Mega Abomasnow TCG First Appearance Edition

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>still buying vintage

>>58075384 (OP)
What took them so long?

>>58075396
>Still no Mega Pinsir

>still buying modern

>>58075421
What's taking them so long? Why weren't they in XY?

have you ever bought a card because your dick told you to?

>>58075644
Luv Woopah, simple as

>>58075384 (OP)
Here's the actual previous thread since op doesn't have a clue how to bake properly.
>>58061396

>>58075644
That's a mighty fine collection, jealous

>>58075352
Thanks, so Moltres more valuable than my Venusaur, interesting.

As a general query, how are people displaying their prids and joy cards?

>still grading cards

>>58075879
Why not? These retards will give me for $1000 card paper because it has a cool picture on it and even more it's a plastic thing

>>58075644
Where are these from? I thought they never did ETB promos in japanese?

>>58076134
Video Game promos.

>>58075443
That houndoom looks like xe's going to extract semen.

>>58075847
just go on ebay and look it up

Mew Ultra Ball League Stamp Promo

>>58076537
Grandmastersetbros....................

>>58076537
Poor "people" get out of my hobby

>>58076315
I'm sorry?

>>58076733
promotional cards for video games

What are some truly beautiful TCG art? Is it worth it to start a collection based on artstyle?

>>58076846
I just think they are neat

>>58076805
But the games come out first

>>58076846
>Is it worth it to start a collection based on artstyle?
Valid as any other reason to collect something

We built this city

>>58075591
>>58075644
>>58075650
>>58076958
Based

Should I get them graded?

>>58076996
What? They are cards inside the video game boxes, I have no idea how much more clear I can make this.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j3ypb6gFWCM

>>58077070
I guess this is something that never makes it out of japan

>>58077070
How do they decide which Scarlet copies get a Koraidon card or a Wooper

>still posting Scrafty

>>58077195
I have no choice but to get him for my Carmine binder page

>>58076846
>Is it worth it to start a collection based on artstyle?
As opposed to collecting based on what else?
Collecting all of the same pokemon throughout various sets bothers me because tons of pokemon have bad art, and I don't want ugly things in my collections.
Unless you're a scammer, you SHOULD be collecting based on visuals

is there a place online atm where you can buy boosters for retail? long shot I know but maybe some anon knows some lil secret spot

>>58077942
Pokemon Center when they have stock.
Big box stores when they have stock.

Ahhh gambled and lost on my Paradigm Trigger box...
Always fun to open packs though. Lugia V Super Rare Full Art next time!

>>58078000
nice wainbow wataru

>>58077997
so no

>>58078091
Thanks I got him 1st pack so I thought I was fucked out of getting a Super Rare. Damn Japanese ratios aren't online or on the box. I guess that's what makes it fun also, but it would be nice to know.
Anyway gonna try and get Mega Brave next time hopefully I can have better luck there.

>still posting Hilda

>>58076958
Man can you please fucking clean your setup and swap to a new keyboard and mousepad. You post nice cards, but your background fucking disgusts me. I dont even want to imagine how your room smells like

>stirr posting Rirrie

30th anniversary rumor: Fossil 2 TCG Set
Apparently to feature all fossil mons.
No idea if its straight reprints of old cards or inspired by new renditions. But picrel are all the hints dropped.

Just paid $65 for a damaged version but it looks way better than this one.

>>58078434
Lol

>>58078271
audible kek but no

>>58078271
that's nothing

>>58078271
>>58078534
Though i forgot i have a small lightbox i used to use for taking pictures of miniatures so i might dig that up and use it from now on if the keyboard offends you so much

>>58077058
draw penus on them first

>Tfw your stinky winky keyboard killed the thread

>>58077195
>>58078000
>>58078208
>>58078292
Cool cards. Waifus are for Chad's.

Whenever I see PokéTubers talk about the hobby cooling off, I just look at this list of upcoming TCG releases and laugh. Look at this train as it rides into the 30th anniversary.
>Mega Brave & Mega Symphonia (August 1st)
>Two preconstructed decks named “Starter Set Mega Gengar ex” and “Starter Set Mega Diancie ex.” (September 5th) (Japan)
>Inferno X (September 26th) (Mega Charizard Japanese Set)
>Phantasmal Flames (November 14th) (Mega Charizard & Mega Gengar English Set)
>Ninja Spinner (October) (Mega Greninja Set) (Japan)
>Storm Emeralda (November) (Mega Rayquaza Set) (Japan)
>December?
>30th anniversary 2026

>>58079942
Still waiting on moonbreon schizos prophecies to come true. Need to wait two weeks tho

>>58079942
My wallet thanks me for never seeing the appeal of mega evolutions

>>58079942
>Mega Greninja
'za spoilers? Did I miss some news?

Mail day!
Also help me finish my pika pages, are there any other Vmax pikas who arent 5ban 3dslop and don't look too retarded?

Played at my LCS cup yesterday. 25$ for three standard packs and a Play! Pack + additional prizing for top cut. Not really getting your moneys worth, but cup participation prizing was always shit even before this clown market and I just wanted to play some serious games. When prizing out I joked with the owner and grilled him about the packs in his little dispenser; whether they were from a box and whether anyone had pulled an SIR yet. He gave me one pack from the dispenser and two from a booster box that had just been opened. Pulled the Ho-Oh and started joking about getting SIRs out of both the boxes only to immediately pull the Crobat from the next pack.

