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>still buying vintage
>Buy English>ignore Japanese shills, they will go back to their e4 bunker.
Pikachu!
>>56975080I buy Japanese cards so I can keep myself immersed in the language, can provide my N2 cert as proof of credentials
>>56975313This is a good reason to buy Jap. When an EOP does it it's just embarrassing.
>still grading cards
>>56975064Scyther I assume
>>56975064>Favorite Pokemon EditionI've never collected cards before (except as a little kid like everyone) but I really love Ribombee so I wanted to collect all of its cards for the novelty of it. But looking up the cards, Ribombee seemingly doesnt have any like, really cute/pretty/cool cards? Every card art of it looks super generic and uninteresting. Not a single full art either. I will fully admit that I am just ignorant on which 'mons get full arts and so on but it was still disappointing. I'll probably not get any Ribombee cards because of this.
>still liking scyther
>>56975077I guess you could say....its snarl is worse than its bite!!!
posting in a scyther thread
Rocket Sets are always so Kino
>>56975231>>56975107>>56975177To finish replying to the other thread, yeah as I said I just want to build a nice binder for gen1 pokemon at the moment, and the rares can either be wotc vintage or modern sets, I don't care, I just want visually nice cards.The language is even less of a concern, my base collection is all in Italian with a couple of french outliers like the one in pic, and I can find some nice deals on the Italian ebay sometimes. So English cards are not a priority, and if Japanese is cheaper even better, it's fitting for a Japanese franchise.
>>56975451If it's any consolation, Cutiefly has an illustrator card and some interesting card art.
Good evening, it's raining outside and my Fates ETB arrived in the mail. Popped my pack ripping virginity. Nothing crazy, but very comfy
>being so mad that some fans of this Japanese IP like products in Japanese language
>still not just buying cards you like
i have the secret rare ex dragon charmander and charmeleon in my childhood collection.should i pay €250 just to complete the three?
>>56975834That's quite a bit of money, but it's always nice to complete evo lines you like
>>56975877it's my favorite charmander too but it hurts to pay the 'zard tax
>>56975615Just praying that they don't fuck up the aesthetic in the new rocket set. They managed to fuck up the ex aesthetic in SV so I'm not holding my breath
>>56976045I fucking swear, if they bring the gay crystal hats to the Rocket set...
>>56976045ex would have been perfect without the glitter, they were so close to not fucking up
>>56976198151 managed to avoid tera ex entirely so I have faith, makes no sense to tie that stuff in with Team Rocket
>>56975664They probably watch dubs too
>>56975615>>56976045The aesthetic you talking about is not related to rocket. Ex cards just looked like that in the ex era. Almost all of them had a menacing vibe to them. I expect the rocket/dark pokemon this time around to have a black background and that's it
>>56976238Anon, stop, you're going to make me vomit.
>>56976256I know. I was talking about exs and rocket mons separately
is grading a scam? how can they justify brand new cards handled with satin gloves into sleeves and top loaders getting a 9 instead of a 10? i guess it makes sense to arbitrarily keep the population lower in the age of pokemon investors but still, ridiculous what these companies get away with.
>>56976288Why do you expect cards to be in perfect condition in the factory?
>still seething over Japanese
>>56976288I blame all the illegal spics they hire. they are in Southern California. who else would they hire in mass to grade cards? All the more reason when they deport them we might get better graders in the facility again.
>>56976288>how can they justify brand new cards handled with satin gloves into sleeves and top loaders getting a 9 instead of a 10?Assuming a good faith inspection, it could be because of print quality, slight damage or most likely centeringBut the truth is they just don't care and they just want people to buy their services en masse (and PSA managed to really convince people it is essential), and I wouldn't be suprised if they graded some high end cards with 9s to tempt people to resubmit them to try getting a 10
>still buying sealed
>>56976288There's nothing wrong with a card that isn't perfectly centered. If a card is undamaged (factory or afterward) then it shouldn't have price variation just because the centering is off by 0.3 mm. It's ridiculous.
>>56976288The only purpose of grading is to prevent goyims from claiming you've sent them a damaged card.
You don't understand guys, I NEED a grade 10 1st edition base set Charizard.
>>56976722if you believe that then don't be concerned with people who disagree. personally my brain is too ocd to accept off centering. If yours isn't thats great.
don't know why this one in particular imprinted on to my brind so hard but it did. also by the way the minun and plusle IRs are kind of mid, why the fuck are they with people watching sportsball? It could've been like a pokemon battle they're cheering on and it'd have been 10x better.
>>56976766>brinddid i just combine brain and mind into one word.
I see the pastebin was last updated in 2021. Is it still relevant? Since everyone is shilling the cheaper japanese cards, where do I buy them? Do they ship worldwide? Do I need to go through 100 loops of intermediary websites like the /a/ buyfag thread?
