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>>58327815When it comes to textured cards and QC (centering) absolutely the difference can be massive but honestly I've never noticed a big difference between a Japanese IR (AR) and an English IR. Do you have some examples to better educate me?
>>58328045Nah, you're right. Even non textured holos look a bit nicer in Japanese but the gap isn't as wide as it is for the textured ones.
https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/09/mega-evolution-pull-rates-revealed-gold-cards-nearly-impossible-to-pull-at-highest-pull-rates-ever-seen>Gold Cards Nearly Impossible to Pull at Lowest Pull Rates Ever Seen>Nearly Impossible to Pull>Lowest Pull Rates Ever SeenTHOUGHTS?
>still buying vintage
>still grading cards
>>58328104>Still buying modern
>still buying
>>58328101Doesn't matter to me, if I got one I'd sell it to buy the Lillie/Acerola/Absol SIRs
>>58328200>if I got oneWell you wouldn't even get a chance to because shit like this is gonna make the scalper apocalypse even worse >muh hoype >muh FOMO,>gotta scoop up even more sealed product bruh
>>58328239Yeah I imagine that'll be the case, I have everything I want to rip preordered at least then I'll just have to buy those singles, plus some of the IRs. Although I might wait on buying, this is the base set so will be the most reprinted set for the next 3 years and most of the cards will drop massively apart from the gold cards which are investor bait. I'd expect to see Lillie and Gardeovir come down to $100 ish in a year
>>58327836>investorbro losing his randomly scalped stockIdkmine just kept going up and it's not gonna stop. Because im a true collector who knows what's good
Mail day. One I've been looking forward to for a looong time :)
>>58328384>goyslop printLol, lmao even.
https://youtu.be/ctc0tjD8VnY
>>58328374>true collector>only 2k when value is going through the roofa true collector didn't start last month
>>58328432>>true collector>>only 2k>B.BUT YOU HAVE JUST 2000 DILLERIDOES :((((i said im a true collector not an investorcuck, you dip
>>58328387I'm not fluent in chud speak. How is it goyslop again?
>>58328472He's butthurt that he can't afford cards over $50
Post spoopy cards for Halloween!
Spooktacular cards posting is a must during Spooktober.
POST SPOOPY CARDS!!!!!
THIS GENGAR LOOKS STONED!!!!
>>58328421The artist grift feels especially disgusting because its extra blatant how disingenuous all of these pumping niggers are. Larpers to the highest degree.>oh yeah I LOVE *checks card* Shi-dzi? Kondo? Yeah bruh I've been a fan of his pokemon art since the first base set from 1991 bruh
>>58328535I really want this card but it's so damn expensive, it's just going to keep going up right?
>>58328384Congrats anon, beautiful card
>>58328557>The artist grift feels especially disgusting because its extra blatant how disingenuous all of these pumping niggers are.they are basically NFT-cucks pumping some obvious bullshit garbageit falls again after their pump because nobody getting in this shitty scheme
>>58328655>it falls again after their pump because nobody getting in this shitty schemeThe point isn't to keep it at the new high, it is to get it higher than it was. The intent is always to let it drop back, just not back to what it was.
>>58328867Armored mewtwo promo is infinitely better than that dogshit alt art
I haven't paid attention to the TCG in a while. Do we have a new Hexo card yet? I just found out my 10 copies of Hex Maniac are worth well over $100 now and wanna sell one to invest in nuHex. Cha-ching!
>>58328916You can probably sell half of them and get the big japanese hex maniac fa from best of xy.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=solosis+118&_sacat=0&_from=R40&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1why do retards actually buy it after pump
>>58328968Ehhh, I'm one of those people that unironically prefer American printings tho. I have *always* digged the texturing. Plus if I sell half of them, then I can't have a full 3x3 page of Hex in my binder. :3 It's nice to know the Japanese one got a reprint though at least.
>>58328984panic buying because this totally for sure 100% be the next bubble mew and sell for 1k later!!!
>>58328892I have both and I disagree
>>58328984Aren't most of the illustration rares kind of mid? Did they make them rarer or something? This look like garbage that should be $20 MAX and only because it's wanted in the game. Is there even a good Reuniclus out right now?
>>58328700>hehe it was our plan from the berry beginning heh ehehe >:)what...to pump some shitty retarded card nobody cares about? and then let it die again?good plan, investorcuckNobody cares about this shitty ugly charizard from movie stillmost of people never even think about movie charizard or fucking SOLOSIS (sure some autist would say "B-BUT IT'S SO CUUUTE :3" but that's all - nobody cares)
>>58328984>why do retards actually buy it after pumpfew retards buying into fomoi saw people actually investing that movie charizard and "flexing" it in discords.Same with this card
>>58329113I have him in my junk rare singleton deck, it's chock full of shitty Charizards. :)
>>58329058No, its artificial market manipulation with the only justification given is that its illustrated by the same guy who did le ebin "bubble Mew" God these fucking nicknames for cards are so fucking cringe.