Got cooked in the tourney but feels good to finally get some luck with that this godforsaken set

>>58080139
I am jealous

Grading companies must be busy as fuck. Still haven't even received the packaging to send back to them after over a month

Mail time!

>>58080387
Anon, this is a blue board.

>>58080387
They sent you a jpg?

>>58080387
Misty's Tears was like a myth in elementary school recess conversations. One of the few Pokemon rumors that turned out to be true

>>58080139
Ethan canonically catching Ho-Oh is kino

>>58080139
>>58080517
Destined rivals is such a shitty set with ugly fucking art
maybe 2 or 3 cards even decent looking

>>58080796
I was excited for its announcement, as I was thinking we'd see potentially the return of Dark Pokémon or even a Dark 151 set.
Ultimately its was a trainers pokemon set without a clear set identity, kind of a hodgepodge of different eras and stuff.
Not great.
Seeing people still go nuts for it shows me theres a lot of people just collecting whatever without a clear thought or strategy to what to like or why to like something.
Whatever I'll just trade the shit they like for the shit I like and feel like im making out like a bandit.

My brother gave me a mint foil charizard, what grading service should I use to maximize value? PSA seems to be more popular and is more lax with their grading, while Beckett is cheaper but stricter.

I wish the mega garde etb sleeves had a better design. I really want to appreciate mega garde.

>>58080900
PSA for money
Beckett for yourself

>>58080517
>canon
anon, the series has a multiverse now. nothing that happens is interesting anymore because everything happens anyways

>still posting Ice Cream type Pokémon

:O

>>58081239
I hope these get an english print for the 30th anniversary or some shit.

>>58081239

>Non stop profits.
>To the MOOOONBREON
sometimes we all need visualizations to understand how fucked the market is. a lot of people have misconceptions over the market on pricing and population. do you have dread every night knowing the market is forever doomed? its way too much, way too high. way too graded. because im never paying post 2020 cards ever again after going through the numbers myself. its permafucked. have fun retards with your bags.

>>58081239
>>58081290
it's fucking hilarious how reddit hates him so much, he's like the trump of the pokemon TCG world

Eat Shit Evolving Skies Bag Holders.

>>58081583
I keep trying to tell my friend vintage is king and when this all blows over and the market is flooded with modern trash that actual pokemon fans dont really care about but alas falls on deaf ears

>>58081614
did they announce a reprint or something? that would be hilarious

Please legit check anons

>>58081639
>holo common card
Uhhhh

>>58081643
It's fake never mind

>>58081622
they can reprint whatever they want, but im not buying or paying for the new market. im going vintage or my other crap TCG i enjoy. but im just stating that the market is doomed to fail, because there is no convincing people that there new cards are worth it, when they go on tcgplayer and they tell that their modern card is worth 300 bucks. the only way going back is basically 70% of the people grading cards stop grading. this will always be a scar on the franchise in hindsight.
in other news just from the pop reports Gen 4 and Gen 5 are the shittiest gens in the franchise......or the most potiental.

>>58081645
I had to double check the sandslash but yeah. Sorry anon.

>>58081615
The demand for vintage is incredibly low compared to anything Sun & Moon - Modern. We have past the age of nostalgia for most people to want to get them. IR/SIRs are the way most people even see the card game now.

Out of all the current collectors, maybe 25% of them even touch vintage anymore. You're deluding yourself if you think vintage is still hot, only the popular ones like base zard even have demand and thats almost always to resell.

>>58081656
10 years from now everyone collects vintage, and uses their 2020-25 psa 10 cards as coasters. the 10s are so potent and rare pre 2014.

>>58081614
>evolving skies
>bag holders

lolwut?

>still buying physical

>>58081723
>still buying

>>58081615
Vintage doesnt have the supply required to be manipulated or the marketing & hype to be manipulated.
People want to be holding the next booster box that becomes like vintage.
The 10k booster boxes that people paid $150 era is over for vintage. Theyre trying to get on that boat with modern.

>>58081680
its the 4th most graded set in a PSA 10.
ITS OVER. why hold sealed when its already graded to fucking hell.

AHHH WHY DID I BUY JELLICENT DURING THE FIRST WEEK IT JUST DROPPED IN PRICE FUCK I KNEW I SHOULDVE WAITED I OVERPAID BY $3

>Balloon increased in price
>Brave Bangle increased in price
At least I got these for cheap quick

>>58081759
>why hold sealed when its already graded to fucking hell.
Because the cards in the set are worth big money and people want them.
>MUH SUPPLY!
Yeah, and muh demand. Econ 101.

>>58081656
when gold star rayquazas stop selling for 20k and gold star espeon for 30k then say theres no demand.

My point is the demand for vintage is real and will almost always be real. the demand for modern is inflated from people like anon >>58081742 is describing and will evaporate sooner or later.

Like 90% of the pokemon card market is fueled by "influencer" grifting bottom feeder card traders buying at 70 and selling at 110 and the retards that do business with them

>>58081798
you have to remember your talking to sub 80 IQs that dumped money into vivid voltage psa 10s at their height and now spend their time coping about their lack of evolving skies. its pathetic lmao

>>58081647
It's really the most nonsensical clown world economic happening in the history of mankind. It makes the tulip boom look like an april fools joke. There is nothing in history to even compare it to.

