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>>58726317

FAQ:
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>>58748537
Thats not even the real moonbreon
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Cool to see low pop mid era cards in PSA 10s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnWoeFPtGH0
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>still grading cards
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>>58748631
This guy gets it, hes gonna be alright.
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>I'm new to this, what should I invest in?
These people are stupider than cattle and should be killed much the same
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>>58748631
Damn this shit is nice - you never see these cards. This dude is goated. Fat and lives at home and works at Costco but I respect that he has taste.
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>still buying vintage
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>>58748631
Good video, thanks for posting.
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>>58748947
>another lillie's clefairy
Goddamnit all special art clefairies are overpriced because of that blonde cunt.
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>>58748631
Not a collector- an investor. It’s all about markets and getting in early and charts and bullshit. Nice cards but I despise the mentality.
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>>58749074
He clearly loves the cards. He knows each one individually and gives reasons as to why he likes them, the art or context, collects them in pairs and trios. And he seems to "invest" as a means to an end - he sat on sealed to be able to afford this incredibly niche collection which he'll no doubt enjoy for years before "cashing out." Hoarding sealed I personally find disgusting but cards are expensive.
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Good card
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Glad they kept the hood on
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Pokemon secret team sleeves are the coolest
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>>58749100
So many good mightyena cards for some reason
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>>58748947
more rirrie pedo cards wee
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>>58748631
This guy gets it. most vendors are just there selling fools shit that wont hold value in the long run. they are not showing up there vending their Personal Collections. they there to vend you modernslop.
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>>58749227
Meganium chads we won

I do hope they design some mega cards without the comic book action lines
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>>58749274
You got one of the worst megas. Under lanky urinal feraligatr even
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>still buying physical
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I bought a couple booster to pull for the hell of it. I haven't opened one in 20 or so years. I hope I get a holo.
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i knew the japs couldnt resist making another rirrie card
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>>58748947
lillie is so hot its unreal
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>>58748947
>that riri thigh
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>>58748637
has this guy been posting this in these threads since +2 years when this scandal came out?
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>>58748947
Holy shit, I've never wanted a card so bad.
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>>58748947
I wish the Lillie trainer cards were this cute, the last few have been a bit too modest
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>>58748637
>PSA bought out Beckett's
are they seriously trying to monopolize the card grading market?
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>>58748528
post came kinda wanna order the non holo version of the delta dragonair though the stamp covers too much of the art lol
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>>58749724
>trying to monopolize the card grading market?
yeah theyre probably gonna end up like taking all the psa 9s people sell them reslabbing them as black beckett 10 and selling them for 10x what they paid too
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>>58749109
>>58749100
>>58748947
>742 card set
What the fuck
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>>58749833
It's a series of decks.
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>>58749401
Fuck off give me Guzma or Lusamine Boss Orders already
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>>58749833
>>58748947
so you buy a deck and have a 1/20 chance to get this card in there?
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kek super scalped theyre only 890 yen on amazon
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>>58749879
There are 100 decks so at best you have a 1/100 chance to get this one but likely the decks are weighted so you have less than that
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>>58748947
>illustrated by Naoki Saito as well
We're so fucked.
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>>58749274
>I do hope they design some mega cards without the comic book action lines
they already did
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>>58749724
>>58749747
Slab buyers getting fleeced is a good thing
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>>58749938
kino, quite a few good reveals today
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>>58749421
the celebi is cool
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>>58748528
just saw this on shorts people now copyping the kabuto retard https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b8qMUP2pkp0 i hope everyone buying up these cards for 100x their actual value loses all their money
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>>58750475
/tcc/ should pick a common that we can all just pump and dump together
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>>58750475
another memecoin
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Mail day!
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>>58750856
Looks fake
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>>58750856
Based AF
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>>58750912
Bragging about aliexpress cards is only based if you’re a poor kid. Wait till you see his rayquaza gold star.