>>58328529Halloween is on the 31st
>>58329361Wow, seriously? But Mew is an extremely popular legendary and this shit is an EX to boot, why tf would anyone in their right mind think it's exclusively the artist that made it pump? Lol normie investorfags can be so incredibly retarded sometimes. They're not some "controversial" figure like Rebecca Guay or something, right? Just buy what you genuinely love and if you're based the money will come to you.
>>58329386Yes which means RIGHT NOW is Spooktober, dumpass. Just be glad he managed to wait for the right month.
>>58328892Surely you don't mean this card? Terrible CGI art, simple background, ugly yellow border. Mewtwo is a complete work of art my only issue with it is that it has way too much text on it
>>58328101Objectively good, if everyone only cares about gold, it means other cards won't be as expensiveAlso the gold cards will follow the path of the rainbow cards, tank in price
>>58329392Oh yeah, plus it's literally A SHINY, even more reason for it to pump over the aborted fetus shitty evolution deck supporter card.
>>58329413Rainbow cards only crashed because they look like shit. Gold is objectively better than gay fake holograms.
>>58329413Can't wait for retards with no taste to show off their "9 gold card binder page" at the end of this gen
>>58329397This isn't christmas, also a time of the year where it's actually more dark and depressing and lifeless. I reject this halloween bullshit for atleast a week or two before halloween, i won't have it.
>>58329425Yeah, and everyone said they looked cool on release too, and everyone said they were awesome because of how rare they wereHistory repeats
Lillie's Ribombee will explode, there was hesitancy before Lillie's Clefairy was known to be THE card of the set but now it's established, plus there is a new expensive SIR Lillie
>>58329413The rainbow cards will come back, as an aside, I think they look good, some, at least
>>58329444Not me. I'm going to show off my waifu binder. Lillie, Acerola, Dawn. We're off to a pretty good start so far.
>still buying modern
>>58329507>still buying LGBTshit
>>58329425>Rainbow cards only crashed because they look like shit.Not entirely, its mostly because they were replaced with much more appealing with alt arts/special art rares. If those didn't exist then rainbow rares would stay at the top like they originally were due to low pull rates.
>>58329475I am going to rewatch Spooky Godmother, Hocus Pocus, and Ghoul School at least two more times each this month and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
>>58329749Rainbow Rares are literally a blight on Pokemon's history of having the best card art out of the big three TCGs, you can't revisionist your way out of this.
>>58329444Eh, I'll probably pick up the Gold Gardevoir but that's just so it can be a centerpiece to all my other Gardevoir cards.
>>58329444I have more than 9 Rainbow Rares and I didn't bother throwing that trash in the binder other than one next to my Miss Fortune Sisters Ultra Rare and Trainer Gallery Gengar because I love those girls and wish they had more cards. I'll probably do this for Gold Rares tho. Gold is preem in any context.
>>58329425Picrel mogs both
>>58329842Well yeah, duh. There's no denying that shit with actual thought and intentional colors behind them reign king. Also, huh, they call their basics seeds eh? Neat. Learning Japanese has been a pretty fulfilling experience when your favorite media is already made for children.
Sorry wrong tab kek
postan a WIP, tune in next week for the next exciting installment
>>58329404>Nu Armored MewtwoOG woulda been better
>>58330745I don't get it
>>58328867I want one so much :(
Where's my fookin' TCGP orders
>>58331088Looks like price halved in a week and anons fell for the hype, already down from $110 to $55
>>58330745just proves that japanese doesnt hold value.
>>58330745>>58331486Now do the actual SIR
>>58328101>nearly impossible >1 in 1200probably 1 card per city depending on how many walmart, targets, best buys and barnes and noble you have.
>>58331503Meaningless, cards always rise on release before dropping and stabilizingMoreso for japanese cardsJapanese cards are sought after because americans are too impatient and impulse buy at its most expensive, unaware that once the english is out, the demand for the japanese decreases greatlyor they've given up on getting english and settle for japanese Check the data for all modern japanese chase cards, rise and fall
Under $100 any day now
>>58330745NEVER trust /vp/ for reasonable takes, these retards unironically thought Destined Rival would flopDestined.Fucking.Rivals
>>58331592People that thought it was a bad set are retarded but I do also think it's massively overinflated by investors/scalpers, the Mewtwo is painfully ugly and the other cards don't really justify the price this early in a sets lifespan, it's barely 4 months old
>>58331655You just described the entirety of SV era except for Paldean Fates/151/Paradox RiftDamn near entire era was dogshit but only propped up by scalpers
>>58331667I'm not sure I agree with your choices but I do agree with your point. I think S&V base set is incredible and arguably one of the best of the entire generation. You've got the amazing Gardevoir line, great trainers, the slowpoke, the drowzee, kingambit. We also got to say farewell to yellow borders. Paldea Evolved is another great set again with some iconic cards of this generation, lots of nice trainers etc. I'd definitely rate both of these above Paradox Rift and above many of the SWSH era sets.