>>58081876
all of modern is going to end up the same way, most vintage will probably take a huge hit too. its all fake and gay

>>58081863
>gold stars
>vintage
We're not talking about mid-era shit. When we say vintage we mean one thing: WotC. That's it.
So when we talk about demand for vintage, we are talking about no one caring about sugi stock holos and old cards.

>>58081863
The demand for vintage will likely have a trickle off effect as the people with nostalgia for it pass away, lose interest, or sell off their collections to pay for coming of life events, houses, weddings, kids, their kids schooling, etc.
The generation with no nostalgia for it wont really care as much.
Pokemon cards is gonna have a tricky time maintaining popularity in 15 years from now. Theres an entire generation of kids being gate kept from the hobby and not being able to meaningfully experience or get product. When theyre older itll just be this thing adults collected when they were young and wont have any sentimental attachments to it.
So we're on course a big slump in roughly 15 years time when those kids grow up and start having adult money.
I know that means far away, but thats also around the time all these investors will be hoping their cases and boxes will be worth a ton of money. Problem is there wont be a generation trying to capture their childhood, because it simply never existed for them with pokemon cards because grown men ruined the hobby for kids. Everyone wants instant gratification for their cards, no care for long term damage.
Look at Dave Persin, hes already selling off his collection its been up for sale for a while now, and no one is buying it. Theres been offers on parts or pieces but no ones biting at all of it. He's basically what everyone hopes their bag will become one day, and guess what, its not moving instantly, not very liquid at all at that level.

>>58081863
Yeah people underestimate or dont fully comprehend the damage pokemon youtubers have done to the hobby.
They are all just trying to extract money from the hobby as much as possible, most dont even have real jobs, they just wanna play with pokemon cards and sell pokemon cards. Think about the type of personality or mentality you have to have to think thats a meaningful existence or a meaningful contribution to society. At the end of the day theyre essentially sales men. Instead of crazy suits on a car lot and a funny commercial theyre making O faces in a youtube thumbnail and playing a personality. They act all grateful, and friendly and give high praises and act empathetic and sympathetic to the hardships of the hobby but then theyre making another video to contribute to the fomo and hyping. They're all literally twofaced little manipulative fucks. They speak out both sides of their mouths, "oh this market really sucks, I know, Im here for you guys, any way look at these market numbers as this SIR takes off, wow cant wait to get this card" its all a cruck of shit... Their mystery packs, affiliate links, little store fronts, ebay accounts, etc its all so they dont have to dig a ditch, lay roofing, or pick up a nail gun.
Dont trust salesmen, they have a vested interest in lying and hyping cards. They have a vested interest in making the market boom. All their channels are monetized. They all rip & ship or their buddies do it. Just stop participating. The hobby dies with us. I've sold off most of my stuff except my core collection, two binders and a box left.
Everything else is gone, liquidated.

>>58081939
>don’t trust salesmen
Wish some fucking useless teacher had taught me this when I was younger. Learned the hard way when I got duped into signing into expensive utilities contract and never again did I blindly take someone’s word on anything

Anyways, most people are aware of these shitty practices but truth be told, this is also a blessing for us players. When most people are focused on chasing stupid cards, players get to enjoy the hobby for extremely cheap compared to other table games
Honestly I’m glad people are buying en masse and hope it continues for a long time. People forget that 2022-2024 was expensive because the hype died. I don’t know what sparked this recent resurgence but more power to us pal

>>58081775
>>58081775
WHY DIDNT YOU ASSHOLES WARN ME NOT TO GET JELLICENT I COULDVE BOUGHT LUMINOUS ENERGY INSTEAD FUCK

>>58082015
its 3 dollars bro

>>58082004
What? Playable stuff was always cheap as dirt. It's MORE expensive now because there are more faggots clearing shelves of product to hoard in their basement then there are people actually opening it. Sure it hasn't impacted playable cards MUCH, but cards like Budew and Hilda definitely would have been at least a little cheaper before invoosters became the primary market. Hell, Fez's price hardly went down after being printed in STRUCTURE DECK because retards were actually scalping that shit too.
>People forget that 2022-2024 was expensive because the hype died.
I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about here. What was more expensive during that time period? Are you referring to the SV price increase across the board? Cause I don't think that had anything to do with hype. Hype didn't even slow until SV Base came out with more generous pulls. And even then it was all cheaper than it is now in the alleged hype era. Hell, you could easily get ETBs as cheap as 30 bucks if you looked in the right places.

>>58081888
yea no. its 2025. 2005 is not mid era lmao, hoenn and earlier is vintage now brother

>>58081918
Its not just kids being gate kept from cards. The media itself just sucks now. If you are growing up in the late 90s early 2000s, youd would be waiting all week just to watch an eipsode or two of pokemon on saturday mornings. And the show it self was infinitely better. When a new pokemon game came out it was a BIG deal, because each successive one was just pure sovl and somehow completely new and refreshing. but the biggest thing was the mystery. Rumors about going to space in emerald or rumors about how to get mew in kanto. Pokemon was something to be completely immersed in.

Nowadays? Kids have got 24/7 stimulation from the internet. The modern show sucks and they can just binge watch it and forget about it. The modern games suck. Events are all online. No sense of community around it. Theres no mystery about any secrets in any of the games. Now add on top of all of this, kids cant play the fucking card game anymore because a bunch of useless leeches decide to scalp full time instead of getting a job. Theres just no foundation to build nostalgia on later in life. No one will remember the music from gen XXXX, No one will care to go back and watch basically any of the episodes after DP. and certainly not after BW.

