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Just collecting Woopers

Should I get it graded?

>still buying vintage

>still buying dog cards simple as

>still buying physical

>>57907215
>>57907194
>>57907188
We get it, you like Houndour and Houndoom

the moistening...

>>57907232
I actually don't, but I like the meme. I don't know about the other guys though

This deserved a full art

>>57905903
Pretty solid. I would move Carmine up, Lillie's Clefairy down and the Iono promo and non SIR down.

>>57907177
Same, I just need the 2 eReader ones and I’ll have all of them.

>buying chingchong cards.

Who are investors planning on selling all this sealed product to down the line?
Like why would normalfags 10-20 years from now feel nostalgic for sets they never got to experience because mom and dad could never find packs because Kyle maxed out his credit card buying all the stock?

Went to a card show today. here's what I picked up.

>>57907796
Nice
Lame
Nice
Nice
Gay
Lame
10/10
10/10
Gay
6/10
Nice
SUPER gay
10/10
Nice

>>57907796
i know when you bought that houndoom card you thought "hehe the >still buying vintage card"

>>57907825
erika's super gay invitation...

>get sent a bunch of shit for randomly winning a facebook group giveaway
>rip the packs because reselling things that 20 people took from their collections and shipped to me dosent sit right
>pull some nice cards, gold ultra ball and gold houndoom, rainbow and alt art biro trio in hidden fates etb
>didn't make money for box value but didn't lose any either because it was all free
>last bit of stuff coming next week
I know its only a couple boxes and amounts to less than 100 packs but winning over 1k in product and random promos/accessories is not possible for most and will probably never happen to me again

>>57907912
based

>>57907912
congrats anon

>>57907912
Fuck you, I should have won, I don't care that I don't have a Facebook account, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
I'm going to FUCKING kill MYSELF

>>57907616
Jealous. So you just need sad/sleepy Wooper and the other one?

>>57907825
The gardevoir is nice, the fuck you talking about?

>>57908058
Yeah, I’m just waiting to find decent listings because everyone around here just sells and deals with modern.

>>57907796
What was your budget? Did you sell any cards there?

>my small town has a LGS
>Always bought shit online but decide to give it a try
>booster boxes for 250
>packs for 15
>singles at 5x market price
I don't even understand how places like this stay in business

>>57908183
in the previous thread i mentioned my local small LGS which opened last year is selling ETBs for $150 and lines are out of the door. Disgusting.

>>57908203
>>57908183
fomosexuals are stupid and will pay the hiked prices in order to not miss out on consooming products.

>>57908246
Ethan's Typhlosion (beat the allegations)

>>57908236
based

>>57908246
I've pulled so many fucking Annihilape's

>>57908236
Is there a discernible difference between PLANETA and 5ban slop?

>>57908325
PLANETA's posing is a bit more interesting I guess.

>>57908347
why on earth was this not the same card art baka

>>57908352
this way they can sell it twice

>Pull 2 SARs
>They are both Cynthia's Garchomp
At least it wasn't the fucking masbostiff

>>57908422
ok yeah sure i'd take that

>>57908231
based kawayoo collector

>>57908500
das rite, nearly done with that collection. Hopefully the Reshiram ex SAR won't be too expensive, will need two of those because I want a binder for a complete BBWF collection as well.

>still grading cards

>still posting the same spam in every thread

>still crying like a reddit soiboi

Surprise! It’s Eevee surprise box time!

>>57908668
And right out the gate, I think I have a misprint. Neat. Hoping for a Glaceon in one of these.

>>57908668
>get a surprise box
>get glaceon ex
>open first pack
>the rare and both reverse holos are leafeon

>>57908674
Another angle.

>>57908678
Oh! What’s this?

>>57908687
It’s Ogerpon!

>>57908231
All great except Golem not even good art can save it.

>>57908236
Nice
Meh
Bad
Nice
Gay
Gay
Nice
Sweet
I don't like olives :/

>>57908246
All nice

>>57908122
No

>>57908687
I kind of love it but also hate it when I accidentally spoil the pack's rare

>>57907912
Damn, good shit. Impressive stuff too. With how garbage this hobbyspace has been lately it's nice to know that some people out there are still being cool.

>>57908691
Final result plus some of my personal favorites. Sadly no Glaceon, but Espeon is especially cute here so I’ll take it.

>>57908691
Imagine getting a hit and its the fucking giga rare gold cards nobody gives a shit about

>>57908705
>he doesn’t like the idea of marrying and reproducing.

>>57908718
It’s a relevant card still in the game.

>>57908710
It’s my own fault for doing it on my bed’s uneven surface.
>>57908718
I don’t hate it, so I count it as a win.

