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FAQ:
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>buying censored cards

Dead hobby dead thread

>go grocery shopping at walmart
>manage to catch restock
>buy 2 bundles of paldean fates for msrp
>fat mexican guy says "there goes the $140 for my phone bill"
>a few other retards start seething
>mfw this hobby is full of people I hate now.

I went to target for pokemon cards. All they had was one piece starter decks and lorcana boosters.

>>57946736
I found someone's stash of destined rivals at target today behind some other stuff

>>57946735
forgot image
>>57946736
yeah, lorcana is shit and only niggers like one piss.

>>57946739
I hate when people do that because it's always either scalpers or fomo fags.

Waiting for the new Acerola card in the Mega Evolution set.

>still grading cards

>still posting shoe

>>57946716 (OP)
I miss when WotC did this. Those demo packs were always fun at conventions and game days.

>Mega Evolution set
>Included deck box and sleeves in their upcoming "Pokemon Center Mega Set" is Lillie and Acerola
lol

>>57946819
Fuck, here's a bigger image.

>>57946819
At least acerola's paired with sableye. Lillie doesn't make any sense at all.

>>57946834
Bro, did you miss the Mega Nebby leak?

>>57946834
Lillie always makes sense. Remember it's Japs that dictate which sets are made, and westcucks can only accept the unconditional Rirrie love, and eventually will embrace the $1000 Rirrie chase cards while they try to cope "s-she's 19..."

>>57946716 (OP)
I love the old Sugimori artwork. It is so nice looking.

>>57946735
even kids are fucking doing it man this hobby is beyond fucked we used to open packs, play and trade them and keep them in our tins what the fuck went wrong

>>570946735
>a person paying a $140 phone bill
>scalping Pokemon cards for $140 profit
>making you feel bad for buying cards
I hope you pull some great cards for that mess of an encounter you experienced. Some people I will never understand.

>still buying vintage

>still buying modern

>>57946723
OG Misty's Tears was like a playground myth and then I found out it was real

>>57946185
Reposting because ded thread.
Nah. Kenshin is just not entertaining. Even Tsuioku-hen, a masterpiece and one of my favourite anime, is not entertaining for the average person. Kimetsu is

Anyone else dealing with PokeCenters that are just turned off right now or is my neighborhood just so full of scalpers they turned them off?

I opened the Zamazenta collection, this is the result.
It's embarrassing how so much better Crown Zenith is than Prismatic Evolutions or Destined Rivals. Almost every pack there was a pull. I didn't get a gold vstar but the Zoroark is dope.

>>57947822
damn thats all you got from 10 packs? that seller definitely scammed you the 11th pack had a gold for sure

>>57947834
It was 11 packs.
Cope, seethe and dilate.

>>57947838
hahahahah like i said last thread welcome to the hobby newfren :-D

>>57947838
So the eleventh pack was just knocked loose or soemthing?

Sweet pulls btw.

>>57947850
It was always in sight behind another pack, it's in the pic I posted kek. Second to the left.

>>57947861
Ah, sometimes it do be like that

before

after

>>57948413
uahuhuhhhhh PLAPRAS!

>>57948413
Was it worth it?

>>57948413
I've been wanting that Ho-oh since it was announced but damn that Zorua looks so good too! Never seen it before.

>>57948413
>>57948459
Took another look and of course the Zorua is a Naoki Saito card! I love his art so much, even when I don't yet know it's his apparently.

>>57948413
umbreon suing zorua for gimmick infringement

I proudly annonce you that I already quit. Thanks to you.

>>57948486
Okey dokey

>>57946819
They know cunny sells.

>>57948413
Not bad

Was so close to buying the Sylveon V from my card shop, but edges were completely fucked on closer inspection. They gave me 70% for a bunch of singles so I'm not too mad.

>>57946725
scalper sisters? our response?

>>57948813
Guess you have to wait 10 years for all the shit you scalped to be worth anything again

I know this is probably wildly unpopular but I really like the glitter effects on basic terastallized ex pokemon

>>57948926
The hats are dumb, but the holo effects on the cards do look really nice.

I actually talked to this Jay guy at a con and he gave off such spoiled chinese kid vibes.
https://youtu.be/xIHlpOfNVLk

>just got the last box of destined rivals and journey together at msrp
tcg is healing?

