Coin Dice EditionPrevious Thread: >>57041979FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
>>57057374How much did just these little fags cost?
>still buying physical
>still buying modern
i damaged a card by trying to put it in a toploader upside so i could have it on my desk without having dust enter the top. now there are two little nicks on the back corner/edge. truly fucking suffering. ive never done this before.
>not stealing physical
>not scamming physical hits from amazon
>>5705747985
>not taking huge shits in sealed product
post cards
>>57057784
>>57057621Yen?
>>57056799The only reason I'm into Pokemon is because my son is really into it now. I imagine there are a lot of millennials like me that are reliving their childhoods through their children and that increases the "casual" demand which drives all the grifters and investors.
Anyone use a BCW Z folio binder? It seems kind of flaky.
>>57058021Its a dogshit binder. Only buy vaultx or ultra pro suedes.
am I fucking retard if I buy a card of one of my beloved Pokemon for $400? Will it ever go down in value, or do these ever go up? i do not plan on ever selling it, just want to know if I'm making a rash decision. sick of wasting money on booster boxes
>>57058089but why?faq doesn't explain shit
>>57058148NTA but after an autstic amount of research I went with Card Guardian binders, seems interchangeable with vaultx but slightly cheaper and were the only oens I saw someone mention hold up to being completely filled front to back.BCW zips feel like the kind of binders I had in middle school, they had some at a local shop I could feel out and they're really flimsy feeling.
At the point of ripping where I'm considering just buying a simplied chinese version of this card for slightly less than english/jp even though I have nothing else in the language and it'd trigger my autism.
these were on sale at my local best buy for 40 dollarsi skipped out on them because i was looking at the set list and nothing was too interesting aside from the squirtle and bulbasaur card.I kind of want to open packs but surging sparks is all sold out and I can't buy it and I don't know if it's worth opening card packs of 150+ cards for only 2 cards i'm interested in.
>>57058532they keep shitting out the WORST pokemon designs. I see why the keep releasing them years after the games been released. its a sneaky way to drip feed shitmon that people wouldnt normally like.
god, rainbow rares are so fucking ASS
terapagos is good actually.
I done did it again
>>57058639I like Orbeetle, Salamence, and Charizard. the rest are trash.
Buy English, Support American, Bastardize Scalpers, Boycott TCPiand Thanks Uncle Sam for delivering the mail without small sellers we would all be monopolized.
what do u guys think about tcgplayer website to buy packs?
>>57058123I have never spent that much but if you aren't going to miss the $400 then I think it's okay. Will it retain its value? Maybe, maybe not. But if you're not going to sell it then just try to look at it with some humor later. If you're looking for perspective people paid tens of thousands for hawk tua's scam coin. And they didn't do it because they genuinely like the coin. They did it because they're retards that got scammed. I say yolo
>still buying vintage
>>57057577Redpill me on like scamming, anon. Is it just opening the packs, taking the hits and saying that it arrived with the packs opened and returning?
>>57059156congrats, you're now a scammer
https://www.pokemoncenter.com/product/699-17082/pokemon-tcg-v-strikers-tin-empoleon-vWould these have Evolving Skies in them?
>>57059317most likely not, they also "reprint" tins
>still buying sealed
>>57058123depends on what card
>still grading cards
Is this worth it at $41?
>>57059498Unless you really want the playmat, basically any other crown zenith product is better.
>>57059498i think they MSRP at 30 bucks. if thats the best price and you want it, i guess. personally i wouldnt give him my extra 11 bucks out of principal. haggle him maybe?
>>57059516What's a good metric to judge these things by, does it just come down to $ per booster?
>>57059519if you want the playmat i bet you can get it for 5 bucks online. if you want crown zeneth packs you might want to go another route.
>>57059519I think your best bang for your buck is just the bird tins. Or just buy singles they're still very affordable.
