notice

>>57897647
How do I get that last 2%

>>57897659
be a real ass nigga

>>57897579
Between the space in the first attack's name and the first line of text for that attack's effect.

>>57897678
lame shit statement
the most disingenuous & inauthentic people in society are not "the real" ones -_-

Someone buy this for me. Send it in the mail, I'll paypal you 20 bucks

Mail day. The Boss's Boss has arrived. Now to wait for my ANA legendary birds to arrive.

how buy pokemon cards?

>>57898155
use NotWhat or eGay or fight scalpers at drops.

are there any sets that are mostly "cool" stuff and not "cutesy" eevee shit?

>>57898184
No.
The new set right now is black/white (BMWF for short)
The upcoming set will be shilling megas, you have the first set which includes two in the pic rel and the third set (probably a special set?) to shill Mega charizard X!!! :O KANTOOOOO!
Then the rumored set going into 2026 is a Grenninja set according to trademarks

>>57897409
>shortest modern yugioh card effect description

>>57896474
I dont trust no-name graders because the condition and authenticity doesnt actually have a guarantee of fair market value. Its literally just a case and label and less than accurate opinion on condition and authenticity.
>>57896500
Its kind of wild that a white spec barely visible to the human eye can make the difference of thousands of dollars. Imagine paying thousands for a spec. Its even worse when you realize cards without whitening are almost certainly altered so their authentic condition isnt even real.
>>57896592
The scalpers stop when collectors stop buying from the secondary market. Until then it will persist.
>>57896649
$15 for a shitmon has to be market manipulation or sheer clown world.
>>57897124
Time to sell before the reprint wave drops the market, just look at 151. Sold for much higher months ago.
>>57897299
When you say base set first edition, we know theyre shadowless already, the word shadowless is used to identify shadowless cards without first edition stamps.
>>57897386
They'll be mid.

>>57897409
We yugioh now...

Should I get it graded?

>>57898377

>>57898440
based better than any bs pokemon posted itt

Fucking pulled it holy shit

>>57898973
dang grats!

>still buying physical

>still grading cards

>>57898251
>>57896474
Both are correct opinions. no-name basement graders don't have any sort of obligation to the authenticity of the cards they grade. This would be a PSA 5 at best because of all of the dirt as well as the whitening.
>>57896500
>>/pol/ is where you should go, dumbass. If a black lotus with this sort of condition slabbed by some rando no-name was up for sale, it'd be given the same treatment.

Grading doesn't mean anything because now people will try to submit hits from a set that has just released and expect it to be worth a small fortune. Grading, however, remains the biggest midwit indicator.

>>57899099
I'd kinda want to do it just for cards that I want to stay in good condition for myself really. I don't trust myself to keep cards in impeccable condition.

These cards look so clean, sheeeeeesh

>>57899104
penny sleeve into toploader into toploader binder is my favorite methos, but I'm also fond of the magnet cases. screw cases are garbage, though.

>>57899109
They'll look a lot better after hotgluing

>>57898973
What do when pulling a card like this?

>>57899160
probably sell, the set is very very new and its a normal set so it'll be printed for 3 years

or hold, keep it in your own collection

I have too many Misty's Staryu's. I swear they're just padding DR packs with that.

>>57897386
>lost interest in the games right around the time X&Y came out
>Mfw no interest in megas
Might get a mega beedrill if he gets a cool card though

>>57899253
X&Y were just way too easy and boring. Then I thought I'd give Sw/Sh a try and that was even more boring to the point I just gave the game away for free. Pokemon Vidya really fucking sucks now. I might give Arceus a try but I feel like it would be the same boring "one shot everything" game again.

>>57899160
Sell it, this set just came out and the prices will drop because more and more people will open them.

>>57899260
There was also the 3d feature they kept advertizing
>FPS tanks the moment there's more than 1 pokemon on the screen

Mega shillings starts

>>57899260
arceus has the hardest super boss in the series if that’s worth anything. that being said the gameplay is so focussed on catching that the battles are really an afterthought for most of the game >>57899160
keep it if you want it. sell if you don’t. I kept mine

>Thirty odd packs of DR
Best card is pic rel
grim
i hate reddit

>>57899403
>he boughted
>he ripped

>>57899403
>i hate reddit
but you're the only one to blame

I love this one but now it's 15 million dollars in a grade 7

>>57899546
Traded a shining tyranitar and a base set venusaur for one of these as a kid

>scalpies are losing money over journey together and selling at loss
zased, so fucking zased....

