Thread 58253489

What Incarnation Edition

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FAQ:
https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca

>>58253465
Post it so we can compare. Might be some weird promo or just a fake.

Boobs

>>58253509
Holy mother of kino

>>58253530
now that's a ritual post i'd like to see

>>58253530
>>58253544
I need another waifu boom

Booba!

>>58253501
Forgive me for my ignorance if this is what it's meant to look like and i just can't find any pictures/info of it online because it's unremarkable.
Possible to see the full holo with your own eyes but the camera doesn't seem to pick it all up.

Also I have another Gligar holo from 2008, which is funny since i don't have that many holos or cards in general (under 100, from 2008-2015)
Gligar
All i could find about any firework pattern was a collection from 2002, which apparently wasn't done ever again? Might be outdated info

>>58253713
anon I hate to tell you this but that card is fake. It's easy to tell for a lot of reasons. The holofoil is cheap and you can get that exact pattern on amazon, the margins of the card are horrible and bleed into the card, The text looks to be extremely low resolution. Either it's the non holo version of the card that someone slapped a holofoil on top or a complete fake and considering the erroneous copyright date it's probably fake completely

>>58253745
lmfao fair enough. I can't even remember where i got it from

>>58253804
it's like a 20 cent card so get the real one if you want lol

>>58253811
oy vey how ever will I recover my losses on the fake card? who nose. :^)

>>58253811
KEK i feel somewhat retarded but i can have a laugh about the fake cards considering that means i got even luckier with these cards i got from the tin (Secret rare Charizard and Garbodor from Plasma Freeze/Storm/Blast tin)

>>58253811
My credit card is already maxed out I can't afford this kind of thing + shipping

>>58253842
oy vey its another shoa

Ironically before, i filtered out all the cards i thought were shit into a separate pile and like 90% of them were the fake Phantom forces ones.

^ only because i a lot of the XY pokemon

^ and only because i hate a lot of the XY pokemon

Anybody had to pay the new customs/import fees in the US yet? I just saw the notice on listings from Japan.

Genocided the fake cards... well i ripped up a few shitty ones like Klefki.
You will never be a real Pokemon (or card)

>>58254048
buy from sellers that add it into the price to avoid it getting stuck in customs and waiting for them to reach out to you which takes a LONG time

>>58254101
Yeah, I saw that on one of them. $8 shipping on a $35 card. What a disaster.

>>58254154
thats what happens when you elect a zio bootlicker pdf like DJT

Is there a list with pictures of every kind of official holofoil?

>>58254212
This?
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Holofoil

why doesn't ptcg just raise the prices even more with the base price off of sites being double?

>>58254232
Not complete, cosmos is in its own page for some reason, SWSH and SV basic foils are missing, other rarities with foils aren't mentioned, etc.

Is PF going to be the last set of the year?

Is Pokemon Center gonna drop Phantasmal this week or what? Jesus fucking Christ

Whats the odds we get a 151 successor in the Mega era?
Doesnt seem likely.
Would you collect a set like this?
Should every era have its 151 set?

Why is everyone on Facebook market a greedy side hustle scalper timmy scumbag shithead?

>>58255020
Why are you on Facebook?

>>58255020
send them messages that waste their time

>>58255081
This. Make a burner account and agree to meet them somewhere for a sale and never show up kek

>>58254925
No it's blatant nostalgia pandering

How does it make you feel that there were tons of undervalued, low pop, cheap vintage cards that were easily obtainable that you turned your nose up at because you bought into the hype of the new market is the best market. that vintage sucks and is outdated. looking like real fools now. now were seeing the boom of vintage, because like i always claimed that the population reports really do matter. where its harder to obtain these older cards and its easier to obtain the newer ones. i should have to gloat like this. but the bigger they are, the harder they will fall, and you were huffing copium. so we are seeing the surpassing of these not "good" vintage products despite the hype and guarentee whats going to happen is the market will be taking that hit. vintage will be affected, modern will be affected. but we all know that vintage will recover while yall going to be hanged out to dry.
enjoy your modernbags. I embrace the bearish market. the thing about making a good bluff, every once in a while you need to be holding all the cards, and in this case the cards are vintage.

>>58255235
No one gives a shit about vintage's ugly ass cards

>>58255235
Based Coping Schizo
>>58255381
lmao this

>>58255381
>>58255394
my collection that has nearly doubled in value since january 2025 to now. BTW price charts are not always the most accurate way to determine the value of ones collection, because I know if i went through the process of grading to fully maximize the value of my collection. it does give a good indication on whats happening in the market. 19k increase in a year. even in April 2024, when i added my entire collection to track it, it has gone up 4x from 11.5k. like i said, i knew my collection was more valuable than what price charts say, but now even the price charts are saying its worht it.

