Pokemon is life at this point in my life. cant stop and wont stop, i plan to create content that you love to watch and inspire others that anything is possible.
This card is not playable at all. No one has used this in any serious cup, regional, or world tournament. Check limitless TCG. Greninja is popular due to it being in the anime for so long and becoming so popular alongside Ash. This card will hold its value.
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Ive always wanted a Garninja for myself. One can dream.
Unpopular opinion: I don’t like this card at all. I hope the ridiculous prices drop off a cliff soon. The promo greninja from the shrouded fable boxes is soooo much nicer, just a shame it’s a mass printed promo.
I believe the American market is in a bubble again and this time it’s English cards and once that bubble pops it could be Chinese since it currently has the strongest textures of all the languages due to 5 card packs and you can pick up all alts at a fraction the price the English is currently selling for. However, once everyone is on board with Chinese then the prices of those cards will go up and I’ll be ready to sell…lol😅 Ignore all that is happening right now with english and put your money in Chinese. I’m almost done collecting all alts in this language. Put a 5 cards pack alt up against the japanese alt and it’s a very good upgrade. Night and day difference vs english. The Ray vmax with chinese textures 😮
What do you know? lol. You don’t know why you like the cards. Don’t know the prices. Don’t know who the artists are. Don’t watch RU-vidrs to know what the sentiment is about the sets.
I really prefer themed sets, so 151 and Paldean Fates imho are the best sets of the s&v era.. Pokemon really need to do more of these, it just feels that they just pick like 200 random cards, find a name like "Brazen infinity" or something and release the set without any effort to make it special. I mean Shrouded Farse was a "special" set and it's just rubbish. Special my...
I view this card like the Fleer 1986 Jordan Rookie card. It’s not rare, however, highly desirable. I think in 10-20 years; this will be in the same boat
The reason Paldean Fates was shrugged off is because it didn’t have lots of SIRs and only 3 IRs. People wanted 13 SIRs and around 20+ IRs but we got substantially less on each rarity.
It got pushed under the rug only because of Shining Fates and the overprinting effect and also Hidden Fates and the massive reprint it had, I’ve seen people not excited for full Art Shiny’s from Hidden Fates of course the Blue Charizard gets love but not as much because Charizard fatigue is a real thing so nowadays people don’t care for Charizard but the holo shine and the artwork is nice from Paldean Fates but only time will tell if Charizard will rise again but yeah that’s the reason why Paldean Fates got pushed under the rug
To be honest, I collect Japanese cards. They simply look better and are cheaper except for certain notable cards. Value plays a part sometimes but really it's the loom of the card. Also, collecting the set especially for english can be frustrating with holo reverse holo and no holo. Filing them is annoying. It's cheaper in general to collect Japanese. I do invest in both english and japanese for sealed as I recognise english has more scope to increase in value.
One crazy thing in Scarlet & Violet is English cards across the board, except some waifu, are more expensive in English except for Ruler of the Black Flame cards. All SAR, SR and UR are worth more in Japanese then in English. Not some but all of them. The illustration rare are worth more in Obsidian Flames then in Ruler but Japan apparently does not hold IR to the same standard as we do in America.
All 3 SIR from Paldean Fates are a must. Just bought Bubble Mew, my son pilled the Japanese Zard and we still need Gardevior. I finally grabbed that 151 Charizard and grabbed the Japanese Greninja cause that English one is way overpriced. The Japanese one has gone up from $65 to $100 in the last month because of the English being out of reach for some buyers. 151, English and Japanese cards and sealed products ae going to go crazy in the near future.
The art in S&V is better across the board, particularly the IRs and SIRs. The top 3-5 chase cards in SWSH were possibly better (so far) but on the whole, S&V has more amazing art and we're only halfway through
They have to give these dlc and new Pokémon the spotlight cause they prob won’t ever be in it again. This wraps up the dlc so I think from here on out you’ll get exactly what you want. Surging has lati@s and pilachu, team rocket(which I guarantee will have a mewtwo and maybe Snorlax), then terastial festival eevees, BW and then the Legends games, etc. I think there is plenty to collect right now and even more on the horizon
You are also comparing the end of one generation to the beginning of another. Of course the end of the generation is better, they build up to it. If you compare the beginning of SwSh vs SV, SV is much better.
Im thinking SV era going to be like sun & moon era, where the best sets are in the final year... maybe upcoming eeveelution, gym/rocket and possible black&white set next year will be the bangers that we are looking for
hot take but a take i fully agree with. i don't care about no galapagos!! 😂😂with that said TM was the turning point, SV will finish strong just like swsh
Me and my son got back in at Obsidian Flames and we back tracked all the way to Brilliant Stars. We stopped opening packs at Temporal Forces. We were lucky to hit an SIR in TF booster box. Now that hit rates aren't guaranteed we are buying singles. You will never get your money worth opening packs. Literally 3 out of 4 packs is just fire starter. I actually think Illustration Rare will hold value, not all but the Magikarp, Groundon, Eeveee and the rest that are highly regarded characters with great art. They remind me of Trainer Gallery cards but with harder pull rates and that should keep them somewhat valuable. I love the Scarlet & Violet Era. Its like they perfected the Alt art sets from S&S.
