houndoom won

I bought ten loose ninja spinner packs and thirty loose packs from an extremely sketchy seller
It's gambling time
Let's see if the second guy scammed me

>>59125506
They absolutely did. Japanese packs are ridiculously easy to weigh. Stop being such a stupid nigger.

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>still grading cards

>mega mawile sar still not out
Uh oh

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>>59125898
bro...

>>59125898
I wonder what kind of foil that is and where one would buy it

>>59125898
is that supposed to be a fake card or is that how a real card look when it get peeled off for some reason?

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:O

>>59125921
texture is way too good to be fake, especially for a card that literally just released in english.

>>59125949
>especially for a card that literally just released in english.
I mean, fakers work really fast you know, when they wanna make some quick bucks
but yeah, the texture looks way too good. But how common is for a card to get peeled off like that? is that even possible?
I ask because I'm a newfag to the TCG world

>>59125955
the texture looks way too good to be fake, it is most likely a production error

>>59125964
I wonder if Pokemons cards might need more anti counterfeit measures.

>>59125898
this is AI

>>59125981
I don't think avian intelligence can replicate the dot matrix holo or whatever it's called

>>59126112
>>59125977
now that I think about it the dot holo may be a new anti counterfeit measure as I don't think I've seen it before SV
I'm also a newfag that started collecting around XY evolutions era so someone correct me if I'm wrong

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>still buying physical

>open packs on a livestream on YouTube for kids
>repackage the cards you don't want as mystery boxes or whatever
>???
>profit

They're little fucking cardboard fun cards for kids you fucks

Does anyone have a list of all the cards in Ascended Heroes that AREN'T reprints?

I'm new to pokemon TCG, where to start?

>>59126429
nvm I just did some research and it looks like it's a really bad time with hype at ATH

>>59126429
Watch what Logan Paul does and copy it.

>>59126429
>buy booster
>open booster
>????
>profit

>>59126429
do you want to play or just collect shiny pressed tree pulp?

>>59126429
1) don't start
2) wait 2 years at least
3) evaluate if start
4) repeat

>>59127154
Been doing this with crypto ever since my friend showed me that one bought pizza. Can confirm it works

>check eBay for card
>Holy shit thats a low price NM and it's from Australia
>Free shipping too
>Check the pics
>Front looks.... Okay...
>Check the pics of the back
>It's HP basically damaged tier
I fucking hate Australians you fucking subhuman slave colony scamming faggots
Too many sellers out near mint on their page when their pics say otherwise

They announced new news for the anniversary set.
Those mews look ugly

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trimmed a few trainers (out of 5) I suppose

>>59127381
>collecting male trainer cards

What are you, gay?

Found out a guy a vaguely knew from work is now a mildly successful Pokemon streamer and sells repacks. I always knew he was a piece of shit.

I'm glad all of the scalpers and "investors" are shitting themselves over Perfect Order being "the worst set".
Maybe they will finally fuck off

>>59127424
Show his boobs

>>59127436
>Ymblying
There's a mega Rayquaza set followed by a mega Darkrai set followed by the 30th anniversary set

>>59127420
duh thats why I got rid of them, (also the patterns I kinda hate)

>>59127479
why can't those niggers fuck off to one piece

>>59127436
Watch them release 152 one day and all the scalper coming back in droves

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>>59125927
Sick Gengars dude.
Check out this wack-ass Dark Nigger I had since I was a kid.
>not 1st edition
who cares lol that wasn't even japan's idea lol i hate this country lol

>>59127496
based

>>59127483
They do both, and one piece is actually worse right now, every new set has all the secret rares over $100 and multiple $1000+ chases

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Based ghostfags

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tfw those are the only cards that survived from my childhood... why do moms throw shit away...

>>59127496
Nice purple farts

>>59127608
Moms are the niggers of the world that's why

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Mail day! This will be the unwanted Chinese Rayquaza I'll be giving away to my local Chinese food delivery person. This is the tcgplay scam card...

>>59127436
Destined Rivals booster box is the same price as a Brilliant Stars BB. Do these "investors" even know what they're doing or just buying whatever is new.

>>59125927
>>59127496
>>59127555
>>59127665
Super Based

>>59127608
You looking to trade that Dark Persian?