>>57908723
You did better than I did. After the triple leafeon it was straight booty cheeks.

Completed my legends set recently. These were damn hard to get in good condition.

>>57908731
Sovl

why would pokerev do a 1000 pack stream for destined mid

>>57908738
Because he’s a fag.

>>57908731
Also my Victini Collection

>>57908747
very nice

>>57908777
Thanks
I've been collecting for a while and have a bunch of glass display cases now. This is my "Chase" case. It's supposed to be the top card of every set since Detective Pikachu. I refuse to put my Rainbows or Supporters in there because they look ugly together. Also my Pikachu ex is missing because it's in another case atm. Also random 151.

>>57908791
Cool but it's a shame they're english

>>57908810
I wouldn't touch most foreign cards with a 10 foot pole here. Impossible to resell or trade away if I end up not liking or wanting to sell. The only japanese cards I have are these Yu Nagaba ones, and that's purely because I like the art.

>>57908718
At least it's the playable one. And there's not a whole lot of other consolation prizes in PRE.

>>57908731
I hope they do something like this again.

>>57908747
Good luck with getting the upcoming wumbo rarity chase bro
Is that the jumbo from the movie promotion?

Got these when I was 8 around the time they first came out. I messed up and gave away so many cards to cousins and sold some. Should have kept them all.

>>57908913
Noone cares about Victini in English, so I highly doubt it will be expensive. The jumbo one either came with a plush or the movie.

New scoops

>>57908731
>cut art in half

Why would they do this? Looks like absolute trash.

>>57908231
>>57908573
>>57908717
>>57908791
>>57908962
based

>>57908982
You know without the toploaders they line up right?

Thoughts?

>>57909015
>ai slop

Post the first card you ever saw. I remember my brother showing me this Oddish pretty vividly

>>57909017
It's actually 5ban graphics

>>57909062
I’m not even going to disagree with that. Most modern art is slop because it’s the same shit over and over.

>>57908347
Does the card only credit the illustrator who did Bellibolt? Who did the Iono?

>still buying modern

>still posting shoe

>>57908791
>>57908829
Nice work on the collection anon. And unique display case for a home. I'd recommend getting those cards out of toploaders. Top loaders are fine for a hobby shop selling cards, but not for home displaying. It cheapens the look and really makes it look like you're a shop (especially with your display cases). Putting them in acrylic or magnetic cases would really improve the look of things.

>$13 for a single pack of a mid set
lmao go to hell

>>57909211
No way in hell would I ever use those magnetic cases. They're huge and a pain to store. Plus I double sleeve everything so they wouldn't even fit.

I'm actually happy you got the store vibe. I've been working at card stores for years and I really enjoy the vibe. Most of the cards/cases/merch I've actually gotten through my connections. Buddies come over and we play cards here. I recently converted my unused upstairs master bedroom into this. It's still a work in progress of course.

What card stores do you know that put all their cards in toploaders? I've never known a store that toploaders anything but the highest value ones because taking them in and out for customers to examine is a pain and can cause damage. I see penny sleeves in trays or just on the flat shelf where I am.

>>57909245
>I recently converted my unused upstairs master bedroom into this. It's still a work in progress of course.
Looks sick as hell. I’d love to have a dedicated room like this.

>>57909173
The epitome of comedy lol

>1/10 femoid wants to brag about pulling illustration rare from a pack she bought waiting outside of a gamestop.
>ignore her
>mfw

>>57909454
troon behaviour

>>57909665
I’d rather never be able to buy anything scarlet and violet ever again than sink to standing outside of a store and waiting for the restock guy.

>>57909245
k i n o

lol, lmao
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/gamestop-ceo-says-the-companys-future-isnt-in-games/1100-6532407/

>>57909689
>corporate strategy is to HODL memecoin
lol, lmao

>>57909689
>>57909691
I wonder what’s going to happen when people eventually quit using them as a middleman for PSA submissions and they can’t depend on fomotard money.

>>57909689
big sell signal

>GameStop focusing heavily on Pokemon cards
They better pray that the hype won't die down (it will die down eventually lol).

>>57908829
>resell value
ngmi, automatic soulless collection

>>57907912
i want that playmat

>>57909245
Very nice.

Also, does illustrator signed stuff go for anything? I got Masakazu Fukuda to sign my grail card at worlds back in the day, and from what I can tell, there's only ever been a handful of these sold on the open market.

1 week since the last mail day
I need to buy more singles

>>57908136
I took $240 in cash and ~$70-80 worth in trades. I also bought these 4 booster box cases for $80 because I've been getting very nervous for my Evolving Skies boxes as they approach $2000

>>57909245
>Plus I double sleeve everything so they wouldn't even fit.
Get the ones that fit penny sleeves.