>>57057473/tcc/ I have some questions, I am going crazy right now and I need helpSo before I used to keep my cards in perfect fit (kmc) sleeves then put them upside down in toploaders. The idea was that dust couldn't get inside the sleeve, and the toploaders were inside a toploader anyway.But I thought this looked retarded so I put my cards in from the top, so they were no longer upside-down inside the toploaders.But now I've become paranoid about potentially damaging corners and such if I ever take them out for grading, so I carefully removed them from the perfect fits and into penny sleeves, then put them the normal way inside toploaders, which are now inside a toploader binder.But I also want to protect against humidity so I've put silica packets inside my binder book too, at the top where they don't cause any issues in zipping it up.Does ANYONE here just put cards in a perfect fit then into a toploader, or does pretty much everyone here put them into a penny sleeve then a binder? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I just want to protect my shiny cardboard
>>57059719perfect fit sleeves are a perfect way to ruin your cards.
>>57059719>ut I also want to protect against humidityUse a dehumidifier like everyone else, this nigga putting silica packets near his cards lmao
>>57059719This just doesn't sound fun. I'm not gonna blame you if you feel like you need to protect it this much. I get that that the peace of mind could be worth dealing with it. But the reality is that you can put a card in a sleeve in a binder and it MIGHT be the difference between a graded 10 and a 9 depending on how the grader's day is going. I would just try and chill and consider that the difference between standard protection and five layers of sleeves and cases probably aren't going to make a significant difference to the cards.Unless you live in a hazardous environment with lots of dust or high risk of water damage or something. Though you'd need a lot more to guard against water in that case.
>>57059729QRD on perfect fit sleeves? I use them for my most expensive cards, am I fugging up?
>>57059812I probably have OCD traits that I've inherited from my mother unfortunatelyYeah I just told myself that I'm being too autistic and will try to just accept the fact that everything is decently protectedI don't live in a humid environment either but it is reasonably cold right now
>>57059952Only if you constantly take it in and out of the sleeve. If you just leave it there it does nothing.
>>57059952one constricts the card the other gives it some breathing room. it shouldnt be an endevor to put a card in a sleeve, but it can be with perfect sleeves. i've seen some video where someoen was putting one in and basically bends the card in the process. its just a no fly zone in my eyes, they are a meme for autists that think it will make it better.
>>57059952>QRD on perfect fit sleeves?They're perfectly fineThe "perfect fits are bad" is just some FOTM autism thing
>>57060139put all your cards in perfect fit sleeves. they fit so perfectly.
>>57057473Opened Fates Collide today and got a full art Alakazam EX, briddy happytoo lazy to pull it out of the binder so enjoy this scan kek
>>57060506And on the topic of EX, I find it extremely fucked up that they did Regigigas EX in Next Destinies, Registeel EX in Dragons Exalted, then Regirock EX 4 years later in Fates Collide, but poor Regice got cucked with no EXOf course people did fanart of what that would have looked like
>>57060529Regice got cucked twice by not having a full art card. I will forever be mad about it.
After 'The Glory of Team Rocket,' they should do a set called 'The Influence of Team Rocket'ロケット団の栄光ロケット団の影響Like if u get it
>>57059719>Does ANYONE here just put cards in a perfect fit then into a toploaderi do that. if you want to put a card upside down into a top loader make sure you put it upside into the sleeve. I just had an accident when I didn't sleeve upside down before top loading upside down. other than that note, I have nothing to tell you, it is fine.
>>57060773Cute grandma
And the Versus collections grows..... almost have half the set now......
I'm starting to see the appeal of swirls
>Only SAR I want from this trash set is already starting with a relatively low opening price.Life is good friends
>>57061189He looks like the cinnamon is the winna mon cereal commercial nigga
>>57059528lmao who was complaining recent cards had text on the border? apparently it ain't new
>>57059952resealable perfect fits are nice, you don't even have to touch the card in the process, the sleeve itself puts it in for you
>>57057473https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4SFsJDQpIthoughts on this?
>>57061189Way too much for cringe numons.