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>>58750824
We did. You all laughed at it. Still funny?
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>Everything is tanking in value..........EXCEPT pre 2020 cards.
amazing. amazing. fantastic. theres NO way population reports could EVER determine value of my heckin better artwork card. ignore that last shit, new shit best shit.
truth is that i was right all along. got a lot of backlash here for years telling people that their cards are overinflated like their ego's. breaking down common trends and creating pop report charts to convince people here of the fall of the modernslop.
if you really been following my schizo posting you would already know what the next move should be. sooner or later modernshit will tank, and tank hard it will. GOOD. it was never worth it.....RETARD. that you should sell your modernslop sooner or later and change up your collection for something vintage with a lower pop report that will better survive a bearish market.
even better advice i have been proclaiming is to hold out, like i did, and wait for everything to crash. then when tourist fuck off finally, lick your wounds and find some good vintage that will drop in value minimally over the next few years. its always been the long mans game. thanks for all the support. really appreciate ya..........NOT. crawl back to your elite fourums friendship circle jerk and get out the thunderdome.
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>>58751103
Just collect what you like, psycho.
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>>58750856
Kino
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>>58751157
>modern collectors that did discord buyouts thinking they knew everything about market trends and how to make money off pokemon card collecting, now have to navigate a normal market to be profitable, throwing all they thought was true away.
it must suck
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>id rather put my money in a bankrupt TCG than support the modernshit market.
speaks volumes. should of grabbed something cool when it was bottom dollar. who knows if it really increases in value. but when it was that cheap, it has no choice but go up.
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>>58751205
I don’t follow your gay discordshit. I post my cards.
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>>58750856
are you the anon who only posts proxies? nevertheless I'd explore Green's thighs
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>>58751259
here is your moonbreon slop PSA pop report. getting closer to 25k every day. 35k overall
I started covering this card when it was 10k pop PSA 10 for 1500 bucks. now its 25k
STILL A 4k CARD
question nothing.........just expect non stop profits while they keep receiving non stop cards to grade and add to the population because that's totally normal to how TCG's behave when appreciating in value.
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>>58751289
>chartschartscharts biz biz biz profit profit profit
go back you dumb schizophrenic. You add nothing to the thread.
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>>58751366
>i could buy 10k worth of product from a bankrupt TCG for 3k
>120 boosters, 50+ PSA 10 slabs low pop
OR
>1 moonbreon overpopulated psa 10 slop for 4k
decisions decisions. end of the day, i like what i collect. dodging market manipulators. the downfall of modernslop aint keeping me awake at night, cupcake.
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>>58751289
what website is this?
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>>58749847
yeah I agree, what the fuck are they waiting for?
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>>58751491
reddit dot biz
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>>58751366
the retard dumped thousands into opening evolving skies and never pulled a single moonbreon. now he copes in every single /tcc/ thread rambling about pop reports like an actual schizo. sad
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>>58751559
That’s awesome. I’m glad he lost his money doing something stupid.
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>>58750856
What's funny is that I own all of these cards but for real. Man, collecting used to be real easy back then.
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where is meganium mega card at niggas?
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>>58751962
Say aahhhhh, Anon.
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>>58751962
I feel such visceral hate for these gormless cave men future pokemon
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>>58750856
Based Retard
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Y2Kino
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>>58752156
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It's funny to see Surging Sparks (the set that basically started this scalping fiasco) to be sitting in scalper's shelves and barely being touched. I hope scalper's and the distributors who are trying to manipulate the market crash and burn.
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what do I do with 4 gengar prime

do I just grade them all
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>>58748631
hes just like me fr...
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>>58751808
Even the fucking toy stores near me are taking of advantage of the problem. I see them selling pieces of an ETB with the packs that's supposed to be included in the box.
