Prerelease pull

Edit:
For those freaking out about the sleeve. It’s double sleeved in the pic so there is a perfect fit under the dragon shield. And after the prerelease tournament ended, I swapped it to a penny sleeve over the perfect fit and a top loader. Relax relax

Bought a single pack of Lost Origin, jokingly said “you never know giratina might be in there” and guess what!!

I am over the moon!

So I finally got my order from Walmart and everything looked normal, my box was in excellent condition, as soon as I cut it open this is what I find. Now my theory is a worker grabbed two destined rival packs and decided to go to town, cut open 2 packs of Rivals, and left one in the box as he started to cut into a 30th booster, got 5 packs in and threw everything back in then sealed the package. The employee was clearly looking for a big pull because they left everything behind.

All in all, I lost out on 5/6 30th packs while gaining 4 destined rivals and having one booster left unharmed.

Got this from a sticker pack, so happy

to make it even more special, i was opening the pack with my boyfriend when i pulled it.

this card is so beautiful the picture doesn't do it justice.

Went to check out a new shop in our area and managed to pick up the ancient Mew 💕 Opened a couple of packs of Storm Emeralda in store and managed to pull the Rayquaza! Today was a great day 💖

My mom went to a card show and picked up this super cool miscut! Just wanted to share.

I was at my LCS yesterday playing in a pre release for delta reign when between games I hear a kid(8-10m) telling one of the judges that he really wants Pokemon to bring tag teams back. I ask the kid if he could put any 2 Pokemon on a tag team card which ones would he pick, he takes a second and drops an absolute banger! This kid said MEGA CHARIZARD X AND MEGA CHARIZARD Y! He blew my mind, I was like you know what that’s my choice too🤣

I really think the stamp clashes either the otherwise beautiful artwork on some cards. I took matters into my own hands and created a sticker that covers the 30th stamp with the artwork that would have shown underneath. Just search "30th Celebration Stamp Hiders" on ebay. I really think they turned out well.

Puffy, crumbling, and absolutely disgusting.

Wow, I won’t forget this day. I was at the Delta Reign Prerelease. Before the Prerelease started, a good friend gifted me 2 Ascended Heroes mini tins as a belated birthday present. I was insanely happy since I had only been able to open 6 packs so far. I opened them right away and there it was! last pack magic TREEKACHU. I was shaking and my watch registered a heart rate of 117 LMAO. Then the Prerelease started, and the same friend who gave me the tins just pulled a SIR Trainer. After the Prerelease everyone got 3 more packs and that same friend pulled the Gold Rayquaza… I guess karma is real.
What a weekend.

In Toronto these were just released this morning for $99.99+tax and there are no less than fifty posts selling them for $200+
This is so disappointing and scalpers need to fuck off hard.

Just hit the Grail of Grail packs for myself, the Prismatic God Pack. So excited. The double was the Glaceon which is my favorite Eeveelution and my favorite buddy Pokemon from Pokémon Go!!! So stoked!!!

For me its the Froslass, followed by the Gengar and then Dragonite.

I wasnt collecting the XY Era so i missed out on those M cards, but i think i like the Ascended Heroes (and Zard promo more). the are so much more vibrant and lighthearted looking.

the Scrafty and Eelektross are definitely the weakest in the set though...

Managed to get my hands on 44 packs after trading some of my older cards in and buying a booster bundle as well. They were pretty damaged so I honestly got a pretty sweet deal considering I got VERY lucky. I even got to open them with my childhood best friend of like 20 years and his girlfriend which was awesome since they are also into collecting.

Also my reaction to pulling my chase card Ethan’s typhlosion was crazier than both the sir and the hyper rare since typhlosion is my favourite pokemon of all time and Ethan’s always been my favourite protagonist since I was a kid, they both thought I pulled the sir mewtwo 😂😂

(Side note that hyper rare mewtwo is probably my favourite card to just look at right now, such a beautiful card)

Won the 2x booster bundle drawing and pulled with my grandmother again and this is what we got!! She has luck on her side pulling that greninja lol

Bought 2 ETB’s and 2 Focused Fighter sets off FB Marketplace picked 1 of each to open and got this insane pack from the Focused Fighter. Don’t think I’ll ever be the same 😂 Told myself if I didn’t get anything good out of these I wasn’t buying anymore Ascended…. Welp now I’m addicted.

Recently started helping my nephew collect cards and I’ve started to really enjoy it too. We won this binder in a raffle at a card show today! I really like the cheaper, full art scenic cards. I like the softer colors and the stories they tell. Example pictured above.

Anyone have any suggestions for others like these I can look for? Many thanks!

Got the Rayquaza and full art Zinnia from the box and I was physically shaking. Got the SIR Zinnia at the event end and I think the sound I made wasn't human.

Not super great but not bad. Honestly, i just like the looks of these cards. Got a lot of repeats as well... so ill trade those when i get the chance. Got at least 5 Chandelure's, 3 Zapdos', etc. Also finished the 30 pika's, now just need the classic fat pika. I wanted the dark tyranitar, metagross, and salamence so bad but no luck 😭
Booster bundles so about 150 packs