Reminiscing On The Tropical Past EditionPrevious Thread: >>59514636FAQ: https://pastebin.com/MypNBzca
The gladion came in yesterday
>>59521632Johto... SOVL
>>59520945>It is sort of funny to say this in a thread/board dedicated to a Japanese cultural product, given the Japanese just lifted Kanji whole cloth from China.Except Pokemon cards are 90% written in kana. So were the games up until gen 5 (the only games/gens that matter).
>>59521650Cute binder page. It looks like he is protecting his little sister.
There's some cool stadium cards I want to get, shrine of punishment, calamitous wasteland, phoebe's stadium, island cave, holon legacy, energy stadium and sprout tower.
>>59521783Good.
>>59521632>Mogs you
>>59521783>He caved in to schizo anon and hid his card behind plastic
So now I can't post Indonesian cards without triggering "I come to latin alphabet" faggot vs "only two languages are real" nigger?
>>59521845The key is to not care and post anyway.
>>59521849Unfortunately I only have the CZ Pika and the Lillie's Clefairy in Indo...I could buy more just to fuel the schizoposting.
>>59521787Shrine of punishment (80p) and calamitous wasteland (60p) bought.Need to order more penny sleeves.
>>59521783Excellent punchline, anon.I’d like to see it double sleeved, in a toploader, in a toploader binder, and in a safe for good measure
>>59521890Only for WOTC cards, modern cards are fine with just a penny sleeve in a regular binder
>>59521853Cool Chinese exclusive
>>59521831Did you rip your Pikachu yet or are you going to post sleeved Donkey Kong cards again?
>>59521783wtf dude I thought you flushed it down the toilet
>>59521921that's not me you kook I just got here
Man, I can't even keep up with the schizo posts anymore. What the fuck are you fucks even talking about?
>>59521932who cares. Just post cards and do a little sailor dance
>>59521933>posting the same old pics over and over
>>59521935>just negs over and over
>>59521937>posting AIslop unironically
>>59521930>cards hidden behind plastic
>>59521828>Mogs you back
the embitterment is astounding>>59521940lunumbra precedes ai slop
>>59521949These are the only cards that should be kept unsleeved. Fucking disgusting
thanks for coming to my blog
>>59521678I love these jumbos so much.
My favorite card
She's so hot
>>59521940>using the word unironically unironically
>>59521979You do this shit just to annoy me. Whatever, its your card, might as well actually flush it though.
>tracking number provided>tracking hasnt updated at all, not even that its been dropped off at the post office
>>59521976Anon, that's an animal...>>59522035Will we ever get anything in the TCG as kino as the Holon era?
do I buy a charizard x ex yet or do I continue to wait
>>59522054You should buy a better taste in cards instead.
Ok the Jirachi I traded for is growing on me. It did feel like one of those grass was greener thing. But this hidden swirl gives it the edge IMO.
>>59521980schizo
How do you decide which cards to "invest" (I know that sounds cringe) in? It feels futile investing in Pikachus, Charizards, Gengars, and Evee/lutions because those will constantly command high prices. I'm looking at IRs and SIRs and am a little dumbfounded some are so cheap. Like some of these in mint condition people don't give a flying fuck about and they're actually rare (are they not?)
>>59522162>investing? thats for cucks and faggots
>>59522162You find cards that are undervalued.
>still buying modern
Is now the time to buy this? i know it got pumped by English fags but is the Japanese at its low?
>>59518525I lost my typhlosion too, classmate stole it.good ol times
>>59522213Hopefully it wasn't a red dot one because if so damn anon
>>59522213I had a T18 Typhlosion at one point, but I traded it away for who knows what so many years ago.Only recently did I realize that the Three Legendary Beasts from neo rev are Sugimori Stock Art. But thankfully their poses/crops are interesting, and they're placed on a connecting background making one large image -- so it isn't the worst use of his stock art.
>>59522162You collect vintage, regional (Japan mainly) exclusives, and event promos. Everything else is normalfag fodder that any retard could pull from a pack.
>>59522162For some reason investors go crazy whenever Pikachu appears in the background of another card's art.
>>59521853Why don't they just make this the reverse holo effect?Looks good on the Radient cards, it'd make a lot of cards look really nice.
>>59521853Unironically looks like a cheap Chinese fake.
I have a small request. Does anyone know of a database that has all the Pokemon cards made in existence and their variants? I don't want any card u scanned. I recently sold something and I want to give back to the community by making something for people who love cards and love playing them
>>59522307>don't want any card unscanned*Fixed
>>59522305>Unironically looks like a cheap Chinese fake.It looks super crisp and nice irl, Chinese unironically looks better than our cards. More effort too
>>59522307?Bulbapedia? What, are you going to print out every card in existence? That's going to be at least a stack of printer paper from Office Max.
>>59522317Yeah, but it's still in Chinese.