>>56976777you can buy them on ebay ez
>>56976462NTA, because it's literal cardboard not Cybertruck panel gaps
>>56976797Generic ebay.com or japanese ebay? In my country ebay has zero jap stuff
>>56976858you should be able to see japanese listings from any ebay variant
Why didn't they do more references to delta species? I also noticed that there were only like 2 tera ex per English set until stellar was introduced and became the only tera ex's, did they just dislike the gimmick? It would have been a good opportunity to allow us to create multi type decks that all run on the same energy
shitall in the packs but the promos are cute
>>56976858If you live in europe you can also get japanese singles off cardmarket
>>56975664>being so mad at being clocked as an EOP you vaguepost about it hours later>>56976238>>56976261>subfagging as an EOPLMAO
JPchads unite.
>>56975743Wait, there’s people who don’t do this?
>>56976766Minun looking noticeably fat here, its perfect
>>56975064These sets (the eCard sets) have my favorite trainer card illustrations.
>>56976981I hate these giant fucking coins like you wouldn't believe.But I guess I'll need to pick one up if I can find it, for my Wooper collection.
>>56977285oh yeah i throw the coins straight in the bin
>>56974723>Miki Takano
So the way of enlightenment is going for AR and SAR only? EX and SR (even the full art ones) look AI generated in some sets.
>>56977325the little ones I collect, but the big ass ones are too big to be used in games, and too small to be a coaster.completely useless. I hope they go back to making the roughly-quarter-sized ones.I'd love pic related, but don't have $400-ish to burn. And even if I did, I don't know if I could justify the purchase to myself.
>>56977410For now, yes. Hopefully Gen 10 looks better.You should pretend to say IR and SIR so as not to trigger the anti-JP poster.
>>56976677This is mental illness
>>56977410normal ultras are just low effort. tpci can make CG art look good, but they can't be bothered.
>>56977052If this had come out in the BW days it would have had some insane texturing
>1999: kids play and trade them>2024: grown hispanic men encase them in plastic and hide them in wardrobeswhat happened
>>56977285I don't mind them, they remind me of the POG slammers I had in elementary school, but I don't actively seek them out either (except for the Lechonk coin, that one I wanted)
>>56977468illegal immigration
>>56977528Is this literally what this person wrote?They really just typed 'Fuck You All, especially your CHILDREN XD'I hope their house burns down, but that they aren't harmed.
>>56976962It was fun going back through some of the older sets I missed out on recently and discovering that the TCG pioneered a lot of mechanics the games would eventually try out. The "Poke Bodies" type stuff is fairly obvious, but then you had stuff like Delta Species, or even Rocket/Dark/Light before that, predicting eventual Regional variants and Tera types. Even stuff like Lv. X feels like a predecessor for Megas, though they lack the distinct visual change aspect.
>>56977219Amen, brother.
>>56977426Why? Let him him seethe over literally nothing.
>>56977528>I needed all this for my master setSo just buy the singles, you fucking nigger
>>56977727Nvm, these aren't his pictures. He's clowning on the two people who actually took the pictures.
>>56977745>clowning oninteresting
I can't wait to get back home, open my japanese browser to search for japanese cards in japanese language to add to my japanese collection
>>56977582Speaking of Lv X and Megas, funny how the XY block had Mega EX but then decided they needed BREAK on top of that as well.
>>56977528How can scalpers consistently be the most un-Self Aware people in the world. >I just scalped this entire store AND I’m also quite the philanthropist in the community!
Why is this card so fucking good looking bros it's unfair it should be this one costing 2000$ instead of that faggot Umbreon
>>56977713
>>56978094
>>56978121glad you agreed and bought a english copy for this comparison vid.
>>56978121>>56978094Just kiss already
Unpopular opinion: reverse holos are ugly Unpopular opinion 2: masterball holos are horrible
sorry i dont kiss pigs.
>>56978153>Unpopular opinion: reverse holos are uglyAll of them?
>>56978153modern reverse holos are, the ex era ones were kino
How hard do you think it would be to make a collection of all the Imakuni? cards? Imakuni?'s Exploud seems like the most expensive one.
i like modern reverses and ex era reverses for different reasons
>>56978202Gotta love the stamped reverse holos, those are so cool. Also a fan of the DPP era reverse holos where the entire rest of the card is holo.
>>56978420This seems to be one of the more expensive Imakuni? cards. I don't want slabs, but I want a binder page or two of nothing but Imakuni?. Any anons here have any of these cards?
>>56978433Just picrel. Really want to get Imakuni's Nasty Plot though.
>>56978052Glad I don't care about Eeveelutions. The most expensive card I'm interested in really is an old ass Scizor card from those sets where everything is super inflated because no one bought any of those packs back in the day.
Can someone post FA Mina, but the Japanese version?I feel like the foiling on her card was like brush strokes, but I can't seem to find an image online that illustrates that, and now I'm wondering if It was a Japanese card that I'm thinking off, and I didn't remember.
>>56977285>>56977411>at TCG demo event>Pokemon Professor straight up says "these coins suck, so we'll just roll dice odds/evens instead"
>>56978783Not only does it look like a shitpost, the fact that people are trying to sell it for 100-200 dollars feels like a shitpost in it of itself
>>56977528>>56977555>>56978040Nah, he straight up stole the photos in order to call out the two scalpers they came from in the following post. He's a Youtuber though so he's obviously also a grifter.