>>58331689Paradox rift like Paldea evolved has a shit ton of art raresIn terms of volume of quality pieces, Paradox mogs 99% of SV Paldea evolved has slightly more cards than Paradox rift, but the lineup of pokemon and trainers including full arts are lame and lackluster, the only thing going for it is the MagikarpSV base is just meh
>>58331778I think we agree the S&V has been underwhelming but we're just going to argue subjectivity on a few sets now which is fine
My favorite SV set? Why, Shrouded Fable of course!
>>58331844If we include set related promos then shrouded fable is the best set of S&V
>>58331844>>58331847You like Shrouded Fable? That's so cool! So do I!I'm also a contrarian who "likes" shitty sets to seem unique!
i think im starting to lose interest in pokemon cards just like at the end of Sword and Shield.a lot of really old normie boomers trying to fit inthey don't know anything about pokemon and they definitely think pokemon are stupid but they using cards as money bullshitI remember back in sword shield this thing was pissing me off and i left hobby when Crown Zenith was released so i missed the entire set.I feel exactly the same right now when MegaEvos being released and i actually like mega gimmick but my brain just stops caring about pokemon.i see people pumping really shitty random cards too. You can see an obvious outside grifter crap with all this thing
>>58331918>left during CZ>about to leave during Megasholy fuck you're stupid well at least you're too stupid to get scammed
>>58331948desperate douchebags like you is also the reason this hobby kind of sucks
what a faggot
>>58332136imagine trying to collect pokemon cards and you pull some random loli
>>58331956Crown Zenith was a god tier setThe rares were sick, pull rates were fantastic, so many dope full arts including trainer galleryAnd it was all available for cheapYou're just stupid
>>58332152Not as bad as trying to collect lolis and instead every pack is filled with dragons and other weird shit
>>58332190im not reading all that
>>58332152one of the most important characters in pokémon history is not some "random loli", retard
>>58332221Nigga it's like 4 sentences
>>58332285Don't discredit the other lolis like that
>>58332312I'm not
>ancient origins booster box for 3,5-5kAre people really this fucking mad omgWas searching for some hoopa unbound cards with cool arts just for collection because it's my fav legendary...and HOLY FUCKING SHIT i almost had an heart attack when i saw the price. You cannot tell me people spend that much for not even a guaranteed chance to find a 500 dollar card in ps10 mint condition omg
I have never bought a pokemon card
>>58332190>NOOO DON'T LEAVE NOW>THE NEXT SET IS THE NEXT BIG THING THE CARDS ARE TOP TIER!!! BUY BUY BUY ALL THE CARDS THEY ARE SOO GOOOD>THE PREVIOUS SETS WERE CRAP BUT THIS NEXT THING IS MUUUUUCH BETTER!!!It's faggots like you that makes me hate this hobby as well.
>>58329500Gamestop owes me a PSA 9 and they keep not sending it for 2 weeks!
the Inferno X Charizard SAR still has not gone down in price. I don't think it's going to go down at all. Think im going to sell my whole collection this weekend, fuck this shit
>>58330745He don have magic crystal ball to see the future,you fucking retarded monkey brain faggot
>>58332136>>58332285fuck off, pedos
>>58332866Good thing he doesn't need one, you ESL shit skin. All you need is basic pattern recognition because it happens literally every time with every TCG with no exceptions.
>>58331503i dont actually care about the Japanese market because everything outside of pokemon center exclusives or other time sensative event cards, 99/100 times the english copy fairs better since we culturally value cards and card grading in the west, especially since a company like PSA has graded over 100 million cards and japanese people are pretty late to the party as far as grading cards to hold for asset value and the general card grading culture. in fact with prize cards such as the illustrator pikachu and other cards of that caliber that was actually from japan, made in japan, and held on to by japanese people to now be held by americans and will there be a desire from the wealthy of japan to reclaim their prize cards that are sitting with american collectors. because its not like there are a bunch of japanese people holding hostage our super rare prize cards like base set charizard. king gary has the monopoly on that one, and i bet that he sells to our own people. you know its the kings jewels argument. our king has wealth so do we. are king has no jewels, neither do we. other than that, i dont give a shit about japanese cards. i love pokemon, but they print them in english and make them in washington. for its pokemon that gave us the game, we gave them the art of collecting, and we do it better. nobody cares about your japanese cards because the japanese dont really give a shit either.
>>58332995Take your meds
>join a place>it's a bunch of genwunners collecting vintage PSA10>leave>join another>it's a bunch of rich normies that don't know what is "sealed" while showing photos of boxes they bought on their trip in Japan and asking chat "ummm what is this??? is this worth something???">leave>join another place and it's zoomers buying cool cards but you feel cringe arguing with people 15+ years younger than you>leavethis thread will be my tomb...I think I fell off the pokemon community.I guess it's because the pokemon community stopped being a "Nerdy hobby for dorks" while I was still being one - like a nerd from the 2010s.I technically enjoy the third version (with zoomers collecting just fun looking cards) but my age just showing and i find it difficult to talking to them and feel weird
>>58333000i offer great conversation and i never interact with you because you dont. thats why you always come around to try and bring me down. because your not on my radar. i am on yours.
you are not that interesting. i dont care about your binders.
you are very interesting. i care about your binders.
i have no binders and i have no real care for you. obviously i live rent free in your head, and i dont really give a crap about your perspectives in the art of collecting cards. its almost like maybe im smarter or better or more content with what im doing and dont think of binder people.