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>>58752539
Without*
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>still buying modern
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i just spent another 100 bucks in vending series cards
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>>58752829
just post them
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this place is deader than pikachu in those ai chinese liveleak videos
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>>58752965
trvke desu - where's better for tcc discussion? It would be nice to have a place that actually gets exited when the new set gets leaked etc.
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>>58753010
discord
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>>58753010
>>58753042
>truth nuke
>exited
>discord
need more over 18s on here
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>>58751366
is that deoxys okay he look anxious
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>>58752363
>>58752156
stop posting cool old cards by buy list is already too big
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Can someone post a link to the discord
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Which vintage set is good to invest in at the moment?
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>>58753059
lurk more
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>>58753060
I recommend you check out reddit
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>>58753064
>lurk more
>pastebin from pre internet days
Fuck these gay dead threads.
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>>58753156
>Updated March 26 2021
Last time this thread was useful
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>>58753156
>>58753161
dead because you faggots don’t post, just want to be spoon fed everything
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>>58753176
I posted all the new cards when they were leaked and they got like 0.5 replies on average.
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Is this Charmander World Champions Pack JAP conisered rare or is it a too niche market?
There's literally little to none of this card in the market.
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holy shit
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anyone have any phone cards this is really cool
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>>58753313
1st ed PSA 9 available rn for 7k bongs
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>>58753348
damn thats so much money lol
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>>58753348
just looking it seems like theres two different foil types one thats plain and another which has other details in it, theres also fakes of it on etsy tho makes buying used sketchy lol
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this but for pokemon please
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damn after seeing that celebi phone card ive been looking at a bunch now i have a new thing to collect too kek https://buyee.jp/item/jdirectitems/auction/t785120798
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>>58749885
MSRP is 890 yen anon.
Cheapest I can find is like 3.7k yen in the japanese market.
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>>58753441
i did see a video of them doing this for boosters in a pokemon center
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How do most people go about getting a Japanese booster of the new set near release? It sounds like hard fkn work to proxy one from the Pokemon Center so are most people just waiting til they show up on ebay?
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>>58753542
There's a lot of websites that sell Japanese booster boxes in Europe/US. They just pay $100/box, practically no one is "importing from Japan" because after hours of work to enter a lottery then platform and importer fees then the risk of being hit with customs half the time you're still paying $100/box
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>>58753545
What's the best one for bongs?
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>>58753561
Japan2UK is the biggest one and most reliable. Their prices fluctuate depending on demand for example I saw a pre-order for a new set at £105 then a week later it was £115, then they tend to come back down after the initial wave but dont expect them to ever be "cheap". You can sometimes find them cheaper at other sides like £98 when Japan2UK is at £105 kind of thing. I bought some magical girl sets recently and that arrived in good time too and the price was much more fair because it's not in demand
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>>58753561
Cardmarket
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Is this card real?
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>>58753641
Didn't even try tier fake. If you fell for this you deserved to get scammed
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>>58753641
Or is this one real? Because one of them must be fake with how different the holo pattern is.

Also, post more cards that are doing the 1930s Germany Heil salute.
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>>58753493
Yeah they do it in the pokemon center in singapore (which sells english cards btw)
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what is the minimum condition you'll accept for a binder card? (outside of those cards where even a beat up one is 500+£
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>>58753828
Good
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>>58753313
>>58753333
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>>58753828
I try to look for cards that are good on the front with bad backs. Usually they are substantially cheaper. Pic rel. Obviously there are some dings on the front but with a sleeve on and in a binder it's unnoticeable.
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>>58753828
For non holos usually NM. For holos I'll go down even to bad/damaged stuff IF I pulled it as a kid. If I have to buy them new then EX/NM.
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>>58753650
Explain more? It would be interesting if all packs needed to be sold in brick and mortar and were cracked before being handed off. I wonder what that would do to the market.
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>>58753828
Significant creases on the front or super prominent scuffing/warping on the edges is where i draw the line. So, NM - LP is my range of acceptable buys, especially if the major issues are only visible from the back.