>>57899573
gonna happen to DR in a few months

what's the best Tag Team card?

Pulled these two. Frankly i like the Leafeon art more.

>>57899596

>>57899625
Umm OK?
GRATS?

>>57899546
Grade 7 Is basically a well kept raw, unless you are chasing the nintedo error version, the common English one is 40-50$ in good condition.

>>57899596
This or the Raichu+Alolan

>>57899678
ty?

honestly I love the gen 4 stuff. it's probably just nostalgia-based autism but there's just something so comfy about them.

>>57899752
>smudge next to the scary face
Don't grade it dood. Not gem mint.

>>57899756
that's.. just the no energy cost attack .w.

>>57899568
I traded my base set charizard for a machamp at soccer practice

There's a Kangaskhan one of the pokeTubers has listed on his eBay for years, it's supposedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

>hype already dead for BBwf in Japan and prices tanking

Next 151 they said...

No one really cares about the burger region

>>57900115
Is the english set actually separated (as in half of the IR are in black the others in white) or is it just in name only?

>>57900121
Isn't Unova pretty popular though?

>>57899109
they look like they have pretty good texturing, I hope they have kind of a rainbow-ish holofoil glow

>>57900584
yes its like the japanese set

>>57899690
The fucking homies. I'd love to have this card

>>57900610
LOL

>>57899403
If you listen to reddit then you deserve whatever bad happens. They’re the biggest hive of retarded niggers in this hobby.

>>57899573
That’s what happens when you try to buy up everything from a set that hasn’t even been out for 3 months.

>>57899573
where they selling so i can buy now lol

>>57896450

Got this bad boy for free at a LGS trade night event when the set was new, the only card little me took care of

panic selling by scalpers who are poor and need to pay bills are selling at msrp some at loss. i scooped some stuff off these struggling wagies. tcg market is healing.

>>57901067
based

>>57900671
i thought splitting black and white into separate but equal sets was illegal

>>57901075
where?!?!

Why would Pokemon print an alternate art illustration for all Unova Pokemon but only do a fraction for the Kanto Pokemon? Is Unova suddenly the golden child of Pokemon

newbie here
just received some booster packs in the mail and they look like they might have been resealed. is there any definitive way of knowing?
the bottom looks like it could have been cut/trimmed and glued back together but i can't be too sure.

>>57901295
don't ever buy loose packs

>>57901323
I kind of only trust the fucking PokeCenter vending machines at this point

>>57901067
based as hell.

>>57901242
Why put effort into kanto when retards will buy out the set no matter how low quality it is

>>57901242
>>57901361
>low quality

We've been through this. 151 cards feature evolution lines draw by a single artist that have an overarching theme to them. BBWF is just random DUDE ALT ARTS LMAO garbage

They are not the same.

>>57901418
151 is kanto slop. The only reason it’s as hyped as it has been is because tourists and genwunners are retarded.

Kanto is the only generation worth collecting

>>57901547
I kind of like Johto though. I'm working on a Wooper master collection

>>57896444 (OP)
How much would you pay to own this card?

>>57901560
bout three fiddy

>>57901560
>Grass-type Seviper
>But with grey border
Retard, Poison has been Darkness-type for almost 10 years now. Not paying anything for this fake slop.

can someone give me the QRD on the new bw set in jp
What's the difference between the regular box and the 'deluxe' booster box?
deluxe looks like it has guaranteed ARs but doesn't the regular one like always?

>>57899160
keep until you see a card you'd trade it for

>>57901810
I checked a few videos.
It's shit
For a deluxe, you defs get the 4 ar's and a bunch of pokeball holos, but thats it
SAR and BWR are still random af

is it worth the 10 dollars more? idk

>>57901888
oh, i dont give a shit about pokeball holos. I'll just get a regular box then
thanks anon

>>57901894
Left is white, right is black
Rates are ass

Is BW a normal set or is it a special set.