>>57949133
shoulda never gave these niggas manufacturing

The last time I bought product was at the Stellar Crown release, got a booster box below msrp.
Since then ive just bought singles of prismatic. Only wanted 15 cheaper cards from the set.
Havent bought any other set since or singles.
I saw zero appeal or hype in Horney Forever, and Desperate Rivals.
Fake fan over hyping causing a false market boom.
The Johnny-Come-Latelys are all leaving and no one wants their shitty card collections.

>>57948432
Its Laplace, learn to read.

>>57946723
Based Chunghwa enjoyer

>>57949489
Ffs Fuck phone posting

>>57949476
gotta catch em all brah

>A little over a year ago
>ew MSRP? I'm not a sucker fuck that
>100 dollars for a booster box? Are you fucking retarded? Who would pay that much double digits or nothing man
>yeah I'm thinking these ETBs might hit 30, maybe even a little lower, no way should you pay 35 right now just be patient
>honestly though singles are so cheap, they're practically free
TAKE ME BACK

Are you admiring my cards?

>>57949675
>cgshit
>halfart
>no texture
Vintage sux

>>57949675
Honestly the art on all of those are pretty mid.

>>57949675
Are you?

>>57949736
Atleast post Evolving Skies instead of this slop.

>>57949736
I appreciate you separating the Espeon & Umbreon

>>57949675
>that shitty painted nail
are you in a dorm or barracks?

I’d rather >>57949675 over >>57949736
any day of the week.
I’d prefer vintage Eeveelutions though, Neo Discovery Espeon and Jungle Vaporeon are my favorites

>>57949736
KINO
I
N
O

>>57949736
good morning

duuude

>>57949736
Unpopular opinion, but out of these 9 cards, Umbreon might be the ugliest. Jolteon and Flareon are the beautiful cards I feel like everyone should be fawning over but that's apparently just me.

>>57949779
A gentleman of refined tastes
>>57950106
I do like that Scyther

>>57950321
I like flareon and leafeon

>>57949779
I pulled this as a kid from one of maybe two English Neo packs. The other holo is Wobbufett.

>>57950430
Yeah I get you, Leafeon would be 3rd place for me.

Man, I keep seeing One Piece cards in shelves. Interesting thing is that people who played that TCG said that it is short printed and hard to come by.

I haven't seen pokemon packs out in the wild since stellar crown

>>57950623
Stellar Crown is the only set that I can find that is constantly restocked and at MSRP.

>>57950619
I'd like to collect a few OP cards but I already know I would only like the manga rares and they all go for a trillion dollars
Same for MTG I don't care for secret lair but the alt arts of LOTR are cool but now it's too late to find a complete set under hundreds

>still buying physical

>still not buying/pulling whatever the fuck you want

>>57950788
I CANT BUY WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT BECAUSE OF FUCKING HOARDERS AND SWEATHOGS BUYING OUT ETBS AS SOON AS THEYRE STOCKED

>>57950788
You need to buy only the cards that today's YouTube videos suggest as crashing down, slept on and worth investing. All PSA10 of course

>>57950889
>Grandma please keep these in your hand and show them to the camera
>Why
>It's for karma, don't worry you wouldn't understand
>Jonathan, we are all worried at home, you aren't a child anymore, have you looked for a job this week? You promised, your mother was crying yesterd-
>Shut up grandma the photos are blurry, stay still and smile!

>>57950798
poor "people" problems

>>57950619
Sneakerheads cant invest in cards that arent Pokemon so its basically worthless

Eevee spread finished for now. Waiting for chink gem pack 2 to get cheaper.

>>57948409
>>57948413
this is what /tcc/ is about

>>57950889
Good to see Chris Chan still abusing his mom.

>>57946819
There are no good characters to advertise Gen 6 with

>>57948413
Honestly just decent

>>57949736
>CGIshit

>>57949736
>CGI delicious nutritious chocolate soft serve in my mouth.

>>57951183
and yet its still a million times better than shitinage

Why is this stupid card so expensive? It's a common and it's only from Sun and Moon era.

>>57951375
maybe because it's fairy type?
idk

>>57950788
>peer pressured into buying all /tcc/ shitty memes
good boy

>>57950619
One Piece foiling and texturep mog pokemon

>>57951375
Last Fairy ever printed

>go into grocery store
>check PokeCenter
>it's empty
>do my grocery shopping
>check again while leaving
>now it has 1 pack in stock
>???
Those things confuse me so much

>>57950788
>no cock cat in PEENUSAYE NM-M 8
GRIM!

>>57946735
Time to finally start buying Korean

>>57951548
Jap>Chink>Eng>other west languages that keep the Eng pokemon name>Kor>other asian languages>Fr*nch and G*rman

First box magic. Should I put this in my SS or SV binder???