>>58255455
>my collection that has nearly doubled in value since january 2025 to now
That's cool now try to sell those ugly ass cards

Vintage has no liquidity

You have a $20k PSA slab? Great, now have fun trying to sell it

>>58255464
I aint sellin' just merely showin'. i am to set in my ways now to realize that my stuff is actually worth it. i always knew it was worth it. people would rag on my collection because it wasnt the new thing, i wouldnt sell shit to put it into the new thing. because the old thing is more profitable.

everyone talking shit for years over my cards being "old and uncool" its not the new hot thing. times have changed and will continue to change. only people unaware of the market shift will be surprised, but it is happening. nobody cares about your moonbreon kid. it became stagnant. nobody cares about your modern card anymore. people are looking to put their money in vintage and you ran out of useful idiots to pump the charts.

Here is the other TCG i collect. same deal, the charts dont actually really show the value. id value my collection worth probably 12k, with me spending about 5k to get it. too bad collectr doesnt actually really update the cards in my collection on the recent sales prices of the cards or it would reflect that. its pretty broken.

>people are looking to put their money in vintage
lmaooooooooooo

sure thing unc

>>58255534
lol. sucks to suck. better luck next time, sucker.

>Avoids the fearposting of new stuff being better and to quick sell your old more valueable product
>Puts money into another TCG that will not collapse in value instead of buying modern pokemon

Scalping vendor faggot sold all his cards for 0% of market.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DOmtF0Piczx

>>58255593
>Getaway vehicle was a nissan altima
usual suspects.

>my le vintage is LE GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kek the coping losers ITT are such cuties

>>58255235
Didn't read lol
Buying the new japanese mega SARs right now

>>58255593
Looking at the pics of the cards stolen and almost all of it is modern cards

Crazy how even robbers are ignoring vintage shit LMAO

>>58255394
>>58255235
>missed opportunity with Moonbreon despite living through logan P$ul craze and seeing Moonbreon going for $100 (ONE HUNDRED OF DOLLAR)
...
>hehe i won't do this mistake anymore >:)
>2024
>Bubble Mew is $60-90
>don't buy it
>100-120
>don't buy it
>800+
>FUCK
i guess i just dont like fomo-garbage
I do have other chase cards like Lugia or Giratina but because those are actually my favorites.

Hopefully Inferno X will bring the next chase card and i will definitely won't miss it this time because i like Mega Charizard X genuinely.

I'm just worried that it's a super short set of around ~100 cards. That's super abysmall and i assume that most of people will pull that charizard easily

>>58255830
I'll never understand why people don't want a card when its affordable but then suddenly change their minds when it becomes unaffordable.
What sort of NPC programming is this?

>>58255020
Because every YouTuber is telling them that being a Pokemon card reseller is how to make it big in life.
Every single PokeTuber is struggling in their social life though.
There wives/ kids dont fuckin like their husbands spending so much time and money on pokemon, it makes them feel unsafe and you can just tell they continuously rage out about being unsupported or some gay shit.
Honestly its retarded how these dudes avoid getting a real job.

>>58256044
>I'll never understand why people don't want a card when its affordable but then suddenly change their minds when it becomes unaffordable.
Did you even read?
I don't want it. I just remember it was so cheap.
I guess I would buy it just to resell.
But i'm not gonna buy every "possibly CHASE card" because i'm not an investor cuck

But sure seeing moonbreon being expensive and remembering it going just for $100 makes anyone think "hehe i remember when it was that cheap. I would sell it if i got it" or something.

But yeah fuck this fomo garbage.
i'm feeling pretty healthy about my cards. Otherwise I would be stressed chasing fomo and worrying what is a good investment and what is not.

Geez even using the word "investment" in a topic of pokemon (fucking POKEMON i remember the times when bullies would beat nerds if they knew they like pokemon) makes me cringe.

What gives a card its price in Pokemon? Is it rarity + art? Cuz a lot of the expensive cards I've seen are ugly.

>>58256532
Demand

>>58256543
What creates demand?

>>58256548
>What creates demand?
pokemon popularity or artist popularity. Only these two things at this moment.

But artist popularity affects ONLY ONE artist at this moment - Kanda. It started after Giratina chase card that blew everyone's mind.

