>>59625012
that celebi is kino

>>59625027
very nice selection of dragonites

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>>59625037
I'd love to get the GB card but it's too expensive nowadays.

>>59624679
>i almost never open cards, and it would be nice to walk into a store and buy some 30th for it's regular price. I just want to open like 10 packs and enjoy it. I'm disgusted to what has happened to this TCG.
TPC, TPCi, and Ishihara have collectively made the game worse and I'm tired of pretending they haven't. From confirmed allegations they tried to poach trade secrets from MTG back in the day to buying Millennium Printing not only to strangle the competition but cull 830 employees earning poverty wages to also acquiring Excel Marketing (a distributor) that exclusively provides Pokemon cards to all the big box retailers in the USA while also strangling the entire competition that uses them to distribute cards and small toys. I'm upset not one YouTuber has talked about any of this and instead engage in shitflinging, whether they be scalpers, investors, collectors, or Pokemon fanatics. For fucks sake, Ishihara has even gotten on record 2 times now saying they're trying/thinking of a plan to capture the secondary market (probably offering an in house site like bricklink as Lego does) and it makes them upset that they currently cannot do that. While also admitting, yes they are completely ok with not printing enough cards and they are completely ok with smaller distributors choking small businesses that are game or card shops by paying above market rate for inventory

I hate to say it but Pokemon is like P. Diddy. And unlike his victims, everyone else buying their product, whether new or slabbed or second hand, are like people willingly wanting to drink their piss because they want to.

We are all shit eaters and Pokemon has a whole lot of shit to shit out. We have no one to blame but ourselves

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>still buying modern

>>59625143
vintage is going up in price too bud

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>>59625123
I didn't expect a Yap attack for 120 damage. Bro I'm not reading all that shit lol. I just want to open some packs and scalpers are treating Pokemon like it's the only way for them to make a quick buck.

>>59625161
You haven’t gotten to open any 30th yet?

>>59625174
Not yet but I also haven't hounded targets or walmarts. Comic shops are fags that up charge on everything.

>>59625179
I’ve gotten lucky at Target and Family Dollar once each. Have opened 9 packs in total but it’s really rough to find anything. Hope you get a chance to open some 30th friend. Remember that october 2nd the tins and other shit come out so you might have a chance then

>>59625161
>I just want to open some packs and scalpers are treating Pokemon like it's the only way for them to make a quick buck.
He's saying the price gouging starts with distributors. Not the scalpers. A small store has to put it at a premium because their distributor jacked the price. Then comes the scalper that jacks the price again. TPC doesn't do anything, they sleep and make money. The reason most scalpers go to target and bigger ones is because they're willing to fight others just to get things at MSRP.

I buy singles online and I'm affected by this. Cards are more pricey than they should at mint or lightly played. Scalpers are simply part of the human centipede, not the orchestrator of it.

Unless you live in a 3rd world shithole where allocation is low you have no excuse not to have ripped a single 30th celebrations pack at MSRP.

>>59625231
There are only two big stores that hold pokemon in driving distance of me cause i live in the sticks. Both back door the product

>>59625248
Are you in Virginia like me? I have stores I can go to, only like 15 minutes away. But I don't want to travel to 3-4 stores and not find anything. I should just call ahead.

I don't want to have to line up, because it will make me feel like I'm flaying the skin off of my forearms and injecting AIDS directly into my eyeballs. But that may also be the only way I'll ever get any packs from this set.

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Are there any good card sleeves that give cards a bit of a coloured border? Most of the ones I see for sale give a black border or don’t show what colour they are on the card side, I just think it would make pages look nice and cohesive to have coloured borders around my cards since they’re in a boring black vaultx binder.

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never buying fakes again, can barely see the art on some of the foils

>>59625309
The Chinese ones of pricier art rates are usually pretty good, but those look like the kind of fakes I’d see as a kid in the 90s-2000s.

>>59625231
I am too employed to line up at 3AM, however I managed to snag a single tin on release in the UK, allocation here is genuinely bad and shops have no idea how to handle the massive influx. Some were amazing though and had scheduled mini releases during the day, allowing queuing half an hour early and giving out single product tickets.

>>59625143
why is my filter not blocking this spam anymore

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Why do you hate Nishida cards?

>>59625409
I don't
I recently found one and wanted to buy it, but it was too pricey

>>59625409
i dont

>>59625409
Atsuko Nishida
Aya Kusube
Naoya Kimura
Sachiko Adachi
Yuka Morii
Tatsuya Komiya
Sumiyoshi Kizuki
Kawayoo

These are a few of my favourite things

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>>59625309
Buy better fakes

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>>59625443
Kawayoo is great

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>>59625537
Yea

>>59625587
i think the pikachu is pissing in the surf

I'm really never opening Pokemon sealed products again. My 30th anniversary ETB came absolutely empty, I just got the horrible promo card, a bunch of those lackluster Pikachu and those repulsive foil energies. I'm just burning inside since it was such a pain in the ass to get one of these things just to see how everybody else got at least one SIR in each box. Fuck Pokemon, fuck Nintendo, fuck y'all losers.