>>57901961
Special

>>57901964
FUCK
DAMN IT
SHIT ASS

>>57901976
At least the upcoming Mega set is a normal set
(Charizard X expac won't be tho lol KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)

>>57901985
I don't give a fuck about KALOS
UNOVA FOR LIFE NIGGA

How do we save this hobby? Can it be saved at this point?

>>57901418
>151 cards feature evolution lines draw by a single artist that have an overarching theme to them.
Doesn't the Unova set do the same for its regular cards?

>>57902222
Just print extremely underwhelming sets for like a year

>>57902222
Sure, if you leave now and don't come back you won't have to suffer through it!! Bye now

can i post my cheapo cards from my childhood or is it faggotry?

>>57902438
yeah go for it

Oldfag who collected as a kid here. Given the state of the market, I asked my dad on a whim to see if he could find my binder that I thought might be stored with the rest of my old shit in an outbuilding that's currently infested with raccoons. I was stunned when he said he found it and it seemed like everything was in okay condition.

I'm looking to unload these and I'm wondering if it's worth my time (and money on sleeves, toploaders, envelopes, etc) to research prices and piece it out to sell online or to just go to a local dealer and get a cash offer for all of it. Nothing is in mint condition, but nothing is in terrible condition, either. I know a bit about grading and I'd wager that they would come back anywhere between a PSA 5 and 7. Just don't know if you see anything here that's crazy valuable (like over $50).

Sorry for the shit picture quality. The cards also look much better outside of the vinyl pages.

>>57902490

>>57902493
From the limited research I've done I think that Pikachu might be worth a couple hundred bucks?

>>57902496
And then I've got like two more pages of holos and 80 or so pages of common shit like this. Base set, Jungle, Fossil, and Team Rocket (I think that's what it's called)

>>57902497
Forgot pic.

>>57902490
>>57902493
>>57902496
>>57902497
>>57902498
i'll give ya bout tree fiddy

>It's now cheaper to buy complete sets of Base set, Jungle & Fossil than it is to buy a full set of just 151
Modern has gone too far, it's not only more expensive but sells way faster and in much higher quantities than vintage

>>57902222
Time heals all wounds, but man we're gonna have to wait a while and it's going to hurt
>People collecting solely because it's the popular thing to do
>People "collecting" because they think modern will appreciate as much as 1st ed base set
>Resellers buying and selling to each other
>Mad fervor for new releases regardless of their quality or the pokemon featured

>>57902490
List them up on ebay and sell them already

What are you waiting for? the price to hit $0 on these?

>>57902623
You know you’re part of the problem as well right along with the other fags itt? You can’t be this oblivious…

Most of the people bitching here are poorfags and turd worlders that got priced out

>>57902623
a lot of people are buying up as much as possible because of fomo as well. there are people who still would rather crack packs to chase a card they want than just go and buy it.
>>57902721
>Most of the people bitching here are poorfags and turd worlders that got priced out
that's an awful lot of projecting. if you think paying above MSRP for an item that just came out is a flex, you're retarded.

Recent pulls
Leafon - Ceruledge - Sandy Shocks were from a single PE pack.. my best pack ever...

>>57902815
based

>>57902815
I like that Kanganskhan art of it just hanging out with a Quagsire

>>57902490
noone is going to give you a free evaluation on your cards, nigger.

>>57902825
Pretty fun buying cards on eBay from Japanese sellers. They always throw in something fun with what you ordered

Pretty fun buying cards on eBay from Japanese sellers. They always throw in something extra with what you ordered

>>57902496
The reverse holos of some of the commons from the legendary collection can go for ~$200, but you’ll have a hard time finding someone that wants to pay that much for them.

>>57902555
Only stupid people are buying up 151, they wouldn’t even know where to begin getting a hold of base set, much less anything else vintage.

>>57903096
Idk why people are buying up 151 so much, is it really just nostalgia bait? The hits bar charizard are utter shit

>>57902815
Where are you still able to find Crown Zenith?