Pokemon

- Pikachu
- Pikachu Collabs
- Umbreon
- Gengar
- few g1 famous ones but it varies (sometimes Mew/Mewtwo blews up but then it's not. Somtimes charizard is popular but sometimes it's not)
- few famous legendary mons like Lugia or Giratina
- lesser Eevielutions

>>58256532
>rarity
Desnt matter
there are fuck shit ton of cards
Pop/popularity doesnt matter either

its a shitty pumped up market. We are at all heights right now.

Results of my prerelease and trading. IRs seem surprisingly easy to pull this set.

>>58256588
those look nice it almost makes me want to open my packs instead of reselling them

>>58255534
>Gem Pack Vol 3
>STILL no Sango card
I'm losing hope, bros...

pokemon center queue is live btw

>>58254925
Nostalgia is based yes

>>58256665
Site loves throwing error 17.

>>58256665
Thanks anon

>>58256588
How many packs did you get? You got a booster box right? At my LCS the limit is 1 ETB, 1 Tri Blister, 5 loose packs and the prerelease kit so 21 packs and you look like you got a ton

>>58256665
Was already in the queue, can't wait to not get literally anything.

>>58253817
>>58253869
what is this pol cringe?

>>58256824
If you're below queue 1million you are pretty much guaranteed to get something

>still hasn't gotten a full art
weird.

>>58256855
Pocket chads, we won...

Fuck you cardfags. I just wanted to look and see if there were any dreepy clothes and now there's a queue because your gay ass cardboard.

>>58256885
>subtle video game clothing

>>58256855
My favourite hasn't got one either yet but their evolution line got a card in Phantasmal Flames so there's a good chance for an IR either in that set or Mega Dream coming after

I'm late to the queue so I didn't expect to get anything but the site blocked me with Error 17 anyway. This is fucked man.

>>58256895
That's why I ended up not buying any of the ostentatious shit they have.

>>58256665
>>58256824
>>58256841
Managed to get a booster box, very nice.

>>58256916
I like the design of that Misdreavus hoodie they have but I don't see myself ever wearing it so I said fuck it.

>>58256926
I got the H-Zorua one. I was hoping they had a Dreepy in a similar style.

>>58256855
so many good ones have not gotten a full art but they still gotta keep making freaking charizaaaaaaaaard full arts left and right

There's no queue and booster bundles/box's are still in stock, this might be the most printed set ever

>>58257225
>There's no queue
Just checked and you're lying.

>>58257262
I'm from the UK, not lying at all and both things are still instock

I found my old cards. I have no idea but I guess these are not worth much, right? Might as well keep my childhood collection but is anything here interesting?

>>58257272
All are holographic but my shitty lighting makes that hard to see.

>>58254925
I was looking for a pic like this, I'm building a set based on kantoo but extended with any callback to gen1, including regional forms, crossgen evos/babies, megas, and I'm also adding gen9's convergent evos and paradoxes.

>>58257265
So am I and there's a queue if you try to enter the site. I dare you to refresh your page.

I just bought a $1000 card

>>58257225
I've just ordered a booster box, it's showing up in my account but no confirmation email or anything. Won't believe it until it's in my hands.

>>58257363
which

>>58257272
Some of those cards are worth some money but condition is important.

>>58257394
Crystal Nidoking from Aquapolis

>>58257413
I really like the Aquapolis card designs.

>>58256532
10$ multiplied for the number of :O faces in youtube videos and reddit posts

>>58257422
Yeah, the e-reader cards in general are pretty cool

>>58257429
This is me realising they were designed to be e-read. That completely bypassed me back in 2003 or whenever it was that Aquapolis came out.

Line go up. Glad I got this when it was cheap.

>>58257410
What cards in particular? Essentially all of them have minor scratches on the holofilm.

>>58257480
Venusaur ex, Butterfree, the 1st ed meganiums. The other ex's may be worth something.

>>58257492
Alright, thanks!

>>58257272
e-Reader and the early ex could be worth a decent amount, same with the stamped Metagross and Deoxys.
The most valuable card there might be the reverse holo Legendary Collection Butterfree.

>>58257413
these crystal motherfuckers are only going up, so if you bought a 9 you got a great deal

>>58257515
The Butterfree goes for about $125 if it's in good condition, $450 if it's a PSA 10 graded.

>>58257467
>600 for 5ban slop

aaaaaaaaand its gone

Kept getting errors when trying to check out. Fuck it, I'm just gonna focus on Mega Evolution anyways. I doubt Phantasmal Flames would be better for me personally.