Feels bad spending $15 on fucking sleeves. But the cheapest option seems to be to buy a full pack for $20, or just buy an individual sleeve for $2.
>>59522307pkmn (dot) gg is what I use for tracking my collection, it should be pretty comprehensive if you enable both eng and jp
>>59522305It looks identical to Japanese radiants
>>59522355Rainbow rares are unironically underrated.
>>59522388Which look like cheap knockoffs.
Modern look like cheap knockoffs of vintage.
>>59522432True. Anything without cosmo foiling just looks cheap. The new texturing is close but not good enough.
>still grading cards
>>59522466Protecting your cards from innocuous dangers is always a good idea
>>59522492>replying to ritualschizo>gradefaggotBegone!
Mail day with the new Slowbro
One of my favorite Meloetta cards.
>>59522492Naw, there's tons of hi-res scans online so it doesnt matter. Just print out a new one if it gets damaged.
>>59522637whenever a card I want is obscenely expensive I literally just print it out and no problem
>>59522307pkmncards.com
>>59522676Truuuuuuuuue. They also have the same value as real ones!
>>59522567Why don't you have those magna slabs? Fucking retard.
>>59522162>How do you decide which cards to "invest"You don'tYou're either a boomer who grew up with WOTC cards and are bound to collect them again or you're a zoomer who will get stuck in modernPokemon stopped being popular in the mid-2000s and the TCG kept a low profile until Sun/Moon
>>59522567That's cool.
Something has turned up. Not sure what, but whatever it is, it's a nightmare to open. Seems like they've wrapped cardboard in sellotape.State of it.
>>59522838Nice.
>>59522838WHY DO THEY DO THISFUCKING SELLERS NEED A TASTE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINEI WILL SELL THEM A CARD SO TIGHTLY WRAPPED SLEEVES AND TOP LOADERS WHICH HAVE BEEN SELLOTAPED TOGETHER AND THEN I WILL WRAP THE WHOLE TOPLADER IN 3 LAYERS OF SELLOTAPE ZEBRA-PATTERN STYLE AND THEN IN RANDOM CUTS OF CARDBOARD AND BUBBLEWRAP AND MORE SELLOTAPE AND THEN DIFFERENT VARITIES OF STICKY TAPES AT EVERY ANGLE OF THE 360 DEGREES THERE IS AND THEN I WILL DO IT TEN MORE TIEMS AND PUT IT IN A BOX WITH A CHAIN AND PADLOCK ON IT AND NOT GIVE THEM THE COMBINATION TO OPEN IT>>59522847Nice.
>>59522930over-protection or some BS, how do you even get items like that? is it an expensive card?
>>59522930Once opened it was ok to get out, but a pain to get into.I get them trying to make is as secure as possible, so can't be too mad (calmed down now I had a smoke and stared at my cards)*looks at the cards again*>>59522955Not him, but it's my card, no not expensive at all. Top end is £6, I paid £4, and it looks in really good condition.
>>59522930>WHY DO THEY DO THISBecause you'd report them if they didnt.
>>59522162Vintage acts like stocks and boomer rocks, expensive but maintains its value.Modern is like going 4x on shitcoins.
Just got this bad boy from a trusted seller.Paid $2000 but well worth it, it's a motherfucking CHARIZARD VMAX and in 10 years will be worth at least half a million.
>>59522930EBay will always side with the customer, so it makes sense that some sellers take extra precautions, especially if they got burned before.
>>59523002Honestly, I think the shiny version looks better.
>>59522283It’s not stock art — it’s an illustration he made for the set.
Looking into the damaged card from yesterdays pack, and it might be a factory error. I also had 2 characters with their evolution in the pack, and apparently that doesn't happen often? I pulled charcadet and amourage, and mankey and primeape from the same pack that had the damaged card.Sod it, I'm committing to buying another pitch black pack on monday, there's some cool cards, and being able to pull them myself is cool. That's all I'm after, cool things and experiences, and if I did manage to pull something valuable then that's a bonus, but not the most important thing.
>>59523056Bro, we told you. It's a reseal.
>>59523063I still want to do it, but not off the same seller, or ebay. It's something I'll have to go through to find a trusted seller. Not everyone is going to be a scammer, surely. But then what if a trusted seller buys from a dishonest seller?Such a hassle for cool bits of cardboard.
>>59523056I hope you're not paying over MSRP for the one set in years that still sits on store shelves.
Absolutely love this card but holy fuck no one is selling it at its market value. Even fucked up copies are way overpriced.
>>59523100I want pitch black, it has some cool stuff, and won't break the bank, and will give me the fun of experiencing this. I'm going to buy more, but will buy a couple of the sealed 3 booster pack packs that come with a holo card in them.I have overpaid on a couple of things, and (hopefully) learned my lesson. I'm checking prices now, as well as impulse buying, but I am checking market value first, not for investing, just to not be ripped off.