>>58081098
Thanks.

>poorfags desperately trying to doompost because they lost the train
Keep tight investorbros, the moon is near

>>58081065
ETB sleeves are shit tier quality wise anyway.

In all seriousness why didn't you all buy at least 1 evolving skies box when they were so cheap? It was the most obvious thing in the world to go up substantially.

>>58081775
>>58082015
You should already know to never buy cards right before or soon after release. This shit always happens.

>>58082812
I was still ignoring everything Pokemon related at that point due to dexit, I caved and came back for the cards and a handful of merch eventually but still refuse to buy the video games.

>triggers /tcc/ poorfags
kek based cardboard

>>58081595
Oh no, a grifter with a whore!
Am I supposed to feel envy? Because I'm not.

>>58080068
Well it's a set from the Mega Evolution block called Ninja Spinner, so you do the maths.

>>58083181
Damn you sure BTFO Rev with his white tradwife, 4 kids, giant house and millions of dollars! How TF will he recover!?!?

>>58082807
I thought all the pokesleeves were the same quality. I use outers to protect my pokegirl sleeves.

IMAGINE THINKING YOUR 2020-25 BAGS ARE GOING TO THE MOOOOOOOOON
Hidden Fates is kill
Evolving Skies is suicide
Crown Zenith is DED
151 is OVER.

>>58083318
this but unironically

>>58083376
>T. Missed out on the greatest era since base set
Perhaps you could pick up a nice Journey Together booster box hahahaahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>58083418
BUY
MODERNSHIT
WOOOOOO
BEST JOKE I HEARD ALL DAMN DAY

Wake me up when I can get Keldeo for 20, I'm not paying 40-60 for any card ever

How are you guys finding cards on shelves? Nothing at target, walmart or gamestop. I haven't seen anything at the stores all year.

>>58083445
Old/Trad/Good white areas are my go to for finding things in stock

>Still posting Psyduck

>>58082807
they're not that bad anymore, I still use them only with oversleeves to protect them though
>>58083327
pre-vivid voltage they sucked, after VV and and before twilight masquerade they sucked more. Starting from TWM, they're pretty good now. Dragon shields are still better though

ETB sleeves are good for trade fodder and for less fancy collection cards. They're awful for play because of how quickly they wear down. And lately their quality has felt kind of inconsistent. The last few batches I've gotten feel a bit warped and have some excess space.

>>58082078
No. Hoenn is not vintage lmfao. Call it something else to distinguish it, but vintage is WotC only. There isn't a sliding scale that constantly allows sets to be included into what we consider "vintage"
Baseball cards from the 90s are never, AND WILL NEVER, be considered vintage no matter the current year. Same thing here.

im glad i made that graph so i could break people's logic on what should be priced appropriatly and why modern is doomed to fail. when the dust settles people will just come crawling back to vintage because the low pop brings stability and draws demand from scarcity. keep listening to the retarded youtubers chide their rhetoric to sit on sealed modern product because bullshit graphs on TCGplayer say so. because you look at the end of the road, and the pop reports say if you wait long enough, all these cards that are going for thousands are likely to crash. and when they crash, so will the booster boxes people are camping on.
YOU CANNOT MANIPULATE THE MARKET FOREVER. THERE IS RAMMIFICATIONS FOR EVERYTHING.

>>58083467
>$3000+ PSA 10
Jesus Christ

I don't think TAG can handle the logistics of their new popularity

Is now the time to buy this?

Guy cuts a Victini from BWR on stream, because he was upset it sold very low.

>>58084162
link to vid

>>58084192
Sorry I forgot the link anons

https://youtu.be/ezbVGqgcVYA?si=F4iRUkezL599waxD

>>58084162
Modern TCG be like...

>>58084162
WhatNot niggers just continue being a blight on the hobby.

>>58084162
Anyone spending money on whatnot deserves this and worse

>>58084162
I genuinely cannot understand the whatnot crowd. It feels like an entirely alien world. I cannot comprehend what is it about these people that captures their audience's devotion, let alone how they can continue their "career" every time they get caught making some sort of massive shithead move. Like it's an entire community who seem intent on being knowingly scammed by the most repulsively uncharismatic people on the web.

>>58083418
>Greatest era since Base Set
Base set isn't even IN the to 5 greatest "eras" of the TCG, numberfag, and NO, AS IN ZERO of the modernslop sets are remotely close either.

The greatest era is now.

>>58084162
He's getting what he wanted out of it, publicity. How many people do you think will flock to his channel to watch his antics now that rattle platformed him and this 4chan post.

>>58084453
his channel was wiped.

>>58083716
this distinction exists only in your mentally ill mind. Go to any pokemon space and say vintage, anything mid 2000s and older is what they think about

>>58080139
I've seen Destined Rivals once, I got 5 packs and so did my sister. Between us we got the Arboliva ex regular and nothing else. Never again.

Think I got a BW tin with fake cards in or some fucked up reseal (pack was practically already open)
Or both pack sealing and reverse holo QC is really fucked

>>58080860
>I was thinking we'd see potentially the return of Dark Pokémon
I was so fucking mad when this wasn't the case. Owner's Pokemon are such a fucking copout.