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>>58753828
For Modern cards I'm a lot more particular even for "Binder Copies", I generally want passable centering and try to avoid even having white dots on the corners, definitely no "light play" or anything like that. For older cards I try to stick to LP-NM with nothing that hurts the appearance on the front, for Vintage WOTC holos in particular I do accept some scratching on the holo because even mint copies tend to have that, it's very hard to avoid unless you buy it in person and you can't really notice it when sleeved in a binder. Pic related is the lowest I generally go
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>>58753641
This one looks fake because it lacks the texture of SM FA cards.
>>58753646
This one is real
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>>58748947
I like this card better than the JT one.
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>>58753592
>but dont expect them to ever be "cheap"
That site used to sell boxes between £25 and £40 not even two years ago, the latter was for brand new sets even. They're scalping just a much as everyone else, so supporting them just enables this retardation to continue on for longer.
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We're gonna make it, bros.

https://www.pokebeach.com/2025/12/pokemons-millennium-print-group-signs-largest-u-s-manufacturing-lease-of-2025-will-occupy-1-27-million-square-foot-campus-to-print-cards
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>>58749938
I love it
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lilliepedos in
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>>58754258
Yes that's true but like I said it's entirely based on demand and not just from their store. If their suppliers can sell to one of 5000 pop up "shopify" stores how would Japan2UK ever get stock? The reason why all the stores are similar prices, within £10 of each other is because it's the supplies from Japan who dictate the prices more than these web stores. The web stores are making almost nothing, they aren't marking it up from £20 to £100, it's more like they're buying at £90 and then still taking the same £10-15 they always have been
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>>58754276
DA HOOOOUSE TONIIIIGHT
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>>58754264
i understand compalining about scalpers but this retard is talking as if someone should import japanese boosters then sell them to him at msrp kek
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>>58754213
Of course, it's illustrated by my nigga, Saito. Him and Ishikawa know how to draw little blonde girls the best.
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>>58754264
theyre too late, interest in the hobby dropping already
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>>58754025
>>58753889
ken sugimori was great at drawing pokemons but shit at drawing trainers
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>>58754598
False. Misty is peak design and those Gym Hero/Challenge trainer cards are the best ones in the entire history of the TCG, I've decided to get them all for a binder page and I don't think any modern "page of trainers" can compete.
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>>58754624
i just feel like when he tries to draw them from the front they look bad. Sabrina looks good, misty not so much
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>>58754624
speaking of gym challenge/hero. Does anyone know where I can find some illustrations from that set (not just cards) to print to do a "michi method" or whatever it's called for my album?
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>>58754630
The problem with new cards is every trainer is too cutesy and not in a good cunny focused way. Erika's personality/character is supposed to be cultured noble woman who will never look your way but almost all modern cards/characters have zero personality
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>>58754643
>Erika's personality/character is supposed to be cultured noble woman who will never look your way
she's a cultured noble woman who literally would look straight at anyone. she's supposed to be kindness incarnate.
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>>58754624
the gym badges look pretty good as well
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>>58754735
forgor pic
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>>58754744
>>58754735
Yeah those ones are nice too but I feel like you're either compromising on covering up badge art or trainer art and the trainers are a bit more important
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>>58754744
you must have a pretty nice collection
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>>58754624
>I've decided to get them all for a binder page and I don't think any modern "page of trainers" can compete.
dont do that do a page per and also get their mon cards
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>>58754842
That's a nice thought too but I don't like all of them enough to go that far, I settled on doing a row for each trainer I like but I have been considering doing a full 3x3 page for some trainers like Cynthia and Misty
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>>58754842
>>58754846
pic related
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>>58754850
>>58754842
I think this Cynthia art is amazing which is what's convincing me to give her a full dedicated page
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>>58754854
I remember there was a rare Japanese holo version of this card that you could only get by winning a league or something. I could never get it but I wonder what it's worth now.