>>57061244I can't wait for Richard Heart to rug this motherfucker
>>57061189Most of those I want are pretty cheap too (except the Roaring Moon)Hope the prices have shot up by the time the Cucknada postal strike is over
>>57061377I hate the fact that people like him have 1. inflated the prices of old stuff, where 10 years ago you could get that box for a few hundred tops and 2. they then preside over the limited stock and open it without any feeling or actual passion for this shitty franchise, the dude just rattles off PSA stats and value figures but not once does he really even admire the artwork or relay any interesting memories with Pokemon from his childhood. I bet the fucker is balding and wears a backwards baseball cap too.Please can we round up every fag like this and just mass eradicate them
>>57061524they were undervalued before the invasion. but the numbers we hit during it were just absolutely insane and yeah you can always tell the difference between "rich person who likes pokemon" and "rich person who likes money"
bought some more packs,24 this time. Should i be concerned that they sold 6 loose packs and then went to the back and got me this box with 18 boosters in there? Do you think they did some fishy stuff like tampering to get good cards or can i safely open these. I bought 9 of them 3 days ago from them and got absolutely nothing aside from castform card...I just want the fucking lisia's appeal special art card...
>>57061580I don't think SS booster boxes can be mapped only time that happened was SM base if I recall correctly and you can't weigh modern packs for hits either, so I'd say you have a chanceStatistically if half the booster packs are gone then your odds are lower but godspeed anon, hope you get an SIR
Why are these threads much more active than they were previously? Not that I'm complaining but I was surprised to see the old thread was dead this morning, usually these stay up for a couple of days Is the bubble going to burst?
>>57061603Like I told the newfag who thought Pocket was going to kill TCG the opposite is true. There is more interest in the TCG from the gacha combined with the new frenzy for the Pikachu card.
>>57061603>organic activity in shithole known as vp>anon asks is the bubble going to burst?huh?
>>57061632I meant the investor bubble
>>57061580anon... you could have just bought that card for the same amount...
>>57061755>just buying the cards you want instead of pulling themsoulless
>>57061603The only bubble that's popping is the Prismatic one. 100$ etbs 1 month before release lmfao
>>57061767enjoy your soulful bulk anone
>>57061775Enjoy your cards with no cool story of how you got them beyond "bought it off ebay" anon
>>57061788I don't want a cool story, I want the piece of shiny cardboard that I'm looking for.
>>57061803and this is why you're never getting laid anon
>>57061788Enjoy your car-oh wait lol, nevermind
>>57061755why would i want someone else's hands on MY waifu
>>57061808If I wanted to get laid, why the fucknwould i be collecting Pokemon cards?
>>57061844I collect pokemon cards and smash pic related. Quit your coping bro.
>>57061659i know what you meant. there is no bubble. its clear as day if you look around. nothing happened to artificially pump. the market is behaving as it should be. millenium print group needs to create more supply in order to lower prices, but prices arent too high for the current supply and demand.
>>57061788>cool story >so uhmmm I bought overpriced packs from scalpers until I randomly pulled this...so cool!
>>57061847That's a man
>>57061847>If you keep on collecting Pokemon cards for the story this goblin ass is the best you're going to be able to smash. Thanks for the cautionary tale, bro.
>LGSs reveal their true scalper nature>walmart/gamestop/target were the good guys all along
why are the surging sparks packs so hard to open? The seal doesn't rip off easily even when i pull on it hard and i hate to use scissors
>TCGPlayer seller randomly messages me saying I won their monthly giveaway>This ~$100 Sceptile shows upwtf
>>57062173>goblin assshe's perfect except for her lism and mild autism. Watch your mouth anon.
>>57062572lisp*l i s p
>>57062570Well, whatever. It was free.
>>57061580opened half of them, 12 packs and this was it so far...and ofc the only gold star one i get is the fucking item i think the shop keeper is scamming me
someone post the surging sparks odds lol
>>57061788As long as I've been on /tcc/ there have been people spending more trying to pull cards than buying it. Whatever is your idea of fun I say go for it but for me that has always been the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Collecting cards is already dumb, spending more chasing cards than buying them will never make sense to me.
>>57062740>ofc the only gold star one i get is the fucking itemI'd take it over an Ace Spec.
I bought the $400 card
>>57062850I have never paid over $150 for a card. It was a wake-up call when I did.
>>57062850it was a small part of my income. I'm just sick of buying the set and not getting it.
snom bros...
Based pull tonight
>>57062952middle egg poppin a pill
>>57063344>She is offering her eggs to youWhat did TPC mean by this?
>>57062850Which card?
>see news about terastal boxes having mapped packs>check pokerev video opening it>mfw it follows the exact same pattern Well, in other words, good news gamers, terastal is going to get even cheaper.