>>58084469
And they're wrong. The people saying this are those who WANT these gen 3/4/5 sets to be lumped in with vintage. They don't want to have to use some other term because it doesn't hold the same weight.
There was a major shift when printing went from WotC to TPCi, and that shift marks the vintage line. It does not change.
People that continually try and expand the net to include more and more sets are doing so in order to capitalize on the allure of "vintage" cards and sets. They are trying to increase the value of their cards and this ends up muddying the term. Nothing will stop gen 5/6/7 from being called vintage in a decade's time.

That's not how this shit works.

>MUH 20 YEARS TO BE CONSIDERED VINTAGE
Go tell any baseball card collector that cards from 2000-2005 are vintage, lmfao.

Booster boxes are better value than booster bundles right?

>>58084624
depends how much you are paying

>>58084656
just price per pack

>>58084557
no one cares about what niggerball slaves think. stop conflating that trash with pokemon boomer

>still posting Panpour

>>58084454
Itll be back

>>58084657
NTA but boxes are better (if not sold by scalpers)

>>58084410
Its for actual cuckolds, plain and simple.

>>58084624
How often are you opening packs?
36 packs for a regular person(normie) is like a years worth of packs
Bulk is always better value no matter what
That said, spending $100+ in one purchase for pokemon isn't standard for most people without massive amounts of disposable income as opposed to $5-$20 purchases or a bundle purchase every once in a while

>>58084557
>lets just compare some shitty sport literally no one cares about vs popular franchise from the largest entertainment brand in the history of the world because they're obviously the exact same thing
Lol
lmao even
missed out
keep coping

>>58084671
>>58085175
>doesn't address the crux of the argument and chooses to focus on the final sentence because they have no arguments

These are the people that are trying to make gen3/4/5 vintage so that their bags can ride the coattails of WotC.

Does any of you know which kind of polish is used to revive holo cards in those "Super Giga Giovanni Pokemon Cards Cleaning" kits?
Buying one from Amazon or eBay sounds kinda gay.

Also, I'm selling this card on eBay and the buyer (yes, he already bought) is a massive pain in the ass, asking more pictures and video
>could you let me see this little spot here?
>is that a scratch?
>from the video I noticed this and there, may I ask you more pictures?
Should I just cancel the order, considering that retards like these are very likely to send it back, ask a refund, just letting me waste time?

>>58085193
>YOU HAVE NO LE ARGUMENT
the example you provide is completely meaningless and irrelevant, therefore your entire post is invalidated
lol
lmao even

>>58084162
>One less PSA10 in the world
Feels good man

What can be fine about the Machoke problem?

Today's mail

>>58085293
>Dark Machoke
>Dark
Always them.
Look at Light Machoke how chill he is.

>>58085293
*done
Stupid phone

>>58085198
Once it's bought, there shouldn't be anymore questions. Anyone asking that much post purchase is looking for a way to get out of the purchase. Cancel it now so you can make sure that when you're out the money, you're not also out the card.

>>58085210
Here you go =]

The people saying this are those who WANT these gen 3/4/5 sets to be lumped in with vintage. They don't want to have to use some other term because it doesn't hold the same weight.
There was a major shift when printing went from WotC to TPCi, and that shift marks the vintage line. It does not change.
People that continually try and expand the net to include more and more sets are doing so in order to capitalize on the allure of "vintage" cards and sets. They are trying to increase the value of their cards and this ends up muddying the term. Nothing will stop gen 5/6/7 from being called vintage in a decade's time.

That's not how this shit works.

>>58085321
>Covering the plant from the moisture it needs
Absolutely devilish

wait would the trump tariffs make all psa holders instantly rich? since psa imports all their cases from china? and when consumers start getting charged more to grade with psa to cover their tariff costs.... hmmm all im saying is buy psa 10s while its still affordable

>>58084162
rattle is a fucking bitch, nigga thinks hes robin hood or some shit :skull: little pussio thinks anyone cares about niggas hustling a lil. if you get scammed you deserve it.

>>58085403
fr

Such a shit time to get into this hobby rofl. I really want this card but feels bad potentially buying at the top.

>>58085421
so why didnt you buy it before the start of this year? it was always $20 since its release in 2016..... it only just got pumped recently..

>>58085423
My interest for collecting shiny cardboard had not been reignited back then

>>58085423
bandwagoner
many such cases

>>58085455
I admit it. I believe I am autistic enough to be in this long-term though.

>>58085483
haven't you heard? global economic disarray confirmed in
>T W O W E E K S
pokemon cards will be completely worthless better to wait

Why do (you) collect?

>>58085421
You only want it because it suddenly went up in value.
You only want it now because other people value it now.
You could have bought it for cheap for many years.
There are likely many cards similar to this you dont currently give a shit about or want but will once people start doing large buy outs.
This is the hobby in a nut shell right now.

https://x.com/oshirin65g/status/1953044147633324058
Kantosissies... RirieBULLS are laughing at us...

>>58085844
Not really, didn't even know its value before I googled it up. Plenty of cheap ass cards I like and expensive ones I don't really care for, like the whole overdesigned-ass PRE SIRs.