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>>58754780
I'd love to show more but either my camera is dirty on the inside, or I just can't find a way to get good lighting. I've never liked the way they come out.
Anyways here's the pika from the badges set with more pikas
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>>58754744
Never saw those
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>>58754925
they could fill a book with cards you’ve never seen
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These cards were given to participants of the Parent/Child Tournament in February 2002 in Japan. The father/son (old back) card is an unnumbered promo and the rarer of the two.
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>>58755035
slabbing nice cards is kinda cringe
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>>58755094
Not mine. I own the left one mint ungraded.
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>>58755113
Good taste
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>>58755035
Oh my science is that Komiya...?
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>>58755125
Worth more than 1000 of your fullart chandelier heads.
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>>58755133
damn that treecko is bad
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>>58755168
A lot of those cards were drawn by kids.
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>>58755168
tastelet
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I've been buying Chinese cards but I worry about them holding their value. Also I'm sure there is a website besides ebay where you can get singles for cheaper but I don't trust aliexpress.
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>>58755168
what do you think about this card selling for 8k+
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>>58755240
well thats psa 9 so like 700 bucks but w/e
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>>58755240
I think it soulful, I like handdrawn cards as limited promos and price should correlate with rarity rather than speculation. And that card is obviously very rare. I just didn't like the poster so I felt the need to shit on something about it
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>>58755233
Chinese cards won't hold their value outside of a few Chinese exclusives like the Mew, if you just like them for the nice art then nothing wrong with that but you should stop thinking of pokemon cards as investments
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>>58755244
>disingenuous seething
woah you’re such a fag
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>>58755248
but then you say something based…
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>>58754925
they're league/ Play! Pokemon gifts/prizes
>>58755240
I want the one with ho-oh :(
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>>58755233
>holding their value
nigger faggot
That said, chink cards and indonesian cards are the real hidden gems for reasons unrelated to investorniggers.
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>>58755260
damn i want that passport cover
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>>58756230
>indonesian cards are the real hidden gems
no their weird fever dream language messes with my head, although i did buy the kfc dratinin
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>>58754939
those look like shit
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>>58755240
that they sell for so much just because investors (not humans) will see anything scarse and shit and immediately jack the price up for no reason.
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>>58756374
Good thing there is only 20 of each card in existence
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>>58756408
I bet there's some usurer who manages to convince himself that those cards are good or desirable just because they are rare. What I like about older sets is that if you took almost any random cards and gave it a holo treatment it wouldn't look out of place. nowadays only the IR and SIR are cool. I know that this doesn't apply to cards like those as they were from a videogame contest IIRC, but still, something being valuable just because it's rare when the cards are objectively ugly/uninteresting rubs me the wrong way.
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>>58756426
I think they are really cool, even more so considering how they were made. I’m also a sucker for the aqua v magma cards that use the 3D models from the gamecube games.
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modernslop is kind of boring but the Mega Attack Art cards are kind of cool. especially the Froslass. hoping everyone of the Mega mons have 1 by the end of this filler era
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>>58756426
>nowadays only the IR and SIR are cool
very pedestrian taste
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>>58756580
I didn't like them until I pulled a Lucario. There's so much texture on the Japanese ones and lots of hidden detail and they really stand out from the usual S/IR stuff. It would be really nice to see some of the megas put "into context" in much the same way most SIRs do, where the Pokemon is kinda hanging out in the world among its species or whatever, but I guess most megas are too big and busy for that to happen. Like imagine a scene of Heracross worshipping a Mega Heracross cause he can lift more, an evil Malamar mind controlling different mons, shit like that.
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>>58756580
I hate your vernacular, newfag
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>>58755035
suddenly being a Tomokazu Komiya completionist just became 10000x harder!
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>>58756426
Factually fake and gay. There are a lot of modern cards in SV and M sets with great artwork that would look sick with an old cosmo holo treatment, but unfortunately modern holo looks like shit and nowadays people only look at full arts.
