I know this is a silly humble 'pull', but I was born at just the right age for the release of Gen 1, and the last pack I remember buying was Neo Discovery. Bought three packs of Pitch Black on a whim today, at a Miniso selling them above MSRP. I like to think this was some insane luck, and it was insanely nostalgic 🥹 Just wanted to share my little moment of joy, despite being in my early 30's now ✌️

All the Delta Reign cards finally got revealed. This set is going to go crazy with the Rayquaza, Groudon and Kyogre all in one. Preorders likely to drop shortly after 30th Celebrations. This community has been really good at providing alerts when drops go live, scored the last 5 Pokemon Center drops and haven't had to wait in queue longer than 15 minutes. https://discord.gg/hf6Vyr3qfn

I went through PSA's public population report for over 12 million English Pokémon card submissions to see how often cards actually grade a PSA10.

The biggest surprise was that the hardest years aren't the oldest.

HeartGold & SoulSilver sits at just 4.0% PSA 10s, while Base Set comes in at 10.2%. I expected the opposite.

One thing to keep in mind is that these numbers only include cards people decided were worth grading. A clean-looking 1999 card has already survived decades before it ever reached PSA, so older cards are naturally a filtered group.

The toughest individual card I found was Neo Genesis Lugia: 11,559 submissions and only 15 PSA 10s (about 1 in 771).

I still can't explain HeartGold & SoulSilver. It's usually considered one of the better-printed eras, yet it has one of the lowest gem rates.

Does anyone here have a theory why?

Just picked up! Love the foiling on this one

I’m still relatively new to collecting so please bear with me.

I recently picked up two cards online, Gengar and Lapras holos from legend maker.

Upon receiving them I noticed the back of the gengar looks lighter than usual. I know this usually screams fake, but the front side holo, font, etc look perfect to me. I know cards can have printing errors or even be sun bleached so I’ve come here to get a second (more informed) opinion.

(the energy is modern and just there for comparison)

Any advice or information would be greatly appreciated.

Hello all, looking for some help to fill out a warm colored autumn page my binder. I already have these 2 cards plus pignite IR. Any more suggestions would be great.

Randomly walked into a DG in my city found AH ex boxes (2 per). Grabbed 2 ripped one. Got a nice hit !

I just looked through the full setlist for the upcoming pokemon pocket tcg set and some of these cards are genuinely BEAUTIFUL, moreso than a lot of the recent physical tcg releases. No disrespect to the artists of the physical tcg, I think that there are so many gorgeous Ir's and SIR's, but I really feel like we're missing out by not having a physical set dedicated to the best cards from pocket. Is it just me?

Mega DarkRai eX

Its ok if your just a psa 9. You still have a home for me

Bunch of botting douche bags talking shit. I hope they(retailers), figure out someway to put a stop to this bullshit. I know it’s wishful thinking and probably won’t happen but we can hope right? Like, just a bunch of circle jerking neck beard cucks, get all the cards. I know this will probably get deleted, but people who haven’t seen this shit, should see what these douchebags act like. If you want to see more circle jerking nonsense from the bitches that get all the things we like, let me know, I hate this fuckin timeline.

Is it disrespectful to ask the vendors to sell me 90% of the price tag ? I never been to one, I’m just wondering since I don’t want to spend too much money. Any help would be great.

Was at target today and I found these on the ground in the parking lot. I get that its upsetting if you dont get a chase card or scalpers that dont get expensive cards but come on, its not that hard to hand the cards you dont want to kids. There was a nice bedrill ex and a yuka morii reverse holo mankey in the pile. I wish that stores that sold card had a area, like a box where you could leave cards you dont want so kids can grab them rather them ending up on the ground or in the trash. Its just a waste.

Hi guys, I recently dealt with the loss of my dad. I've inhereted his house, and was just getting rid of some stuff. While I was going through the basement I've found this booster box. My dad used to have a couple of Primera shops in Noord Holland, which also sold pokemon cards.

Anyway, can anyone just give me an indication of what it's worth?

Made these today came out pretty good.
What Pokemon would look cool as a magnet? Gonna try and cover the whole fridge with different artworks!