>>59523105If you're buying packs you havent learned your lesson. The pack opening experience isnt anything special unless you're a gambling degenerate.
>>59523107>The pack opening experience isnt anything specialI beg to differ. I didn't experience it when I was younger, I'm not buying expensive packs to pull something that will make me money. I'm experiencing this all for the first time. Sure I'm not playing the game so don't need a card for a deck, but I like the look of some cards, and it's exciting hoping to pull those cards, for no other purpose than to put them in a binder to look at and think "they're cool".I've learned a lesson to be wary of single packs, and to look for sealed multi pack objects, and the cost of packs.
>>59523105How much are you paying?I woule be shocked if there isn't a store selling Pitch Black at $5 a pack in your nearest city.
>>59523121>I didn't experience it when I was youngerand I'm telling you its nothing special >Dad gives you $20 to spend at the card store>buy 4 packs>get a Lass and non-foil Jungle/Fossil rares>realize you could have used the $20 to buy actually good cards in the showcaseThere, I just speed ran any 90s kid with a brain's experience. Your first pack was an obvious reseal and you're still going in for more but you do you, man. Resealers gotta eat too, I guess.
>>59523121If you just want to experience ripping packs buy the cheap ETBs like Perfect Order and Chaos Rising.Scalpers avoid those because there are no chases in it so its close if not at MSRP.Otherwise sniping for pulls like >>59523135 is the way to go.
>>59523128Uk, about £5 per pack, then postage. For a single pack. Going to the shop in my town on monday, see what they have, then ordering a 3 pack thing if the shop doesn't have anything/seems sus.
Bought two pitch black booster packs at target today and got the card I wanted on my first opening. (not a collector).
>>59523437best of luckI'm sure you can find Perfect Order, Chaos Rising and Pitch Black in the wild.at least until the start of 30th is over and scalpers go after everything else again.
>>59523135I'm having fun, I'm becoming wary of being ripped off, what's the big deal? 3rd pack was the reseal, 1st pitch black was fine. Can't remember the first pack I bought. I saved a card I pulled in a decent binder, so will have a look. Pulled a cool lady card as well.I've bought 2 lass cards.1st pack bought was S&V prismatic evolutions, then 2 pitch black, and 1 trick or treat 3 pack booster (2024).>>59523435I'll have to look to see if there's anything I like in the sets, I'm not just buying to see what there is.Just had a quick look, there's a few cards in each set, I would buy them separately.
>>59523458Hopefully the shop in my town has something, if not, I'm buying a pitch black 3 booster pack thing with a promo card with it.
>>59523427Is that a regularball or a masterball?
>>59523443This had better be for flipping or investing purposes
CAZZI prenditi più cura delle tue carte
>>59523493Near Mint
>I know what I got
>>59523498Who was I made to be?
>>59523493That'll be 900 dollars.
Stores here are selling 30yr ETBs for 180 bucks each. I am not gonna pay that much.
>>5952369330th is getting printed more than any other set ever and will get more reprints over the next year.The only ones more stupid than stores asking for those prices are the few idiot actually paying them.
anyone have experiences of using marketplaces like TCGplayer, CardMarket (EU), CardTrader, etc?
>>59523716yes, TCGplayer is the biggest marketplace in the USA and Cardmarket the biggest in Europe.
>>59523731What about Cardtrader? probably not as popular, but wondering incase the small chance someone used it
>>59523507A scalperhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJmGLLDpp0
>>59523744haven't used cardtrader before. from what I heard its more expensive on average but you can save money on low value cards with their bulk shipping thing.
>>59523755I see. From a few times I've used it,Their shipping is quite cheap (~$6 for envelope shipping) to CAN, and I've been sent up to 50 or so cards using that option (I'm pretty sure it's a packet, but no damage).Interesting diversity and selection of cards.Unsure if anyone else had relatively positive experiences on it, I dont really see online reviews on it tho
>still buying physical
>>59523754But I have a job and don’t touch modern
betstill 0 updates
>>59522162I invest in stocks and buy cardboard for fun.
>>59522731I say we keep fucking with this guy until he runs out of yellow ink. But while there are cards I do want, and would rather not have a proxy, I'm not interested enough in the bullshit game to pay what is half a month's salary for pretty cardboard.>>59523889Got it you are boring and basic and will not see the kingdom of heaven
I wanna thank whatever kid drew on this card before I owned it for giving me license to hold it with my bare hands without you investor cucks needing the smelling salts
>>59523897what if i told you i also buy fake cards from aliexpress sometimes
>>59523916No one asked fat piggy. Oink oink reeeeeeeee
>"investor cucks are sooooooo beneath us. Am I right, fellow anons?">spends all day checking market price
>>59524015pipe down, investor cuck
>>59524064>checks market price
>>59524072the only thing I check is cleavage and these dubs
>>59523916What part was drawn on?
