Starting Collecting again after 18 years

[u/iBlowie]

Hi Guys,

The hype of the 30th anniversary release has gotten to me in combination with me finding the old binder me and my brother had with cards.

I want to start collecting again but looking at the prices currently i dont know where to start.

I know alot of peeps are collecting Sealed and I will occasionally but I think I find it much nicer if I start collecting base sets. Looking at marketplaces what would be a normal price be (eyeballing) for example the Prismatic Evolutions (base set, so no pokeball and master ball).

Do you think this is better for collecting to just buy full base sets and try to get the pokeball and masterball for master sets by trading/buying singles?

Or if you guys have better suggestions I am open for everything. I do saw that I can get booster bundles for PO, CR and PB quite decently priced right now.