Gamyga Edition

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>>58043892 (OP)
Oh that is nice to get a full art card as a promo. And it's a pretty looking card.

>still grading cards

>still posting Wobbuffet

>>58043892 (OP)
Retards will tell you this gothitelle isn't needed for the master set.

>>58043943
normal people*

>>58043557
SOVLFUL AC artstyle.

Selling for $2,000....

My wives

>>58044303
>wives
>psa 9s
Your "wives" are fucking some chad who owns psa 10 copies of them. No way she'll settle for brokeboi psa 9s.

Anyone know the story behind this picture? How did this guy get $100k worth of cards?

>>58044311
I honestly can't tell if you're actually serious or not, but I know PSA 10 fanatics who really do think that way

>>58044311
Wait till you see my 7s and 8s lmao

>>58044288
Cool card, haven't seen that one

>>58044288
gengar fags have 0 standards.

>>58044322
The person Worked at the card production factory and stole them. Got caught trying to sell them.

>>58044401
he would've gotten away with it if he had just sold them bit by bit

>still buying modern

>Currently selling my collection
>Stopped collecting at the end of the Sun & Moon era
>All my Sun & Moon era stuff flies off the shelves
>Barely sold 10 cards total of all other 6 gens combined
>Most of my older cards are actually much cheaper than the Sun & Moon stuff I've been selling
I officially give up on trying to make sense of what's happening

>>58044717
pre-SM isnt bussing enough

>>58044722
I hate zoomers who only care the new fancy rarities, the only people I despise more are genwunners
I'd rather have pic related than the average illustration rare

>>58044717
Someone here said it before, but it's pretty simple; the more modern it is the easier it is for these fuckwits to manipulate. We got all the NFT-bros now so it's all just a speculation game. The card itself hardly even matters. It's just investors buying each other's bags and guessing what's going to be hot. Which often turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy as they manage to hype up retards who just got into the hobby with Pocket. Just look at Black & White. Fucking SEISMITOAD IR is the seventh most expensive card in the sets. The only SIRs more expensive then it are Reshiram and Zekrom. Why? Because investards know that Kanda did a couple of cards that went up in price so surely that must mean ANY Kanda MUST be expensive, right? Same goes for Victini. It's an ugly stock image in red that comes in both sets, BUT IT'S A NEW RARITY AND IT'S SO HARD TO PULL OH MY GOD INVEST INVEST INVEST. At least I made $350 bucks selling the one I pulled on release day.

>>58044288
>>58044288
Great art.
>>58044753
>Fucking SEISMITOAD IR is the seventh most expensive card in the sets. The only SIRs more expensive then it are Reshiram and Zekrom. Why? Because investards know that Kanda did a couple of cards that went up in price so surely that must mean ANY Kanda MUST be expensive, right?
Are you stupid?
I hate gen 5 designs and I would only consider buying that card exactly because it's by Kanda, he's that good.
The card is expensive simply because people like the art.
Now proceed to cope, seethe and dilate.

>>58044753
That's the best explanation, if not the only one that makes sense
>Fucking SEISMITOAD IR is the seventh most expensive card in the sets
Sheer financial speculation, I have never once in my life seen someone excited to pull a Seismitoad card

>>58044798
If people loved that kinda artstyle so much, then why is pic related by the GOAT Kamiya not as sought after despite being both older and higher rarity?
You could also point at all the countless <$10 gorgeous illutration rares out there that cost that little specifically because they feature shitmons like Seismitoad

>>58044811
Not all the cards di Kanda are expensive, genius.
People collect all the cards by Kanda, regardless of the pokemon.
There are more people that collect Kanda than there are that collect Komiya. It's not rocket science.

He's such a "goat" that you can't even spell his name right kek. Hilarious.
Just to be clear, I'm not mocking him, I'm mocking you.