>>59625640
Post it on leddit and report to USPS, UPS, Fedex, DHL, etc.

>>59625651
He doesn't mean empty empty he means his gambling didn't pay out with an expensive card.

>>59625640
The only loser here is you. Thanks for playing.

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>still grading cards

>>59625640
Just buy again goy

You got the unlucky trash ETB, most others are getting hits

If you pull SIR Mew/Mewtwo, classic Lugia and le heckin Charizardino sell them immediately so you can buy 2-4 more ETBs

>>59625640
Hahahahahaha
get shat on manbaby

Damn, trying to find an ungraded 1st edition Dark Porygon2 is more annoying than I thought it was.

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so is tcgplayer just a dumping ground for cards with defects that the sellers don't need to disclose because pictures are optional?

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went to Gamestop, got 3 tech sticker packs, got Greninja SIR and some IRs. so glad I missed this Target family Day shitshow

>>59625918
You are paying scalper prices btw

Does anyone buy heavily played or damaged cards? I'm at the point where I'm starting to care less since I just put them in binders, but a fucked up back always has me second guessing the quality of the art. Going through BW XY era on ebay is especially scuffed.

>>59625955

I go after those kinds of cards too, but I would only buy them if I can see them in person. im willing to let a lot of stuff go, but not creases

>>59625966
i'd take a corner crease over a mildly scratched up face

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Did this shit ever come out in the US? Cant find anybody who got it

I JUST WANT THE PROMO I WANT MY BOY

>>59625989
feck off fag

>>59625955
Nah, if I'm gonna own a card, I'd like to have the best card possible. I'm not faggy enough to grade but knowing that there is some imperection on the card would turn me off, I would rather just not own the card.

>>59625955
I've bought one damaged EX card from XY era because a LCS was selling for like 1/6th the cost of NM but most of the damage is on the corners and back (I display in binder so back is much less relevant)

If the damage is from being folded in half or noticeable indents then the card is instantly dismissed.
I generally do "-dmg -damage -damaged -hp -heavily" on my ebay searches

>>59625884
Only buy LP at the worst on TCGPlayer

LP there is NM

>>59625918
>gamestop
lol
They're stupidly overpriced

>>59625309
Why are you bothering to buy fakes when every card out there has a normal version of it you can use instead that's cheaper?

>mfw I had no money and the cards I was looking for were available in the market and now that I have liquidity the cards I want are not easily available

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>>59626115
forgot the pic
Collecting modern cards is way easier than vintage stuff...

Does anyone know where i can buy German Pokemon cards in the west? like North America idk why but its suprisingly hard and im relatively new to the hobby's modern collecting scene. German cards are my niche since i bought pitch black in Switzerland and i want the Misty card in German.

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>>59626146
Ebay is probably your best bet, could try Cardtrader too.

>>59626146
Cardmarket is always the best for EU cards, I don't know if they ship to the US tho, second best choice unfortunately is eBay

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>still buying physical

>>59625012
>>59625052
>>59625161
holy kino
I want more gen 2

>>59625012
>>59625052
Neo was truly the most beautiful set.

What's the difference between a reseller and a scalper?

>>59626653
a reseller scalps and a scalper resells

>>59626653
What's the difference between a dog and a canine?

So what are the pulls rates for 30:th ETBs and other 30:th products?
Managed to get 3 ETBs for myself but having second thoughts about actually opening them

>>59626714
Open them, post the pulls,then I'll tell you the pull rates.

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>>59626562

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Chinese cards
Sent from Japan
To the United states
Gotta love a global economy.

Chinese Pokemon TCG products are so vastly superior to NA it is unreal. These little figures are great, the card stand is cool and they even give you a perfect fit sleeve for the card. TPCi would fucking never do this shit.

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>>59626562

>>59627101
>4x4 binder
Finally someone with some taste around here

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>>59627121
9 card pages are small and lame. The only non-12 card binder I use are for taking with me to card shows since it's more convenient in a backpack.

>>59627098
>Chinese cards
>Sent from Japan
>To the United states
>Gotta love a global economy.
>Chinese Pokemon TCG products are so vastly superior to NA it is unreal. These little figures are great, the card stand is cool and they even give you a perfect fit sleeve for the card. TPCi would fucking never do this shit.
Link me the distributor or seller because I'm interested in Chinese. Please, the places around me get fake Chinese cards that are horribly obvious and poor quality

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>>59627129
>small and lame
I agree, especially stitched ones I feel the pages never sit flat enough for my tastes. 9-card pages should be left to ring binders.
A big widescreen spread is impressive.