Why the fuck are you people so agressive to each other here? I know this is 4chan, I'm not new to it but I visit other threads on other boards like the Digimon TCG thread in /tg/ and people are much more chill there. Like, for fuck's sake, do you really feel the need to be assholes all the time to everybody?
>>58333067look at /vp/people are just assholes. it's just basically angsty teenagers from school hating on everything+ it's fucking Pokemon so those teenagers are probaby unpopular in school and being bullied so they acting angry online
>>58333067>Like, for fuck's sake, do you really feel the need to be assholes all the time to everybody?le yes xDDD this is le 4chan u r talking aboutBut really just ignore the assholes.
>>58333067you know, when i use to go to family dinner when i was young. me and my cousins, we would sit at this crappy little plastic picknick table. becuase real grown ups get to sit in a real chair. maybe you just need to go back to your crappy little plastic table if you cannot handle the adult conversations.
Today is my birthday bros. Here's my Birthday Pikachu
>>58333107that means your parents were porkin in probably during the holidays, probably new years. enjoy your birthday thinking about that. daddy popping the champagne with mommy.
>>58333036
>>58333126Legit kino. Thanks for sharing. I wish I had some of these when I was a kid.
>>58333107Happy birthday, __________!
>>58333107>>58333149 Happy Birthday 4chan! https://www.4chan.org/4channews.php
>>58333126Which set is that Arcanine from?
>>58333092>you know, when i use to go to family dinner when i was young. me and my cousins, we would sit at this crappy little plastic picknick table. becuase real grown ups get to sit in a real chair.No wonder you're so fucked in the head, you were raised like an animal.
>>58333152Not him but it's a black star promo Arcanine.
>>58333156i am up 1k since last week and my collection has been steadily rising. 5k in about the last 2 months.i come here and i get insulted. then i go look at my profits and i stop caring what you peons thinklife is a perspective.
>>58333195I just like my cards. Who cares about money if you have to give up the cards you like to get it.
do people actually track the value of their collection?
>>58333218You... what....there's no point--OK, the ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO MAKE MONEY. I don't know how I could make this any clearer.
Pulled it yesterday
>>58333218autismo stamp collectors that will be buried with their collection, track the value of their collection.It's an overtly normal thing to do for people into collecting something. It just happens to be a crossover with the people only into the buy/sell aspect as well.
>>58331577Well that makes sense. doesn't matter how much you like japanese, you subconsciously value it less
>>58333277Eat it
>>58333277Jizz on it
>>58333313False
>>58333019I'm a mix of the 3: genwunner collecting japanese modern cool illustrations. Want to be my gf?
>>58333313I'm happy that jap is valued less. I can get more cards with the same budget, while retards spend one grand for a single English 5ban gold slop, or for graded scams trapped in plastic.
>>58333448>genwunner collecting japanese modern cool illustrationspretty sure you are just 3rd category: zoomer with cool artworkIf you weren't a zoomer you wouldn't collect japanese because you have income that can allow you to buy english cards.I've been in such groups - zoomers want to collect but they don't have money so they collect japanese or chinese.
ENGLISH SISSIES DON'T LOOKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDjYiAk8RY&t
>>58333492you are aware that to a lot of people English and Japanese both aren't their native language right? Why would I care about English if I'm not looking to sell and it isn't my native language?
>>58333537english market is a jokeit's being more expensive just because of an artificial pump - not because of artwork or quality
>>58333540If you weren't a zoomer you would start collecting way back then when when Jap VS Eng didn't exist so collecting english was your "go to" way.You outed yourself by "cool modern art" "japanese".I've been in 9000 groups and it's a 100% zoomer thing.
>>58333558Wrong. I mainly collect German.
>>58333567>i collect pokemon cards that say "Glurak" or "Turtoc" or "Ectoplasma"...you don't feel confused because of in your country it's Glurak while the rest of the world knows him as Charizard?
bros?Should i invest in Inferno X??
>>58333492>he's still seething about japaneseMost tsundere poster I've seen today
>>58333537Fucking hell it's not even close, now that they're buying up more printers they're going to match the quality with Japanese r-right? Has anyone done a Mega Evolution side by side?
>>58333537i'm so glad i preordered Inferno X boxes
>>58333589>take my dog to japan>japanese man points at my dog and says inu>look down>my dogs missing>take my inu and go looking for my dog
>>58333635Glurak bros...
>>58333589the English names aren't even the original.>rest of the worldnot even close to true.