>>57063979What type of mapping? Per box?
>>57063988you can map the SAR and reverse pokeballs in the box based on the position the ace spec is inif for example you open the first pack and it's an ace spec the last pack is a SAR 100% guaranteed, the "garbage" packs aren't actually guaranteed to be bulk (like in the SM fiasco), they may contain whatever, but the hits are guaranteed to be there in the mapped positionsExample, the pokerev videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9P1NH4NEb0first box, first pack is ace spec5th, 7th pack are pokeball reverses10th pack is the SAR and reverse pokeballhe also found a SAR in the 6th pack but like i said the rest of the packs can be whatever not necessarily garbagesecond box he opens ace spec in 2nd pack, following the pattern he should get the SAR in the 4th pack and the pokeballs in 1st, 3rd and ninth pack... and that's exactly what happens
Get fucked bot scalpers
>>57064044POV: it's the 7th of february at 6 am at your local walmart
>>57064058Worse. Gamestop.
>>57064058Why do they all look the same30+, shorts, balding, overweight, probably depressedThese guys are surely not typical Pokemon fans right?
>>57064148Try a little experiment. Tune in a random rip and ship channel and find a single person that can pronounce pokemon names correctly or even knows any pokemon past gen2
>>57064186Look at >>57061244The way this guy pronounces Raichu and Zapdos is wild, where the fuck did these people come from? Like you say can they even name a single Gen 3-7 Pokemon? Do they have any memories of playing the games or engaging with the franchise otherwise? It makes me go full tism mode to see these cunts ruining my hobby
>>5706152410 years ago I had a Pokémon YouTube channel and I asked my parents to buy two Legend Maker boosters to open for a subscriber milestone. They cost 10$ a booster at the time. Now that I have my own money they’re 15x more expensive. I hate investorcucks so much.
>>57064225post linkIs there any hope for investorfags to just move onto Yu-Gi-Oh or something else, please dear god just leave Pokemon alone already
this but for Prismatic Evolutions
>>57064218That guy is a cryptofag, he just sees pokemon cards as bags of money.
>>57064231I removed all the videos a while ago but nothing of value was lost, I was just screaming like a sperg for each hit I pulledFunnily enough I ended up never opening those two boosters. I’ve kept them scealed for so long it would feel wrong opening them.
>>57064231Yugioh is too volatile and cards lose value on a sneeze of the meta, I did make some money there actually but it was when I was actually playing so I knew which cards were at their peak usage and would get hit by the banlist or just get reprinted. Investorcucks can't do that because they would need to... you know, play the game.
>>57064231Yugioh operates the reverse of pokemon where people actively want the cards to get cheaper since nothing goes out of rotation. Most good cards get reprints or included in build boxes semi-frequently so they’re easier to access. Makes it a lot harder to actually speculate on anything and I think master duel is way more popular than pocket.
>>57064482pocket has actually more than 20 times the revenue of master duel and duel links combined
>>57064494Lol
>>57064497no, really, not kidding
>>57064499I wasn't doubting you anon
Sup guys I want to get a PSA Gem MT 10 Shiny Gardevoir EX the Paldean Fates one. Seen a few on eBay and I used the PSA app to scan the barcodes and they came up and all that. I was really just wondering if these can be trusted.$180 is a lot to spend on a card but I would really like Shiny Gardevoir EX to be my first PSA Gem MT 10.
I saw some card boxes come with a playmat, would those be good for a mousepad?
Ayo dweebI want to frame and wall mount some pokemon cards for my son's room. Has anyone found a good frame/mounting solution for this? Most are 4x6 and I'm hoping to fund a smaller one given the cards are like 2.5x3.5
>>57064965>mousepad?ye real nice
>>57064999Cool, is there a specific box or box type I need to buy to get one?
Did you get your miku sleeves yet?