I told you guys stay the fuck away from chinese cards but you dont listen... https://x.com/PokeGetInfoMain/status/1953019869777039687

>xitter links
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here

>modern is... LE BAD!
I still have yet to hear any convincing reasons why

>>58085421
>>58085942
Brother, this card is ugly as fuck, just straight up ugly
Eeveelutions could be your favorite Pokemon, but this is just ugly artwork
You're lying if you want this card for any other reason than making a play

>>58086371
BECAUSE UUHHHH NO NOSTALGIA AND POP REPORTSS UUHHH AND BECAUSE THEIR JUST BAD OK!?!?! (p-please hold my vintage bags...please??)

>>58086374
ur face is ugly

>still posting Magneton

TAG is actually an extremely retarded company

Other than the obvious base set Charizard, what cards from Base / Jungle / Fossil / Rocket / Gym 1 / early promo cards are worth the price to get them put in slabs?

>>58086870
Ancient Mew
Raichu 83/82
Error Electrode
Error Diglett

I dont hate pokemon cards, i just want to devalue all the people that think their modernshit is worth it.
FUCK YOU.

>>58086896
I hope it works out so scalpers fuck off.

>>58080111
>>58080139
>>58080387
>>58085319
Based Cards Posters

>>58086896
Modern is worth it though

>>58086882
Thanks.

>>58087095
sorry anon i was lying. please don't follow that advice.

>>58087097
Okay, what's the actual advice, then?
Should I go on price charting, look at the estimated value of each card ungraded and then get any graded that are over X amount?

>still posting Shoe

>>58086374
Agreed. KirisAki is one of my favorite artists but this card is awful. Pic related mogs it.

>>58085421
I collect Kanto alt arts and equivalent from XY onwards, and this is the only card I actively skipped in my wishlist because it gives me nightmares

>>58086018
>Buying sealed
Don't care, show the textured cards and the double watermark, I only buy chink singles

>>58086586
Based magnebro

Faggot dad using his kid to do tradeups.

>>58087280
It's kind of the reason I like it. Feels like they are supposed to be cute but they actually stare into your soul.

>>58085421
I'm sure I traded at least 2 copies of this, along with copies of both Gardevoirs and the Sylveon from that set to my friend who was making a Fairy/Eeveeloution deck at the time. I remember buying Generations product and I think it actually had quite good pull rates? Maybe I just got lucky. When I finished it off back in 2020 I think I had all the "money" cards aside from RC Pika.

>>58086870
Dark Charizard (Rocket)
Blaine's Charizard (Gym)
W Stamp Dark Charmeleon (Rocket)
Shinning Charizard (Neo)

>>58086675
What they do now?
Did the fix their slabs yet?

>>58086916
There is such a large scalper community that they have a perfect economic system amongst themselves to sustain themselves.

>>58087608
They don't even properly confirm what address to send to after placing an order.

do pokeball/masterball holos go for anything? are people looking for these?

>>58087901
People are asking for more for masterball holos from what I've seen, pokeball no

>still posting Fish type Pokémon

>>58087901
Generally, they havent been well received, seems like an anti-consumer semi-predatory ploy to get people to buy more product to complete a "Master Set". With product already scarce and being resold for 2x or 3x msrp. Its kind of a dick thing to do. If the product was widely available below msrp, okay fine add stupid variants like that. But not in a peaking bull run.

>>58087308
>>58087964
nice cards anons!

I see the PokéTubers are pretty up in arms about the alleged prolific charge back scam.
Its interesting to see the comment sections with people saying "scammers getting scammed".
Saw PokeVault talk about it, he seemed pretty miffed by those types of comments.
I don't think two wrongs make a right, and im not happy many of the PokeTubers got scammed. I hope justice prevails and everyone is made whole again.
But it was interesting, I was hoping these PokeTubers would reflect on themselves a bit more after being scammed and perhaps change their perspective on some of their own business practices.
They may not being actually scamming or doing anything illegal. But mystery bags are pretty anti-consumer and predatory as a practice. They exploit peoples ability to understand probability (lower IQ people) and it also exploits those with a inclination to gambling or gambling addiction. Which seems pretty exploitive and perhaps not illegal but still kind of scummy. For example in some countries scalping and mystery packs are illegal. One day they could in theory become illegal as well much like digital loot crates did. Basically you shouldnt need something to officially become illegal to dictate if you participate in scummy business practices or not. The box breaks as well, kind of scummy in my opinion. Charging a premium, keeping bulk, who knows whats happening swapping out of better centered cards post show or whatever. Pre-searched or scanned packs. Who knows. Any way I thought it was interesting that it still hasnt made them reflect at all on how they're perceived by a large segment of people, and how theyve justified it due to making a profit, which i imagine the person who allegedly scammed them probably also has in their own mind.

>>58088489
Poketubers like that should get luigi'd. I don't give a fuck about some faggot with a $500k pokemon "portfolio"

Shrouded Fable

>>58088644

I hate pokemon and I hate cards

>>58088489
Chargeback fraud is illegal
Marking up shiny cardboard(luxury not a necessity to live) isn't

>b-but these online sellers are selling higher than msrp!!
In order to not lose money yeah, they have to
ETB's for example, they get at a discount(maybe $48/box for like 10,000 boxes) they must sell higher than that price otherwise they lose money on high amount of taxes they needed to pay to run their business, shipping all that product, storage of all that product etc.
>b-but target/walmart sells at msrp!
They sell at msrp but they don't buy the cards at msrp, big box stores get them at an even lower price in bulk and then charge msrp
Even msrp is a markup, or what, how do you think target/walmart make money selling them?
Do you think walmart/target buys ETB's at msrp and sells them at msrp? They would be losing money

5x Scammers are one thing, but you have no clue what you're talking about when it comes to non big box stores charging premiums you dipshit

wish me luck anons

>>58084410
Cheap prices. Hype.