>>56978824I was going to ask (probably in the tcg thread) if the judges would let you use a quarter, because the lack of weight of even the standard size coins can make them hard to flip, as they slip off of my hands.So if I was flipping coins all day, I'd rather use a quarter, peso, euro, whatever. so long as its a metal coin. I think they only want it to be obvious whether its heads or tails. But I can do that with a metal coin.Give me a paint pen, I'll paint the face.
>>56978849>umbreonhmm....
>>56976677who was in the wrong here?
starting to think PSA is a scam or front for something
>>56978924Biden and Kamala for letting them into the country.
how much longer until burgers shut up about their left vs right politics i thought the election was over already
>>56978963GUMSHOOS WONBY A LOT
>>56978963Psyduck and Rellor be damned.
>>56978963inauguration isn't until the 20th of January, I believe. So at least until then, and barring any shenanigans, and shenanigans there may be, things will quiet down after then.
>still buying physicalstupid dena gimme a houndoom card already
>burgers>politics>quietlol, lmao
>AYO buy this target magikarp target promo>AYO buy this simisear >AYO buy this gastlywhats the new slop?
>home for thanksgiving>brought the pokemon card I bought and had jsut sitting around in my apartment in my inner coat pocket, should be the safest place I can keep it>finally get home, pull it out of my pocket>its bent and warped
Would you consider this Moltres bad centered?
>>56979559its bottom and left heavy.
I'm getting this for 40 leaf tokens mainly for the playmat. I don't really collect pokemon cards but I'm wondering what I should look out for when I open them.
>>56979598>Crown ZenithGiratina and nothing else.
>>56979598I had been looking for a Mewtwo V union for a while.
>>56979592I see, I mean, would you consider it that bad?
>>56979661Is this 3D?
>sacrifices must be made. Praise Arceus, the true God.
>>56979697its never gonna make it as a PSA 10. the centering is so bad it could get a 8 at best.
>>56979792>5banand nothing of value was lost
>>56979792
Thanks to PSA I can find a lot of cheap cards in great condition, either PSA rejects or just cards fresh from the package that the seller didn't bother grading.Without PSA there would be the opposite effect as any neckbeard would sell their scratched, sat over, coffee spilled, dog bitten Charizard at the same inflated price.
>>56979918I have to think it's the other way around: PSA adds perceived value by engendering consumer trust in their grading. No one would buy a "scratched, sat over, coffee spilled, dog bitten Charizard" at the same price, come on. They wouldn't even buy a Charizard that was otherwise in perfect condition without PSA either, because they wouldn't trust that it's actually "that good." Certainly for more than the shit one, but it's the perception that PSA has fully vetted a card and thus you can have complete trust in its quality that makes people buy cards for stupid prices. When they're not defrauding people by pretending others are buying it at those prices, anyway.PSA is not just seen as the mark of "quality," people understand that other people will see it as adding value too. So investors/fools who are buying cards believing they'll continue to go up in value see PSA and know that a PSA graded card will be seen by others as being properly vetted and of assured quality too, allowing them to resell it themselves for even more inflated prices. As long as that collective belief holds.
PSA graded my clearly 10 cards as 9's and graded a 7 card as a 10.they are almost to the 100 million serial number mark. i cannot deny human error. but sometimes it feels intentionaland those graders are fucking faggots.
I still have my early pokemon cards from the 90s I think the fossil set? Are these worth anything if not graded?
The top card got a PSA 10. The bottom card got a PSA 9.one came from the factory, the other got damaged during shipping. i sent in the damaged one because yolo. the bottom one is a 7k card in a 10. fucking faggots jewed me so hard. im not paying for a regrade. they shit out worse 10's than that all fucking day.
>>56980004Yes, don't listen to the fags saying everything vintage needs to be graded before people will buy it. Just accurately document their condition and if it's decent to great you'll do fine if you're ever to sell them.
>still buying modern
>>56979746From E4>Topsun 3D Series 7 Generation III: The set can be distinguished visually from the Series 6 set via obvious differences in card design: silver-gray borders; different graphic design for card #, pokemon name, etc.; and a picture modified for 3D viewing via 3D glasses.
>When Gamestop sends you the wrong PSA card and you can't get a refund because the real PSA card got sent to a different person
>>56980004Yes, 1st edition holo base/fossil/jungle/rocket are highly wanted, and even not 1st ed are valuable and overpriced because muh vintage, although very few of them are graded
>>56980187>>56980502Where can I sell them and how do I check prices?
>>56979598it's a cool playmat, I have this one on my deskcrown zenith has a load of good pulls, very fun set to open
>>56979992Feels like they just spin the Wheel of Grading sometimes
>>56975064Hello /tcc/ tourist here, I found these metallic cards, are they worth anything? could you tell me atleast what edition are those so I can search for them, thanks.