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Based and smug pilled

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Is it worth grading some of my old cards from when I was a kid. They’ve been in a binder their whole life.

>>59127719
>lost all childhood stuff
>he bro wanna lose more?

>>59127722
If those are the actual cards absolutely

>>59127722
IMO it's only worth grading if you intend to sell them. I think the slabs look ugly.

>>59127729
At least slabs can protect artifacts like those better than leaving them in the garage

>>59127734
>what is a magloader

>>59125506
Loose japanese packs are horrible because:
1) you can just open a boostie box until you get the guaranteed hit and put the rest aside
2) they have no anti-weighing measures like code cards or energies

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>>59127734
>>59127763
Slabs protect worse than a one touch case and equivalents since slabs do not have UV protection. Also obviously way easier to replace when they inevitably get scuffed up.

These are my personal favorite though I get the 20pt now as they are better for Pokemon cards.

>>59127791
>UV protection
Are you going to stick those to your windows or glue them to your room walls?

>>59127808
My brother in christ, if you want to protect your cards why would you not want to protect your cards from as much as you can?

>>59127873
My holy brother, if you have a simple box you can put all your cards there and use up a lot less space and money

Are investors really that bad? I mean like the real investors holding psa 10 vintage and trophy cards. Maybe some super old sealed product aswell like base booster boxes and stuff. I dont see why you guys hate these guys. Feel like you hardly ever see these types of investors post online.

>>59127995
pretty sure is thanks to them that we have cards being over $500 and that's why people hate them
this is a fucking card game for kids, not a fucking diamond factory

>>59127995
Everyone calls themselves investor nowadays, while they fill their room with anything they can buy at 3x from botters in hope it will go up 20% in 20 years.

>>59127719
not really no

>>59127723
I meant to put Mom in the name field but somehow forgot it was going to be really funny.

lmao imagine getting cancer and right before you die your whore wife and fatass children try selling your collection to a fucking kiketuber at a massive discount just so they can get instant gratification and a modicum of clout. crazy how the kiketuber realizes how bad it would look to rob them percentage wise and so hes gonna auction them to the audience so they can get the discounts instead of himself. and the dumbass whore wife still insists on selling it ASAP to this kiketuber regardless if they get more money or not. whites are so soulless, and fuck the performative crying in the video from this disgusting family. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gf3XloGh4

>>59128196
buy an ad, faggot

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Pickups this week

I’m kinda nervous to go play at this one shop

>eBay seller is from China
>Japanese mega dream Booster box for $100
Uhhh is this a scam?

>>59128237
Woah look at that Mewtwo that's some kickass art.

I've sold all my english for Japanese. How much better is the texture actually?

>>59128439
Can you even read what you own?

>>59128457
Japanese cards have better texturing, cope more

>>59128439
It's the same with Yugioh. I'm thinking of doing the same.

>>59126370
I like that Mew card of it flying through town.
I imagine it appearing randomly to people and then quickly dissappearing to the point where people think they imagined it or sound crazy
>guys I saw a Mew flying and it looked at me and-
>yeah right liar
>no I swear please you gotta believe me

>>59127436
Yeah all the mtg investors really fucked off after spidernigger and lord of the niggers

>>59128576
thank you wood table anon for consistently being one of the best posters in this general.

>>59128418
ikr, one of my faves

>>59126429
Play pokemon pocket TGC to get an idea of how Pokemon TCG plays out. Then start transitioning into Live if you become bored with Pocket.

Buy cards, start with Perfect Order since it's the least popular set currently, so you should have better chances of finding a booster pack or other products.

>>59127436
Yeah thank god. Because it was annoying having to buy every single product at launch because they'll just run out after release date due to scalpers and "investorbros"

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Today I got a trap whose most popular ship is ironically an hetero one and a very obscure waifu.

>>59128748
Good waifu

Most of the posted cards are english interdesting

>>59128466
Sounds like you’re coping for not being able to ready your cards.

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Ripped open a box of inferno x
I got Jack shit

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>still buying modern

My biggest regret is not buying a sealed Mario/luigi Pikachu box set 5 years ago.

>>59128823
yeah, that's what I always get out of ETBs

>>59128827
anon those literally released a decade ago.......