>>58333492Wrong, I'm a textbook genwunner boomer who was a little kid during the gen1 and gen2 mania. I later played emerald and platinum but they didn't get me so invested, so my TCG habits stayed mostly on gen1.I'm from a non English speaking country, so English cards have no added value for me. All my wotc cards are in my language, and for some reason our card shops had neo packs mostly in Japanese so I started collecting Jap as well, I liked the fact that it was the OG language and not a translation.I also started getting some old Jap cards on ebay (mostly vending and cardass).Fast forward to today, I still prefer japanese and don't care about the English desirability.
>>58333663i'm so sorry about your childhood...
>>58333026>i offer great conversationall you said was english cards are worth more, which is scalper talk
>>58333733My childhood was fine, I'm sorry that you got stuck with the most expensive language and the worst quality...
>>58333746Turtok bros...
>>58333733you know I'm starting to think the problem in those groups weren't the other people.
Always fun seeing the pop tranny getting dogpilled.
>>58333768>wait...Lysandre are we the bad guys????
>>58329500i'm actually surprised that this card hasn't increased in price, especially since it has lillie on a large portion of it.
>>58333820it's an illustration rare instead of an SIR and stock market bros don't know who Lillie is so they aren't pumping it.
about to buy 100 lillie's ribombee and hold that shit for 6 months
this is the best card in journey together
>>58333927how is a common going to make me rich?
Are these pokemon packs any good?
>>58333969trick the community into thinking it's the cutest card in the set
>>58333973this is all I see
>>58333973Those are good tits, yeah.
>>58331577>Japanese cards are sought after because americans are too impatient and impulse buy at its most expensiveCan confirm I did exactly this for this beauty of a card, hahahahah. Glad I bothered to get a few English copies when possible too, expensive little fucker now.
pulled a loli in my first pack
>>58333541English is always worth more because demand is higher amongst us you retard. We literally like Pokemon more than the Japanese do. Fucking go read that article talking shit about Americans for having THE GALL to give out their food for free because they just wanted to buy the McDonalds cards there.
>>58334087This.Just buy more englishIt's gonna make us rich!!!
When Mexicans take over the US the language pendulum will swing, and I will sit on top.
>>58333862Alright so here's the master plan. Buy 100 Lillie's Ribombee, as well as any Lillie's Clefairy and Lillie's Determination we can find. If there are any more Lillie cards that come out we get a job and buy those too. They we wait for 6 month, then wait for 6 more months. Then we wait 30 more years. Then keep on holding until we die. Then we get buried with our Lillie cards. Investorcucks won't know what hit them, it's genius and foolproof.
>>58334110Nah, Trump is stopping you racists, you'll never win now. Besides, you wouldn't need to defeat just America at this point, but literally the entire Internet.
>>58334112Lillie is one loli amongst many in this loli centric franchise. I'm gonna put all my money on new Hex Maniac when she eventually releases, she's a safe place to hedge your money.
>>58334142>Hex Maniac>loliyou retard
>>58334087>We literally like Pokemon more than the Japanese doPopulation issue, Pokemon fans of America/Canada/UK outnumber Japan fans, simply a numbers difference
>>58334186Reading comprehension doko?
Look at my ducks.
So... tag>psa? The slabs are looking crispy and better
I can only invest in japanese stuff but japanese never flies up as english.Is it over for me?
>>58334340Does that dewgong really have no texture?Fuck it looks so fake because of that, so disappointing
>>58334367regular ARs/IRs don't have texture, it's kind of why vomitoad and magikarp don't look very good to me
>>58334383oh damn my bad I thought it was SIR for some reason
>>58333277Change it for a Switch 2, I would that...but with the Mega Lucario golden card instead.
>>58333537PSAgod
>>58328101I just straight up don't believe it. I've personally seen one pulled at a prerelease. And then two more got pulled by the same kid at a single league night. Anecdotal, sure, but I just can't believe that pullrates are THAT low. I don't think 5000 packs is enough of a sample size, and I also think tcgplayer themselves stands to benefit from FOMO and hype.
>>58328101so the one I saw at a show last weekend was probably the only one I'll ever see?lol
>>58328557>>58328655It's fucking annoying as shit. It's not even about Pokemon anymore. The pokemon or art doesn't even matter. All that matters is these faggots that already failed at nfts looking for some arbitrary trait so they can point at it as a reason why "THIS CARD IS GOING TO THE MOON" Literally any excuse will do as long as enough of them want it to valuable and join in. 99% of collectors couldn't even name an artist besides maybe Komiya a year ago. And the worst part is that we all KNOW it's bullshit. No one is being fooled by this anymore. Everyone is well-aware of price pumps. We're at a point where they straight up announce what they're doing and why. But it doesn't matter because at the end of the day all it needs is enough people manipulating tcgplayer. And as soon as that market price is listed no one else wants to sell their card for any less because whatever tcgplayer says is final.
>>58334340cool cards, how much were they?