>>56980519eBay, tcgplayer
>>56980618sorry anon, those are all fake
>>56978264I like the paradox mon reverse holos, they're nice and simple. Why have TPCi strayed so far away from the 'less is more' principle of coolness? EX era ex cards and even the BW EX cards mog the new ones
>>56980618>>56980648my nephews (5 and 7) traded genuine cards for cards like these. hurts to see. i told them to at least only trade blue backs for blue.
>>56978963Get 4chanx and filter any American politics terms, it helps
>>56978153my favorite card i own is a reverse holo, they nailed the aesthetic with e-cards
>>56980685Man I miss sets having lore of their own between all the artworks, this is the same set with the Ditto imitating a cave painting right? That's one of my favourite cards ever. I think the last time a set had any interconnected lore was Steam Siege, but the Holon stuff was the last time it was reflected in the artwork.
>>56980690yeah, it's a great set
>>56980681unfortunately pretty common. feel like just about every schoolkid who traded cards falls for these at some point. In the future if you wanna look up the card, you can often just google the card number to find it, IE that pika has 44/185, which corresponds to the pikachu vmax from vivid voltage. The real thing looks completely different though.
>>56980648>>56980681guh!I think I will still go to the shop to check them all but with no expectations. Thanks.
>>56980701naruhodoyeah all of them look fake as fuk, that's probably why they left them forgotten
>>56980681to be completely fair, actual gold cards do look like knockoff cards
>>56979598I was thinking of picking this up, but I have absolutely no idea on how to properly store those fucking jumbo cards
>>56980904gold cards are worthless compared to the SIR/SARs
>>56980904>>56981084I thought so too til I saw them in person, the texturing and holo on those specific cards is actually quite pretty. Still prefer the illustration versions though
>have 20+ singles stuck in the mail because Gaynadian postal services are still on fucking strike
>>56980904Go ahead and sleep on the gold cards.
>>56980904This scan does these quite dirty in my opinion, in person those Paldean Fates gold cards are really nice, maybe too minimalist if anything. The texturing is really nice. I didn't get any SIRs from that set but I like my Koraidon gold card.
>>56979697It's not the worst but it's not good. From what I know it should get an 8 as 8 usually means good perfect condition but not perfectly made. If 9 means perfectly centered I dont know how anything gets 10 even the one ring got a 9 with no other copies of the card to compare it to... It seems like it's just a mood check on the person who's grading the card I guess.
>>56980904actual gold cards look like >>56970169
>>56981406>be PSA employee>get to grade the ring>subtly scratch it so no one can have a 10
>>56981971>Be Magic the Gathering>Literally have one job, make a perfect copy of a 1/1 card>fails to get a PSA 10grim.
>>56982057>make a perfect copy of a 1/1 cardthere's probably a few test or RC copies around, hopefully they will never see the light of day
>>56982083Hopefully they do, imagine the seething
>>56982083yeah thats what im getting at, they probably made like 10 or 20 copies, picked out the best one, stamped in with the 1/1, and then destroyed the rest.
(((They))) purchased the one ring card.
>>56982180imagining they threw the rings into the fire lol
>check ebay for japanese AR>7€>check ebay for the same card in my language from one of the best and most trusted TCG sellers in my country >40€People still defend buying non-jap cards btw
>>56982199little gollum owns the one ring now. sucks down his meth pipe and caresses it in his dungeon. until bilbo comes and finds it.
>>56982212But you can't le read the Japanese text, gotcha ;)What country, and are your cards of decent quality or are they cheap garbage like my American cards?
>get Paldean Fates tin>open pack>shiny Electrode and picrel in the same packD-did I win?
>>56980685>>56980697I hate this set. Every time a card is posted I'm reminded how good it is, and reminded how expensive all of the cards are.I'll never be able to afford to complete it. It taunts me.
>>56982618Based fellow elephant tin enjoyerI pulled the Charizard Ex from mine
>>56981406I've never been a fan of MTG doing other IPs. If it was for their joke sets, fine. But it dirties the mythos they've spent like 30 years creating. Even D&D, which would make sense on paper, felt really weird when they did it. Also, card quality has plummeted in the last 7-10 years, and I don't know why. Probably the best of big three to play, and the worst of the big three to collect.
>>56982634The Great Tusk one gave me SIR Mew ex. Really fun set.
>>56975064The moment of truth has come. Main goal: pulling the Extra Battle Day Lillie. Also picked up a T-Chinese Shauna full art from the same seller to replace the English one I have. The seller even threw in a bonus pack, how nice. Let's do this shit.
>>56982804Bros... first box and I actually pulled it. It was the second SR of the box and was stuck behind a Voltorb common. Mission complete, but there's still two boxes left.
>>56982815Second box and its another double SR box, with a shiny Rayquaza full art no less, pretty damn cool. Also got a shiny Wooper to go along with the shiny Quagsire I got in the first box, sweet.
>buying modern
>>56982837And here's the third box, got a second Shiny Rayquaza full art, but besides that nothing crazy here. Glad the expensive gamble actually paid off, pretty damn stoked with this opening, was also nice to open up some Sun and Moon era packs again.