>>57903272
Australia had a small shipment of Sea and sky collection, was lucky enough to grab one

>>57901985
>megas
Zzzzzz

>>57902346
No. They are just random. I think the vanillish line comes close

Mail day

>>57903429
Also got the articuno to finish the old trio

>>57903272
Wish I could still find some here in the PH. The scalper/reseller problem has also taken over here

>>57903441
You're in the Philippines?

>>57902435
No Eevees, no Pikachus, no Zards.
Maybe flat out no Kanto or legendaries before gen 4.

>>57903276
>americans were able to buy dozens of these at sams clubs for like $50 usd

they don't suffer

>>57903627
Hey we're going to die for Israel, so you know you win some you lose some.

Noob here - How do I find evolving skies packs? I really like a lot of the cards in that set.

>>57903638
Buy singles

>>57903638
They're like $40 a pack bro you're 4 years too late. Buy the singles.

>>57903638
Just buy the singles at this point. A lot of sealed product featuring Evolving Skies are overpriced.

>>57903638

Do you guys think the distributors are also messing up the market as well? It wasn't this hard to find and buy cards during the lockdowns.

>>57903681
of course. LGS's are also contributing. Nobody is innocent here.

>>57903681
I know the PokeCenters are kind of rigged. Last time I was using one and there were some packs a couple walked up to me and said they just checked them like 10 minutes before I showed up and it was empty for them. So even the machines have timer limits I guess

>>57903685
Why blame LGS's? This is their livelihood.

>>57903681
I think they're working with scalpers in some areas yes.

>>57903638
Take the chinkpill and buy singles

>>57903737
>>57903644
>>57903645
>>57903647
>just buy singles

But that's not fun.

>>57903771
rob scalpers than as a ninja or some shit than nigga god damn its fucking pokemon cards stfu

>>57903771
fuck off and do your own research then

>>57903771
Seek therapy for your gambling addiction.
Or buy like Lorcana or MTG packs for the thrill of opening packs while buying Pokemon singles.
I'd suggest sports cards but those seem to be super expensive and honestly sometimes harder to actually find than Pokemon.

>>57903771
If you want to gamble at least don't buy evolving skies, it's the most overpriced set of the last 3 eras.

When are Full arts from black and white going down? I wanted to buy some more but they blew up

>>57903816
anon the set is like a week old who knows what the prices are doing

>>57903737
>Started collecting seriously by buying Japanese singles because they were dirt cheap at the time
>Chinese cards now fulfill that same role
>I have a burning hatred towards Chinese card collectors
I'm a hypocrite, but I can at least cope by saying the Japanese cards are the original releases

>>57903399
Wrong, retard. Also, HGSS did that first. The only thing 151 did new was the card ordering.

This is literally the only Pokemon TCG thing I've seen at Target since Christmas.

>>57896450
>>57901067
Pulled this as a teenager and left it sitting among my bulk because I’d had significant Charizard fatigue by this point. Only a couple of year ago did it finally get a sleeve and binder treatment

>>57903994
It's a great product for players but decks always sit on shelves

>>57904012
>Charizard fatigue
>All the way back in 2003
Are you being serious?
In my school everyone still liked Charizard even though by the time Ruby & Sapphire released the most sought after mons became that gen's legendaries

>>57903737
I will hold out for an English releases of these Eeveelutions. I did bite the bullet on the Chinese Shiny Venusaur though, so I dont have much room to talk. Kek

>>57904039
Not him but base set charizard was the only one anyone ever cared about.

>>57904039
Yeah. I had base, dark, blaine's, shining, and really didn't care for any more Charizard cards at that point.

>>57903972
I collect japanese too and if the difference is relatively low I always pick jap, but when the difference is 30 vs 100, or 50 vs 200 for the Umbreon, and then you have to multiply for 8 eeveelutions, suddenly moonrunes vs chinkrunes start rooking arr the same.
I also settled for Engl*sh for some old XY EX and SM GX promos because the jap counterpart wasn't a promo and thus 10x the price. Case in point pic related.

>>57904039
NTA but I'm a natural born contrarian and even at nine years old I was sick of Charizard just a few months after Red and Blue dropped.