The gas station I stop at in the mornings had these! I thought this was great until the lady at the counter asked me if I wanted to donate $1 to autism awareness.Thanks lady, I’m sure everyone here is now aware of mine Anyways, mega lucario now has a ribbon at the local 7-Eleven.
>>58333635The main difference is localization and copyright.But youre too uninformed and make poor comparisons which really arent equal.Typical of the american education system.
>>58333277You know we're in some weird state of the hobby when ugly ass gold cards are considered valuable. Man theres gonna be a lot of scalpers/ resellers holding some bags of inventory, presumably at some point.Unless they just keep selling to themselves.
>>58333019I've never socialized with people over pokemon either.Goes to show how big the hobby is, how many different groups and niches there are that never overlap.
>>58335109you know what else was considered valuable on release and then dropped hard?
>>58332995The illustrator become expensive on a false pretense.Misinformed articles and websites perpetuated a belief that it was the oldest lowest population card in existence, and therefore got wrongly labeled as a holy grail.Turns out there are cards older with less population which arent as expensive, but should be more expensive then the illustrator.Eventually turbo normie content creators with deep pockets and large bags buy into the false articles and shit, and overpay for the illustrator.Now you just have a bunch of people not willing to come to terms with getting rinsed and hosed for their copy. So the price remains.Every trophy cards and parent & child kangaskhan and like snap cards should by wayyyy more expensive then the illustrator. But retarded articles and websites didnt even know those cards existed when they made those articles.Plus the illustrator has more and more copies emerge as the years go by.Its a total fuckin farce of a card.
>>58335138>CG Work (basically 5ban)>No color work, just a rainbow filter>Reused art with a rainbow filterThese were only popular because PokeTubers pumped them.
>>58334643>They failed at the stock market>They failed at the housing market>They failed at NFTs>They failed at crypto>They failed at sneakersI wonder how they'll do with pokemon, lmfao.
>>58335168The people you see in scalper videos will never be the types of people to work on a resume or do a man's physical labor job. This is why I consider PokeTubers and Scalpers in the same world, the contribute nothing to society squad and play pokemon.
>>58333781All you muh artwork muh artwork trannoids cant win against me. Low pops are indomitable.
We should pump a card
>>58335161>These were only popular because PokeTubers pumped them.exactly, so history repeatsi pray everyone who wants one of the new gold cards realizes they will tank
>>58335256Let's pump this one, jp version is $4 and the english is like $8-$11, if PSA graded then $50-$100
>>58335139IMO the illustrator card isnt the holy grail card of the franchise, because since it was only distributed to inner cirlce employees, the greater public never stood a chance to get one. its a grail card, but not the center piece of the franchisethink about the golden ticket with willy wonka. anyone could have gotten it, so since there was that factor of randomness, it makes cards that were distributed openly more of a prize than close inner circle cards. if pokemon made a 1/1 card, then openly distributed to a random person, then thats what i call a "Holy Grail". the illustrator pikachu card is a Holy Nepotism.
>>58335256On it
>>58335168Also failed at sportsball cards
>>58333862I bought 100 of those lillies and 100 of ionos kilowattrel jp prints months ago. Why? Cos cute.
>>58334087The main reason is because english has much shittier pull rates. Cards from the first 3 SV sets that had improved pull rates all are worth less than the japanese versions.
>>58334748Im guessing they were massively overpriced.
>>58335362where's the cute one eating cake?
>>58335405Retardbro...
>>58335412shut up they look similar
>>58333019being surrounded by a bunch of kids at events also feels bad somehowbut at the same time I dont wanna act all adult collecting something like god damn minerals, stamps or coins, I wanna collect cool looking cards
Pulled today. Also got the SR chomp in the same box. Now I'm content either never opening heat wave again. Ill just buy ho oh eventually.
How badly do physical stores fuck you over if you want to sell some stuff? I don't really feel like setting up ebay or whatever just to unload two cards for a quick buck.>>58334748I went to a gas station the other day and they were selling Japanese packs for some reason.
>>58335481Some anon here said they could ask for upwards 30% off market value. idk how true this is but 30% is a lot.
>>58335478hope to god you're not referring to that awful ugly looking art on the card known as "ethan's ho-oh"
bros these gold cards look like actual bootlegs with their foiling. holy fuck it's so ugly, it's the worst gold cards since the introduction of gold cards.
>>58335481If you have a card worth $100 at market, they would buy at $70You can sell online, however you would have to either charge more or less for that considering shipping cost to the buyer, the fees deducted from your sale to ebay/whatever site you use, as well as the fact as your transaction is a taxable event you now need to fileBasically, 1.get ripped off buy physical stores, 2.rip off someone online 3.rip off yourself for selling lower to include shipping
>>58335481Depends on your LCS orbuylists you find online. My store sold for 70% cash or 85% store credit. I sold for store credit because I play another tcg, but some of my big hits I didn't care about I sold on ebay/fb marketplace for cash. Because I wanted more than 70%. This is on the good side btw, worse stores can buy at 50%. Your next best bet is selling at card shows those will usually pay cash for 70-80%.