>>59625640
>I'm really never opening Pokemon sealed products again. My 30th anniversary ETB came absolutely empty, I just got the horrible promo card, a bunch of those lackluster Pikachu and those repulsive foil energies. I'm just burning inside since it was such a pain in the ass to get one of these things just to see how everybody else got at least one SIR in each box. Fuck Pokemon, fuck Nintendo, fuck y'all losers.
You should've used the x ray service to see what you've got. If it doesn't have what you want, you offload it

>>59627154
Peak soul

>some random makes a video
>https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XbJSYQXSK0
>Grades otherwise fine cards and exposes psa again
>Drones come out of the woodwork in the comments defending psa
Are PSA drones worse than Pokemon fans and other fanatics of other multimedia companies and franchises? I think so

>>59627101
>>59627279
>>59627154
The thing modern cards are missing, imho, is art like this. Art that's hand painted or pencilled will always have more character than "anime style digital art" #9001. Modern has some gorgeous art to be sure, but nothing that feels "real", y'know?

>>59627129
Why do people feel the need to CONSOOM so much? Why not just have a nice small collection of your most favorite cards? You just end up with more stuff to offload when you finally snap out of it

>>59627308
>what the heck like literally what the heck, I can't see any reason this card isn't a perfect 10
>oh ok well the back edges are completely damaged but still
>okay fine the holo is completely scratched but come on still I don't see how it's not a 10

he is a complete retard

>>59627325
>why do collectors want to collect things, xhe asked in the collector's thread

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>card that was steadily $3k for a long time just sold at auction twice for $6.3k and $6.7k

might be time to let it go lads, I could buy so many cheeseburgers with that money

>>59627334
>I am TRUE COLLECTOR, I must collect EVERY ITEM IN THE WORLD!!!!!!

>>59627337
Are you autistic? Nobody said that. I'm not even the guy with 9 binders, but I have my own rather large collection goals that I'm working on. They're all cards I like or that mean something to me.
Trying to larp as a fucking monk about Pokemon cards is hilarious though, dude, keep going.

>>59627342
>They're all cards I like or that mean something to me.

Even the Regirock V full art?

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>you might think this is excessive, but actually all 60,000 of these CDs have a deep, special meaning to me. When you're a True Collector, there's no such thing as excessive.

Uh-oh schizo malty

>>59627325
you seem to be under the impression everyone bounces in and out of hobbies like you do. Do something for decades and you will accumulate a lot.

My collection will only be complete when I own every English rare-or-higher from Base Set to EX Power Keepers, every promo from those eras, the entire Vending and VS series, and every later card/Japanese promo I find to be fucking cool.

>>59626918
>>59627101
so much sovl

>>59627379
Then when you're 54 and laying dying of a pulmonary embolism your last thoughts will be
>I am so glad I spent 10's of thousands of dollars on these bits of cardboard, now I can die peacefully

>>59627407
God i wish that was me
I'm never getting some of those gold star cards unless i win a lottery

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>>59627098
Opened two, got Leafeon and Umbreon. Very satisfied even with nothing in the packs. I'll keep the rest sealed for now.

>>59627098
That tofu has seen more of the world than i have

>>59627487
Hey eveelution bro, please respond to me here >>59627145

The seller doesn't reply to my messages.
Why Spanish are so fucking dumb!?

>>59627587
Not familiar with ebay?

>>59627326
>he is a complete retard
Found the psa shill who read the comments. He had a few cards that weren't scratched and could've easily gotten an 8 at the least

>>59627600
I need a reputable seller so pls share

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>>59625306
Got the playmat for this for $20. God I fucking love Bianca

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>>59625409
I love Yuu Nishida.

>>59627121
That's 4x3 though'm'st've

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>>59625587
Nice kid.

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>>59626598
Aquarian Age? Very nice.

>>59627121
I'm not a fan. I dont like the way the pages flop around and droop if you dont fully pull them as you turn the page. 3x3s also have this problem but to a much lesser extent.

>>59624989
my x3 bundles from the pokemon center shipped. but I don't wanna open them anymore because my 30th opening luck has been complete shit.

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>Open 3 ETBs
>Had fun ripping for the first time since the B/W set a year or two ago but got pretty meh pulls
Going to keep the other 10 for my sealed collection for now

>>59627121
when it comes to layout, odd numbers are aesthetically superior

>>59628066
>>59628111
Autistic complaints especially about "droopy pages"
You want the pages to have more give as you flip them so you don't rape the cards in the pockets. Unironically why ring binders with pages are better for flipping.

>>59627587
Aliexpress, just check seller reviews.

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>>59627928
Taste detected

>>59628210
Me on the left

>>59628210
She's terrible.

