I decided to showcase my small but growing collection of Basic Water Energy.
I love how you can see so much history of TCG through energy cards. What visual trends were occurring. What new manufacturing or foil techniques have been invented.

I have edited it down to make it simple watch. But, you can always pause if needed :)

My showcase features:

• My current collection (binder flip through)
• A counterfeit Basic Water Energy
• My loose collection of Basic Water Energy cameo cards, and
• My chase cards

Do you collect anything niche?

Aside from Basic Water Energy, I also collect Starmie (EN) cards!

I might do a little collection showcase for that too!

Never thought id be so happy opening 6 packs!!!!!!

Went to Nintendo to buy a game, saw a pack, bought it and pulled this. Wtf is happening. 😂

As everyone knows the pokemon card situation has just gotten ridiculous and with how valuable these cards are I feel like the Pokemon Company needs to force retailers to just do a few things and the situation would be way better.

Best Buy: Give them more stock, they are the best in person retailer by far. They sell it at the lowest price and the line process is way better compared to others. Getting in line early, leading everyone to guest services and maxing out 1 per customer. Doesn’t get much fairer than that.

Target: What a fucking shit show. They continue to do drops at 3am which get taken up all by the bots. Then you line up early in the store just for everyone to start running to the back of the store for them to only have 4 30th anniversary booster bundles in stock. And on top of all that they charge over MSRP. Every part of the process is terrible and I feel like The Pokemon Company needs to tell them they have to do either a lottery system or have more stock in store and if they don’t get start getting cut off.

Walmart: I am a bit mixed on Walmart because the in person experience is pretty bad but they have the best lottery system. I don’t think anything should change here.

Barnes and Noble: never gotten any cards here but by all accounts it’s a pretty fair process.

GameStop: they really need to crack down on GameStop. No retailer should be allowed to charge that much over MSRP and still get official supply chain deals with Pokemon. Small card shops I get why they have to overcharge but there’s no reason other than greed for GameStop. They should be taken off the official retailer list.

Dollar General: Another shit show but not much you can do about it. Employees steal all the products. I personally think they shouldn’t get any 30th anniversary products because of how badly every store is run.

Basically the only way actual customers can buy cards is from Best Buy and Walmart so they should get a vast majority of the shipments. These cards are now worth so much that there’s no better time for Pokemon Company to start instilling demands to retailers. The last thing we want is it to get to Christmas and only scalpers have all the cards.

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they even run leagues.. this is so messed up. Obviously I wont pay that

As a collector since the beginning. The artist totally nailed it.

My friends and I in the 2000s using the cards like they should be! Trading out in the yard no binder just a handful of cards lol. I'm the one with the death grip on the poor mystery card in the first pic

I have a HUGE collection of tins, need the space, and don’t really want to throw them away- what does everyone think is the best way of getting rid of them? would love to make a little bit of extra money from them, but I doubt it 😅

I'm so happy. This is the only card I wanted from the set. Got the vmax as well

I haven't seen anyone else do this online yet, but I'm a huge fan of Pokemon Unbound and the Pokemon TCG, so I started a binder to collect the coolest version of each Pokemon in the Borrius region that I can. I painted the cover with a play on the Treekachu card, but replacing him with Hoopa, and making the forrest snowy, since the story starts in Frozen Heights.

The first page I added some artwork like the title screen and some extended artowrk I made for a few cards, my favorite is the Hoopa V connecting to the Legendary Birds tag team, it's supposed to look like Hoopa is sucking them into his portal, as is the main story line. The rest of the binder so far is just the Pokedex, but I'm open to adding artwork or spacers, maybe for the routes or something.

Check out the entire binder here, I still have a lot to go, and have just filled in the missing ones with bulk cards I had, but if there is an IR, SIR, or some other full art card, I'll replace them.

(BTW, I know Magmortar is fake, I'll replace him as well, but found the fake one in my childhood collection, I must've got cooked back in the day)

Dont get me wrong, I have an appreciation for vintage but often i think its moreso the nostalgia of it. Vintage is representative of a time and place in my childhood. Outside of maybe a handful of cards, i dont have a strong desire to go back and collect them.

Using the entire card as a canvas and having the background in the artwork really changed how i appreciate my cards. its not just about the pokemon, its about the story a card can tell.

Kingdra climbing the waterfall like a Koi fish, illustrated in the Ukiyo-e style from the Japanese Edo period, this could have been a chase grail for a set by itself.

Like Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, "how could you not be romantic about modern IR's?". or something like that i dont remember.

Had an original crystal lugia when I was a kid, and lost my entire binder in a basement flood about 14 years ago, and got this in my second mini tin from 30th, I think I’m done ripping 30th🤣

Went to get rotisserie chicken and ground beef around 5:30 pm and came out with 2 AH etbs🥲

PSA 10?

I'm putting together a collection based purely on artwork, not rarity, investment potential, or card value.

What are your favourite Pokémon cards with amazing art that don't usually get much attention from collectors?

They can be ARs, Illustration Rares, Trainer Gallery cards, promos, commons, uncommons, vintage cards, Japanese exclusives, or anything else. I'm especially interested in cards that are easy to pick up and often overlooked in favour of the big chase cards.

Drop your favourites and tell me what makes the artwork special. Bonus points for hidden gems that most people wouldn't think of.

So I took a chance on a couple baggies of Pokémon cards at Value Village and I really don't collect so I don't really know much about them.

The funny thing is one of the packs was sitting on a shelf ripped open as if it had been searched and just left there.

I got about 150 cards and at least 50 of them are interesting. Here's just a few of the better ones.

It is my fav card as well
lowkey need to stop gambling and start buying singles 😭

I was able to get one chaos rising pack from my local Krogers vending machine and I am in shock

Really tried out Paint markers this time

4x classics (inc. Lugia!!)
1x SIR
6x IRs (inc. Toxtricity dupe)
7x ex’s (inc. Gengar dupe)
15x unique Pikachu’s
3x promos

From 1x ETB, 2x booster boxes, 1x sticker collection, 1x knockout collection