>>59128865
They were under $10k though just 5 years ago. There’s nothing out right now that has that kind of potential. Everything is boring

does anyone have images of "accelgor illustration rare" under strong light? I just wanna see how the light interacts with the image

>>59128887
>bro talking about 10k like it's pocket money
I seriously think this card collecting hobby isn't for me...

>>59128898
If $10k is a lot of money to you, you shouldnt be buying anything extra. Focus on getting your Roth IRA maxed and get an engineering degree or something that will net you a high paying job. Collectibles come after you’ve set yourself up for success.

>>59128935
bro, I'm 33yo already. I already failed in getting my engineering degree because of lazyness and depression. Dropped out 3 times, the most recent one last year
I wasn't meant for that shit...

>>59128938
thats rough, its not your fault that the modern world requires a higher and higher iq to make the bare minimum amount to live comfortably. at some point the populace will realize that the average person cannot reasonably survive and a communist takeover must happen. this is all due to the immense greed from the (((owner))) class.

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Hey friends, i found my old Pokemon cards that havent been touched since 2002ish? I wish i knew they were going to be worth gold as a child and took better care of them, but ill post them here and if anyone can give me any QRDs on what i got

#1
Holo Poliwrath base 2
Lapras Fossil
Holo Articuno Legendary Collection
Dark Blastoise Legendary Collection

>>59129064
I love seeing people's old stuff.

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>>59129064
#2
Holo Blastoise
Holo Dark Vaporeon Legendary Collection
Holo Vaporeon Jungle
Holo 1st edition Lapras fossil
Holo Kingdra Neo Genesis
Holo Tyranitar Neo Discovery
Holo Magnemite Neo Discovery
Holo Shining Steelix Neo Destiny

>>59129074
>Shining Steelix
That's a big one. Wish I didn't sell my brother's copy for $20 back in the day lol.

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>>59129074
#3
Holo Ancient Mew
Holo Alakazam
Holo Mewtwo
Holo 1st edition Dark Alakazam Team Rocket
1st edition dark Hypno team rocket
Holo Alakazam base 2
Gengar Fossil
Mr. Mime Base 2

>>59129064
>>59129074
>>59129081
>wotc slop
boring, we want gold stars

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>>59129081
#4
Mr. Mime jungle
Holo Mewtwo
Haunter Fossil
Holo Misdreavus Neo Revelation
Holo Mewtwo
Holo Japanese Mewtwo
Reverse Holo Mewtwo Legendary Collection
Holo Mewtwo

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>>59129088
#5
Holo Dark Slowbro Team Rocket
Mr. Mime base 2
Holo Dark Houndoom Neo Destiny
Holo Ninetails
Moltres Fossil
Flareon Jungle
Holo Dark Typhlosion Neo Destiny
Dark Magcargo Neo Destiny

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>>59129097
#6
Flareon Jungle
Holo Houndoor Neo Discovery
Holo Ninetales
Holo 1st edition Dark Charizard Team Rocket
Holo Charizard Legendary Collection
Holo Hitmonlee Legendary Collection
Brock's Onix Gym Heroes
Groudon ex promo

>>59129103
I want to see a Shining Charizard.

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>>59129103
#7
Holo Dark Dugtrio Team Rocket
holo 1st edition Machamp
Kabutops Fossil
Kicklee Fossil (french)
Holo Hitmonlee Legendary Collection
Holo Hitmonchan
Holo 1st edition Machamp
Holo Kabutops Fossil

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>>59129111
#8
Holo 1st edition Machamp
Holo Hitmonchan
Dugtrio base 2
Holo 1st edition Rainbow Energy team rocket
Holo Lt. Surge Gym Heroes
Super Energy Removal
Pokemon Trader
Pokemon Trader Legendary Heroes

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>>59129116
#9
Holo Koga Gym Challenge
Holo Muk Legendary Heroes
Reverse Holo Butterfree Legendary Heroes
Yanma Neo Discovery
Dark Vileplume Team Rocket
Holo Venasaur Legendary Heroes
Holo Jumpluff Neo Gensis
Victreebel Jungle

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>>59129126
#10
Holo NidoQueen
Holo Muk Fossil
Dark Weezing Team Rocket
Holo Venusaur Promo
Pinsir base 2
Victreebel base 2
Venemoth Jungle
Holo Grotadmorv Fossil (french)