>>57909813
>Competitor
Shit, we've got a nigger that is actually good at the TCG here. Only way to tell is to put it up for sale. Now post the res of those cards from tourneys you've been to. I want to see that shit.

>>57908962
Where's that Scream Tail promo from?

>>57909967
fuck off scalplet

>>57909985
nta and neither is it a promo its just a regular pull

>>57910009
>fuck off scalplet
Evolving skies booster boxes were available below MSRP for years. Fuck off casual

>>57910012
You'd have to be an absolute idiot not to have picked up ES boxes when they were $110ish. The most obvious free money to fund your hobby on the entire planet. Even just 1 would trade up into like 2-3 gold stars.

>>57910012
oh god im invoooosting
Fuck off.

>>57910009
>nta and neither is it a promo its just a regular pull
Don't answer if you don't know shit. Regular pulls don't come in cosmos foil. It's a promo from a Stellar Crown checklane blister.

>>57910036
Haha you don't even know shit about basic promos>>57910061 go back to your funkos. you missed out

>>57910154
>top lel
nice, she’s my favorite guardian
>Kirlia and Vulpix
very cute

>>57908829
>The only japanese cards I have are these Yu Nagaba ones, and that's purely because I like the art.
Niɡɡer

>>57910407
dont break the rules!

>>57910431
fuck off nigger

>>57909974
prime cards are so sexy

>>57910154
The BW kyogre and groudon EXs look so much better than the ORAS ones.

>>57908791
Nice display, just be careful that it’s not in direct sunlight!

>>57910522
See
>>57909245

I got blackout curtains. I aint cooking my cards in the sun.

>>57909813
>>57909980
Most of my stuff from back then is just merch or other paper products related to the Professor Program.

Here's the card that saved the TCG, and the card that forced a non-apology apology and a premature set rotation.

>>57910656

>>57910660

>>57910660
Also, anyone looking to do their first master set could do worse than Cleffa.

>>57910686
why does she eeeeek

Opened Japanese packs for the first time, they were actually really annoying to open am I retarded?
Also rares not being in every pack was weird.
Got the Tatsugiri art rare though which was really fucking cool 10/10 card.

>>57910686
Any other Pokemon have such a consistent gimmick across their cards?

>>57907268
That would be amazing

>>57910704
I believe Lunatone and Solrock only have a few cards that don't have some sort of synergy when both are in play.
Latios and Latias used to be this way too, and they even tended to have a gimmick of offering some sort of hate-effects (immune to damage from certain sources, do extra damage to certain targets, shut down certain abilities) making them decent tech options when you knew what you were building your deck against.
Pic tangentially related: there was a period of a few years between when Rocket's Admin rotated out and Judge was released when the most viable hand-disruption was Team Galactic's Wager. This meant that playing in a tournament setting you would be playing a fair amount of games of RPS while playing TCG. And because the most dominant deck of the era was Gardevoir/Gallade, Gardevoir's power made it so they could use the effect of a Supporter card from your discard pile, so when you TGW'd them, they could hit you with it every turn after that, lol.

>still buying Kanto

>>57910704
Plusle and minun, but they’re usually both ass.

Uhh some tranny at my locals just gave me this trainer card and ran her hand down my arm, I think im in love...

>>57911117
Fuck him in the ass.

Why are what I assume are E-Reader cards so expensive like damn.

>want to get a master set of one of my favorite Pokemon
>every one I check has some absolute bastard 75+ dollar card
Mother fucker.

>>57911333
If it's just one you're getting off easy

>mogs your collection

>>57911377
Damn whatever woman that owns this collection has some money to splash around.

Owari da...

>>57911411
>Japanese people brag about much they don't stink
Oh no no the proud people of Nippon have fallen so far

>>57911333
Be grateful your favorite mon isn’t something like an eeveelution or mascotmon.

>>57911411
this is what the average lillie fag looks like.

>>57911411
imagine the smell

>Even the Japs have to deal with unhygienic nerds because they are too busy playing games
Damn

Pretty sure my nearby PokeCenter decided to just be off for an entire week. It's been "doing maintenance" for 4 days now. I have noticed that it gets scalped to hell and even the bag boy told me people literally just stand around the lady refilling the machine waiting.

>>57911377
>Modernslop
>Worst HoloJP gen 1 membe

Wow, nothing.

Reminder that the market will completely crash when mega cards come out. People lose interest when new eras come out. See: base SM, SWSH and SV

>>57911905
Yeah, people are going to be very disappointed when lucario and gardevoir are the only megas in the set. And they will stop pretending to care about megas by that time too

Missed opportunity to have Team Rocket's Sabrina as a trainer card in DR

>>57911905
TWO WEEKS even

>>57911382
iirc the woman that owns that is a vtumor.