>>58335543I kinda like these ones more
>>58335481I get 85% at mine
>>58335568they're the most alright of the bunch, but it's the same gen that introduced gold cards. they're so ugly man..
>>58335481I vend at a local show, dont ever EVER sell to your local game store. They usually give you 50-60% of tcgplayer SOLDS. Us vendors will pay you a fair price, usually 75% of market price for raw singles and 80-90% for graded cards(even 100% full market price if its a really nice card).
>>58335568slightly better than the rainbow rares, but still dogshit
>>58335543What do you mean you don't like this? LMAO it's so fucking ugly and looks more and more similar to the rainbow foil bootleg cards.
>>58335542It's on my radar but a low priority card.
>>58335612It's nice. Vstar universe golds mog all others though.
>>58335612the only gold I like is crown zenith's gen 4 legendaries. those are actually pretty.
>>58335612it's gaudy but I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as the rainbow cards.
>>58335612woah it kinda looks like it's lacking textures. especially for a japanese card. the charizard itself is textured but the bottom and top are all empty. weird.
>>58335612>>58335635>>58335660The Gardevoir/Lucario gold cards look better
>>58334340cool cards
>>58335706You have to be 18 to post on this site.
>>58335612So glad i never fell for the charislop meme
>>58335718Only boomers still care about Digimon so not sure what you're getting at.
>>58335706i cant handle seeing japanese cards mixed with english cards mixed with vintage mixed with modern mixed with full arts mixed with rev holos mixed with fucking DIGIMON
>>58335749Welcome to AMERICA
>>58335749Honestly? I think it's neat.
Heroin addicts are flexing their skyrocketing pika-pika Poke-portfolios, is this bullish?
>>58334110A noticeable amount of my recent Pokemon card sales have all been to hispanics. I think they're taking over Pokemon too
>>58335780I guess it works if you just have the most random shit lying around. I sort of have a similar predicament but not as extreme.
>>58335783>>>1 month ago>>>+13kspent it on pokemon instead of heroine. how can he be proud of where his collection has grown? he just started a month ago. he probably dumped 10k into the collection because a month ago prices were still sky high. is he retarded?
>>58335794>>58334110Pretty sure i pointed this out from the video in the previous threadhttps://youtu.be/WtGilD2Blow
>>58335706>>58335780why the fake card(s)?
>>58335780>random fakes Lmao
>>58335836Proofs?
>>58335836>>58335848Digimon are valid, bigots
>>58335794What kind of cards do you sell?
>>58335855>>58335850The heatranny here>>58335780Is fake. Its pokemon pocket art. Digimon is based though.
>literally any time posts a binder page>erm you have le fakes!Why do troons always do this?
>>58335836umm its all just paper bro
>>58335850>>58335855>>58335859Heatran full art isn't a real physical card, it's exclusive to pokemon pocketIt also has no set marker/symbol indicating which era it's from, meaning it's not a legitimate real physical card
>still buying physical in 2025
>>58335836>>58335857That? They're cool customs that you can find online.
>>58335836>>58335857>>58335862>still buying real cards
>>58335876Im kekking
>>58333492Actually zoomers are print chads
I'm a sucker for texture. Give me cards with good texture (I'm okay with buying japanese obviously)
>>58335910
We're getting high end commemorative decks for the original era of pokemon cards. Can confirm this includes promos and vending series cards.
>>58335949The decks will include one of each card from all the early expansions, plus a separate deck for promos. Each card will have special foiling similar to classic collection did.
>>58335962Can also confirm the original set symbols will not be present on the cards.
>>58335949>>58335962>>58335970source or schizobabble
>>58335168>Choose to make an investment>Biggest threats to the financial security of your investment are A) Theoretical overproduction of the asset to meet demand and B) Diminishing future interest in your asset>The asset is a product produced by a company with the goal to sell as much of it as physically possible>Your methods of acquiring your assets actively and deliberately push those who have genuine interest away, ensuring a lack of nostalgia in future generationsIt's so unbelievably stupid and contradictory for what an actual investment should be, and it annoys me that these assholes have been having any success with it thus far.
>>58335936I bought this a few weeks ago for for a very good price NM, and the texture is amazing. Need to get more BA era japanese full arts now.
>>58335612Y-Yeah but unlike rainbows and previous golds these are NEW artlmao let them have this shit. If the markets gonna be fucked anyway I'd at least have them tricked into prioritizing these bland things rather than the illustrations I actually care about
>>58335970Tentative name internally is 151 Classic Collection and msrp is $600 USD
>>58336039didnt they do this shit last year and it didnt sell?
>>58329413opposite they're gonna try to pump the other cards to buy the gold rare off someone else and have that graded instead
>>58336039I cannot give a single shit about these. I'm so done with nostalgia sets.