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>>59129134
#11
Japanese Yanma butchered to shit
Holo Muk Fossil
Holo Dark Golbat Team Rocket
Holo Venomoth Jungle
Japanse Arbok butchered to shit
Holo Pharamp Neo Genesis (French)
Holo Dark Raichu Team Rocket
Holo Zapdos Fossil

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>>59129139
#12
Holo Zapdos Legendary Collection
Reverse Holo Dark Raichu Legendary Heroes
Electrode
Holo Lt. Surge's Electabuzz Gym Heroes
Reverse Holo Jolteon Legendary Heroes
Holo Jolteon Legendary Heroes
Zapados Fossil
Reverse Holo Magneton Legendary Heroes

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>>59129142
#13
Holo Magneton Base 2
Holo Jolteon Legendary Heroes
Holo Wigglytuff base 2
Holo Dark Dragonite Legendary heroes
Dragonair
Holo Eevee promo
Holo Togetic Neo Genesis
Holo Kangourex Jungle (french)

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>>59129146
#14
Holo Chansey Base 2
Holo Light Togetic Neo Destiny
Holo Kangaskhan jungle
Pidgeot Jungle
Holo Kangaskhan jungle
Holo 1st edition wigglytuff jungle
Pidgeotto
Holo Ditto fossil

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>>59129152
#15
Holo Dark Persian Promo
Holo Wigglytuff base 2
Holo Meowth promo
Holo Erika's Clefable Gym Heroes
And finally, some japanese card im not sure from where

>>59128935
Not everyone is from burgerica. $10k is about 1.5 year of work for me

>>59129385
You shouldn't be buying pokemon cards considering the harsh reality of your situation.

>>59129552
I bought them before investor tourists came in

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bought and opened Munkisu Zero for fun, how good/bad did I pull?

>>59129709
to add I'm pretty happy I got the Clefairy art

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Latest update to pikaspread
I can't afford more pikas

>>59126294
>collecting pixels
Did you learn nothing from CS:GO or Fortnite?

>>59126429
Base set.

>>59128823
>>59128828
>Opening ETBs

>>59128935
>If $10k is a lot of money to you, you shouldnt be buying anything extra
it's a lot of money to drop on a single collectible, even if you do have your shit together.

>>59129116
>>59129126
That's a cool energy card didn't knew it was made. That butterfree is fake?

>>59128237
Love that mewtwo and gengar

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>Finally find the reverse holo i've been searching for in good condition and with reasonable price
>Gets lost in the mail while crossing borders

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>>59130099
Happened to me even in the same country, even the 2nd copy got lost rip

>>59129793
I assume you're the new guy that posted earlier and no hate but it's showing lol. Rainbow energy is a classic staple that's been reprinted many times up until XY era, but I get it if you had not seen the rocket version.
As for the butterfree, you're spot on in thinking it's a fake, as that holo pattern was only ever used for that single collection, and most people thought it was too similar to actual fake cards, but I can assure you it's 100% real. Look up Legendary Collection Reverse Holos

>>59129745
bro these pixels are free
I've mentioned before the point of the post is that you still BUYING

There will always be millionaires who can get what sort of a collection they want. I am happy spending like 500 bucks per expo and slowly expanding my collection. A lot of cards I will never be able to get but it is what it is.

>>59129749
I mean, what else would be worth opening if you can't find booster boxes of the set you want? like ascended heroes for example

So when is all the 30:th anniversary stuff getting released?

>>59130917
its already scalped, youre too late. i missed out too.

>>59130917
like september or something

>>59129709
bwos....

>>59129742
nice pikas

Seriously, when is the Ansha card? How long does it take typically for a new game's character to appear in the TCG?

>>59130917
Who cares, you aren't going to be able to buy any of it.

>>59130397
I'm new yes. When it comes to old collections I'm looking at it from the standpoint of a kid that had some cards that's all. I don't particularly care for any card specifically

>>59130099
I don't know what's going on. In the last month I've had to get like 4 or 5 refunds because the item never showed after a month+ or the seller sent the wrong card and my card to another person.