>>57951548
Korean is one of the worst quality wise

>>57951520
tfw 1 of 1 chase card... sigh,,,,

>>57951375
>>57951466
>Last Fairy type card in the TCG is Azurill frowning
I know Azurill frowns in the official art but it's kinda fitting lol

Good thing people outside of Japan don't care about supporter cards that much so EN cards are mostly cheaper than JP. Just look at the prices of Marnie.

>>57951836
Japs care about their little girls

>>57951836
I had to buy that fugly Dendra card to complete Triplet Beat, that one hurt. 68 euro's and that was a good deal comparatively. Meanwhile I saw it for 10 euro in English at a show. 10 euro is right, it's a bad card. Nips are too horny.

take the AR pill.

>>57951410
I collect more one piece cards than pokemon and can assure you that pokemon has way better texturing

Posted some stuff before that I was saving up for when my friend was visiting, well the time is now and this is what we have between us to open tonight

>>57951410
Zero chance it mogs Japanese Pokémon cards tho.

>>57952204
Gayest shit I ever heard.

>>57949675
I always like the classics. Do you live in an old Soviet apartment building?
>>57949736
Why does Eevee get so many nice looking cards over the years? Fan favorite? Or because Gary had one?

>>57952204
>Preconstructed decks
>Trick or trade
>Mcdonalds
Why

>>57951395
do I win now?
>>57951520
I guess not :(

Prismatic ETB pulls, pic doesn't do all of the holos justice, we rate some cards higher than most probably would like the parallel Budew/Dundunsparce because they're popular playable cards right now
>>57952441
>Preconstructed decks
We both play the TCG and it has a nice promo
>Trick or trade
>Mcdonalds
Opening any kind of pack is fun

>>57952544
did you perfect fit sleeve everything?

is silver tempest a good box to start on? its really cheap on tcgplayer

>>57952566
>Holo/RH/Pokeball/Masterball
Perfect fit
>Playable Holo/RH/Pokeball/Masterball
Dragonshield Clear Matte
>IR/SIR/Gold
Penny Sleeve + Toploader, if we decide it's going in one of our binders then Perfect Fit after

>>57952571
just pull what you like

every clobbopus and grapploct
love the little fister octopus

>>57952589
>>57952566
Never perfect fit valuable cards, it damages them.

>>57952571
Dunno about burgerland but from my experience here in yurop I suggest Crown Zenith and Astral Radiance. 151 too if you can find Blooming Waters in stock at msrp.

>>57952751
Only low quality perfect fits. And even some otherwise reputable brands like UItra Pro I think it is have terrible perfect fits. If you go with KMC or someone as consistent as them it's actually better for your cards

>>57952956
lol
You have no experience if you say that. I only use KMC.
First, they still are not exactly the same.
Two, they're still generally too tight.

High quality penny sleeves are still the best for collecting.

>>57952544
Congrats, you got the best SIR of the set

>still posting dog type pokemon

Any tips for buying singles on ebay?
The "suggested to you" listings don't show shipping costs and can't be sorted.
Trying to finish the 151 set

>>57952589
>>57952998

Definitely a lot of caveats to perfect fits imo.

Perfect fits damaging cards depends upon a lot of factors desu. Quite a few things can impact how tight the perfect fit is other than the actual size of the sleeve.
The thickness of the card (WOTC era cards in general being thicker) contributes heavily to it. Also not all perfect fits are cut the same (even in the same batch)

So if you must perfect fit you really need to do a few things

-buy good brand
-Weed out the too small ones in the batch you ordered
-(Most important step)put a junk card in the perfect fit before to test. Helps stretch it out.
-Put in carefully without pressure.

Or just never have to worry about it and use a penny sleeve or a dragon shield clear.

-Never too tight
-In my experience seals the card better from moisture to prevent excessive curling
-allows the card breathing room to expand and contract. When a foil curls in a perfect fit it isn't pretty
-Should any dust get in it isn't a death sentence vs a perfect fit
-fits better in binders. Perfect fits kinda suck ass in premium binders.


Honestly the only time you should perfect fit is double sleeving for playing.

>>57953636
>muh master set!
biggest tell tale sign of a tourist.

My last chink cards arrived. The low quality english dialga just looks so sad next to the rest of the gang. I may just have to buy a chink dialga

>>57953842
>"Stop collecting what I don't like!"