>>56982840not sure if based or cringe. but since its the pokemon company it must be faggot shit.
>>56982861Lastly here's the contents of that bonus S-Chinese slim pack I got. If I remember right holo rares are not guaranteed in slim packs so definitely could've done worse, really like that Snorlax art too.
>>56982804>>56982815>>56982837>>56982861>>56982886that's not exba tho its dreams come true. and why'd you even keep pulling after getting her.
>>56982541Not him but I'm pretty sure every international version is identical with one another in terms of quality.
I like the backs of the original Japanese cards. They should go back to that.Also, stop putting the copyright info on the fucking border, you monkeys. Put it on the back, like you used to. And make it yellow again. The contrast is what frames the card. It's like they're artistically retarded with graphic design all of a sudden.
>>56982946>that's not exba tho its dreams come true.I know its not LITERALLY the same card, its just that's the most well known name for that particular illustration.>and why'd you even keep pulling after getting her.For the fun of it mostly, but I did say I was gamblemaxxing with this set so that's the other reason to be desu.
>>56982950>make it yellow againI agree, but it will never happen. Yellow border is literally soul.
>>56982815All I've been getting in my pulls is full art of old men. Not that I'm going for waifus anyway, but it amused me.
>>56982946>>56982973Also to add to this, there's four different full art Lillies and you can't even call this "the Naoki Saito one" because he illustrated two out of those four.
>>56983000That's pretty much how Pocket's been treating me so far.
>>56983003you can call exba lillie by exba and u can call this one by dreams come true. im just being a shit eating autist though. congrats on your pull. how much did you spend in total on the boxes?
>>56983023About 350 bong bucks for all three.
>>56983032oh, then you mega won despite opening past the point of pulling lillie. how did you find them at that price? the last time i looked i saw like 400USD a box, but thats like barely under what you paid for 3.
>>56983044I just looked up the set on eBay and filtered the result by lowest price first, Gamecardscorner was the seller that came up on top, I actually bought from them twice in the past so I knew they were legit so I just went for it.
>>56983086isn't that the panda profile picture guy. i thought that's where i saw the price of those boxes. i guess i misremembered.
SOUL
>>56983094where?
>>56982815Holy fuck, i didn't know you could pull such a rare card just like that from a Chinese pack. That's pretty cool but also devalues the card. But whatever might be worth putting up with chink text to have a realistic chance of owning her.
>>56983100it's something you can't see, but feel
>>56983090>isn't that the panda profile picture guy.That's the one.
>>56983094So is this every full art trainer card from this set?
>>56983094when you frame it as GameFreak going to Spain for research and seeing all of the Catholic school girls in uniforms and deciding to make their game somehow based around that, Gen 9 suddenly makes a lot more sense. On a variety of levels.
https://www.pokebeach.com/2024/11/black-bolt-and-white-flare-sets-now-confirmed-to-release-in-june-hinting-at-black-white-game-remakes>unova before the gen2 setit's so johtover....
>>56983158Holy shit they're cooking with the sets next year, not a single one of those sounds bad>owner pokemon set 1>another set with owner mons>team rocket set>Unova 156 setIf GF can do an HD2D style Unova remake/entry in the style of DQ3 I'd be a happy chappy
>>56983158>hinting-at-black-white-game-remakesIt's Unover.
>>56983218>If GF can do an HD2D style Unova remake/entry in the style of DQ3 I'd be a happy chappyyou shut your fucking mouth. Your Octopath Travelers and DQIII-HD2D art style is filth. I'll sooner take an ILCA remake of my favorite gen before having that garbage. Ideally, If I could have it the way I wanted it. Gen 6 art style. Overworld models as they were, with trainer PORTRAITS, not in 3D. All pokemon in the Game Gens 1-9 transferable. Just a 1:1 remake of Black 2. If they make ANY changes, it would be for the worst. Even if they added trainer customization, they'd find a way to fuck it up, I know they would.
>>56983232oh. you again.
>>56983305gen 6 artstyle looked like dogshit lmao
>>56983422No, I'm not one to defend it, but as opposed to the 1:1 head to body chibis of the BDSP, the 1:1.5 chibis are a really nice transition from 2D. The only thing SM/SWSH/SV has convinced me of is that, even with more time and more money, GameFreak just cannot do proper proportioned 3D. I don't know why, but they can't do it. Which means, either XY/ORAS style or back to sprites. And because they're never going back to sprites, XY art it is then. Ugly on the 3DS? Maybe. But it'll be on the Switch this time.
Now that Japan his unified the card designs across the world for the faces, do you think they're going to change the backs to be like the Japanese cards? Why make all of the changes at all, if they're not building up to this?
>>56983513The back feels too iconic to change, for Americans anyway. The fronts changed all the goddamn time, so unifying that cost nothing, in terms of public perception. But I don't see a reason to change the backs, which have been the same in the US since the very first WoTC cards.