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>>58756562
genuinely how? they are literally the most dogshit cards ever.
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>>58756804
You’ve got shit taste. I’m glad you don’t post cards. If you did I’m sure it’d be the most basic shit ever.
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>>58756586
gray borders with ondulating lines just make all cards look cheap and uninteresting. The artwork might be cool sometimes, but it's not enough.
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>>58756820
you’re cheap and uninteresting
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>>58756813
>it’d be the most basic shit ever
So you're just your usual 4chan contrarian that thinks something is cool only if 95% of the population thinks it's shit?
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>>58756171
>1ed
jelly
>>58756820
I agree on the grey borders and layout, but a good enough art can easily overcome those issues. I pulled a common celeby and bayleaf from a modern pack the other day and the art is amazing, much better than say the vintage ex series holos. Digital art is always somewhat flat looking compared to actual drawings, but it's such a minor nitpick that it's almost not worth mentioning.
The only thing that remains shit through generations imho is 3DCG which is just low effort.
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post came for today

>>58754939
damn these are really cool will have to hunt them down next year lol
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What in the mother of fuck are these captchas
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>>58757002
filters sub 80IQ people
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>>58757002
I knew I was posting with absolute retards this whole time, but all the whining i'm seeing about the new captcha really puts it into perspective just how fucking stupid you all really are.

Cards.
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>>58757017
Jelly, I've been after these for so long
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>>58757088
holy shit you're rich
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>>58757098
Sitting on generational wealth yo. I have like 30+
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>>58757007

eat my ass
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What's the deal with cgc 9.5 near mint plus? Can those ever get regraded as tens?
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Ordered 49 low rarity cards to finish my Mega Evolution set off tcgplayer. Hasn't arrived. Messaged the seller. "Yeah, my local UPS has been losing orders a lot lately. You aren't the first person who's told me this." Motherfucker, you aren't the first seller to tell me this.
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>>58757152
9's are already an excuse for grading companies to keep 10's populations controlled.
9.5 is the meme score for those 10 that they don't want to grade a 10, but don't have any visible issue they can cling to.
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>>58757017
yeah kek ive not had an issue with them immeditely understood how they worked only thing thats annoying is it doesnt save that you did one recently and let you post without
>>58757088
gonna be funny when these dump this is the most retarded thing ive seen
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>>58757208
It's not clear to me why 9.5 even exists lol
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>>58757171
did you ask for tracked and insured shipping?
>>58757213
>gonna be funny when these dump this is the most retarded thing ive seen
The circlejerk around a dude who just tried to corner the market of a card printed in the millions was honestly the worst.
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saw this on facebook
>selling my collection of over 10 years
its all modern vstar slop kek
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>>58756562
damn cool card
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>>58757268
Woah, Thats like 5 dollars worth of cards right there!
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>>58758135
who cares about the monetary value, they just look like shit.
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>>58758180
there is a direct correlation, stupid
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Engrish could never
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>>58758241
No there isn't, expensive cards often look like shit, see Destined Rivals Mewtwo SIR
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>>58758248
what’s bad about it?
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>>58756977
holy based chicken dragon
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>>58758259
Looks like an inflatable blow up parade balloon
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>>58758259
american woman FUPA
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what is the best pikachu card?
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>>58758465
>>58758473
>>58758481
>>58758485
>>58758507
Seeing this Vintage cards side by side with modern I'm starting to realise that the appeal of "full art" cards is massively diminished with the amount of shitty text covering the art
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>>58758513
You just can't appreciate the beauty of the font
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>>58758542
was rowlet crushed by the text?
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>>58757693
I'm noticing your posts more and more because you double sleeve, what's your go-to? KMC perfect fit in an Ultra Pro Penny or Premium Penny Sleeve? It stood out because your cards seem to stay nice and central whereas mine seem to go slanted
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>>58758442
underrated one.