>>57953952
Except you are the ones collecting cards you don't care about just so you can, LE COMPELTE YOUR EBIN SET!

>>57953961
I care about all the cards in my master sets. You not caring about certain cards is not the status quo, in fact you're likely in the minority on that kiddo

Has someone who's stocking PokeCenters ever been robbed? I saw someone stocking one the other day and she seemed to be just on her phone with a cart full of packs and bundles just sitting there

>>57953961
>NOOO YOU CAN'T CARE ABOUT MODERN SETS THEY ARE TOO MAINSTREAM, YOU AREN'T ALLOWED TO COMPLETE THIS SET BECAUSE I SAW SOMEONE ON REDDIT DO THE SAME AAAAAAHHHHHHH

>>57950788
>random ass box topper
SOUL

>>57951754
Wouldn't be surprised if PSA bought it themselves so they could destroy it lmao

>>57953961
>>57953842
That's literally what kids did with Base set back in the day, you stupid newfag.

>>57953814
>Or just never have to worry about it and use a penny sleeve
>the only time you should perfect fit is double sleeving for playing.
Amen.

>>57953814
Will a perfect fit damage a card inside a magnetic case?

>>57954184
Perfect fits compress the card. When you slide it inside the chances something happens are high, once it's inside it might get compressed further because of changes in moisture.
We are talking about very expensive cards and wanting to keep the cards in pristine condition, just to be very clear, it's not like your card will get destroyed kek.
None of these problems exist if you use penny sleeves. It's a no brainer, there's literally no reason to use perfect fits to collect. Like the guy said, only use perfect fits if you double sleeve to play.

>>57954204
But a penny sleeve won't fit in a case

>>57954206
There are penny sleeves that aren't super loose, try those.

>be me
>aussie
>go to store and publicly display the level of manchild i am by asking where the pokeman cards are
>out of stock
>decide to buy cute cards and shit on-the-line
>rack up $268.50 USD ($411.30 AUD) in singles, some 468 pieces of paper
>go to checkout
>doesn't deliver to Australia
>mfw
Is the "My first battle" or "Battle Academy" box better to try with my 6yr old niece? I need something to get her off of roblox when she visits.

>>57954254
6 years olds play videogames? What the hell man.

>>57953842
People who collect Master Sets are probably bigger fans of Pokemon.
They arent just collecting whats "valuable" or whats "likely to rise in value" they collect the cheap and valueless cards as well. Meaning theyre not just doing it for the money, and keeping more to the spirit of "gotta catch em all" then people just looking for chase cards. Each pack they open can almost entirely go into their binder especially when they first start. There is much more soul to collecting sets then cherry picking.
As for 151 goes, its being reprinted into the ground, so itll likely never maintain long term value and is for people with a pure joy of the hobby.
You could argue 151 is normie shit or whatever, thats fine, its the original and the father of all other generations, no one cares about pokemon made for 6 year olds today. They like what existed when they were 6, as they should.

>>57954206
The guy is spreading misinformation. Good quality perfect fits do not compress the card, he probably uses American made KMC instead of the Japanese ones

>>57954356
I can smell this post from behind a screen.

>>57954587
You're smelling yourself dummy

What will you guys do when you finally own all the pokemon cards ever printed?

>>57955031
Shitpost on /tcc/

>>57954618
No, I'm smelling your retarded ass that has zero awareness.
Anyone with half a brain that has ever used a perfect fit knows how snug they are and understands the risk when sleeving a card with it, on top of the dynamic once the card is inside, considering cards swelll up and shrink.

There's literally no reason to take on those risks when there is no reward, if you're not double sleeving to play. And even then you should not play with very expensive cards, just use a proxy if a cheaper version isn't available.

tl;dr: use your fucking brain.

>still posting Psyduck

Thoughts?

alright what fucking meme did i miss this time with greninja gold star i had stores basically handing those out for free because nobody wanted them

>>57956046
Its all fake dude.
Completely artificial all the way down.
151 ETBs are going to the moon when there's tens, if not hundreds of thousands of them sitting unopened.
None of it is real.
Singles are doubling, tripling, quadrupling in less than a year, you think that is genuine?
You're being manipulated, wake up.

>>57956054
>you think that is genuine?
i dont think anybody does which is why im asking why THIS card specifically when theres so many of these floating around

>>57956114
Because buyers don't know better.

Anyone know any other coomer accounts I can follow?