>>56983158kek @retards in the comments thinking this will be the next 151nobody gives a fuck about the unova dex
>>56983695yeah, I felt the same way about the yellow borders, but now here we are. I really do feel that, design wise, the yellow borders don't blend into the interior of the cards (even electric types), whereas the silver, especially on foil FA cards, doesn't create a solid boundary anymore and more easily blends into a lot of designs. Yellow framed the card better.But American cards have had the yellow borders for just as long as the backs, and they changed the borders. There was no good reason for them to, and they did. All that's left is the backs.
Collectorbros how we feelin
Memekarp Jap ungraded 50$ y/n?
>>56983726Born in 92, I remember more of Gold/Silver than Red and Blue. And Kanto designs have gotten really plain compared to subsequent gens. I don't mean this as a complaint, I'm just saying they are objectively simpler with less colors and less shit stuck on them. I'd probably say I like about as many Gen 5 as Gen 1 mons. Like a don't give a shit about rattata, nor patrat. They both suck. Zubat and Woobat can both eat shit. Crobat is still the best, unless we count Noivern as more bat than Wyvern.But Trubbish is a better design then Grimer, to me. Arcanine will never be topped by any other region's doggo.I'd rather have Serperior than Venusaur. But would take Charmander over Tepig, but Dewott over Wartortle. (And Blastoise over Samurott) It will be a fun set. I'll collect like I always do, just the cards I like. (I don't collect entire expansions).
>>56983834Did it seriously shoot up that high? I got it for half of that this summer.
>>56983834It's a $30 card.
>>56983495SM>XY artstyle any day of the week.
>>56983220CARLOS
>>56983158Can we finally get a Hilda card pls?
>>56983158>did absolutely nothing for the 25th anniversaryit's never been more johtover...
>>56983915As a spritefag, this isn't really a hill I'm going to die on. If that's what you prefer, I respect your preference. I just like the chibi models of Gen 6 better, especially when designing environments around them. The world feels bigger, because it is bigger. Alola felt really small.>>56983947Yes please. Emboar for Hilda, right?
>>56983981i'm a spritefag. but i believe 3D hit its strive in SM. XY/ORAS just look like complete dogshit
>>56983991fair enough. Either way, if GF develops it, you know we're getting SV assets, right?When it's finally Gen 5's turn for the shitty remake, Gen 5 will make BDSP look like masterpieces. I can feel it in my bones. But ever since ORAS, it's now a right of passage. Ready for a closed Battle Subway (under repairs), and a mini model commemorating the PWT?
>>56982815>>56982837>>56982861Grats anon! I also managed to pull the battle day Lillie card from one Dreams Come True AC2b box. I also managed to get the Acerola battle day from the AC2a box as well. Quality wise, it is on par with jp since they were made in the same factory.
>>56981048they released a jumbo card binder a couple years back
>>56984173Can you check the full set list anwhere?
>>56984191It's on bulba: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Dreams_Come_True_Collection_(ATCG)AC2a has the battle day Acerola and the cynthia with garchomp full art.AC2b has the battle day Lillie and battle day Guzma.
I did not buy the ETBs
>>56984286Sexiest gym leader in the franchise.
I forget what do highlight cards do in the deck builder again?
>>56984527She's not a gym leader.
>>56984318but chuddha, what if you miss out on the newslop overprinted cards?
>>56984572Semantics.
>>56984286kek Chinks got the rare Acerola before us.
>>56984845More like SEMENtics amirite lmao gottem
>>56984318I did. Well, one. LCG wasn't selling them for a mark up and I haven't actually bought any other ETB's before, so I figured why not. Not gonna buy any more, naturally, and the pulls weren't terribly great.Full art Castform is cool though.
wait a minute, I just noticed there is no height and weight on the full art cards. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW BIG AND heavy MY POKEMON IS IF I CAN’T SEE THEIR WEIGHT AND HEIGHT
How's your mouth rolling today!
>>56985913all I can remember off the top of my head is:>ra ra ra ierukana. ki mi no ierukana>ra ra ra ierukana. pokemon zee eye eh ayyyy>ghost caterpi pikapi...
>>56985913you could have gotten the english copy.
>>56986025I plan on getting the English one (which has a much more recent picture of him), but I wanted the original first.
>>56986065I have a good copy. i just checked the pricing and they do hold value. id get it graded but PSA would see the one chip in the corner and give me a PSA 8. despite its perfect centering and no scratches.
you see thats how they get ya. they tell you not to hold on to your reverse holo's. nobody ends up holding on to them. and boom. only 37 copies are currently graded under PSA and so its a rare and valuable card in good condition.sleep on reverse holo's all you want. ill hold them.
>>56986101I throw reverse holos away. They're sometimes pre-warped in the booster pack when I pull them out, they're such shit. It's weird, because FA foils don't give me any problem, but aren't they basically the same?Bam. Right in the trash, with few exceptions.
>>56986368that's nice deary.
>unironically fomoing over surging sparks when every single set next year mogs it
>anons diabolical plan to sit back relax and let the collection age like fine wine.