>>58758507
>>58757137
nice cards
>>58757268
shit modern slop
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>>58758652
>nu conceptmon starters
nope
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>happened to be shopping at Best Buy
>check to see if they got any cards
>Charizard UPCs behind the counter
>$190
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>>58758741
Based Best Buy
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Retard
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>>58758741
they selling for under 150 on ebay and tcgplayer lmao. Also you can get booster boxes for under $200 finally. Sealed cuckery is really on the down trend
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>>58758756
All of these retailers trying to flip is so fucking gay
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Fuck.
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>>58758741
this is literally a repeat of the last zard upc. But I guess zardfags just collectively share one braincell
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>>58758824
Congrats anon
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>>58758776
Nah, while distasteful it helps to kill scalping. It essentially puts a ceiling on being able to scalp because why would anyone pay $190 from a scalper when they can get it from a store at any time? That plus the good print run of these UPCs is why they're barely able to make $20 on a box before fees. Boxes even at RRP are starting to sit on shelves, the hobby is healing. Now if only they would do something about shitty pull rates
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>>58758859
I don't even like Charizard that much. I'm an Infernape and Gengarfag. The former will probably not get any love any time soon (it doesn't even have an updated card 300+ HP card like Empoleon and Torterra unless I'm mistaken?) and given I got lucky with Zard I suppose I should just kiss my luck gone with Mega Gengar's SIR later.
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>>58758861
>the hobby is healing
No, it is not. They printed a bunch of this shitty UPC. Doesn't mean anything else is sitting on shelve
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>>58758876
It does. Look up the Kangaskhan and I think it was Venusaur Mega boxes, they're barely above retail price on the secondary market so they're sitting on shelves in a lot places because there's no money to be made scalping them. For the first time in over 6 months I've seen single packs available at many stores almost any day of the week, opened booster boxes with a limit of 5 packs per person. Even Mega ETB's are like $10 more on the secondary market. Yes things like Prismatic and 151 are obviously not going to heal, that's gone already but Mega/Phantasmal has been extremely available, Destined Rivals too because most of these Mega Boxes contain some Destined Rivals/Journey Together
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>>58758882
Not seeing any of that in my location so it must be out in the boonies. I still can't get even Phantasmal without having to be up at some fucked up time at night trying to buy some shit off of Target's shitty app.
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>>58758872
So? Sell the charizard and get the gengar.
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Give it 5 years. Charizard UPC will sell BIGLY
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>>58758882
A lot of the EX boxes flip like shit because they keep shoving Journey Together in them.
Kanga box isn't too bad there aren't any JT packs.
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>>58758915
I got jack shit from mine. The promos are cool though.
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>>58758915
That's not the whole story, they've been printing a lot of those Destined Rivals tins with 4 packs too and they're not reselling for anything either despite 4 weeks ago Destined Rivals Booster Boxes being stupid prices.
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>>58758933
>they've been printing a lot of those Destined Rivals tins with 4 packs too
Fucking where??? All I see are cock suckers selling them for like double the price on jewbay.
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I'll consider the hobby healed when I can waltz into any Target and see booster packs on the shelves and I don't mean one or two packs
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Sheeeeeeeesh! So much for investing!
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>>58758993
I like buying new pokemon sealed stuff, but I have no interest in hoarding stuff and I have no interest in buying all those fucking packs just to rip them and get nothing cool I couldn't just buy as singles for way cheaper.
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>>58758993
Anon, a price drop on product that has barely been out a month isn't investing, that's scalping, and those faggots deserve whatever comes to them.
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>moving cards around in my 2x2 valutx binder
>massive clammy hands
>the plastic sheets over the card keep getting warped and stretched whenever i take something out
Also
>space is ridiculously tight between edges so the sides of all of my penny sleeves get scuffed constantly inches from the actual sides of a card while I’m truing to put them in. Happens every time not matter how much i try to put them in straight and collision free

Do i need to get better or is there a brand where I won’t run into these issues? Feels like I’m going insane trying to do all of this stuff correctly but still feeling like I’m damaging my valuable stuff.