>>57911377
It’s easy to have a collection like this when you have paypig simps and effeminate men giving you money.

>>57911717
>>Worst HoloJP gen 1 membe
but enough about Chammers.

>>57911377
Yeah, sure.

>>57912175
What were the grades? Gyessing theres a reason you didnt post them already graded looool.

A kid gave me this 2 years ago

>>57912180
Slab that shit.

>>57912180
>perfect centering
>no whitening
psa 10 easy

>>57912179
>Caring about grading

>>57912179
>>57912160
vtroon fans are subhuman.

>>57912220
Cope. Iono is the face of Pokemon.

>>57912269
More vtroon shit.

>Iono
>vtuber
She doesn't even stream behind an avatar lol. She's more like an IRL streamer.

>>57912269
So you’re saying iono is a fat balding man with a face right and voice changer?

>I just spent $500k on Pokemon cards and I'm going to open them
What in the fuck are these goddamn YouTube videos doing to the brains of children?

>>57909974
dude looks like he's about to molest somebody

Not enough Team Rocket in the Team Rocket set

>koffing
>:D
>weezing
>:'(

>>57912519
Desperate to stay relevant in a world where kids will only react to YouTube vids with big $ numbers and the word CHALLENGE

>LGS selling the V Umbreon (not VMAX moonbreon) for 600€ ungraded
The mainstream chase delusion is out of control.

Pulled the trigger on that Hilda

>>57911411
>image
kek, was that really necessary?

>>57911411
LGS can't handle my masculine musk

>>57910656
>>57910660
>>57910665
>>57910667
This is really cool, nigga, thanks for sharing. It's nice to see something unique here.

>>57911260
E-reader came out at the start of Pokémon's dip in popularity. Most millennials had grown out of Pokémon by this point and had stopped collecting. Also WotC lost the licence soon after, so the print runs were limited in both size and time of printing.

Now plastic millennials who feel as though they missed out are trying to reclaim an era they didn't care for

>>57911423
Lots of Asians claim this, very few actually do. And they never factor in things like the food they eat contributing towards how they smell. Or mothballs

The card stock on the Japanese cards are thinner than the English cards. I just opened some Japanese packs.

>>57912855
Anon comes to a realisation that was widely known 26 years ago

>>57912806
Its the environment. I dunno why but the bacteria or something don't smell as bad. I didn't need deodorant as much either. They do smell though, in fact many smell worse because they don't freshen themselves.

Why doesn't MTG have problems with scalpers / supply in the way pokemon does?

>>57913117
Pokemon is more like sports cards in that people collect for the characters meanwhile MTG is about cards that are meta.
Their recent pivot to FOMO, numbered cards, and licensed crossovers will undoubtedly attract scalpers, as seen with the Final Fantasy set.

>>57913117
MTG definitely has scalping problems, look at their secret lairs

>>57913117
>Why doesn't MTG have problems with scalpers / supply in the way pokemon does?
Nigga hasn't seen what happens with some of the MTG collabs.

That said, a big part of Pokémon's scalpability is that the vast majority of people do not play the TCG, and have never played the TCG. They collect for the sake of collecting, and chase cards out of want for exclusivity. Now there's money in it, that collecting has turned to making money from investing. And where there are supply and demand issues, scalpers follow.

>>57912890
It's the same for a lot of Asians in the west. The genetics around it is well described, but a reduction in fatty acid transfer into sweat glands and ear wax, that odor producing bacteria can breakdown. Their own bacterial fauna, and just general fustiness can cause smells though. Very few will genuinely be neutral smelling over long periods of time.

>>57913117
People actually play MTG and don't really collect just for the sake of artwork

I think I know why this latest hype surrounding the TCG doesn't feel as organic this time around
During the Pokémon GO craze and the whole Covid frenzy, it wasn't just the TCG that saw a huge surge in interest
>Playing the newest video games
>Collecting the older video games
>Youtubers and streamers reaching record views
>Vintage seeing a massive surge in demand
Meanwhile this time around all Pocket TCG did was stir up a frenzy around the new TCG releases
Popularity for channels dedicated to Pokémon are much lower now than they were a few years ago
No mainstream "influencer" is doing a Nuzlocke or opening sealed product since it's no longer easy views
Pokémon Z-A is drumming up less interest than Pokémon Arceus did
Vintage still is nowhere near its 2021 peak
What is there to this latest boom period for the TCG aside from Pocket players starting to collect and scalpers hoping onto the bandwagon to profit?