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Results from four packs, got pretty lucky :D
Tyrantrum included just because I was hoping to pull it
>inb4 ripping packs
It's fun in small quantities

>>59130400
Downloading jpgs of the card art is more of a permanent collection my man

>>59131641
gimme that rosa

>>59131648
Sent :^)

>>59131655
thanks bro uwu

>>59131641
tfw I opened entire booster box and got this
>>59129709

>>59131644
jpegs aren't immersive or have elements outside the card :)

Help me out, lads. I just found that a card I pulled when I was a kid (Team Magma Groudon EX) goes for several hundred dollars. How do I get it graded and sell it?
How much does the card being in Japanese impact its value if I want to sell it in the US?

>>59131803
grading is a scam, doesn't guarantee someone will buy it. Find a cardshop that buys Japanese (online or in person) and sell it to them via buylist

>>59131222
Not very cash money of you

>>59132018
I prefer my balls on the texture layer

>>59132018
that's a lot of balls

>>59132026
FOR ME TO POOP ON!

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this is considered damaged right? all that white shit in the middle of the card

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I know people say Japanese cards are better quality. But atleast a third of my SARs have printlines on them.

>>59132131
I got one JP destined rivals booster box when i visited japan and honestly i didn't notice any difference between them and the english ones

>>59132124
yoou need to stop gooning on your cards

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I bought a new child from the child market!

>>59131117
Darkrai or rayquaza set

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First pack of 151...

>>59132306
ぺとっ

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Aaaaand I got fucking nothing
Sasaki was the SR
And the master ball was dugtrio
The hitokage AR is alright

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>>59132336
You're goddamn right

>>59132431
that's my dream right there...
how much were those? just curious

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Last weekend I bought the Moonbreon. I got another Evolving Skies card today

I want to give away shit I don't want after I went for a pulling spree. Is there a way to dump trash cards or something? I went too far

>>59132459
What I do is take them to a local toy store that hosts a Pokemon card day every sunday. I just drop a card box off and let the kids take everything they want.

>>59132435
Left most Lillie is the cheapest google it
Right most English Lillie was over $500 I think and since it was LP it was less than 600 minus tax if I remember correctly
I didn't see anything wrong with the card when I examined it
I forget how much the second Lillie is, probably over close to $200 I think I got that off tcgplayer
And the tag team Lillie has some minor damage I think it was B rank so $400 or $500 bucks IRC maybe more

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>>59132475
wow...
every time I think about the day I'll need to get the tag team lillie card, I start reevaluating my whole life's choices and regret ever wanting to start a Lillie collection

>>59132494
I want to tag team Lillie.

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>>59132431
cute MMKs

>>59132508
can I join you?

>>59132073
my beautiful baby birb

>>59132494
Hey man it could be worse
Other girls in JP cost $1000+ or even $2000+
Hell that JP exclusive Lillie promo card is over $2000

>>59132494
Thanks to Extra Battle Day Lillie, you'd never complete her anyway. That card is crazy expensive even in Chinese.

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I got this nice Arceus card the other day at the store. Really nice artwork with Mt. Coronet in the background.

>collect pokemon cards
>end up collecting a collection of underaged anime girls
damn pedos cant help themselves

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Happy Bunnest of Sunday Bundays.

Anyone else collect every card of a Pokemon or evolution line? Admittedly Buneary/Lopunny is one of the easier ones to do this with. I'm just glad the recent Z/A set finally gave Mega Lop its own cards.

>>59132494
If you ever go for the SM exclusive promo of Clefairy with Lillie (not the battle day) remember that there's an Indonesian version for half the cost of JP. Although now that's expensive too, i remember it being $200 for the Indo at the start of 2026.

>>59132839
Not my fault if TPC has nailed the perfect little girl design formula better than other franchises

>>59133085
Who is your favorite little girl out of all games?

>>59132905
Based bunnyfucker.
I don't like having different card layouts together (regular frame + ex + fullart) so I mostly focus on choosing a single card rarity and collecting by generation, rather than single pokemon.

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>>59133090
Unrivaled and unsurpassed after 30 years

>>59132628
>>59132644
>>59133038
I see...
maybe it's a good thing that I will never be able to complete the collection
I can somehow rationalize me buying a $500 card but I can't do that for a $1000+ card...