>bought 2 of the walmart tins>some stores tins have ES>local store tins are all 3 brilliant stars, 2 lost origins>mfw the 4 scalpers in the area bought up every tin from the 3 stores in my area trying to scalp more ESDisappointed tho as I didn't mind more BS
>>56986450I hate scalpers
>>56986101population faggot
>>56986450Luckily I got my fill of Evolving Skies when it was still on shelves. Only reason I'd ever need more would be as trade fodder. Otherwise I'd be fuming at this shit.
>>56986455As of now the store I work at has 5 left that either wont pop back up for online order or wont until tomorrow sometime. If I really wanted to be an ass I could easily stash 2 and buy em Friday morning but I'm not
>>56986422You cant deny it's quite a kino set though, and one of the few times I appreciate an ENG set being bloated since it makes ripping more varied and fun
>>5698646714k moonbreons tongue my anus. your shits not hot or rare.
>>56976677Follow him into the parking lot and take his shit after he pays
>>56983726>unovaI don't even know what that is lol>>56983840I tapped out as a kid after gen 1. The introduction of all the new pokemon after that seemed lame, it reminded me of digimon, which I never liked but I had friends that did. I sort of know more now thanks to playing pokemon go, but I've only ever played blue version as a kid.
>>56986471Why do people do this? To hoard and resell in the future? Is this profitable?
>>56982840is this why everyone has been posting houndoom prime lately?
>>56986806It's at best as "profitable" as flipping burgers at mcdonalds, but it doesn't require any effort so you'll find a lot of subhumans doing it.
>>56982618twitter faggot
>>56986806Pretty much, ES mania basically boils down to>less than a handful of cards that fetch a high price>retarded amount of cards in the set>retarded pull rate for even regular rare cards>a certain small minority of people seemingly dedicated to keeping the 1 umbreon card high priced on the marketSo by extension you have scalpers trying to horde unsealed anything ES.Same with 151 but unlike ES the pokemon company are more than happy to print off more 151 as fast as possible.As a side investment card product isn't bad but to many are in it solely to make a buck and they're more than overjoyed buying up product just to make sure no one else can.
>>56986806There are two types of subhumans, the hoarders will just hoard sealed and never actually resell it because they're waiting for it to "moon" (but they keep waiting for it to rise higher even if it does moon), the flippers are usually LGS owners or online store owners that scalp product to resell it at inflated prices. An Evolving Skies booster box is as expensive as a Moonbreon btw. Just buy singles.
https://www.gamer.ne.jp/news/202409240027/if you can't vocaroo this then you shouldn't be ripping japanese
>>56987532me when I see a loose pack of obsidian flameshttps://vocaroo.com/5h7yA24jd3u
>>56987532>if you can't vocaroo this then you shouldn't be ripping japaneseI don't rip JP, I only buy JP singles so get rekt nerd lmao
What's the most you guys ever spent on a single?
Another day, another 24 hours of refreshing the Prismatic Evolutions Surprise Box page, hoping for a change.
>>5698777930
>>56982861>shiny ScytherDamn, he's everywhere. What the fuck did you do, OP?
>>56987779$172 after taxes and shipping for Neo Disc Umbreon.
>>56986467I used to be obsessed with low pop cards, I still am but I used to too. They are still worthless but it makes me feel special having a rare card.
>>56987779I've yet to break my $20 limit
>>56987473TPCi printed WAY more Evolving Skies than 151. It was readily available for years whereas 151 booster bundles were notoriously hard to even find at release. ES released nearly four years ago and still occasionally finds its way to shelves. It was one of the few sets in history to feature at least a third printing run. People were insisting the market for it would crash because of the sheer volume they were printing.
>>56987779$40, but it's like an addiction so probably higher in the future
>>56987779£100 for a Gold Star Flareon
I just wanted a Tyranitar tin because I like Tyranitar :(
I hope they don't market the B/W set at 156 because that might make the investorfags and scalpers who have such a boner for 151 jump on it.Also hope the current investor boom turns into a bust before it releases in general.
>>56987888>I hope thing that has a 0% chance of happening doesn't happenYou may be in luck.
>>56987888151 is only big because it's kanto. Gen5 is really not that popular.
>the rainbow rare Sogaleo and lunala gx goes for less then the regular full art dispite being quite a bit more rareI'm just getting back into collecting but when was it people unanimously decided that the rainbow cards were ugly as fuck and clogged up the secret rare pool?
>>56988094day 1
>be a normal, well adjusted, responsible person>browse /tcc/ for the last month>$120 already gone in various art raresD-does it get better or worse with time?
>>56988094All rainbow and gold card are ugly as shit.
should I buy a Carmine single for $60>>56988133f*ck you
>>56988133Just set a monthly budget.
>>56988094my eyes decided thatthat shit's ugly as hell bro
>>56988133Strap in buddy, there's no brakes on this ride
>>56988133it's over...
>>56988157Do mid tier cards (20-50$) over the months usually go higher in price because of their set getting older and less available, or lower in price because the hype goes down and new sets with new art rares come out? If I really like a $40 card I wish to know if in 3 months it will still be $40 or 20 or 60
>>56988189post the card and maybe i can give you my guess but literally nobody knows.