>>59628198
>talks about cards getting raped in binders
>advocates for ring binders
Getting upset because I voiced my personal preference is extremely autistic behavior btw. 3x3s are standard for a reason.

>>59628099
30th is pretty great

marnie is best gurl

Are there any card binders with CUTE covers? Preferably small Pokegirls.

>>59628480
there’s an official iono one that i have. is pretty cute

>>59628484
Thanks but not quite what I'm looking for. Iono is cute but not small.
I'm talking more like the Acerolas or Poppys or Irises.

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>>59628474
BASED

>>59628493
>girls last tour
>monogatari
>naoki urasawa
Hmm, fine. You may proceed.

10 boxes showed up and the Japanese 30th Umbreon/espeon box arrived with one box of ygo, still waiting for three more boxes of ygo and one Chinese special box of 30th and one jap box of 30th
You'd think this place would be a lot more active considering the anniversary set is out
>>59625190
I posted the games here one time and got yelled at

>>59628609
Which YGO boxes? The new manga collection?

>>59628609
>guys guys I bought 10 boxes of the latest thing!
Your posts are pointless.

>>59628613
Yep

How many of you don't care about language when collecting cards? Foreign cards seem like they're usually cheaper, but they have the same art, so I've started to get more of those lately because all I care about is looking at the nice art.

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Bruh why did I put this energy card on this page as a kid

>>59628645
Post Overframe Prismatic Secret Rare Harpie Lady Elegant Egotist when you get her.

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I love this fat lug

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>>59628474
very true

>>59628699
NOOOO YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BUY ENGLISH ONLY FOR THE PERCEIVED MARKET VALUE, OR JAPANESE BECAUSE THING, JAPAN = :)

>>59628493
damn i only have a psa 9 marnie

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Wtf lmao since when is this lil' digga going for $700+ mint
Still not slabbing or selling mine

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>McDonald's cards coming back
Yeah I think I'm lovin it

>>59628416
>still believing the "premium card album" industry lies
>thinks there's only one type of ring binders
Kek you're a fucking rube, huh? I wasn't "advocating" for anything besides 12-per-page stitched binders.
>3x3s are standard for a reason
... Because laying 9 baseball cards in a grid is as many as you can fit into an 8.5"x11" boundary. Are you actually braindead?

>>59629398
>more autistic screeching

>>59629426
Enjoy your vaultx slop faggot

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I bring you love

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>cards come in
>the Pokemon cards from two different sellers are both sandwitched between crudely cut out Amazon package flaps and wrapped with plastic wrap, no tape on either card to hold them down
>both cards are in worse condition than described
>All the Yugioh cards are properly inside toploaders/a massive card saver (despite the card only being worth like 500 yen), double sleeved, binded between taped together cardboard sheets, and fitted inside bubble wrapper. All from different sellers.
Pokemon is truly a normgroid series. On another note, these manga rares are really fucking cool.

>>59629475
>dude Pokemon sucks amirite
>am I cool yet???
Cringe

>>59629428
As if vaultx doesnt make 4x4 binders. They all come from the same Chinese factory you fucking sperg lol

>>59629508
No shit but vaultx has shit tier quality controls compared to other brands. Overly tight pockets and shit stitches.
I'm sure you think that the same factory means the end products are identical because you're a 12 year old retard, though.

>>59629526
Man, you're an angry little autist, aren't you?
Did you make this post too >>59629505?

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Delivery day. 3 cards and a sealedass sticker card. I prefer the back of the sticker card.

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>>59629579
Front.

>>59629536
You have not made one post of substance. Do better.

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>>59629579
Roaring moon and the kanda aerodactyl.

59629582
Substance enough for you to reply to me though :)

>>59629290
All the gen 3 reverses had a massive run up the last year or so. Big artists like Komiya and Yuka Mori especially.

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>>59627121
Sorry, but 2x2 chads are superior. Less clutter and only room for the absolute best cards

>>59629668
I do like 2x2 (but not gay toploader ones), they let your eyes focus on the individual cards. Careful though, you're going to anger the sperg.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/coinbase-just-teased-product-nothing-112645444.html

>>59629668
Even numbers and perfect squares, as all things should be.

>>59628490
>Iono is cute but not small.
Idk, for an adult woman I considered 150cm to be pretty fucking small.


>I'm talking more like the Acerolas or Poppys or Irises.