>>57913196
It’s a super pump and dump now. People are pumping the new shit, tag memes, full arts from the black and white era, and general normalfag interest. It’s all gonna crater soon enough though I hope

>>57913196
It's a culmination of things, rather than a singular trigger.

INVOOSTING in collectables becoming mainstream has been ramping up since Covid, and all the instability for the last five years has people lookig for multiple income streams so that they can escape the rat race. This is also on the back of years of news of record breaking card sales between 2018-2022 in particuar, so people started digging into their old collections to see if they had anything valuable.

Open social media is more prominent, so viral videos are much easier to spread than ever before. If you show a tangential interest in Pokémon, you're going to get flooded with videos of people pulling or selling cards worth hundreds, or thousands. Again, solidifying Pokémon as a way to make money.

Content creators capitalise on this, and to legitimise their platforms and generate them some additional income, try to sell people a product, their 'knowledge' about Pokemon as a stock to invest in to make lots of money.

Pokémon's return to popularity since the end of SM and into SwSh, and them really upping on their own marketing across the board with huge events and collabs, which again, go viral on social media.

PTCGP being a gateway drug for new and returning fans to convert from digital to physical.

This all came to ahead with Surging Sparks having Pikachu as the mascot, and then FOMO surrounding 151, resulting in people treating it like toilet paper during Covid, only more valuable.

Since then, it's been like an ouroboros feeding its own hype and artificial scarcity where people are getting FOMO, buying out as much as they can, leaving everyone else to fight for scraps, and then buying out as much as they can when they get the chance. The scarcity is making people more desperate.

Scalpers exploit this, but they're not the main problem.

>>57913244
>If you show a tangential interest in Pokémon, you're going to get flooded with videos of people pulling or selling cards worth hundreds
Opening videos on Youtube are WAY less popular than they were back then, however I don't know about Tiktok and Instagram
While looking up some channels to make sure I'm not wrong, I was astonished by the number of stupid looking thumbnail flashing high rarity cards and big $ values

There's no way this bubble can last. Sports cards can get away with it because there's genuine scarcity to the product, they only make a limited amount.
Meanwhile Pokemon is printing product as fast as possible. There's just low life degenerates buying EVERYTHING they can get their hands on. But you can already see the fad dying out, investors and scalpers crying nonstop.
Hopefully Gamestop somehow manages to crash the market and wipe out all the filth and make our hobby pure once again.

>>57913290
>T W O
>W E E K S

>>57913285
They're pretty popular on TT and IG. Doubly so on TT since you also get fed rip and shippers that sell on the TT shop that's built into the app

>>57913290
>Pokemon is printing product as fast as possible
say that about any set over 2 years old

>>57913290
>Meanwhile Pokemon is printing product as fast as possible.
Means nothing when your average hobbygoer is currently a millennial that is willing to dump >$500 at a time into buying sealed product as an investment.

Think about it in terms of packs. TPCI have traditionally printed about 1-2 billion cards, per year, and that was enough for the old consumer demographic of kids buying individual packs when they felt like it, and maybe box sets as a gift. Now they print 5x this amount at around 10 billion cards per year, but the average person is now buying several ETBs, a dozen sleeved boosters, and a case of booster boxes at the same time - that's like 50+ packs in one go.

Printing as fast as they can is not enough

>>57913371
Which set over 2 years old is all the rage right now?
I've had more people ask me if I had any 151 and Prismatic Evolutions than people interested in buying my XY era boxes

>>57913396
Fusion Strike, Silver Tempest, Lost Origin, Evolving Skies. The fact that TPC's website had a 1 million long queue a couple of weeks ago because of some tins containing Fusion Strike and Chilling Rain is all you need to know how stupid the situation is

>>57913420
>Fusion Strike, Silver Tempest, Lost Origin, Evolving Skies.
>All Sword & Shield era stuff containing SAR
Man, fuck that rarity
At least when we had disgusting full arts and rainbow rares as chase cards people would still appreciate cards from every other eras
Bring us back to the good old holographic days

The only real way to kill off this bubble is if TPC started printing older sets. Like they started printing huge amounts of booster boxes of team up and evolving skies sets. This would kill any hype around investing (which is the real problem). The best part is that they would only have to do it once to destroy trust.

>>57913475
I would love it if they did this. Like rolling reprints of old sets an MTO, just to shit on investors even more. Watching them sell out and, even if a bunch ended up homeless or bankrupt, would be even better

printing isn't the problem its the garbage pull rates

>>57913475
They should reprint first edition base set, into the ground

>>57913504
It would also be extremely funny if they teamed up with WotC and printed them exactly the same, down to the copyright years. If they were indistinguishable from the original, it would also destroy that market too.