>>57065006they come in premium (playmat) collection boxes and ultra premium collection boxes (UPCs), which are not that cheap if you only want a matonly posting SWSH onwards which you might still find>Celebrations Premium Playmat Collection—Pikachu V-UNION>Crown Zenith Premium Playmat Collection—Morpeko V-UNION>151 Ultra-Premium Collection>Greninja ex Ultra-Premium Collection>Terapagos ex Ultra-Premium Collectionand I sourced them from here:>https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sword_%2526_Shield_TCG_Series_merchandise>https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Scarlet_%26_Violet_TCG_Series_merchandiseyou can also ctrl+f "playmat" on these two pages to check for the vast array of other mat designs to choose from, or go to pokemoncenter.com for even more
>>57065075>which are not that cheap if you only want a matHonestky this is an excuse to buy a few cards since I haven’t done that since I was a kid, so willing to eat some cost for it. Thanks, I’ll check the big box stores in town
>>57065063sorry I only have manly sleeves
>>57065088then I recommend 151 or crown zenith if you can find either for the value
>>57065063Pokemon?
>>57065098There's another design
>>57065096Miku has colabed with pokemon many times
Join the conversation for autistic collectors of expensive cards with imaginary creatures on them https://discord.gg/Ka7efJk7
>>57065285nice swirlmakes me think he is willing it into existence with his psychic powers
what's a good binder to get if i'm going to be storing inexpensive cards from the set too? Like I want to try to see how many i can collect from #1 to #250+ in the surging sparks for example or any future sets i might be interested in but i don't think it's worth buying those vault x ones to store these cheap inexpensive ones. I feel like those are more for the expensive cards to keep in good condition.
>>57065128But those specific sleeves are basic miku not the project voltage ones which are 100% pokemon related.
I just got pic related and now my PLA box feels complete.
>>57065525I want a boxed game for this nowt. "homebrewer"
>>57064494>>57064499And I bet most of them don't even battle, just pay real money to gather digital bulk.
>>57065655But that is the whole point of pocket: collect cards, battles are secondary.
>>57065669there's actually no point in battling outside the events for emblems and promo packs, which itself is just moar collecting
>>57064895There's ways to check PSA slab authenticity with a black light that I'd imagine would be impossible to fake:https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YsaWMVTxEbsWorst case scenario you can just return it and get a refund, eBay is pretty much always on the buyer's side.
>>57065678yeah, if you wanna competitive battling go to Live, say hello to the extremely ugly avatars and the lack of trading while you are here.
>>57065285I need to find my Meganium, this era looks so nice
i won 80 bucks in credit at cardmarket what should i buy?i guessed the most sold cards correctly actually i just copied all the comments and asked chatgpt which names appeared the most
>>57064499I'm always surprised how many people play games like these
Uhhh
>>57065729UBs are some of my favorite mons, wish they got more love.
>>57066019Do you think we'll ever see them in the TCG again?
>>57066038Only if they ever show up in the video games, so no because GameFreak a shit.
>>57066132They've been gone for one (1) game, take a chill pill.
post moonbreons
>>57066136And they'll stay gone until SM gets a garbage demake.
>>57066162So Legends Ultra Tapu in 2027, gotcha
>>57065921
>>57066516
>>57066557
>>57066580>>57066557>>57066516KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>57066136Yeah but there's been no new UB cards since the SM block.
>>57066150
Bonus: my waifus
>>57065285if I didnt have southern isles already Id be all over that slowking
Wonder what's in these
>>57066889cards, duh
>>57066889Yuck
>>57066892lol gottem
>>57066892hope u get a Iono
>>57066889>>57066892To the anon asking about tins, this is what I meant by TCPi "reprinting" them. Same promo and tin, but old stock of new packs
>>57067012Well, what's the date printed in the back? That's what I look when I get pokeball tins.
>>57067033not sure for those two, NTA, but in general you should look up the release date of the tin you want, and get one with the same year on the backthe links here >>57065075 can help you find product dates
Is this a good price?About 700 USD
>>57067101Depends on condition but yeah not a bad deal for a complete holo set
I finally got all the pieces of the holy trinity. You jelly?
>>57067173centering looks pretty off on the giratina idk
>>57066850Sorry but what’s the appeal? I find them overdesigned
>>57067284They don't look like pokemon desu, but they have a great design
is twilight masquerade a fun set to collect? surging sparks is a little too expensive right now so i'll probably wait until it dies out to fill more of my collection binderor should i just start my collection in journeys together
>>57067305i really like TM but its price has heated up too. Just not as much.
