A History of Pokemon TCG Holos + Foils 

SHINY GOOD

I'm actually both really fond of foils, but also really attached to non-foils. In Yu-Gi-Oh! for example, Commons in the past few years have just been so crisp that I absolutely adore them, while Ultra and Secret Rares look better than ever too.

I think primarily playing MtG makes me a lot less fond of foils then players of other tcgs.

*"CAWWW CAWWW, I COLLECT SHINY CARDS, CAWWW CAWWW"* - 4 year old me, after getting my first pokemon card, which happened to be a Holo torchic

every kid tbh

Same bro

What made pokemon cards so cool was that the art made the pokemon look so much more alive than any other medium at the time. Even in the anime only select pokemon truly felt like characters. The rest were just accessories to the world at best and objects, weapons, and plot devices at worst. The pokemon cards really captured just how each pokemon lived. Where exactly you would find it and what types of shenanigans it would be up to. I haven't really followed the card game recently, but all the cards that are advertised everywhere don't really seem to do that anymore. They're all just extremely zoomed in on the pokemon with a whole bunch of special effects surrounding them to make them look cool and powerful I guess. But I love the old theming that was used to really capture the individuality of each pokemon.

I'd love to just collect them but honestly pokemon cards are beyond overpriced...

@@yiangaruga4928 I feel that. I've gone through collecting phases and I have a few binders about (mainly end of B&W start of X&Y era) but I already have expensive enough hobbies and I don't have the money to burn anymore.

Now imagine a teacher breaking up a fight between two kids and one of them exclaims "Jeffrey took my V card!"

@@autobotrock4789 They took away my V card 💀 😂💀

Now imagine a kid telling their teacher that their dad took away their v card.

@@dier440 😂😂😂

Not only that but they yell it in anxiety and fear

Strawberry Boi yup

haha I'm just idly drumming my fingers on the desk

HOW HAVE I NEVER NOTICED THAT?!?! NOW I CAN'T UNSEE IT!

I actually thought he used to have a keyboard there!

Mandela effect smh

Well, EX was kinda quickly replaced by GX, and then the train only got faster from there on.

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Remember level X? Those were LEGENDARY when i was in elementary school

What's So Funny?! I remember at kinder when EX first came out I was like hey guys check out my LEVEL X! They didn’t want it.

I own 174 ex cards

Ah, now i know how to fake them better. Thanks!

I hate young me, why did I take off my Emerald sticker on my cartridge T0T

@@thewanderingmistnull2451 still need to get the exact pattern

I'd venture a guess that the majority of the featured cards were probably Renae's

rsarin18 I don’t understand can u explain to me?

@@therealpain6930 If you take it literally it sounds like we have to physically wait until we will understand. But he really just means we have to wait a few years in the context of the video to understand.

lmaoooo made my day that’s what i was thinking 😭😭

Same energy as"the flames make it go faster"

@@Guru_1092 there's actually a competitive reason to have cards of certain foilings. If you have multiples of a card (which, of course you do) it's best to have each multiple of that card to be the same foiling, edition, pack, etc. so your opponent can't know how many you use over the course of a match unless you use all copies in one game.

And bragging rights on the playground

Magic foils are best foils. I love my cards doubling as half pipes for Deck Tech skateboards. Gives that real 90s nostalgia.

But um

just like a scratched up GBA; it ain't hurt it's LOVED

That's what I call all my scratches on my blue XY 3DS. I used it for all my 3DS VGC tournaments from 2013-2019

I miss my 3DS... lost it in a parking lot... had 100s of games 😑

Everything I own is “loved”

Same

or South Korea's "Sinbi Apartment TCG"

Enchanting in Skyrim?

No, same here :D

Frontier Brain Platinum mine was base set Hitmonchan. There was a parade in my small town and this person was selling cards. Pokémon was new and getting huge. My brother got Haunter

Mine was either Clefable or Blastoise, or perhaps Wigglytuff. I can't remember which.

Mine was Jungle Set Electrode

Mine too!!

I joined the TCG later, so my first holo was a promo Keldeo EX from the BW era back when the DS games were still new.

Agreed. I fell out of mtg and went more into Pokemon for that reason. I loved the coins and figurines.

Anything 2006 and before is where it’s at. These foils now a days are no better than aluminum foil imo. Wish they’d bring back the OG holo Patterns. Idk why they won’t. Is it more expensive or something?

I'M SMELLING HIGH AMOUNTS OF COPPER!!

@@tigerwarrior1787 Wat?

@@Serjo777 Dr. Who reference.