>>57913475
Last time they did this with Roaring Skies it fucked up their sales for most of the SM era
Though, the decline was also due in part to the people who joined during the Pokemon GO craze losing interest

>>57913290
Sports cards have not been printed in this quantity since the early 90's. Those markets have numbered cards and autos to offset that, but a majority of base sports cards are worth even less than pokemon

>>57912738
Saw a girl buy the other Hilda at a card show and it already last half of its value. Hildasissies are something else.

>>57913512
>Pokemon Classic was one of the most hyped relelase of 2023
>Japanese preorders sold out everywhere
>People eagerly awaited the English release
>TPCi printed it in big enough quantities that every LGS and retailer could stock at least 4
>The set flopped hard as a result
There just isn't that much demand for vintage stuff unless it's scarce and rare
It'd be a repeat of YGO reprinting its oldest sets
>People are all hyped up for Legend of Blue-Eyes to be on shelves again
>Investors and scalpers are ready to pounce
>All interest drops the moment they realize there is enough stock to go around

>two more weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=89GxtAbvaTM&pp=0gcJCdQJAYcqIYzv

>>57913538
i probably overpaid, but i'd rather overpay than have to pay some absurd jp waifu tax later
it was $100

>>57913512
I'd be fine with a reprint like base set 2. Just reprint all the major investorfag sets such as evolving skies with a "2" logo in a corner, and keep doing it for random old sets. The randomness will throw off the investors trying to pump a specific set, and the "2" will ensure a higher rarity of the OG cards for collector autists, while normal people who are just trying to complete a fucking binder will be able to afford the second set of alt arts without spending 1000$ per box.

>>57912132
how do i do that?

The hobby isn't even in that bad of a position right now. You can build a deck with even the most meager autismbux check you can imagine. You can find some product although admittedly not a lot of you keep an eye out for it. The only ones that are suffering right now are the faggots that feel entitled to have the biggest and shiniest thing, which if they did mass print this stuff anyways, they wouldn't even want it. That and gambling addicts. This place is legit infested by retards.

>>57913491
Pretty much this. You can only print so much and tpci can't be expected to invest the resources into meeting the demand of an obvious bubble. But making hits difficult to pull means people feel the need to open more product, which makes retards enable scalpers by buying more of their overpriced product. Giving Prismatic 32 SIRs without increasing the pullrates was pure lunacy. While JTG's pullrates weren't any better, it was a step in the right direction because the amount of hits in the set was smaller. If they had gone back to pre-Temporal pullrates with DRI we'd see the market getting much better.

That being said, as much as better pullrates would help in correcting the issue, I wouldn't say it's the only issue. The other big one is distributors being shitty and contributing towards scalping and scarcity themselves.

>>57913891
God them gimping pullrates starting in temporal was the most hooknose move they’ve pulled in a while. SV base to paradox rift were so fun to open

>>57913117
Magic does have a scalping problem. Magic players just don't give a shit because they're already used to paying ridiculous prices on everything.

There's also just a lot difference in the way they operate. Pokemon has more mass appeal and prints characters that will always be loved by someone. Presumably it always has room for growth as new generations take interest in it. And I think a lot of investoors believe that every set will eventually skyrocket like Base Set. Comparatively Magic has a slightly more niche audience. The subject matter it features isn't as reoccurring or iconic as things like Pikachu or Charizard. And as popular as the crossover ips are, they're beginning to hit a point of oversaturation that makes each one feel a little less special. Not to say Magic isn't valuable or is going to crash or anything like that, but I think investors just view Pokemon as a more favorable speculative asset due to the popularity of Pokemon as an ip.

>>57913375
I genuinely don't understand where this money is even coming from. Like everyone is constantly complaining about being poor and barely getting by, but there's also a CONSTANT stream of people regularly paying hundreds of dollars on Pokemon on a whim. I understand that there will always be whales, but it doesn't feel like just a few. It seems like basically every single person I talk to regardless of economical position will eventually mention having recently bought some product for 2x retail.

>>57913945
You're not from the US are you?
>I genuinely don't understand where this money is even coming from.
Besides a few genuine whales, it all comes from credit cards. You really don't know how bad things are. People are going into massive debt trying to pull a chase card to make their money back + profit.

>>57913923
I really don't blame them TOO much for that. While I personally enjoyed the generous hitrates of early SV, I can see how it could be difficult to move larger products like booster boxes when the most valuable card in the set was worth less than the cost of the box. Those pullrates favored the purchase of single packs and small bundles far more since you had a much easier time pulling some low-mid value cards and recouping the cost. And I think the altered pullrates worked well enough in Temporal Forces, which had a relatively fair market. But that was only because no one really cared about the paradox mons. The Greninja pump is what really fucked up everything by shifting the market perspective and establishing that a SV card COULD be worth that much money. And of course as I said, the pullrates on a set like PRE was unforgivable. A special set with that many SIRs should have had pullrates AT LEAST as generous as CZ.