>>58044798
lmao, okay investard.
Kanda is a good artist. The card is very pretty. But there are over 150 other gorgeous illustrations featuring far more popular Pokemon and this particular one of fucking Seismitoad is worth several of them? Fake as fuck. No different than that ridiculous Komiya pump we saw a little while back. It's expensive because speculators need some arbitrary detail to latch onto and Kanda is one of like three artist names they actually recognize; and even that's only because of other recent hype cards. Oh, and let's not forgot that they're also peddling the retarded notion that this card will be "banned" or altered in future prints because it has "666" in it.

>>58044848
>you're an investor!
>how can this card be worth several other cards?
>it's all a conspiracy by a cabl of investors!
The coping begins.

If I were you I'd instead spend my time asking myself
>how is it possible that I spent so much time in this hobby and after all these years I still haven't learned how to recognize cards that will be sought afer?

>>58044854
Oh, It's easy to get into the head of retards like you. You just go down a checklist to determine what the big hype card is, and it's entirely based around the most recent and painfully obvious trends. No one was saying shit about this card before release. But then suddenly after it released there's a massive buyout that doubles its price in the span of a day? Oh yes that's totally organic demand! We all know the popularity of the Pokemon doesn't really matter. It's the artist that counts! lmao Call it cope or whatever, it's not gonna make me give any more of a shit about the card. If I happen to pull it I can just sell it to some sucker.

>>58044876
>It's the artist that count
I can't even think of a single older card that's still sought after to this day because of its artist and despite featuring an unpopular pokémon

Mail day! Chinkbros appreciating their textures?

>>58044811
>not sought after
Dude that slowking is a 60$ card and it's not a chase by any means, you niggers have the brain fried by the current era where a <100$ card is considered a bargain.
The toad is 45$ during the first month after release, then it will go under 30.

>>58044942
It was stagnating at $30 for nearly 4 years before randomly getting pumped a few months ago

>>58044839
The expensive Komiya cards aren't the modern ones. Kanda came out recently and has just a few cards to his name, so on top of having beautiful art, they are also much easier to collect.
Completing a Komiya binder is much harder because you have to go out of your way to find the vending cards and the special promos, while with Kanda once you dish out the big bucks for the Giratina and the Karp, you are set.

>>58044953
Damned hypocritical speculating """collectors""" dimwits
>This artist has fewer cards so that's why he's so better to collect
True collectors go out of their way to complete their collection goal and once that's completed they often start another goal
The chase is the most fun part of collecting, it's also the one that requires the most time and knowledge
Go collect for both Squawkabilly and for Chatot, you'll learn that finding a good deal on a card like pic related is one of the best feeling in this hobby
If your collection goal can be completed with just a few TCGplayer orders, then it's not really a goal is it? Might as well have your goal marked down as "Have disposable income."

>>58044747
Then buy vintage? I buy illustration rares because I like that there's more space for the artist to express their vision. For once an evil corporate does a step in the right direction to evolve a product, but nooo, here it's always old=soul and new=soulless, and people will die on that hill saying that stock sugimori art or, worse, stock old 3D on a stock background is a better looking card than the average SIR.
There are good and horrible looking vintage, and horrible and good looking modern.

>justinbasil fucking died
wtf... I always used his site...

>>58044288
the psyduck one is way better

>>58044992
Don't change my post, I said 'easier' to collect, not better. I was explaining why more people collect Kanda than Komiya, and I wasn't even talking about myself and I'm not the anon who posted the slowking.
Kanda cards are few and all modern, so they are much easier to find.
Some Komiya cards require a lot of research and patience, and most of them are vintage.
Is one collection better than the other? No. People advocating "true collecting" are at the same level of delusion as investors.

>>58045010
I have nothing against new cards, I went nuts for IR and SIR when they were first introduced in the late S&M blocks under different names. Hell, I was legitimately pissed some people were still chasing after a stupid looking rainbow rare Charizard when the same set also had a few gorgeous SIR
What irks me are people who come into this hobby, act like they're diehard Pokémon TCG fans but ONLY care for IR and SIR cards
That's like if you went to a car show only to ogle at the fancy new sports car even though there are dozens of vintage vehicles you rarely ever get to see

>>58044934
Great Mew card. Got myself this Greninja. I should have bought it sooner.