>>57956192
that chick is a psa 4 at best and her punani is arbys roast beef for sure

>>57956202
My choice

>>57956224
PSA 6

I wanna fuck this rabbit

You all told me Rocket's Nidoking SIR would be $30 by now. Why is it still $100.

>>57956438
2 more weeks.

>people selling fakes as "custom" and "fan art"
with that said, I wish it was easier to buy vintage fakes. I only have a fake Japanese Base Starmie that a Japanese seller sent me as an extra. I used to have a really strange fake shadowless Poliwag that was a lot thinner than a real card. I found it in bulk at the flea market.

>>57956046
>>57956054
>>57956114
>>57956150
cope lmao you missed out ;)

>>57956438
You gonna have to wait for months for that to happen lol. I remember the Lacey SIR card costing $60-$100 at launch, but now you can get her for $20. I was able to get her for even less than that.

Got this from a friend a long time ago. I cant find anything about it on eBay, only its holo and reverse holo counterparts, along with some others from DP sets that ALSO share the 11/160 numeral identifier.
Anyone know where the FUCK this comes from specifically? Even the Pokemon website says its a holo (doesnt bother to mention reverse holo, cuz its a bad website all-around).

>>57957141
thats some shitty fake lol

>>57957150
looking at the back, yeah. the edges that are supposed to be white are fading into a purple from the blue ink being worn away.

godemmit I didnt pay anything for it, it was free, but like who does this inane shit

>>57957030
i have 2 of them just from taking it off a store's hands because nobody else fucking wanted these things whatever demand this shit just has all of a sudden feels forced as fuck

>>57957380
>>57956046
>>57956054
To be fair gold stars have been endlessly hyped on youtube as the most elite pokemon cards to collect lately so most people will probably see Greninja as the first step.

Thread is so slow, hobby really died, the 2 weeks have passed

I'm starting to get tired off all the basic cards looking like cookie cutters while all the actual good, Soulful art costing like 300 dollars..

Just make everything Soulful man.

>>57956114
Individual Pokemon cards are extremely vulnerable to market manipulations/buy outs, etc, there are apparently discords where they plan out buyouts which have poketubers as members who hype up the cards to their audience.

>>57957456
>I'm starting to get tired off all the basic cards looking like cookie cutters
You're the problem, zoomie. Get out of my hobby,.

>>57957456
There are plenty of cool basic cards. Kanda for example also did regular cards.

Since nowadays holos are the new bulk, they should make all regular cards into holos, and completely remove the 5ban exes.
Modern holo is cheap as fuck anyway.

Even though the current Pokemon scalping situation is bad. MTG is much, much worse right now. A fucking grand for a booster collection box.

>check PokeCenter
>bunch of zoomers walk up like "broooo pull the packs right now! It's this bro's birthday!"
>pull packs while they're all yelling "let's gooooooo"
>don't pull anything good
>give all the cards to the birthday boy
Wish I pulled something but that was funny

>>57957699
bro you got mugged

>>57957718
Of a bunch of garbage Glub Shitto Pokemon and energy cards, sure

>>57957718
>t-that was funny!!!
bros in shock

Yay what a nice pull.

>>57954301
I just like to have a full binder. I don't go out of my way to collect a true master set because reverse holos feel like a scam

>>57953842
>MUH INVESTOR HITSSSS CARDS LFG :OOOO
biggest tell tale sign of a tourist.

I only collect bubble mews because reddit loves them so much. I have a binder with 480 bubble mews

>random shitter tag teams like eevee snorlax are 80$ now
You deserve to lose your money if you buy it

>>57957141
>Transback
YWNBAP

>>57953636
>151 Master Set
You're never going to finish it lmao

>>57958283
>Black bolt and white flare master set
Imagine

>>57958283
>card not pulled from S&V 151 pack
Please learn what a master set is

>>57958302
>coping at being unable to get a 151 master set
kek

>>57958302
ok get all languages too then

>>57958313
Only 1 language is relevant in this world, try guess which one lol lmao

>>57958283
Nah there's levels to it, that shit would be like grandmaster set.
Honestly when I collect a set I'm not even autistic enough to get all the reverse holos either.

>>57958319
moon runes, bitch

the amount of copium itt hory shet

>>57958319
Not a real master set. Sorry lil bud.

>>57958323
modern reverse holos are shit so i dont collect them

As someone who also collects Yu-Gi-Oh!, I'm torn between grabbing some popcorn to watch y'all scrap over product, and feeling mildly mad that the degenerates are the reason why I can only buy 2 boosters of my fallback at my local Target.