>>57904119
Based

>>57903994
How much? That promo card is great and the included deck is very playable.

>>57903146
Most of the people I see buying it up can’t name any pokemon from gen 4 onwards.
>>57903771
You’re a moron.
>>57904073
NTA but I hated charizard because it sucked compared to playing haymaker and rain dance.

>>57897386
depends if we'll get a SAR shiny mega fug

>>57904275
>NTA but I hated charizard because it sucked compared to playing haymaker and rain dance.
Based base set competitive chad

Just a few more months and I'll finally be able to afford a Rirri card........

No English Captain Pikachu yet?

>>57904307
Every single one of these inflated chase cards has dropped in price because the set has become more and more available. Watching the retards try to buy out these sets in order to pull them is hilarious.

Are these Team Rocket trainers in DR from the anime or something? I don't recognize any of them.

>>57904365
Heartgold/Soulsilver, remakes of Gold and Silver. Don't think any of them appeared outside of those games.

opened a raging surf box today
luv that yveltal ar

>>57904712
Why are Minun and its trainer just screaming? Kek

>>57904721
the plusle ar gives it context
on it's own it's a bit weird jej

i hate pokemon

>>57899596
This one and it's not close.

trainer cards are the most faggot thing ive ever seen be collected. pokemon is dead.

Total investor death
Total scalper death

>>57904867
You’re a retarded faggot. Get out and stay out.

Just invested 100k$ on sealed Evolving Skies. See you on the moon in a few months losers

>>57904914
If I buy pretty much any pack I see because maybe like once a week my PokeCenter will have like 2 things in stock does that make me a scalpers? This week I was only lucky enough to get one pack. And yes I open them and keep them for myself.

>>57905011
You're not a scalper but you are stupid so you'd fit right in with the sneakerheads.

>>57905011
scalpers buy in bulk with the intent to suffocate the market so they can sell for higher prices than intended
you are the complete opposite of a scalper, you're just buying cards .w.

>>57901025
>in this hobby.
in general you mean

Not a single SAR in $450 worth of shit. I am absolutely devastated. All down the fucking drown. I just want to throw my entire collection in the garbage.

>>57905159
better luck next time

>>57899596
>>57904828
For me, it's this easily.
>>57905011
I remeber way back when I was more involved in the game, I would buy multiple boxes from my TO to rip without a second thought. Nowadays I would be called a scapler for getting so much product just for myself.

>>57901547
>>57901589
YOU CANF AFFORD IT ANYWAYS ON EBT

ITS WORTH MORE THAN EVERY CYNTHIA CARD NIGGER

>>57905011
>>57905201
Nobody is calling you a scalper if you open packs. Why is this so hard to understand?

>>57905273
Mmm hmm, I was to post that I was able to get over a hundred of packs of the newest set I would get nothing but reasoned and understanding replies.

>>57905159
>Don't buy a sealed case to guarantee an SAR
>complain about not getting an SAR
KEK

>>57905273
Because this hobby is filled with lots of dumb niggers who get upset at somebody else getting product that they can't, so they take photos and spread it on social media accusing them of being scalpers

Half of the fucks don't even know what a scalper is any more and some say shit like it's anyone who buys more than one of each product available, or that scalpers are only scalping if they sell above market, so selling something at 2x MSRP is not scalping. Or that scalping is only scalping if you sell 100% of your inventory.

You'd think the definition of scalper being somebody buying something with the intent of quickly flipping it for easy profit, usually on the back of supply and demand issues, would be easy to understand. It isn't, so the retards in the hobby keep attaching lots of other conditions

popular card shop on long island is selling prismatic etbs for $150........ line out the door. why are people like this?

>>57905368
Retarded baldfat millennials and brocoli haird zoomoids with extreme FOMO have been hitting stores hoping for restocks for days on end without success and are willing to quqeue for the chance of actually getting their hands on product to invest/resell/gamble on

Praying B/W set(s) don't have some retarded chase cards. I'm not expecting anything crazy because its an unpopular gen but that won't stop the psychos ruining this hobby from pumping up god knows what.
Also praying it gets printed to he'll and back.