>>59628490
guessing lily also ain’t loli enough for you? she’s getting one in like a day or two

>>59628699
>How many of you don't care about language when collecting cards? Foreign cards seem like they're usually cheaper, but they have the same art, so I've started to get more of those lately because all I care about is looking at the nice art.
Come to think of it, have any alternative language cards in a psa 10 or equivalent been sold for a lot of money? Everything j see is English or Japanese

>>59629579
Are you the same pidg collector I've seen in the last threads? If so based

>>59629703
>Rip and shitters but crypto
People who buy this are beyond stupid

Fellow scalpGODS I got another 2 tins and a poster collection today just on the way home from work
Gonna sell them all as with anything 30th and then use the profit to get free cards that I want

30th has been so profitable man

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>>59629964
>Come to think of it, have any alternative language cards in a psa 10 or equivalent been sold for a lot of money?
I don't know about the super expensive vintage grails but for modern, the graded market always favours English by a decent percentage because the market is global instead of concentraded to a smaller area.
top in this picture is PSA 10 EN, middle is PSA 10 German and bottom is AOG 10 German which is an alternative German grading service with decent popularity among Germans. basically the German TAG.

>>59629301
Think of all the homeless they could feed with those shoes.

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>>59629475
>these manga rares are really fucking cool
They really are. You pulled most of the ones I want.
How do they look in person as Ultra and Secret rares? I feel like the foiling would distract from the more simple art and frame.
It also sucks Summoned Skull didn't get a card in that set. Hopefully it means we're getting more manga cards later on.

>>59629699
>hey let your eyes focus on the individual cards
You're the only one who knows what he's talking about. It is such a waste when nice art is overstuffed in large pages to the point it's all a blur.
I still like 3x3 pages the most because those are the best middle ground to where you're still able to appreciate single cards if you concentrate and can make themed pages with art that complements the art next to it.

>>59629949
>she’s getting one in like a day or two
Oh nice. Link? Lily definitely is loli enough.

>>59630100
Not everyone is mentally deficient enough that looking at more than one image on a page is overwhelming.

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>>59630104
she sadly doesn’t take up much of the binder. there was a korean one from a few years back that looked better but I think it was 4 pockets

I live in a hick town in kind of the middle of nowhere but ours is the only Walmart in the county (and there's no Targets for 30 miles)
Is it even worth bothering to check if they have any 30th stuff?

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>>59630104
>>59630121
this is the korean one

>>59630121
>>59630128
Why doesn't TPC/i make any good quality licensed stuff for the TCG? Their folios are cheapshit or Ultra Pro folios at best. Why not make collector-level zip binders or license one of the billion companies out there to do it? It will print money.

>>59630148
They do make zips but they are pokemon center only and usually don’t feature cute girls. They have a game corner one on their website currently i believe

>>59630152
>no cute girls
Slop

>>59629964
>pidg collector
Yep, slowly building the collection.

>>59630165
tpc fears waifufags

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>>59630200
>>59630178
>>59630165
>>59630152
>>59630148
The only card in the world with squishy on it. Do you own it? It’s going to be very valuable some day.

>>59630120
There's a reason museums and art exhibits don't smush all their displays close together. Stop being a moron it has nothing to do with mental deficiency(???) it's about how the human eye and mind work.
You know, aesthetics? Something that has been studied for centuries?

>>59630128
This one is a lot nicer.

>>59630276
characters much larger, poses more dynamic, actually a fully illustrated image instead of clip art over a background. koreans win again

>>59630215
Not bothered about value, but it's cool it's only the one card with the character on. Cheap as well. Fugg it, I'm going to get one, and start an anon's rec's section in my binder (I'm a poorfag so won't be able to afford investoor's rec's).
Thanks anon, cool card cool fact.

>>59630215
kubfu has only 1 card

>>59630293
I'll let them have the W this time, the Korean peninsula is cursed anyway.

>>59627335
Those god awful Prime and Lvl cards from D/P era are starting to sell for obscene amounts. I dunno man, Pokémon is just a different breed

>>59630310
That's why I've been trying to get my hands on gen 4 cards, sadly, a lot of the reverse holos are scratched to hell and back so it's hard to find them.

>>59630310
It is literally because of invooost fags shitting everything up. People think any high-rarity card is worth something, meanwhile idiots buy up the cheap (id est, shitty) cards because they get FOMO or believe theirs will be the next to moon. I'm convinced Pokemon Prime specifically are a pump scheme, they were dirt cheap because they're boring as hell, but then when Gen 3 cards started to take off someone probably bought all the Primes he could find and started listing them at obscene prices.
Lvl X are ugly but at least I get the desirability, as they are the ex-style cards for Gen 4 mons. I think they suck compared to Pokemon EX but there's plenty of Pokemon that only ever got a Lvl X.

when tf did arceus lvl x become a 150 dollar card? guess im rich bros

Gen 4 cards are legit some of the ugliest I can think of, at least for the rares. HGSS sets had good normal art and the LEGENDs are cool when you get them all, but Level X, Prime, just ugly. And DPPt cards had mostly trash art until they introduced SP, and even then those Level Xs were gross.
BW had a lot of really gross digital paint art, but the rares were always fire and 5ban was actually pretty good then.