>>57065075Ended up getting the terapagos one since it was the only one that wasn’t $300 and was in stock. Thanks for the help
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156567889911?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=atgbmcedtt-&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPYWhat do you think about the quality of this copy? I'm thinking of putting a bid in for 40 bucks and see if i can get it for that.I don't see anything wrong with it but i am a beginner at looking at these things. And if I buy it for 40 bucks at auction ends, how many fees should i expect from it
>>57067284Battle Network net navis.
>>57067305TM is literally only good for Carmine
>>57067584Crazy how quickly the Ogerpon fad faded, I thought it going to be next shillmon.
>>57067584
>>57067603They're still pushing it, it got ANOTHER 4 (FOUR) SARs in Terastal Festival ex.
i'm super new to buying these booster packsthey both seem to come with 36 packs so why is the one on the left cheaper than the one on the right
>>57067682because the seller on the right put a higher price tag on than the seller on the leftalso market price of the box is 210-215 so both are overpriced atm.
>>57067682Because its ebay. Here, probably no taxhttps://www.steelcitycollectibles.com/i/pokemon-scarlet-&-violet-surging-sparks-booster-boxYou can definitely find it in the 190s if you look hard enough
>>57067727but the one on the right has more solds than the left. that's kind of what's getting me scratching my head. the one on the left is 6.36 per pack which i'm willing to pay for itis it safe to pull the trigger? i was just kind of spooked by how much more boxes the right one sold for compared to the cheaper one on the left
>>57067732He probably has a higher rating
>>57067732you can change the price. he probably sold too many at a lower price and priced up to where he would be comfortable letting go of the rest at. beats delisting.
>>57063813alt art Giratina
Went to my local card store for my first trading event ever, I traded a bunch of Unown common and uncommons from Gen 4 for Crown Zenith Miltank, Crown Zenith Charizard Vstar, Obsidian Flames Cleffa, and an SSP bundle. Traded a few Pichu cards for Celebrations Pikachu and Obsidian Flames Pidgey. They also got SSP restocks, so I bought some packs and got one of the Pikachu ex cards. All in all, it was fun!
>>57066760where do you get your chinese cards? ebay? is there a specific seller i should look for?
>>57068321that cleffa is stunning; i also just picked it up. sometimes less is more.
>>57067404I wish this thing came with sleeves
how much do 151 booster packs go for now? ima go to new york this weekend and look at some card shopsis the 151 ETBs even available anymore
Hey bros what are some good looking reverse holos of the first 151 pokemon or even up to Johto mons?
>>57067669And they're all fucking hideous, I weep for all the japs who wasted their guaranteed SAR on an Ogerpon card
>>57068462>Kroot are strong.
>rap music>le-ironic pokemon pajama>HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS?? :Dholy shit how desperate is this
>>57069422MINT
>>57069422omg is that a rare error PSA card?! it's a one of a kind!
>>57067938Lovely
>>57068321I like that Zard VStar weirdly, reminds me of Lv X
>>57069528I liked the gengar binder videos although he's cringe as shit.
>>57069737Don't click on this link there are naked kids inside
>>57069528>HE GONNA LICK YUUUDPM can be fucking annoying with his gen A pandering, but I still believe he's better for the hobby than the rippers, PokeRev and the other shouttubers
I started falling into the SM-P, S-P and SV-P promos rabbit hole... what's my wallet in for?
>>57070431>promosIt is such a beautiful way to lose money
>>57070431Just budget and pace your purchases and you'll be fine
>>57070439>I will never have this psyduck cardLife is pointless.
>>57070535You WILL get it one day, I believe in you anon
>>57070535you will never have a mariochu
>Just bought my first PSA10 slabSurely this is not a slippery slope.
>>57070708Look at the bright side: the more you spend, the less stupid I will feel about how much I spent.
>>57070736Thanks, Anon, that does make me feel better.
>>57070708What was it out of curiosity?
>>57068368>where do you get your chinese cards? ebay?Yeah.>is there a specific seller i should look for?So far I've mainly been buying from superbcard and gamecardscorner, haven't had any issues with either.
>>57070431this one's not even expensive. As long as you don't fall for the gogachu meme...
>>57062850Kek