>>58088958
well i was about to bitch about the worst box of all time until I pulled the acerola SAR second to last pack
fucking saved

>>58088988
noice

>>58088877
Don't care, it's the shop's duty to find a distributor who doesn't overcharge. If you charge a premium because boohoo the allocation is bad then I will not buy your product and you will either switch to other TCGs or go bankrupt.
The final consumer has no obligation to keep the LCS afloat, on the other hand people should buy less and less until the distributor mafia stops hoarding the stocks.

>>58088877
The majority of his post wasn't even addressing marking up product, you pathetic bootlicker. He mentioned a number of other scummy behaviors (mystery bags, box breaks, swapping, weighted packs etc) that you conveniently ignored to focus on this msrp shit that we all already know and understand. And by the way, while distributors can and do upcharge on restocks, they are obligated to sell initial stock of new product at a certain wholesale price. If a vendor is selling for market at the day of release, it's almost certainly because they CHOSE to rather than because they were forced into that position.

>>58088877
Charge back fraud is illegal, and marking up shiny cardboard isnt.
I made that clear in my post. You missed the point and didnt read ot entirely.
Charge back fraud is only fraud if the reason for the charge back isnt found to be adequate in the court. Who or what sets the standard for "item not satisfactory" is it the buyer? If so, theres a chance its not fraud. Simply a loop hole in law. Much like mystery bags.
Im not justifying anything either.
My point is, scummy behavior, scummy business is scummy business, and all businesses should avoid predatory and exploitive behavior. Or youre literally not much better then the scammers you compalin about. You shouldnt need an official law to determine if your actions are moral or not. Everyone can tell its scummy.

I hope you aren't still wasting money on pokemon when everyone knows Labubu is the new hotness

>>58089556
the rirrie premium is real...

How rare are these gold cards that they go for that much

My sealed master collection is coming along nicely

>>58088489
>500k portfolio
>400k of it is in 2020-25 era cards
nice 125k collection bro.

>>58089570
Probably the same as black/white rares now

>>58088988
beatuiful. that shedinja card is nice.

>>58089556
>>58089550
>riri is the lucario set
why....

why's stevens beldum so expensive? it's from a starter deck and stevens not a fan favourite
just let me buy one for cheap goddamnit

>>58089550
>>58089556
Can only hope the english market is fooled into chasing those ridiculous golden 5bans. I just want the pretty illustrations.

>>58090004
That's the problem. Steven's archetype isn't really viable so the only reason anyone would buy the starter deck is for the promo, in which case they're presumably not selling it.

>>58090004
That's exactly why it is so expensive. The only way to buy it is to spend $15 on a starter deck. The only unique card in there is the Steven's Beldum. Thus anyone selling the card would want to get the money spent for it, which was $15.

>>58089601
Nice selection of product you have there king

>>58089943
waifumaxxers must pay (for both sets)

>>58087293
Once you go jap you don't go back

>>58088988
Pretty jealous, not gonna lie. How much did you pay for the box? Personally I'm still holding off until the prices go down.

>>58090170
I paid $105

>>58090048
>mfw I need the gold 5ban slop to complete my Ralts line collection
haha...

>>58090174
Jesus, that's way overpriced, but at least the pulls were good.

>>58090174
I paid $160 for the mega brave and symphonia with free shipping and after taxes it was $183.

>>58089556
>Goldslop and lilliepedos protecting my boys venusaur and kangaskhan from retarded prices
The hobby isn't healing but I embrace the moment

>>58089550
>>58089556
thank god theyre nothing special ill save money not buying packs this set :)

>>58090329
Unfortunately I am both a LillieBVLL and a VenuCHAD so I can't escape it fully. Only dirty stinky niggers would bother with Mega Symphonia tho.

my favourite OG cards arrived today :D

>>58088988
Acerola is my favorite pokemon

>>58090418

>>58090420
same

>>58090424
>Not holos
>Not 1st Ed's
Nice toilet paper.

>>58090441
theyre holos, just shit pic

>>58090424
I love those as well anon, one day I'll finish my Fossil Set. I have a full Jungle Set but I still need these and the Articuno

Sister started collecting 151 when you could actually find it on the shelves and wants to start again. Think I'm going to buy her the Pikachu (obvious) and Bulbasaur (Who she picked in Red, plus she has Ivysaur) IRs and maybe a couple of full arts for her birthday.

>>58090673
Thats a nice gift, maybe get her some promos

>>58089529
Labubu is a psyop to see if cultural fades can still be influenced by funding youtubers and podcasters as opposed to traditional media.

>>58090682
I was thinking of trying to pick up the UPC promos but she's more focused on the actual set. I think she has all the other ones. If I was just getting her cards then I would do that but I'm getting her a few other things too.

Check........

>still posting Misty

I've never bought but why do people shit on Journey Together?

>>58091696
Not enough hype for scalpies who wanted another PE

>>58091696
The chase card in that set is a Clefairy. This triggers insecure boys with small dicks.