>>57957699
Are you saying you got bullied into opening your packs and giving the cards to some random guy you don't know?

>>57958709
By zoomers no less kek

>>57958319
Well the franchise is japanese so....
I hope you don't advocate for the dubbed 4kids version of pokemon names, such as "Charizard" or "Umbreon", right anon?

>>57958323
>there's levels to it
All made up shit that does not matter. TPCI don't even define what a master set is, that's how irrelevant it is

>>57958709
>wow you gave away trash cards to some zoomer on his birthday, you got bullied by zoomers
Go fuck yourself

>>57958889
not cool
it's my birthday

>>57957801
>not Japanese
worthless

>>57958896
happy birthday

>>57958896
Happy birthday anon! Tomorrow is my birthday aswell. Just gonna order pizza and ice cream cake for the senpai and play vidya all day. Would fire up the grill, but its thunderstorming all week. Oh well.

The fewer products that children are able to have, the worse the future outlook on the hobby will be. We only care about this shit because we were able to get and open packs as a kid, pull chase cards, and trade them with others. If kids today are unable to get product because of scalpers and bots buying up product then there will be no demand in 20 years when those children grow up and pass over a hobby they were never able to access.

>>57959151
Here's hoping. Then when there's no demand, all the hoarding niggers will go bankrupt selling off what they can at a pittance

>>57959151
This is why its morally right to buy vintage.

>>57958758
based blackie bro

>>57958758
>slypsy.jpg
>not yadakku.jpg

>>57959208
Hopefully you were just posting a random pic to go with your comment. Because nothing in that photo is vintage.

>3rd Gen and 4th gen
>Vintage

New cards I just got from Dai Nippon

>>57959535
Kinda insane that the non FA of Briggette in JP is $50.

>>57959561
From the Best of XY set specifically

There is literally nothing wrong with buying PSA 8s for under raw price.

>>57959848
no offense thats the faggiest collection i have ever seen itt. you for sure watch streamers fake over reacting.

>>57959889
shut up poorfag.

>>57959848
>>57959897
chad cardposter vs virgin nocardz>>57959889

horrible collection and anon i promise my job pays better than yours. those displays scream low budget.

its a onlyfans vtuber troon for sure, those cards scream faggotry

girls and troons ruined pokemon tcg more than LoGAYn Paul

Is this the basic bitch taste thread?

>>57959926
this is where sex workers flex their cardboard

pokemon is dead. market will completely crash in under 3 years. hate to admit it and very sad, but it is over.

when did /tcc/ become an incel thread?

>>57959848
>There is literally nothing wrong with buying PSA 8s for under raw price.
This.

Thank fuck for PSA niggers being so autistic. You can easily get a PSA 6-7 and be in reasonable condition for personal collections. PSA9-10 is only for sellniggers

>>57959908
Doesn't count if it's not his cards, that's the collection of some ethot iirc

>>57959908
>the vtuber beta orbiter
kek

now sip on sum of my cum you little simp

>>57958785
When Base set came out we collected every card in the set, it's hard to understand.

>>57960093
Back when you didn't have dozens of different variations of cards and people making up shit about what is a master set or what isn't. You could just collect 102 cards from the set and be done with it.

Nowadays, you'd have niggers saying that you need 1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, 4th Print, all Misprints like red cheeks Pikachu, and shit promos like E3 Pikachu for a true master set.

This is why any retard who talks about a master set and there being "levels to it" is not somebody worth listening to.

>>57960093
*it's not hard to understand
>>57960096
Okay so what? Collect what you can/want but don't call it master set.

>>57960100
It's not a master set unless you have everything. There are no levels to it. The highest level in Pokémon has always been master. Copers will say they're mastering a set, but won't have all the cards they need to complete it.

No cosmos holo professor's program voltorb? No 151 master set. Simple as

>>57960137
As an og, if you cannot open it from a pack then it's not part of the set.
We did not buy singles to collect sets, we opened packs.

>>57960146
>As an og, if you cannot open it from a pack then it's not part of the set.
This is the only correct interpretation.

More so nowadays in that they even package a setlist with ETBs, so you can see what cards are included in a complete setlist. Anything beyond that, does not count.

>>57960137
cringe af
>>57960146
>>57960158
Based

>mfw when I don't even count full art Pokémon cards towards set completion.
It's filler shit that will not go with my other cards

Reddit troons are shitting on this lilliefag for trading a bunch of sealed shit for 1 card.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeInvesting/s/0BWruqOsQ6

>>57960186

>>57960187
>You’ll have lots of time to get more of this sealed product that hasn’t begun to appreciate. You might not get another good chance to get another PSA 10 Lillie.Great trade!