>>56987779£45 for the FA Lacey and the same for my ex dragon latias ex
>>56988189The Golurk from evolving skies is still 20 bucks. The set does matter, but not as much as the card itself. Is the card worth 40 bucks to you? I usually wait a couple months if the single is high value and just released.
>>56988189if you really like it, just buy itif it drops to 20 you spent 20 to enjoy it for a few months and secure yoursif it booms, well, nice for you
The rumors were true
>>56988133I spent $10k in a couple months. I stopped because I ran out of money. Pokemon TCG is literally, unironically, and unapologetically a bottomless money pit. After you take care of your expenses and savings, whatever is leftover you mark as "money I have no better use for than to spend on cards". Good luck. There are worse things to spend your money on, at least you can sell your cards back and not be out too much.
>>56988352wat tin is this?
>>56986368>still not understanding warping
>>56987779Crystal ho-oh box topper.I'm saving for the regular size too, and after that no more high end singles
i've spent more money on sealed than singles in the last month
>>56986368>cards are warped>doesnt stick it into a toploader for it to relax back straight.thats a you problem.
>>56988410Room. Pulls were pure trash.
>>56988455>expecting anything else from evolving criesLegit one of the most miserable sets to unpack ever
>>56988455Rotom*
*sigh*warping is caused by temperature and humidity, it is not a problem nor a permanent thing. It's like in a bimetallic strip if you know those.When a material composed of layers of different materials is exposed to a changing humidity or temp, each layer expands or contracts at a different rate, and this causes the overall material to curve. This can be reversed simply by changing the temp or humidity again (cool, dry place), or as anon said >>56988448 just press em in a toploader or between a bunch of energies
>>56988481can this be added to the faq?
>>56988362>>56988133Yeah, I got back into collecting in Dec 2022 and ended up spending like 3000 dollars within a month, buying various vintage + literally picking up whatever I could find at the shop whenever I went to get groceries. You're here forever anon, I can go months without buying but then I get the itch and at least a grand disappears.
>>56988139The SM ones at least had a nice glow, but yeah they were lazy cards and started a horrible trend in the TCG. They need to get rid of gold cards next, they literally serve no purpose.
>>56988493>t. gold ultra balllet
>>56988481for this reason warping is not considered for conditions/grading btw. i once saw an anon complain that their card wasn't NM since it was warped.
>>56988485No, because it's not true.
>tob bloaders bad. people are literally throwing warped cards away. you cannot make this shit up.
this is a nice tyranitar
>>56988511care to explain? or are you retarded?
>>56988537I tested it and it didn't work. Cards are still warped.
>>56988556you absolute moron. they warp when the temp and humidity rise and fall over weeks at a time. you throwing it in a toploader for an hour wont do shit. it takes a while to warp it, it takes a while to warp it back straight. these people have zero patience. 99% of collecting is just waiting. newfags ruined this hobby so badly with their crave for instant success.
>>56988575I did it for 3 years. Still warped.
>>56988598cheekiness will get you nowhere.
you're supposed to use a card saver to fix warping not a top loader
>>56987779probably $20, $25.
>>56988575untrue. You use the ABC method.Aqua (Water) Bend Correction. It's 2024, and people still don't understand how to fix warping (and even small creases)You take your card, dip it into a bin or bowl of water so that it's completely covered, and then pull it out. You do this with the card completely vertical, so it needs to be a couple inches deep.Then, you place it on a paper towel with the bend facing up, and place a stack of weights on a book that covers the whole card. This can be more books, or whatever, but should be at LEAST 20 lbs. Then you wait 24 hours. And in the morning, bam. You've ruined your card.Repeat for all reverse holos until you've purged your collection of them.
>>56988733I don't have water, can I use isopropyl alcohol instead?
>>56988733I prefer the flame from below methodHold a lighter about 3 inches under the card, when it sets alight into ash, it is no longer warped
>>56988733>he doesn't reverse pickpockets his reverse holos in random strangers' ass crack
>>56988780It evaporates too quickly. I'd say at least 80 proof whiskey or higher. A real nice scotch. Once you've thoroughly soaked the card, the liquid spilled is now worth more than the card, so whatever outcome you get will be depressing enough to drink over.Which, you know. Is what the whiskey is really for.
>>56988733look kurt im not investing in your products. buy an ad.
>>56988630get it? cuz it saves cards :D
>>56988733Another method is dipping the card in baby oil. A famous celebrity did this all the time and they found tons of baby oil bottles in his mansion.
there are people buying used damaged cards and repairing them in the pursuit of selling restored pokemon cards. what a joke. get a real job.
If the card is warped just bend it the other way with your hands. Lmao bros for real you so weak that you can't bend a piece of paper lol lmao pussies
>>56988528the rain looks like heavy holo scratching kek
New>>56989059>>56989059
Best database where I can select a mon and filter all the available cards for that mon by type (mainly ir and sir) with a preview of the card art and an indication of which set it belongs to?