From an investment perspective the time horizon similar to what we had with base set makes S&V era very important. The young kids' base set IS the S&V era (paldea evolved specifically). Millineals and early genz have kids that are the age of pokemon collecting. They will know the paldean pokemon better than most of the other generations because this is what theu are growing up with NOW.
What you should do is buy the cards you want, to me the Greninja is nice from TM the Gengar from TF is nice even Iron Crown EX the one with the Japanese blossom tree and the sun in the background is really nice it’s not an original Pokemon but it’s a nice card it’s nice artwork, so you may not like the sets as a whole but certain cards are nice to me if there’s any cards you like from these sets you should invest into those sets maybe invest less then you did from SWSH yes I agree but maybe instead of investing in S&V or trynna find a reason, maybe you can still invest in S&V but maybe you can go back and invest some more of your money in SWSH, for instance a Brillant Stars booster box that you really like TCG player price is like $170 - $185 thats an average of like $5 a pack you could justify buying another BS booster box rather then getting upset that Pokémon isn’t releasing new sets that interest you, because at the end of the day it’s just a phase SWSH just a phase XY just a phase a era that no one was interested in but now all of a sudden a bunch of people are trynna hype up Mega X cards it’s crazy how no one cared and all of a sudden okay everyone wants Mega cards now from XY, but yeah don’t be worried about leaving the hobby just find other products to invest in, maybe buy some 3 pack blisters of Sun and Moon Team Up, or maybe buy a booster box youve said you wanted a booster box from Sund and Moon maybe make that goal come true now that there aren’t any sets coming out that interest you? Double down on the products and sets you’ve already invested in you should be good
@@eons2eons800 100% but the excitement building positions isn’t the same from buying new positions. the potential is there in this era just losing patience i suppose
Sword and Shield was Top Tier‼️⚔️🛡🔥 I agree with you. The scarlet & violet era has been so mid this year, normal art rares without texture are doing better than special art rares, doesnt make sense.😵💫 They have been missing the mark this era.
To be honest, those are somewhat immature reactions. Art is subjective, and just because you don't like certain cards doesn't mean they're necessarily mediocre. I don't blame you, but it's unfortunate that you haven't found a better way to express your frustration .
Some peoples first game is scarlet and violet got to give them a chance to enjoy new stuff. If ur looking for hype stuff collect non set cards. Ponchos scream or mario pikachu comes 2 mind. Its better have 1 card worth $5000 than 100 $50 cards. Investment grade collectibles are usually the top 5-10% of a category.
I would rather the 100 $50 cards or 50 $100 cards but in the same breath I would rather the $5000 card over 500 $10 cards. $20 cards and up is the sweet spot but once you hit $50 and up is where the bangers are at. If you are in a money pinch you could easily sell $50 to $100 cards but you might not want to sell the one big card.
Pokemon designs sets in conjunction with the games it simple to see how they choose the pokemon to spotlight. from SV base to even Surging Sparks its all references to the games. Twilight Masquerade is massively focused on the Teal Mask DLC similar also applies to Stellar Crown Toperagos is very big in the new anime. They won't prioritize older pokemon SARs until they think have they decided they have covered enough of the games. personally to me 151 is super boring since Kanto is over done i would rather collect more of the newer pokemon SARs like Roaring Moon/Walking Wake etc than anything 151.
I agree with what you said towards the end “this set will 100% keep going up from here”. That’s one of the main reasons for me to still be getting sealed ES. This set has so many things going for it. It has the most beloved card of the S&S era. It has 12 or so cards at about 100$+ (with one being almost 900$ itself). It came out in an era when a lot of people were stuck at home with nothing to do so it strikes a cord with people on an emotional/sentimental level. I know there’s a ton of it out there but it’s still being opened up like nobody’s business and will continue to till the stock in the stores dries up and peoples closets start emptying out. I look at it this way, I really want an Umbreon vmax alt but know damn well I’m not likely to pull one out of the sealed product I have. I figure get what I can now (when people think the prices are too high and out of hand) and hold onto them for a few years and trade them away for the umbreon. Most lilely will be able to get it and some extra cash/cards in a trade down the road. Or hell sell it buy the moonbreon and have extra cash to spare 🤷♂️. Either way ES is def going to be worth a lot in a few years so it’s def worth it to still be buying sealed
If I could only pick one version of a card....it would be an art card. And that Magikarp looks amazing. It also conveys the legend of the carp going up the waterfall to become a dragon. It's not over $100 amazing though.