Saved money by not going to a card show. I have a hard time saving up for grails because I just end up buying smaller cards instead.
how do you fare with bulk or cards you just wanna get rid of? leaving them at a little-library or public area? trying to sell them at a LGS (though they're like 0.50)
>>59523981Based>>59523983Cost me 60 dollars in 2016
>>59524078The set symbol was colored green with a marker. My guess is the kid who got it back then wanted his Golem to be in a Safari Ball. I love it. It makes it feel loved
This bad boy came in today. The holo is so fucking cool on it.
>>59524255Why is she stinky
>>59523916My hi-res scan is in better condition than this. Loser.
>>59524274It's the WISP
>>59524297I don't want to fuck with my scanner right now retard. And I didn't buy it because it was in great condition. I bought it specifically because it wasn't
>>59524247Kino. Please ignore the raped schizophrenics.
>>59523916>>59524247SOVL
>>59521971What's the background art?
>>59523847it did not, by the way
>>59524421Stay strong bro. I had two packages arrive today after many delays.
>dropped off a card I sold into the outline mail box>almost 3 weeks later, notice it has had no tracking updates>drop off 3 more envelops into the same mail box>2 days later they all get the first "in transit" scan
>>59524450Fuck lazy mailmen. The post is a sacred service that should never be defiled by such brazen sloth.
>>59524255It's a neat era of holos. I should try and get more from it even if they're damaged like this recent pick up.
>>59524537I deliver at least 40 pokemon cards a day. Some pokemon investors are trying to make a little bit of money off Yugioh now too i noticed after asking what they ordered.
>>59524583How can you possibly know
>>59524627Apparently they tell him but I dont really believe most things I read here. I'd be way too embarrassed to tell anyone about whats in my packages. I'd say business cards or something.
>>59524582Their reverse holos are by far my favLove this poor lil Diglett>inb4 >stacking cards in the same pocket
>>59524731This is the best Diglett card. It's cool that it gets a cameo in the SwSh base set Dugtrio.
Mail day to finish my Misty page!
I'm going to look at some triple packs today, hopefully in the supermarket, so I'll get to see them first. I don't think it's overly popular, was released in 2024 and not sold out in shops. Had a quick look, but want it to be a, oooo what could there be?, kind of pull, not something I'm hoping to get.You'll laugh as it's twilight masquerade.
There are a few more artworks I want to get, but for now my tummy page is good.
>>59524809>Twilight Masquerade triple blisterare you sure that's something any store nearby will still carry? >I don't think it's overly popularit had the biggest chase card of the SV era until Prismatic released and everyone forgot about the Greninja.
>>59524810up yours, woke pokémon corporation moralists
>>59524821Replace this card asap
>>59524823Let's open packs!Aw dang it
>>59524827No way, look at that tummy
>>59524822I checked the availability online, and it's in stock, might be a different story when I get there. There's also another little shop in the supermarket that might have pokemon stuff in, but again it depends on stock, and what there is.
>>59524829got this one in a mandarake cube back in the good old days
>>59524836If I was smart I would have grabbed this ages ago, but I'm retarded.
>>59524843hindsight is 20/20
>>59524852Happy new year, slowpoke!
>>59521845how come the card on the right is smaller than the card on the left? card size ratio is global
>>59523002why he green
>>59523002>>59524889what the fuck
>>59524889Envy
>>59524821I know the Gym series wasnt well received but did they really not make another Misty card for like a decade afterward?
>>59524874Made me paranoid, but it was just an optical illusion
>>59524843This card was always like 2 bucks. Is it expensive now?
>>59524949If you consider $40 expensive.
>>59524627i ask what pokemon cards they got then they correct me sometimes. There are two guys who get 5-10 free cards per day from sitting in whatnot rooms waiting for giveaways.>>59524689tell me what you got, i can see it's addressed from buttcheeksTCG and pokemon card shaped
>>59524823lol made me laugh>>59524829I need the banned Japanese game corner cards to go with all my Porygon
>>59524997I like these cards a lot and wish they had stayed Japanese exclusive.
>>59524950I don’t, but relative to the couple bucks it was when I last looked, it’s a bit much
30th anni set releasing on the same day for all languages, and 30th cards stolen on whatnot being english ones, makes me hopeful that niggers will focus on english trash in their walmarts, and japanese cards won't be focused too much.
>>59524925GF is weird like that. They barely advertised the human characters during the first 15 years of the series, and It took until 2018 for Red to finally appear on a card.
>>59525041>japanese cards won't be focused too much.are they ever?
>>59525049Personally I prefer it that way because it keeps the focus on the Pokemon but everyone has to be a coomer now.
>>59525091I like them, but it does disappoint me that they're probably a big reason why we haven't had original TCG lore and regions in such a long time.