>>59127608
some people just really really REALLY hate having things in their house if they arent actively using them once every month for some reason

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>>59127608
My mom was based at least in that regard. She carefully stored all my toys and other childhood stuff away with the thought that my kids would then get to play with them as well

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Picked up two boosters out of the local corner shop yesterday evening.
Pulled these.

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>>59133090
I really want to marry and sex Acerola. Unfortunately she's very expensive too.

>>59133273
Damn cute sleeves what the fuck is with those prices

>>59131755
>aren't immersive
Skill issue
>elements outside the card
Also a skill issue

>>59133224
Actual instance of that "generational trauma" shit reddit went nuts over a few years back.
>If you can't eat it or can't use it, sell it
Is a motto from the great depression that boomers and gen x were raised with.

>>59133273
Always thought acerola was a name for some nu-pokemon

Am I crazy or do the mega attack rare cards look ugly
I know they're trying to do an homage to the XY era but those old XY era cards did it better

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Why do I even bother existing when people like this exist?

>>59133209
Post what you have or fuck off you annoying whiny faggot.

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Some (mostly) cheap pick ups from a small local show this weekend. The first Gengar and the promo Pikachu were the only slightly pricey ones (but still under $20)

It's weird knowing English gets some exclusive cards Japan never gets

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>>59133517
someone didn't get fucked in the ass last night apparently
here you go, faggot
now laugh at my poor ass collection

>>59132905
yes I'm trying to get all the ho-ohs and cards where he appears like those hand drawn zoroarks

>>59133515
>Le reddit stars
Ugly ass cards overshilled by invoostors and gurgled like cumshots by redditors

>>59133737
Whatever helps you sleep at night.

>>59133737
lolwut
those cards look great

>>59133681
There's very few of them, I remember around 6 or so?
Better than chink exclusives

anyone have somewhat small collections? (ex. A total of ~10 or so cards total)

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>>59133852
I have a small side-collection of carddass
Maybe one day I'll get the other 120+ I'm missing

is japan not getting the first partner illustration rare collection?

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>>59134069
is that what I think it it?

>>59134025
JP will get them in October, 1 month after the worldwide 30th anni set, not split in 3 parts but all 27 of them together, for the official "birthday" of Oct 16th 1996.
Until then, it's just eng and chink.

>>59134259
Will they be promo packs too?

>>59134280
They will all be promos, but it's unclear how they will be bundled https://www.pokebeach.com/2026/04/30th-celebration-pokemon-tcg-set-announced-releasing-worldwide-in-september

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Will pokemon ever get cleavage or naked girls ever again

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>>59134345

>>59133704
Cute Rirrie collection, Anon.
>>59134367
>Glorified OC
Call me when a real Pokegirl gets cleavage,>>59134367
like Viola or Whitney.

>>59132431
>acrylics

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>>59133515
I could tell you exactly how you yourself could acquire marvelous collections like that, but you don't want to hear it.

>>59133515
Picrel is either rich or acquired those before shtf.
Either way it's kind of pathetic to compare your collection to someone online.

>>59133515
I know this gets said way too many times in every aspect of life but you should stop comparing yourself (or in this case, your collection) to others
there will be always someone better (richer/luckier/started earlier) than you
and try to play the catching up game always ends up in failure
so just get what you can and enjoy the process

>>59134659
please teach me

>>59134345
God I love DMG.

>>59134792
Damage?

>>59134579
They're comiket exclusive and I'm supporting a god tier doujinshi artist while you're being a complete and utter faggot

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>>59132421
What was the masterball?

>>59132494
The tag team is one of the cheapest lillies

>>59133790
The English exclusives are also available in chink. The chink exclusives are way better though.

>>59134345
She's getting censored for englishcucks

>>59134886
In person exclusive?

>>59135120
No you can always find that stuff on auction sites or other second hand stores.

>>59135122
Ok but if you got it second hand, you didn't support the artist by buying it.

>>59135129
And?

>>59135122
I meant where was it available originally. I recognize the horizontal world doujin it's associated with, but the melonbook listing doesn't show an acrylic bonus.