>>58091513
Okay but the top of that card says fucking Kasumi not Misty.
Japanese collectors are the biggest larping fake fan retarda there is.

>>58091813
>retarda
Nigger you don't even know English.

>>58084155
shouldnt have posted right before a drama faggot since thats all you guys care about.

>still posting Misty

>>58076846
Akira Egawa and Mitsuhiro Arita are S tier in terms of artwork. Every time I see a card that makes me go "damn. Dat look good" it's always those two.

Some other personal faves are Tomokazu Komiya, Yuriko Akase, and Yuka Morii.

>>58084476
Nothing feels worse than finally getting your hands on some packs and pulling duds. Bought 2 booster bundles after checking my local store everyday and all I got was 2 normal ex's and one full art ex Electivire. i fuggin hate this set dude. It has nice art, but there is too much filler garbage in the secret rares. 62 secret rares and nearly half of them are a waste of space

>>58080517
>"Ethan" being canon
weird how Red and Silver keep the color name scheme, but then they give fuckass real names for the rest. That's always pissed me off

>>58084476
>won a silver tempest etb off a now dead website
>open the 9 packs
>the only good card in that entire fucking etb was the black gold rayquaza
>all of the rares were also non holos too
never opening modernslop again

I do not consider IRs to be "hits". I once bought four boxes of JP BB/WF and got no SARs. because of that experience two months ago I have completely stopped ripping. I only buy singles now.

>>58092106
Same, the disappointment is too much. But everything seems to be in a bubble right now except for maybe vintage cards. Idk what to do.

>>58091884
She's saying: "Pls buy my PSA 10 Japanese trainer, only $500 USD"

>>58091696
It's only got six SIRs and like a dozen IRs. That means each one is much easier to pull than most sets. Which means each one is less valuable. Which means invoosters don't get to hype up an epic $400 chaserino.

>>58092106
>I do not consider IRs to be "hits"
why not

>>58092240
Because in the youtube videos the ka-ching sound only comes with a $ display under 100, and the youtuber doesn't do a full :O face, more like a :o

You should buy as many sismictoads as you can while the price is still this low. It probably has the most potential by virtue of being a shinji kubo card and one of the original Kanto starters along with Charizard and Pikachu.
200$ is a steal, in 2 months it will easily be over 1k$

>>58092303
fuck off

>>58092303
I’d rather buy more carmine

Finally a haunter art rare, and it's from a deck so it'll be cheap

And also new art for my wife

>>58092693
H-Haha yeah cheap like Marnies Morpeko

>>58092741
The morpeko is 15€, not cheap but also not too bad for an AR.
I guess the popularity of Haunter is comparable to the lust for Marnie's cunny, so I expect a similar price.

>>58092693
Sometimes these ARs borderline into looking like those ultra rare full arts. Like there isnt much difference between an abstract green background and a fully green background.
Almost feels copy pasted on a random back drop.

>>58092303
Pimple toad is an ugly shitmon that no one gives a fuck about.
Shinji's art is ass, its not good, its a kid with crayons. His art is only accepted in modern society because of the three letter organizations running art psyops back in the day and altering the standards of art culture for ever to make way for money laundering scams through art appraisal.
Its not gonna be ban or censored.
Youre all retarded and this card crashes after the first reprint once people relize it wont be censored or banned.
And you'll be stuck with an ugly shitmon that you paid way to much for.

>>58092867
It's the same style of last year's Gengar deck case and sleeves from PC. Some artists have that thick lines pastel style, not everyone likes it

If you're at walmart and stumble on the CZ morpeko collection with Marnie be sure to remove the sticker upc they put on the box and scan the OG upc on it
>sticker price $50
>non sticker price $30
>both legitimately ring up as the exact same thing
Posted this on the pokemon tcg subreddit trying to help people, the Karin mods locked and deleted the thread a few mins later. Apparently its "stealing"

>>58092693
>>58092708
Both look great, I really like this new trend of decks getting art rares.

>>58092867
>forests are an abstract concept to zoomers
grim

>>58093653
>just sneak Umbreon in there to make it more expensive

>>58093675
I like these cards with cameos from other thematically relevant pokemon. Admittedly Umbreon isn't psychic, Espeon would have been better

>>58093785
That card is sick but replace Electabuzz with Zapdos and it's fucking gold

>hanging with u year old nephew
>showing him my cards because he's into Pokemon
>turns down me giving him a fucking $300 card
Gen A isn't going to be into this.

>>58093826
Based toddler not falling for the valuejews like you. He will choose the 5$ shitmon IR over your PSA10 redditmon and he will be happy.

>>58093866
>and he will be happy
GIWTWM

>>58093866
It was a Mewtwo...

My nephew loves Pokemon cards and has for years. But he only cares about evolution lines and filling out Pokedexes. Doesn't really care about flashy cards. He got a Glaceon Vstar from Crown Zenith and was very whatever about it.

>>58093925
He seems based

>>58093923
Then you have to tell him "ESTO ES EL FIN SEGUNDO HERMANO DE MEW"

>>58092693
>>58092708
I like that they are starting to give more guaranteed art rares. Thank god they decided to give this card of my wife just from buying the collection.

>Get email about the worlds pikachu promo
>Not a single TCG item is available on the Pokemon Center
>Code doesn't even work when I try buying some stickers

>still posting the better Umbreon

New

>>58094137
>>58094137