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>here's your $200 card bro
KEK I own this ugly fuck too, I should probably sell it now.
There are like 5 of these niggers with acceptable art but that's it.

>>59630299
NTA but I've added it. Thanks for the recc.

>>59630323
congrats buy me a beer

>>59630340
They made Infernape look like a fucking goblin...

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Lv. X was a great mechanic. The cards could have been good if they'd just let Ueda do all of them, Shizurow was just not good at it. These are all the ones imho that have nice art, most are drawn by Ryo Ueda (who also happens to have been the only good artist on Pokemon-ex in Gen 3).

>>59630340
>$200
Maybe for a graded 10. Look at TCGPlayer, the claimed market price is $131.66 and yet the 5 that actually sold in the last threr months were $80 or less. Like most things in the """market""" it's all speculative and shills.

>>59630357
Most of these cards are like that but that one is egregiously bad. An obsession with face-first, open mouthed characters, many looking off-model.

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Wish I had picked up an Espeon Prime before the hike, but at least I got Umbreon for $50 back in the day.

I like Primes because they were part of what got me back into collecting. In 2010 I took my nephews to a card shop and randomly bought an HS Unleased pack while there because I like Enteii. The pack had the lower half of the Entei Suicune legend and Ursaring Prime. I couldn't believe what Pokemon cards had become.

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>>59630395
Perfectly valid and soulful reason to like a card. I guess there probably were plenty of people who's first ultra rares were Primes after all. Unfortunately my first "premium" cards were Shining Charizard and Shining Raichu, I can never complete the set.
I have the promo Meganium Prime, wonder if it's worth something?

Why do some people get upset that some places are selling product and singles at market? Do they honestly expect them to get it at MSRP with the shit show going on now?

>>59630343
buy kogas weedle cause i think it looks cool

You know shit has hit the fan when you're driving home and NPR runs a piece about the state of Pokemon cards and how card-related robbery is on the rise. Even the reporter admitted that the Pokemon Company had taken steps to curb the insanity in Japan, but not elsewhere, besides saying they were "working hard to print even more cards" kek

>>59630453
Oy very!

dded it to the list.

give me some creepy cards that aren't just ghosts being silly

>>59630456
Sorry, meant to reply to you saying I'll pop it on the list.

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>>59630359
Shaymin mogs all of those

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>>59630482
For (you)

>>59630483
>taste this abysmal
Christ

>>59630092
The foiling on the Secret rares are a little distracting. I think they look better in monochrome. Ultras are good for clearly seeing the whole picture but Secrets have a premium kind of look to them.
Yeah, Summoned Skull would have been nice but I'm pretty sure they're going to make more.

>>59630493
>taste this abysmal
Pointlessly mean.

>>59630507
I replied to the wrong guy lel that was meant for Shaymin anon >>59630485
I think Koga's Weedle is a fun card actually, and I like your idea of having a set of "anon meme cards".

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>>59630482

>>59630518
Masago is amazing, his heavy inking and use of shadows give all his Pokemon this edgy style that doesn't quite go too far into DeviantArt tier. Revelation Ho-oh is one of the most beautiful cards ever made, it's majestic and gritty, reverent and mysterious. Is this an angry god or a powerful rebirth?
Then there's his Scyther which has a very light feel despite being in action in the illustration, with almost no dark shadows at all and lots of natural light. Feels just like mowing the lawn on a March afternoon. His Mewtwo and Tyranitar are truly sinister monsters, which is their best form.
I only wish we saw more cards from him, but maybe it's best to go out on a high note than to keep going for decades and devolve into slop like Kagemaru Himeno, Sumiyoshi Kizuki, et. al.

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>>59630493
i just really love the water colored weedle mixed with the fuzzy textured grass. love the cards like that

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>>59630482
always found this one slightly off putting. like a picture of mothman taken right as he flew past

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The seller of the squishy card messaged about me needing more cards, and usually I'd not bother looking, but glad I did as he had a cool komiya card.

>>59630515
Ah, kek.
>>59630554
I ordered 1. It wasn't a first ed, being honest I didn't think to look, sorry.

>>59630580
the art is the part that matters. enjoy your card friend

>>59630630
That's it, I've got that now, as before I wanted english and japanese versions of the cards I wanted, but I'm not too fussed now.
The kubfu I bought earlier I bought in jappanese as I like how the kanji looks.

>>59630554
The gym series sets with the copy pasted Sugimori art are lazy as hell but damn they are charming. Makes me want to download a bunch of stock backgrounds and make some myself.

>>59630667
Blaine’s Tauros is another great one

>>59630485
lmao that looks like food fight

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>>59630667
No, shit like this is lazy. There was at least an artistic attempt with most of the Sugimori Gym cards.