>>59135094
The master ball was dugtrio
Unrelated I also decided to order a masterball alakazam since an anon posted earlier in the thread

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I'm feeling burnt out
Opened three Japanese booster boxes back to back and got nothing
I have four boxes left. I'm not having fun bros

>>59135177
I think we've all been there. At the current prices, opening pokemon packs, English or Japanese, just makes no sense. I haven't opened pokemon in months. Unless you pull the most or second most expensive card in the set, youre going to feel like you got scammed and should have just bought singles. Depends if the set of course, but 3 jap boxes was probably $250-300. Imagine how many singles you could have bought with that.

Ive been opening some weiss schwarz and buying WS and pokemon singles. Here's some of my recent pickups.

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>>59135194
Lmao here

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>>59127436
so i guess the key to making the TCG accessible to everyone again is to make a set that doesn't have any popular pokemon, but put competitive cards in it?

>>59127436
it being the worst set isn't stopping me from seeing fucking booster bundles for 60 usd at my lgs.

>>59133650
Nice fat pika

>>59135198
Naisu

>>59135228
it's a combination of scalpers hoping dumb investors would bite the bait, and players trying to pull for the Meowth ex card which is the reincarnation of Tapu Lele GX/VS seeker.

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Jirach & Celeb

>>59135194
>>59135198
Post the WS pulls.

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>>59135472
I've posted some of them before here

Did SIRs ruin the hobby?

>>59135502
no, humans did

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>>59135493
Cunnys

>>59135507
Very nice. Extremely jealous.

Don't recognize any of the sluts in the first image.

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>>59135507

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>>59135509
Archives

>>59135508
how can you not know about setsuna and kazusa from white album 2?
it's the most popular romance NTR VN ever

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>>59135513
Also some Lycee singles I bought. Never managed to pull a SP myself for this.

>>59133515
these cards are so ugly lmao
also
>early certs
lmao! cool 6's

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>>59135516
Boobs

Generic ass looking anime bitches.

>>59135522
they were from a time where anime wasn't mainstream and it was still good

>Pokemon?

>>59135515
>White Album
I only ever heard that name from Queen of Heart and Aquapazza.

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I may have to cope and buy the English version if this card

>>59135548
can you buy one for me too? pretty please :)

>>59135507
They made maitetsu cards?

>>59135556
nta but pretty sure they make cards out of anything japanese and 2D

>>59135556
Yes. Weiss schwarz and also divine cross.

>>59128935
>how to spot a larper
You realize that truly successful people don't treat $10k frivolously, right? Do you think rich people are cartoon characters who burn stacks of cash for no reason? That shit is the behavior of people addicted to wasting their own money, and have buried themselves under a mountain of debt doing so.
The generic bullshit advice on how to become successful is just the icing on the cake. Wow, an engineering degree and a roth IRA? Did you come up with that all by yourself, or did you have to copy & paste it from leddit?

>>59135548
In still waiting for the s-chinese release of her JT version....

>>59135507
Based

>>59135507
Reported to the FBI

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What is your fave Ditto card?

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>>59136466
My only ditto card for now

>>59136466
I hate that little fucker

>>59136435
Same

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gambling on aliexpress again

only 99 cents, so its not too big of a risk

>>59135205
it fixes problems for the people who play the game but not for colelctors

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Do I buy picrel gachabox and hope for something good?
If I don't get Ivysaur/Arcanine/Machoke/Dratini/Cubone I'm killing myself.

>>59136816
You say that like it's a bad thing.

>>59136864
collectors run the hobby now, chud

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Buying a birthday present for a pokemon trading card collector. I'm thinking about buying some packs. Is there anything to think about when picking out what to buy? There are many different types of packs

>>59136876
the best gift would be twilight masquerade and thats it. only buy that. its the best set. trust me.

>>59136876
buying loose packs is usually recommended. I'd go for terra festival ex, really nice set.

>>59136876
buy a 151 booster box

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>>59136466
I love that Detective Pikachu Ditto card, I have the Japanese holo one. Human ditto was funny, I remember the audience being like wtf when they had the reveal.

>>59136891
>>59136892
>>59136902
why are you guys so mean to him

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Mail day!!!

>>59136876
Buy a pack to open then some singles with cool illustrations you like

>>59136950
Based!!!

>>59136950
I'm trans btw if that matters