>>57913968
I am from the US. It's just insane to me how many people walk into my LCS and just casually drop $200 and then shrug their shoulders when they don't pull anything and promise to come in next week for more.

>>57913884
>deck building
>in the collector thread

>>57913982
They don't care at that moment since they're not spending their money. If you were to see them when the bill is due, you'd think differently.

>>57913117
The final fantasy set is being scalped heavily. The magic community prioritizes playing over collecting and sees gradelets as being retarded if they’re not heading 30+ year old cards.

>>57913982
You’re not considering the fact that not everyone lives in an overpriced shithole. Some people just commute there for work and get to keep half of their inflated salaries for hobbies.

>>57913982
thats normal
t. gacha enjoyer

>MTG isn't affected by scalpers
Try finding the Final Fantasy set at MSRP lmao. MTG has investorfags as well considering that they have a reserved list

TrainerGOD here. I am a Leafeon fag now I guess

>>57914180
I forgot about their literal reskin sets. They probably make a killing off of those

>>57914183
>I am a girl now I guess
ftfy

>>57914183
FUCK WEISS

>Ethan Pokemon
>no Ethan trainer card
Wtf man

>>57914187
No I am male. Sylveon is for the trans community.
>>57914192
Yea fuck Weiss for being so expensive, and having so many cards I want. I'm almost done with the Pokemon trainers but I will never be done with Weiss.

>>57914211
>Pokemon?

>>57914224
>No cards?

>only rip some packs instead of all of what I bought because there aren't enough available near me and I like the rush
>"well that's my 2 packs for the night"
>feel a strong urge to rip another
Oh baby

>>57914204
???

>>57914247
I didn't realize it was a trainer card. Why not just call it Ethan instead of Ethan's Adventure?

>>57914247
Next you'll tell me there's a card for Silver that I missed too

>>57914247
Why doesn't his Pichu have hair AAAAHHH

>>57914247
>2 fire types
>3 later once he gets Ho-Oh
This guy is a fucking idiot

>>57914266
The key card in his archetype is Quilava, which let's you search the deck for "Ethan's Adventure card." I assume that if they just named it "Ethan" it could potentially cause confusion for players since searching for an "Ethan card" could be interpreted as any card within the Ethan's archetype.

>>57914282
Maybe Ethan's canon is different than Gold's but Gold's only fire type is his Typhlosian

>>57913616
>ignores the fact that TCG classic was $400 on release
>ignores the fact that TCG classic is not actually vintage

>>57913290
Sports card enthusiasts know that the packs at Walmart and target are shit and that we’re in a wax era. Pokemon’s big problem is the millennial losers dumping all of their money on what’s essentially wax era slop. It’s not just the scalpers, though they’re a big problem, it’s the retards with fomo who don’t understand shopping online and buying singles. None of the people you see lining up outside of stores or the vending machines was around for the hobby 5 years ago, or 5 years ago from that point.

>>57914271
So far, Silver's only in an alternate art for Crobat V.
>>57914282
Monotype works better in the TCG thanks to Energy.

>>57913884
>The hobby isn't even in that bad of a position right now. You can build a deck
Back to /tcg/ you retard

>>57914280
Because that's Gold's Pichu

>>57914293
>Ethan
>Gold
>maybe their canon is different
>maybe

>>57914302
They're literally the same character

>>57914297
This Anon gets it. As soon as the baldfat millennials crash out when they can't pay their mortgages or their wives threaten to divorce them, they'll finally sell up and the hobby will start to normalise

>>57914297
Well there are also the people who see collecting as a way to make a profit and not as a hobby. I have cards worth hundreds of dollars that I'm not willing to sell because they're in my collection and I like my collection.

>>57914310
>They're literally the same character
No, they aren't. Pokémon doesn't have a single unified canon/continuity. The game version of Red is different to manga Red, for example. In the manga, Crysyal ends up dressing up in Lyra's clothes, whereas Lyra exists in the games as a separate character

>>57914319
>>Well there are also the people who see collecting as a way to make a profit and not as a hobby.
Hopefully these people get gassed one day. On Minecraft

>>57914314
>into Pokemon cards
>not a millennial
Huh?????? Are you like a young gen x or something?

Since we're talking about the manga a little, would be cool to get a set with more references to it. Ruby's Feebas would be a cool card

>>57914247
Not a m*le trainer buyer but this card is sick.

>>57914334
That's because Ethan/Gold is the most based out of all the main Pokemon protagonists

>>57914327
I'm as millennial as it gets; born in 88. But I'm not a fairweather faggot that likes the hobby solely because it is a trend in the hope that they can build a sealed investment collection to profit from in a few more decades.