>>57905458
Look here: >>57899109

That's the biggest chase and... they're already dropping to about 300 usd each in japan

DR Mewtwo is more expensive

>>57905373
All this for Destined Mid?

>>57905368
>>57905373
it's always the bottom dwellers doing this and most of them weren't around before the hype came back around.

>>57905273
because people are retarded and get dopamine from people validating them. I wouldn't call them a scalper, but if you're buying out modern set from a store then chances are you're retarded.

>>57905362
people like to use scalpers as a sort of boogeyman when there's also all of the retards buying up as much as they can and and retards paying above msrp because they can't overcome having fomo.

fomo is a huge part of why collecting sucks now. none of these dimwits will even touch anything that hasn't been printed before the english tcg went to using grey borders. they just go to walmart and target and buy up as much as they can, even buying up bundles that used to sit on shelves and gather dust.

I hate watching videos of people waiting outside of stores. Even if they aren't acting stupid or fighting. None of them really like pokemon or have ever played the TCG, much less any games. All I ever see are fat and balding millenials, femoids with GOTIS and brownoids.

SV bros.. how we doing? Surely not better than SM, probably worse than SWSH as well... I guess here's hoping to the next block!

>>57905840
i'm worse than any of those

>>57905911
most people in the "hobby" are subhuman, you're not alone.

>>57905903
>trainers
SV does have some cards and I'm going to fucking frame this thing or something. Coolest card in a while

>>57905933
fag

I like that in DR the Ethan Pokemon mostly line up with Gold's manga team

>>57905936
that's because ethan is gold.

>>57905458
Nu-modern collectors/investors NEED an epic chaserino to justify either cracking packs or flipping product, so make no mistake they'll force some sort of artificial hype. It'll be probably end up being Reshiram and Zekrom. All the online poketwitter guys are already jerking those cards off. I just hope Hydreigon, Hilda, and Volcarona aren't too hard to get.

>>57905953
He never caught Ho-Oh though

>>57905961
I really like my completed OG 151 set and I'm never going to sell it. My non existent future kids can sell it when I die if they want.

>Ethan's Pichu doesn't have a puff of hair on its head
Fucking pissing me off

Missed opportunity to call it Crystal's mom's Wobbuffet

>>57905967
team rocket never had orbeetle or spidops either, yet here we are.

I really could've sworn Gold's canon vidya name was Chris

>>57905961
they'll try to find something to hype up, poketwitter mongs are mostly NFT and crypto cucks that got washed out because there's no money left in NFTs. the hydreigon has some play poential because the tera one is ass.

>>57905976

I glued my balls to my butthole.

Nobody wants vintage lol wat happened

>>57905933
Lucky af

can't find scans of this promo
is it the same illustrator as the standard card?

>>57905795
>it's always the bottom dwellers doing this and most of them weren't around before the hype came back around.
Yeah, the most retarded thing I've seen is gaslighting niggers trying to say that scalping has always been a thing in Pokémon.

It's like, nigger, for most of the last 25 years, the mainstay of the hobby has been children. Back in 2019, 2015, 2010, 2005, 2000. it's been mostly children that buy cards when they get the chance. There was always stock on sale for retail prices on shelves and no hype. Who the fuck were scalpers going to profiteer from? Kids with $10 to their name?

It's only been since covid that it's changed into nostalgia driven adults treating it as a store of wealth and money laundering investments have scalpers been able to get a foothold in the hobby because there are desperate niggers willing to pay over the odds so that they can hold a product for long term investing. They think that scalping has laways been in the hobby because that's all they know of it.

Like these niggers are unaware that you could still by base set booster packs for $10 as recently as 2013 and that we only saw huge increases in price in late 2018

>>57906296
Even with the ridiculous covid spike, scalping was only briefly a thing. It lasted for a little bit during the initial covid insanity, but it cooled off pretty quickly. Evolving Skies is known as THE modern set now and even that was pretty accessible, even before the additional print runs. Product moved kind of fast, but generally all you had to do was hit a store within a day or two of a restock. Not even close to scalpers literally waiting hours to clean out a restock the moment it hits shelves now. The ONLY product prior to this nonsense that I was unable to get for retail was the Celebrations UPC. Otherwise everything else was relatively easy to acquire.