>>58045019
>One of the last thing he did was translate newly spoiled cards
This thread is for collectors so most people won't know of him, but man he was a an all time great for anyone who also plays the game
RIP

>>58045046
Yeah chinese are approaching japanese prices, most of them doubled since the start of 2025.
I also wanted the chink Vmax version because for some sets they come in two variants, one adding an extra layer of glitter to the superior nipponese texture.

>>58045024
My bad. I interpreted easier as better because of how lazy the new age collector seems to be
Barely anyone wants to put in the effort, most people just want to open boosters of the latest set and buy whatever singles is currently trendy
>People advocating "true collecting" are at the same level of delusion as investors.
True, and as much as I'd love for most people to experience the same joy I did when chasing after some obscure vintage card I know that won't happen
I'm still gonna judge people who blindly master set Black Bolt and White Flare when they could fill out an entire binder of cards curated to their preference for that same price

Uh-oh. The normie poketubers are starting to realize something........
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oAxYkKE0E7g

>>58045086
I think it's OK as long as they have a reason for it, such as growing up with gen5, or collecting the first sets to ever feature an entire generation in IR, or if they have been masterset autists for ages.
Nowadays most people collect the new shiny sets just because they have to. They don't even look at commons in the binder, but they must be there to fill the spot. I don't even consider it a physical FOMO as these sets will be reprinted for 2 years, it's more of a mental FOMO, the influencers have these sets, so these people must be seen asap on socials and reddit showing off the very same collection, to be part of the crew.

>>58045103
NOOOOO DELETE THIS
A PSA 10 IS A PSA 10 EVEN IF THERE ARE 40K OF THEM

>>58045103
>40k+ PSA10
Wasn't the highest before Covid something like 3000? And then after that it was 8000?
When did we jump all the way to 5 times that number?
I'm so glad I never bothered with grading

>>58043914
>full art card
That's an illustration rare, full arts are a different type of card, newfag.

>>58045068
The less popular ones are still relatively cheap. I got RS Urshifu VMAX for ~$45. Otherwise, yeah, the price doubled this year. There are a few exceptions like Friends in Alola which crashed in price since release.

Feast your eyes on this!

And this!

>still buying vintage

Reminder that statistically 32% of your collection is fake

>Find some tins at the local supermarket
>Pull wife
Today was a good day

>>58045650
Meloetta is my wife tho

it feels bad when i buy cards now, like I could be using that money to buy original hand drawn art from mangaka instead. all trading cards really are very small prints that you can "play" but its looked down on when you print your own cards to play because.... idk for some reason prints from a company are more real than prints you can make yourself? its all so stupid.

>>58044401
No that was from the guy who tried selling Fusion Strike cards only

evens i buy carmine
odds i rip more toilet masquerade

Justinbasil has passed away.
Rattles latest video is talking about gooning to anime figures that are canonically under age or described as "girls" and not "woman".
Big losses for the card collector community this week.

Question for the types who collect all the cards of their favourite mons: how do you do your binders?
Do you have dedicated binders for each mon? A lot of my favourites are gen 3+ shitmons with only a handful of cards so it that kinda feels like overkill I'm thinking I might have to swap off my zip binders to a d ring I can add pages to as needed since trying to reorganize for new releases/finding more mons I want to collect is looking like a huge headache but every resource and forum ever seems to reccommend the zip binders with the pages sewn in

On a similar question does anyone collect really obvious bootlegs? I keep seeing shit like peruvian and chinese cards that I personally think are really funny so I'm thinking of using those as binder fillers in place of the grails I won't be getting anytime soon if ever

New page completed! Suggestions on layout rearrangements? I'll probably move the mewtwos around so thematically mewtube goes next to armored, the two mewtwos flying in the city are together, and the doubles (+charizard and +mew) are together.

>>58045865
There are ring binders with pages made of the same canvas material of zip binders, the important thing is that the rings must be D-shaped.