I was going to sleeve my most recent haul, but i had to take a break for the night after noticing the penny sleeves on my brand new additions were already scuffed from collisions with the binder slots. I’m not sure if i’m going to re-sleeve them or just replace the damn binder or both at this point.
May try going for double sleeving later but the thought of even taking out the cards again freaks me out. Maybe my motor skills are just irredeemably terrible
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>>58759384
same diff
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what the fuck am I supposed to do with all these energy cards? I wish they'd stop putting them in packs. Such a waste of cardboard.
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>>58759452
don’t you wash your hands before you go through your binder? Also I’ve heard vaultx aren’t that good. Warping is a symptom of pvc and other acidic plastics
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>>58759594
just buy singles retard
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>>58759613
No, you fat slob I like ripping packs
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>>58759615
stop whining then. As if you care about waste, lol.
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>>58759617
You're right, otherwise I would care about you
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>>58759598
The clammy hands thing was sort of an aside, but it’s a nervous thing more than anything. I tend to sweat a lot whenever i’m handling something delicate. It’s annoying
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>>58759624
im glad you admit you were being retartar
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>>58759635
Go back to cleaning my pool if you want those pennies, boy.
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>>58759641
enjoy your modern sloppa, gronk
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>>58759660
Post your vintage or shut the fuck up, tranny
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>>58754939
>>58755209
>>58756562
What's the lore behind how they were made?
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>>58759668
>brings trannies into playful banter
Eughh.. burgers
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>>58759713
Now post your cards instead images you stole from google
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>>58754939
I'd like the pikachu and poliwag.
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>>58759730
ok
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>>58754939
Bulbasaur and Charmander are very cute
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>>58759732
>>58759746
best I can do is 50,000 dollas…
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>still no timestamp
What a loser
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it’s strange that these ended up being the only graded cards I will ever own- a $5 gem mint vending trainer and a barely holo crobat
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>>58759769
get street pikachu’d nigga!
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Keep posting, mind slave
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>>58759806
you’re a real chris angel mindfreak
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Mail day
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Post your favorite pokemon and your favorite card they have
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>>58756586
lil nigga really does 30 damage and draws a card free? that's gawdlike. tcg been making the baby mons broken since neo.

>>58759944
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBmWD-4YSc
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>>58759944
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>>58759896
Never go wrong with an ampharos, great pick.
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>>58759944
Maybe this one, but I don’t own the komiya crobat
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>>58758625
KMC perfect fit and Ultrapro 32749.
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>>58760192
ayylmao
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>>58759944
its hard to pick just 1 but i like this quite a lot
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>>58760192
why not dragon shield sleeves?
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>>58760230
Never seen this movie vs set before. Thanks for posting
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>>58760255
Too expensive to use for binders. Plus their QC is kinda ass in my experience. Ultra pro is basic bitch but they never let me down from way back when I used to play magic and yugioh.
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pickups from card show yesterday
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>>58760405
>neo series
Based.
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>Suddenly feel that all art rares are slop
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>>58760405
Those greased up naked men aren't even the gayest cards in your pickups.
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>>58760638
damn you're just a miserable cunt
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>>58760688
Yeah, that's why I'm on 4chan.
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>>58760638
>see wrestling cards, something every kid had growing up
>immediately think of greased up naked men and gay stuff
How stuffy is your closet?
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>>58760045
Thanks, bought it on a whim and it’s a beautiful card.
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>>58759944
Modern arts don’t do him justice desu
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>>58759944
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>>58759944
>my top 11 don't have any cards I like
12's got a damn fine one though.
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PSA about the new 100 star decks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia4IVdRVj0c
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New

>>58760982
>>58760982
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>>58760023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrRUKFcnPM



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