>>58336050He's lying or having a schizo breakdownBut on the off chance he's leaking real shit, the difference here would be the inclusion of vending machine cards reprints, and pokemon snap reprintsDefinitely not worth the price, but still some sick card reprinted if true
>>58332136i'm the same way i hate waifuslop cards i traded the secret iono rare for the secret art arceus palkia and dialgia gx card when paldea evolved was still new
>>58333215based>>58333195cringe
WHERE THE FUG IS TRICK OR TRADE 2025?!?
>>58336106It was never a real set It was false information given to smoke out a rat who leaks information
Would you buy a nostalgia set that includes one of each card from the og era?
>>58336155no man I'm tired of nostalgia sets
>>58336155If its every single card, or even just the pokemon with no trainers or energies. I'd be in.
>>58336155only if e reader cards are involved honestly everyone else can fight over the base set reprints once again for all i care but i love me some e reader cards
I think this proves electabuzz is the champ
Everyone says theyre over nostalgia sets until they get a chance at a masaki gengar
>>58336228>reprintjust print a proxy yourself at that point
>>58334643You should be capitalizing on these idiots by selling them overinflated cards. These """people""" are allergic to money and you as a true longtime collector are entitled to their money.
If they released a fully comprehensive set of all the original cards.You know 1million percent youd all cop it.The 30th anniversary is gonna be a wild year. Crash immediately after though probablym
>>58334110what's the print quality like compared to japanese?
>>58336254Japan > German > English > any other euro language >= Chinese > Korean
Sleepy Dragons
>>58336251what if they reprint the original sets but with silver borders
>>58336297Based
>>58336241In a sense, I am. My LCS doesn't have packs to give out at League, so instead we get store credit. Since I don't have anything else to get, every week I grab a single or two that I expect to go up in value. A while back I grabbed one of the Trainer Gallery Pikachus.But I don't want to play this ridiculous kiddy stock market. I just want to collect cards.
>>58336373my lcs is a bunch of scum fuck rats who somehow 'didn't have' the mega evo prerelease packs or build&battles. sure man sure!!
What if for the 30th anniversary they reprint all the hype cards throughout the years to crash every market. I'm talking love birds and stuff like that
Its okay to be normal
>>58336378reprints won't crash the market in Pokemon because nobody is buying the expensive cards to play.
These might be the hottest, most fire vintage cards ever
Fossilmons
>>58335667Doubt...
>>58336039Holy shit the doodle card Pikachu with autism look hella cute. Is this real?
>>58336254All western International are comparable to English.>>58336263Japan>China>[end of good texture]>English>Other intl except German and French>Korean>German(GLURAK!) and French (Le Dragón Olala)I don't know whether other asian languages such as Indonesian and Thai are under the Japanese print (good quality) or independent like Korean (bad quality). You can find hidden gems in cases where Jap is too expensive and Chink doesn't have a release.
>>58336642You're retardedThe belgium factory and all german cards are objectively of higher quality than the rest in terms of not only texture and cardstock quality, but in terms of misprints/miscuts/qc in generalChinese card texture are on the level of english, but they're thinner and flimsier than english and japanese, they literally feel cheaper and having seen factory footage are cheaperEvery other language is just decent with nothing notableYou're not getting away with the chinese card praise you scalper, you only like chinese for exclusivesObjectively, chinese cards are overrated quality wise
>>58336649he dislikes our cards because he thinks our localized names are worse than his localized namesnot because of texture.
>>58336649Your entire post is made up bullshit and a simple google search proves you wrong
Postin some cards here boss
>>58336735Send me the MistyLorelei and JessieJames cards and I promise I won't hurt your family.
>>58335138Those were always worth less than their normal versions tho.
>>58335543I've seen several orica that are literally better quality than real cards I owned to compare them to so that's not really much of a diss, man.
>>58335612Alright, that's it. I am literally convinced now you people are doing what you always do and trying to reverse psychology other Anons into not buying these cards you can clearly tell will hold value. Either that or you just vote Left. I know it's been a while since I've been in these threads but clearly nothing has changed in this department.
>>58335725The last big Charislop meme was the UPC and if you bought that you have already tripled all your money.
New>>58336778>>58336778
>>58336376Lol kinda reminds me of my local bestbuy>no limits on anything>sale out to the first 1 or 2 guys that get there>but also arbitrarily hold up the 1 per person promo>store manager enforces no one gets none unless they buy $15 in cards but there's no cards left to buy>from 2 people that work there the SM then takes home the entire box of promos when he leaves for the dayApparently he's been doing it since prismatic
Fairly new to collecting, I find that these look way better than their base set alternatives that fetch for a much higher price.I get it, they're promos so you didn't have to rely on luck at the time to get them but the artwork is far better. Not my pic by the way, just thinking about getting them
>>58336642>Japan>ChinaThey're the exact same.
>>58336735man i love deoxys
>>583347221200 yen for the Psyduck+Golduck set, and 455 yen for the AR set.
>>58335706This Lunatone tone card should be in that binder.