>>58045910
Any suggestions? I do have a lot of vault-x and similar zip binders, assuming they'd be trustworthy for ring binders too
Assuming they're better off being stored flat on a shelf rather than standing also? The biggest thing is it gets kinda humid sometimes where I'm at so even with double sleeving I like to chuck a silica packet or two in the zips when they're closed for extra security

>>58044876
>it's easy to project and ignore what you say
We know.
>>58044953
So?
Maybe it's arrogant on my part, and I don't want to diminish an artist I like, but it seems clear to me that despite what you said there are still more people collecting Kanda cards than there are collecting Komiya.

Anyone else getting an involuntary erection when they order a bunch of cardboard online to rip?

Do you think we will have a market crash soon similiar to what happened with comic books in the 90s?

>>58045965
Yes, in exactly 2 weeks. My dad owns Nintendo.

>>58045965
Not anytime soon, the next Mega Evolutions set looks great and then there's the 30th anniversary next year. Only way the hobby can crash now is if the economy shits itself with Trump and people can't afford to buy cardboard anymore.

>>58046004
>30 year anniversary Kanto set
Don't give me hope

>>58046041
It's going to be the OG 151 with illustration rares for every single pokemon like BBWF is already doing. It's going to be absolutely glorious and will make the Prismatic hype look like nothing.

>>58046048
My mind wants it but i'm not sure my wallet does

>>58046056
If you really want them you'll find a way. I'm so obsessed with this hobby now that I've completely changed my entire budget just to maximize getting as much as I can, hell I'm even donating plasma now because they're giving out $100 Walmart gift cards

>>58046074
I can afford it. My brain just doesn't want to pay prismatic rates for booster packs

>>58046048
A game store I like and its many branches in the third-world country I live in used to a have dedicated shelf for Pokemon cards like that. But for some reason they started to dissapear at the end of the SW/SH. And they were completely gone when Obsidian Flare came out.

Mail. 2 of the GOATs, mitsuhiro and ryo

>>58044717
Illegible you $10 for that resh

>still buying physical

>Still posting uhhhh MushroomThingMon

>>58046373
he cute

Free shipping!

>>58046643
What's the pull rate on the pikachus? Aren't they just AR not SAR?

>>58046655
the pull rate is abysmal worse than a SAR. It's comparable to your odds of pulling a specific sar from a set (i.e. moonbreon)

>>58046074
NTA but i've lost quite a lot of weight because the money i used to spend on beer and snacks is now going towards cardboard

Where all the white flare ETBs? This is erasure

>>58046041
What if the 30 year anniversary set is a gen 2 GSC dex set release with kanto & Johto mons.

I've been trying to unload a Sisters of Rose Yugi box for so long bros.. maybe it's the comma in the listing header, only 4 views

>>58046643
Reminder that this will be the english promo for 30th anni

Why are there so many houndoom-copycat posters?

>>58046980
Post cards not complaints about other anons. Please and thank you.

>still posting Psyduck

>>58046643
I wonder if this will catch the attention of the PRC.

>>58046048
I'd blow a whole paycheck on all that DR stuff

>>58046643
I do like the art, dunno wtf an Ekans is doing there though

>>58047077
This card is so funny, just the original 3 ghost Pokemon haunting a Psyduck for no reason

>>58047104
I bought the entire set minus the painting from some eBay seller.
They were part of a Japanese promotion featuring the scream painting by Edvard Munch. Here is a article about them:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/15/17978434/pokemon-scream-trading-cards-the-scream-tokyo-museum

>>58047118
Psyduck is clearly suffering the most out of these

>>58046980
Its become a niche micro internet tradition and is culturally important to this thread.

Fuck you I'm getting them graded

>>58047155
we get it dude

>>58047155
You carry on about this like it's the only good thing that's ever happened to you.

>>58047163
>>58047160
Stay jelly

>>58047155
The card on the left has a ding across the top the the right. Itll grade a 7.
The card on the right has bad centering, very skinny on the left boarder and across the top, very thick across the bottom. A grade of 9 at best. In conclusion they are worth more raw and only increase the odds of mail theft or grading facility theft.

New arrrivals. I like Zinnia's boobs

>>58047193
how much?

>>58047180
Yeah even I can see that shit on card on left. And PSA grades 6 to 10 arr rook same to me