What's really incredible to me is that scalpers have the audacity to try and defend themselves. You would think that they'd just be so lacking in shame that they just don't care, but I constantly see them trying to justify themselves, or wondering why everyone is so mad. They invade our hobby, completely ruin it for the sake of making a quick buck, and then have the gall to call the community "crybabies" for rightfully calling them out. Just saw some bitch defending her scalper son claiming he was "providing a service" by waiting in line for us. I earnestly wish these people would just drop dead.

>>57905458
>Praying B/W set(s) don't have some retarded chase cards.
A new rarity got created for the zekrom and reshiram (and promo victini) cards
it's over bruh

>>57906428
Bruh I want that Reshiram so bad, it looks so slick.
But hopefully it means the SIR cards are cheaper.

>>57906296
>>57906329
tl;dr nice essay though

>>57906268
If picrel is what you mean by standard card, then yes.
https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/product-gallery/team-rockets-mewtwo-ex-box

>>57906440
i'll just buy the victini promo and move on unless prices drop a lot
>>57906444
learn to read

>>57904308
never ever, either take the chinkpill or stay cardless

>>57906450
Yeah unless I get lucky I can't justify dropping big bucks on a piece of cardboard. Especially since it feels like we're in the Pokemon card equivalent of early 90s comic market.

>>57904365
>didn't play one of the best games in the series
poser faggot

>>57905458
>Also praying it gets printed to he'll and back.
anon...
https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/05/black-bolt-and-white-flare-to-experience-severe-shortages-but-tpci-now-catching-up

>>57906482
I'm going to KILL MYSELF

>>57906510
Sets stay in print for like three years, just wait. Also:
>he didn't get the Pokemon Center ETBs

>>57906510
It's more of a Shrouded Fables set than it is a Pris set, so don't worry

Nobody wants these

>>57906519
No damn it I'm sick of waiting. I've been in this hobby since the fucking beginning yet I gotta eat shit and wait because of delusional inverstorfags, borderline NEET scalper sneakerheads invading the hobby, these dipshit loser rip and shippers or sportscardfags jumping ship.
It's fucking bullshit man these sets are being printed into the fucking dirt but I can't get my hands on one single god damn pack of anything.

And yes I missed the Pokemon Center stuff.

>>57906536
>Nobody wants these
Yet they're still sold out, curious.

>>57906545
Investards would buy shit with a logo smeared in it. How much players and collectors actually care about it is irrelevant.

>>57906329
Exactly. I've even say some of these people say shit like "we create the hype and interest that drives sales and Pokémon would have died years ago if it wasn't for us" as though the largest media franchise in the world requires scalpers and investors to survive, or that they've always been around.

>>57906329
Looking forward to the tourists losing a shit ton of money by scalping mid ass sets like the upcoming unova and megas. They're already losing money on JT because nobody wants it.

on fags say tourists bro, get a gf and stop being obese too.

I spent about an hour in a specialty shop that buys and sells exclusively Pokémon cards
My outlook on the hobby as a whole took a big hit from that experience
>More women than men
>No one buying vintage despite the extensive selection available
>One guy buying a graded SAR using crypto
>Same guy waited for the staff to walk to back to ask me if I was selling any 151
>A group of kids selling their hits not to buy more cards but to get fast food instead
>2 different people trying to sell Destined Rival and being shocked that the store didn't offer them $50 a piece for their full art trainers and illustration rare shitmons

>>57906801
tcg is back baby!!!!!

>>57906801
>specialty shop
You mean it wasn't just a LGS?

>>57906863
There was no table to play
I can't call it an LGS if they only sell pokémon and don't even hold tournaments for that

>>57906801
dumbass fat kids lmao

>>57906450
i just saw prices for the victini promo
never fucking mind lol
hopefully the card is just integrated into the regular set in english

>>57906883
Apparently it will.

why don't we have a discord so we can better communicate bros? Also I wanna do some buyouts as a group, would be fun.

>>57906905
>why don't we have a discord
Because we're not trannies.