I'm here for life, so I won't be chasing restockers or camping out in front of stores because I'll be around long after they disappear again.

>>57914332
They use the game names, so we're more likely to see Pokémon associated with Brendan, like Tropius or Swellow. It'd be cool to see some PokéSpe references, though, because it's not like the TCG has some strict continuity or story. They can do anything without consequence.

Stop Raichu on Raichu violence

Hey

>>57914378
I remember seeing russian boxes of ancient origins. Wasn't this the only russian translated set?

>>57914334
My only complaint is that they should have included Ho-Oh far off in the background.

>>57914353
Despite only being 13% of the Raichu population, Alolan Raichu are responsible for 50% of the violent crime

>>57914314
Wait, you guys have mortgages and wives?

>>57914399
no the scalpies and normies do

>>57914399
Do you not know how old we are? I also stack gold and silver and own guns. Adults can like dumb shit they grew up with too you know.

>>57914382
I think 6-7. from xy to breakthrough.
xy is practically impossible to find because it contains a very rare white Vivillon

>>57911456
>tfw my favourite is unironically Charizard
I can't help being a basic bitch.

>>57914399
I'm talking more about the baldfats on Facebook, Discord, Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram that are trying to position Pokémon cards to their wives as an investment that will make them rich some day because they are otherwise, unable to hold down a job, and are hoping this is their ticket to freedom.

Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if some people here have wives, or even kids. Even some of the most degenerate people I still vaguely know from 00s forums and IRC channels have settled down.

>>57914415
I don't think there's anything wrong with liking Charizard. That was THE card to pull when Pokemon first came out

Shrouded Fable bros...
https://x.com/PokeTCGiveaways/status/1934696561931690202

>>57914211
>#ProteinTheSubaru
???

Are card shops also marking up packs? Even Amazon is marking shit up way over MSRP

>>57914480
My LGS sells PRE surprise boxes at $55

>>57914459
>Trying to scalp Shrouded Fable of all things.
What a retard lmao

I can't pull shit from Surging Sparks. DR is pretty generous though. For me anyway.

>>57914480
Is it Amazon or is it third party sellers shipping through Amazon?

>>57914492
it's slept on

How do you guys cope with not buying cards when they were cheaper. I wish I bought the Starmie V and Garchomp V before they doubled in price.

>>57914570
I wish I bought Rosa when she was $60

>>57914577
Same but I wasn't collecting back then so I didn't really miss out. The cards I mentioned were that price less than a year ago.

>>57914553
You're right. Looking at my last Amazon order for packs it looks like the actual seller was some company called Kings Games

>>57914570
Misty is such a fucking dirty slut in the TCG

Caved in and bought this, how do I know it's authentic without a doubt?

>>57914621
It’s authentic.

>>57914426
Everyone on reddit and facebook is retarded.

I was playing a virtual claw machine and happened to win two booster packs and in one of them I got this. Is it legit?

>>57914662
It’s fake, send it to me and I’ll dispose of it for you.

>>57914459
I found SF for MSRP in an airport where everything else was twice the usual price, they did these guys a favor.

>>57914570
Pulled this from a booster box that was on sale back in the day and I honestly don't give a shit about it. The only recent card I regret not buying when I should've is the Giratina V alt art.

>>57914621
bite the card, if it leaves a mark it's fake

>>57914688
Post address and I'll sent it

>>57914645
how do you know that

>>57914782
His uncle told him

These are the only good Eevee cards. VMAX faggotry need not apply.

>>57914836
Sylveon is for the gays

>>57914839
Domesticated cupcake shop owner is cute. These 3 cards however are bland.

>>57914836
Good choices, but I think the Crown Zenith Glaceon is better

>>57914566
SFA is not that bad, but it's one of those sets people will not go out of their way to grab it.

>>57914782
there aren’t that many fakes going around these days desu.

>>57914725
14 branchland ct, ruckersville, VA

>>57914879
Sent

>>57914886
I’ll add it to my collection. thankyou.

>>57914852
You are brown.

>>57914897
Based

>>57914904
Seething umbreon sissy.

>>57914969
Espeon is way cooler than umbreon.

>>57914247
Who tf is Ethan? Is that nuGold?

>>57914852
You're high. The Leafeon is simple, but it's very cute conceptually and has a nice color pallet. And the Umbreon is one of the best. It looks sick staring down the crowd of dark types. I like Moonbreon, but the art of the normal V is way cooler.

>>57915049
That's his English name in the remakes. The Japanese version also uses the remake name (Hibiki) instead of Gold.

New

>>57915077
>>57915077