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>>59630667
I don't mind the old Sugimori cards. They made a little more effort with the backgrounds and the it sorta fit with the old frame. It wasn't until EX series that they started phoning it in

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Today is the day.
All I want is the starter set... but I doubt I'll get any.

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>>59630827
This isn't so bad and feels more in the style of the Gym cards than cards from like... EX Power Keepers onwards. I feel the watercolor art meshes with the uncanny backgrounds better and makes them feel very dreamlike, compared to the more vibrant colors of Gen 3 art.
But literally the Gym era cards were some of my favorite, the stock arts felt like what Pokemon would look like irl somehow, and the ones that were specially drawn were the first true anime-style art I'd ever seen and felt super vivid. This is one of the best cards ever imho.

>>59630997
really wish they kept the trainer icons at the bottom, it just looks so much cleaner

Checked my Temu account and noticed i have a lot of coupons just sitting there that are like 30%-50% off on prodcuts.

Was thinking about buying their pokemon ETBs that are getting scalped to hell right now and was just wondering if they have been known to sell fake cards?

>>59629591
ah yes my favorite pokemon, Roaring Moon.

>>59631165
ok....after googling it turns out that apparently this is a legit name for that pokemon my mistake.

>>59631172
I don't get it

>>59624989
cute

Is it a really bad idea to open up a card shop? Everyone's telling me not to and to vend on my own terms instead. Store Rent is 50K a year for 620SQFT. Was also told that distributors would ignore any game or card shop unless they bought 10K+USD of inventory (I would send it to the warehouse but 10K of money to spend on boxes is something I don't have at the moment)

>>59631252
The joke is he has repugnant taste.

really weird that there are some pokemon with only like 4 cards

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>get me a matcha and espresso
>open the packs I bought on the way
It be like that
>>59631313
I dread the day I get a RR or higher Muk/Weezing

>>59631294
Nocards faggot

I should have some packs to open today. Not loose packs don't worry, I bought a chaos rising triple booster. I'm not after anything in particular, just wanting to rip some packs.

>>59631313
More weird that some Pokemon have way more cards than you expected and yet they all look the same and not particularly good. https://pkmncards.com/?s=surskit

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She won

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Post amazing looking Chinese cards you'll never own

>West Taiwan
Ick.

>>59631518
You posted the only chinese card that's looks good. Congratulations.

>>59631518
Just buy a fake, anon. It's Chinese anyway

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>One of each 30:th premium and ultra premium box secured
Sort of want to try and get a second set to resell later

>>59631313
There are still Mega Pokemon that haven't even received a card yet, and I'm not talking about the new megas from ZA. I'm talking about 12 year old ancient megas like Mega Banette and Mega Pinsir.

>>59631313
My nigga Rampardos got absolutely fucked and has yet to get a good card.

>>59631702
Rampardos EX is pretty cool

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>>59631518
I probably will end up owning this, I like their exclusives. I also want the Big Applin and the forest eeveelutions

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>>59631313
I want Skitty to get an AR/IR badly, she and Delcatty are kind of forgotten for cute kitty cat pokemon.

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>>59631518
Literally my dream card. If I ever strike it rich, I'd buy booster boxes of that set until I find it, cause buying it second hand is not the same.

>>59631883
mental illness

>>59631853
Delcatty just got the classic collection card.

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>>59625409
why exactly would anyone dislike her art? there’s nothing inherently egregious about it. it’s unique, well-made, and from an artist who has been with pokémon from the beginning. that being said, i collect nishida, so naturally i’m biased.

>>59631702
He had a couple good cards in DP and that’s IT! :,) Justice for our nigga

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>>59631518
I started collecting Cubone cards years ago but this and the early eReader era set cards make completing it really expensive

Pokemon Center Queue is up

>>59632025
ty anon

>>59631960
>why exactly would anyone dislike her art?
please don't trigger the anti-nishida schizo.

>>59631886
I suggest checking what site you're on

>>59632037
shit I’ll shut up :X

>>59631960
People cry because it's "off model" but I think it's distinctive like you said. Nishida, Sugimori and Arita are the reasons I fell in love with the cards at the very start.

>>59631289
>Is it a really bad idea to open up a card shop? Everyone's telling me not to and to vend on my own terms instead. Store Rent is 50K a year for 620SQFT. Was also told that distributors would ignore any game or card shop unless they bought 10K+USD of inventory (I would send it to the warehouse but 10K of money to spend on boxes is something I don't have at the moment)
Anyone

>>59631518
>>59631827
Why is china getting so much cool stuff while we in the states get the shaft and the shittiest products possible. I know why they're courting china but what about the USA?

>>59631289
start vending locally first and see if you even click with it yeah?