>>57906910
>but but logans on discord and so is kai and druski bro.

genz is faggy.

>>57906905
i don't want to talk to you specifically

>>57906238
Mindless consoomers don’t know how to get a hold of it and think it’s beneath them to buy singles.

>>57906801
Doesn’t even surprise me. Those shops pop up and will eventually go under because it’s just a temporary model.

>>57906768
Tourists are people who aren’t genuinely interested in something and won’t stay for long. If that term bothers you, it’s because it applies to you. You sound like a spic.

>>57906329
It’s crazy how so many people are willing to go to bat for the worst people in this space. I’ve seen them use every imaginable cope to justify being niggers. My favorite was one niɡɡer saying “we’re vital for the ecosystem” like they actually contribute anything to collecting.

>>57906905
Kill yourself

>>57906982
only fat fuck obese losers like you say "tourists" to explain someone not as faggotly committed to a tcg like yourself.

>>57906993
Hey ese isn't there a shoe drop you need to line up for?

>>57907010
he faggot white boys are the gayest sneakerheads not spics

>>57906993
Ive been here long enough to tell you that the fags who call everyone "tourists" have the worst collections everytime. At most they will post their childhood collections from 25 years ago in a disgustingly dirty binder and will claim "ive been collecting since the beginning!" (Except they only collected when it was popular in the early 2000s and dropped the tcg as soon as it wasnt popular anymore irl) but other imposter fags itt will reply to them and be like "based based based!" because these bandwagoner fags are all the same. They are only here when its socially acceptable to be, and real collectors like me post highly desirable cards from all eras and get nothing but jealous seethe posts in response.

>>57907018
now thats fucking based

>>57906993
Yup, you’re definitely a tourist. Those are the only people that get offended by the term. Go back to scalping sneakers before I call ICE.

These are one of the few TCG products that are left mostly untouched in my area.

Pichu > Raichu > Pikachu

>>57907027
youre jewish

>>57907028
If the manga was more popular that Combined Powers set would sell like crazy

>>57907028
The top right and bottom right products have those cards that say you’re not allowed to play them in tournaments, which is gay.
>>57907018
What kind of sleeves do you use.

>>57907032
Combined powers seems like it was just a way to pawn off overstock from the classic set.

>>57906993
Spotted the tourist

>>57907029
Pichu has fewer cards but literally all of them are great
I'd say he and Raichu are even
Pikachu feels even more forced that Charizard these days

guy who was calling everyone tourists is the one spamming the pokemon eating the chick

>>57907074
Raichu has some good ones

>>57907080
Reverse JustinRPG?

>>57907074
>>57907104
Genwunners say gen 1 is the best generation, but forget most of the Pokemon that aren’t charizard or pikachu.

>>57907080
Nah that was my post. I accidentally (You)'d someone and deleted my post then posted it again. I just got a card from a Nip poster and forgot they usually put in a little extra in their packages.

>>57907110
what the fuck is wrong with raichu

>>57907124
Pearls before swine.

>>57907110
>whole ghost Ghastly, Haunter, Gengar line
>Kanto berds
>Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan
>Kabutops
I mean I can keep going. Genwun has the OG's, Johto is good and Hoenn is alright. Pretty much everything after gen 3 kind of sucks though.

>>57907126
>kabutops
>not magmar and electabuzz

>>57907110
I'm always astonished that the following don't have even a fraction of Pikachu and Charizard's popularity in the TCG
>Gyarados
>Arcanine
>Dragonite
>Bird trio
>Alakazam
>Lapras
>Snorlax
They get plenty of love in the video games and merchandise tho

They should do a Blaine's MewTwo card

>>57907135
Dragonite and Gyarados are 2 of the only 5 lineups I have a shit about in Kanto. I think charizard being a chase card and one of ash’s strongest Pokemon in the anime had a lot to do with people liking him, even though it was ass in base set to gym heroes competitive.

Oo Blue's Jolteon, I want it

>>57907158
buy it then

>>57907158
Actually, that's just Jolteon.

>42 secret rares in 151
Well fuck I guess I just giving up buying those packs

New

>>57907173
>>57907173