>Well considering you could liquidate the Lillie tomorrow and then literally buy back all your sealed product the next day and still be up $300-500 to do with whatever you like then yeah... Does that answer your question?

Doesn't seem like shitting on to me

>>57960189
Commons, uncommons, rares, low rarity ex, reverse holos > full art Pokémon.

They're absolute bottom tier trash cards.

>>57960207
For every positive comment there are 3 comments telling him he got robbed. These morons think this SV shit will reach team up prices.

>>57960210
Spending more than 20 seconds of reading troondit was already too much

>>57960187
Let's see
>4 Destined Rivals ETBs
>1 Stellar Crown ETB
>1 Twilight Masquerade ETB
>1 Prismatic Evolutions Booster Bundle
>1 151 Booster Bundle
>4 Destined Rivals 3-pack Blister
>6 Korean Silver Lance packs
>6 Korean Battle Partners packs
>3 Fusion Strike packs
>10-12 Obsidian Flames packs
>4 Astral Radiance Packs
>1 PRE Acessory Pouch Special Collection
>3 Hisuian Zoroak Premium Collection boxes
>1 Journey Together Booster Box
>1 Temporal Forces Booster Box
>1 Destined Rivals Booster Box
According to the guy he got everything at RRP or below that for a total of 1300 pounds or roughly 1800 USD. Most of the sealed stuff are relatively new so I doubt these stuff would increase significantly compared to Lillie.

>>57960187
>r/PokeInvesting

>>57960220
>>57960241
These sealed faggots are so insufferable. God I hope they are left holding the SV bag like the retards they are.

>>57959535

riperoni if you paid those prices.

>>57959933
2 more weeks you mean

>>57960428
you said that 2 weeks ago

all jokes aside its coming to a end. give it 3 more years. the troons, vtubers, onlyfans whores and genz cringe females ruined it and than YouTube pokerev and leonhart faggotry. its beyond over. embarrassing what happened to this tcg.

>>57960466
>3 more years
>with the 30th anniversary of Pokemon coming up in that time frame to start another frenzy
Yeah, sure man. 2 more weeks.

>>57960466
>give it 3 more years
Pfffffttttt hahahahhahah HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
T W O WEEEKS!!!!!

investmentbros..... we eating good

>>57959535
For perspective, I paid $600(about 60-65k yen at the time) for my japanese battle day lillie.

>>57960593
>$600 for Battle Day Lillie
I imagine the price of that card is insane now considering the JP equivalent of Ultra Prism Lillie is roughly 3000 USD now.

>>57960593
Are there any records of it selling for that low? I believe it but I also want to see

>>57960593
Die.
>>57960187
All disgusting niggers. My wife is not a commodity.

Literally just buy generation remakes (151 and the new BW sets) and you'll 10x your money within 10 years

>>57960714
Your wife is flat, literally.

>>57960738
Literally every pokemon set ever has 10x in 10 years, I think like the only exception is steam siege maybe

>>57960158
so prerelease promos are part of the master set of cards you pull from a pack?

>>57960738
1% a year is terrible.

>>57961079
kek

>>57960137
Yup, and every language variant as well.

If y'all collected consoles, would you get all revisions ever made of the exact same model?

>>57953636
Even of youre doing just English, youre gonna need these three cards for a master set.
>Reverse Holo Professor Voltorb
>Reverse Holo Cosmos Foil Voltorb
>Ultra Ball League Stamp Mew ex
These three cards alone are far outside of reach.

>tfw 25th master set never ever

Destined Rivals is kind of addicting to buy

>>57946716 (OP)
I bought a lot of pokemon from two flee markets, gonna open deez. The big stacks were like 3 or 5 euros bro

There are two types of 151 collectors out there.
There are those who strictly abide by the set symbol designation in the corner.
& Then there are the ones who dont give a fuck about that symbol and just if its functionally the same card.
This difference in opinion has people go into fits of rage when discussing master sets or anything less than that.
It also draws attention to arbitrary exclusion or inclusion logic of cards in a set.
So what kind of man are you anons?

>>57961247
Welcome to the correct thread. We're going to laugh at you here too.

>>57961132
>>57961303
Will these cards ever see the light of day in English?
What about for the 30th anniversary?