>>59632095
TPC versus TPCi
We are eternally cucked

>>59631289
>>59632079
why don't you start selling them "on your own terms" like everyone tells you and see where that leads you? 4k in rent/month (does it include utilities, taxes, etc.? i'm not american) is not a small value

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Triple pack came, nothing special, but I did like the litleo and beldum.

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Would these be of use to anyone?

>>59632025
Got in at 8:45 and this thing is still telling me I have a half hour to go fuck I just want my 2 ETBs

>>59632155
nothing major but I got a reverse deoxys, ty anon

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>>59632162
Yw. Nice I pulled 2 earlier, 1was rev.

No fucking ETBs left but I managed to shnaggy a Delta Reign booster box at least before the site crashed

best 4 slot toploader binder? should i buy a regular one instead?

whats so good about delta reign? its just redditquaza

etbs sold out so quick

>>59632206
Any 30th left at all? I'm in the queue but I have time left to wait. I really hate what people have done to this hobby. It makes me sick that some faggot on ebay can sell 700 ETBs for $169.99 a pop.

>>59632232
This was only Delta Reign preorders you're going to have to wait till the UPCs drop for a restock on 30th most likely

>>59632186
nice! that's exactly the one I got, speed

>>59632228
Azurill IR and Raikoi SIR are nice.

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>>59632095
It’s to stop Chinese buyers from just collecting Japanese and to follow their gambling laws (thus every box and pack has a hit of some kind), so they get the Gem packs with their special SIRs, good quality printing, Japanese factories etc.
For me it’s worse when good art is locked inside of Pocket, when printing the cards wouldn’t dissuade anybody from playing the phone game.

>>59632228
Growlithe IR
Kecleon IR
Eevee IR
Azurill IR
A better Sprigatito IR
Raikou SIR
Dual cards being reintroduced again

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>>59632228
I'd love to have this layout on a page of my binder.
Energy to match the legendary cards, food and light for the adventure to find the babe.

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got some card stands for the waifu

Pre-orders are all gone. Probably have been for at least a half hour.

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>>59632262
Are we getting Sprigatito in English? Neat

>>59632340
Assuming as much since the queue time has suddenly dropped. Welp

I wish 30th had more reprints, way too many Pikachus.

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Big purchase (for a poorfag) just now, £30. But it is cool as fuck. I'm going to have to take it out of the fund for the card show I'm going to next month, but this is cool.

>>59632364
I wish they would just do a reprint of every Neo Genesis card released

The difference between Pokemon and other TCGs is that you really don't use any cards besides the current sets to compete with, meaning older cards are purely for collectors. There aren't really any supported formats and the power level just isn't there to compete across generations. So reprinting anything outside of special editions (like 30th) is generally pointless.

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>>59632342
Yeah it's confirmed card 105/103 from an Italian reveal for the set

>>59632437
I mean they do have Expanded Format which is basically Yugioh where anything from Black and White 2011 to the present is a legal deck that can be played but yeah most tournament grinders stick to Standard because it's cheap and the card pool is easy to memorize compared to 15 years of busted cards

>>59632402
Nice. I also just spent £20 from my own card show budget on the JP Espeon promo I liked, because it’ll be ridiculously expensive in English.

>>59632228
the cards don't matter anymore for sealed investing

what matters is the box mon and the packaging

>>59632455
You been to many shows before? This will be my 2nd. Quite looking forward to it, and I have a few things I'd be willing to trade/sell, and a crappy blitzle psa9 to try get rid of (that was a silly purchase).

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>>59632539
Same, actually! I went to my first this month with some friends and it was great fun, now copying them and bringing cash as you can barter with it. I’m also taking some impulse purchases that were bargains for trading lel. My old vintage cards are sealed in my parent’s attic like it’s a pharaoh’s tomb so I’m avoiding buying anything from the 90s-2000s until I can take inventory, but everything else is fair game and I can tell my shopping list is getting barely stuck to. I’m going to the one in Bristol on the 12th as it’s local and looks fairly substantial, very excited to hunt for lots of baby shinies and other fun stuff.

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>>59632563
June was mine, and this one is near my city so don't have to go far, but don't think it's big. I took a fair bit of cash to the first one, so I could go wild (and I did) (fair bit for a poorfag, like £200 ish), but won't have anywhere near that. I'll be trying to pay attention this time and not pay top end for too much stuff.
I keep being indecisive about the slab, it isn't the best card, but it was the first thing I bought, so has that value. Fuck it, I'm keeping it.

>>59632321
Anon, that's an animal.

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This is the only Pokemon card I own, it was a promo from the Detective Pikachu movie Bluray. For the heck of it, I just looked it up on tcgplayer and a Lightly Played card goes for $20. What the fuck. I've been using it as a Token in my YuGiOh deck.

>>59632646
in bed

You guys aren't gonna like this but I think it's time to sell. Some of you probably have collections that if you sold now would give you life changing money. Something to think about.