Is it true we're getting "悪 151" set for the 30th anniversary?
I was lurking some tcg discords and its come up a handful of times, even listing some of the cards.
>Scyther & Pinsir [TAG TEAM]
>Magmar & Electabuzz [TAG TEAM]
>Dark Alakazam & Dark Hypno [TAG TEAM]
>Dark Weezing & Dark Muk [TAG TEAM]
>Dark Arbok & Dark Golbat [TAG TEAM]
>Dark Arcanine & Dark Ninetales [TAG TEAM]
Big if true

>>57961345
are you retarded?

>>57961311
I'm getting some good stuff, you're gonna stop laughing bigboy

Imagine not having the alternate arts in your 151 binder for side by side comparison. Imagine how boring that binder must look. I could never.

>>57961400
I'll believe it when see it, toots.

>>57961467
these worthless cards are so fucking ugly.

>>57961467
People will arbitrarily say the alakazam blackstar promo and zapdos black star promo count as part of the set and not the other blackstar promos because of the products they came in.

>>57961477
We get it, you dont collect cards, you collect established value.

Why yes I do consider recolors apart of the 151 Master Set, how could you tell?

There are some difficult concepts in collecting to grasp, especially when terms are usually used erroneously by most of the fandom.
A lot of collectors dont grasp the concept of what "alt art" or "alternative art" means, they typically just conflate that with illustration rare or special illustration rare, and they think it strictly refers to those two specific types of rarity. But what the phrase or term actually means is ~ Any card with an alternative art from the original print ~ so although this does include IR & SIRs it can also include things like baby shinies. Which also have different art then the original print of the card. As seen by the same attacks, and HP between the two cards, they are functionally and mechanically the same cards, just with alternative art work in the art box.
So when people ask why I have baby shinies in my 151 collection binder, I simply tell them because theyre alt arts of the 151 cards.
It should come as no surprise that china included these into their version of the 151 set.

Can't find a good looking graded Demo booster to safe my life. All of them are packed ugly

>>57961642
A simple concept such as "these are all the same card but with different art" is difficult to comprehend.

>>57961552
kind of hate shinies desu

>>57961738
Im a sucker for alternate art, what can I say, they go in the binder for side by side comparison.

Is it always the same schizo with a different FOTM autistic spam? The perfect fit sleeve arc was short but this master set arc looks promising like the vaultx binder arc or the lizardon arc

>>57961822
All beautiful arcs for your entertainment

>>57961822
But seriously does no one remember that viral video of the lillie card getting bent in half as he tries to perfect fit sleeve it?

>>57961857
You can bend a card in half putting it into any type of sleeve if you're stupid enough.

>>57958302
Lmao by this logic the English mew and mewtwo art rares are not a part of the set.

>>57951591
Englishbros??

It really does suck being an Umbreon fan. At least being an older Umbreon fan means I got a lot of the older cards before they erupted in price. But every new one is just stupid to try and get.

>>57962176
Umbreon blocks me from collecting outside of gen one.
Pikachu and Charizard are hard enough.
Gengar, Dragonite, and Snorlax can also be problematic sometimes.
I really dont want to bare the Umbreon tax as well.

DR is just 151 all over again. It's always sold out

>>57962238
unlike 151, DR has actual good cards

>>57961822
QRD on Vaultx binder?

>>57961822
all me

>>57962540
The pockets closest to the spine have a natural curvature to the pocket, even while closed. Overtime causing an unnatural bending/ warping of the card. Many competing binder brands leave a larger gap of blank canvas between the spine and pocket to avoid this problem. This also helps resolve buckling of pages as you turn through the binder.
This enrages people who have spent hundreds on these binders for their collections. They dont want to replace them and have bought into the marketing on the brand, so they lash out whenever this is brought up.
Inferior quality product, but is more expensive than competing brands. Just very well marketed.

>>57962715
so your saying my cheap, non 3 ring, side loading, non zip up binder is better than vault x?

>>57962735
Yes, but only if you have schizophrenia.

>>57962735
Probably not, toploader binder or bust unfortunately.

>>57962739
People who are unable to form coherent counter arguments or present evidence to support their positions often times resort to name calling.

dead tcg

>>57962815
Yeah, I havent been schizo posting for a while, so I tried today bring life back to it today, but no one really cares anymore.
Summer is here, dump your investment buy a beach or river floatie and call it a season. See ya'll back in the fall.

New

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>>57952307
Thank you for the kind updoots, my good sirs

>>57960466
>embarrassing what happened to this tcg.
Bro I don't know if you noticed but it was always a furry game for children.