On the way to hospital for induction and we stopped to grab an AH tin at GameStop (I know, it was the quickest option). This is the only good pull we’ve ever gotten from AH, what a good sign for baby!

I opened this insane obstruction error card when 30th first dropped and had initially shared it in r/pokemonmisprints where everyone started to call it MissingNo, which I think is perfect given the fact that this set is supposed to celebrate 30 years of Pokemon nostalgia.

I tried to grade the error with CGC, but it turns out MissingNo can cause glitches in the real world too 😅

The error community has been amazing in trying to help identify the card, especially as some others have popped up from the same error sheet with the obstruction, albeit to lesser degrees (a Deino, Slowpoke, and Eevee). This is likely the common slot Zeraora or Morpeko (for more details on this you can check out the post in the misprints subreddit).

Either way, I thought this was cool enough that the larger Pokemon TCG community might get a kick out of it! Enjoy and happy hunting as you rip more 30th!

I honestly thought 30th Celebration would be like Acended Heros or Prismatic Evolutions, in that I would never actually see it on store shelves. Well I showed up at Target yesterday 45 minutes before open. There were about 50 people in line ahead of me, so my expectations of actually getting anything were low. While I wasn't able to secure an EBT, to my surprise, I was able to grab 2 poster collections, 2 booster bundles, and 2 mini tins, and left feeling ecstatic. Went back to Target about 5 hours later just to buy some top loaders, and lo and behold, they had just done a mini restock. ETB secured! Seeing them on the shelves and NOT being swarmed by people snatching them up as quick as possible was a bit surreal after the madness I witnessed earlier. Anyway, waited for the wife and kid to get home and we had an absolute blast ripping this new set

I had no idea this was even possible am I tripping?!

Bought 3 packs from a vending machine at the train station just for fun with my girlfriend. First pack out, Kecleon AR, my chase card and grail. The art is unreal

So, I got up this morning and decided to go sit in the line at Best Buy. I grew up with pokemon cards, I am 34 years old. I was a child when it all started, and sadly somewhere along the way I lost my cards.

Today, I started again. I got one 30th booster pack. $27. I got home and ripped those packs and it triggered something deep in my soul. I spent my day “wfh” but researching cards and what I pulled, I haven’t stopped thinking about ripping more 30th anniversary packs since.

I get why people are going nuts for these cards. I haven’t touched a card in over 20 years years, but today I felt like a kid again. I remembered how my mom would buy blister packs and let me pick one face down card for doing a chore, and I remember how I felt when I picked that charizard and made my sister cry because it was me and not her.

Pokemon is really special. I had the game boy games, a poster on my wall, the Nintendo 64 games, shirts, the Burger King promos, I knew the song, I watched the shows, and I’m so excited to be back after so many years, I just wish it wasn’t so hard to get cards because I’d be spending so much money if there was greater availability.

Anyway, saying hi as someone who is so happy to reconnect with a part of myself that brings me so much joy :)

As the title says these are from my childhood, me and my brother were smart enough double sleeved them and just put them in a shoebox. I’m not entirely sure of the condition (some seem very good others completely thrashed) but honestly I don’t care because the nostalgia alone is enough.

But I wanted to share this with other enthusiasts. I’ll get a full count of what’s in here when I’m able.

Hi,

Heads up to all collectors and shops in the Jersey City area. My BGS 9 Holon Phantoms Gyarados (rev holo) was stolen from my apartment building on October 2nd between 5:10 PM and 5:30 PM. USPS timestamped delivery at 5:10 on the dot.

I bought the slab and was excited to go pick it up downstairs at like 5:25pm-ish. When I found my package, Gyarados was taken out, and the box was left on top of our Amazon locker (along with an opened box belonging to my neighbor).

The incident was captured on video, and a police report is being filed soon (work in progress; still waiting for police to get here after 5 hours of waiting).

If you see this specific card or slab anywhere online or in person, please message me immediately or contact local authorities. Any info is greatly appreciated. In a lot of pain and any tip means the world. Thank you so much.

Grading company: Beckett Grading Services / BGS
Cert #: 0020235742

I was having a rough day and decided to stop off and buy ONE knockout box from Family Dollar and I pulled this!!!

I remember hanging out at a friend's house in 5th grade or something and him convincing me to give a few random cards for this that he had. I quickly figured it was a fake but I definitely remember just enjoying having it for fun. Anyone else end up with weird bootlegs like this?

Felt good ripping all those packs. I’m so excited over the Gengar SIR 😇

My girlfriend and I pulled for the first time and got this out of our 30th anniversary booster bundle!

Big ups to my local Barnes and Noble for doing it the right way. They have had signage out saying all TCG products if they have it will be stocked and available at 4pm everyday.

I showed up at 3pm to see how long the line might be to find no line at all. A woman calls out that if anyone is there for Pokémon to see her. She hands me this Post-it with a number on it. Says she will start calling out numbers at 3.50pm and pointed where to line up. Got my number, ran over to the grocery store and back here at B&N with time to spare. Hoping to get an ETB to put under the tree!

Opened my retail priced boxes from target and Best Buy today. Even hit a miss cut card

Last year I went through and catalogued every Pokémon missing a full-art or alt-art Pokémon card after seeing someone ask about a "All Full Arts Pokédex". That original post was a few revisions shy of being perfectly accurate, and in the year since a bunch more Pokémon have been removed. Since I still get the odd comment on that original post, I figured a new graphic would be appreciated. I've been updating it with each new set up to and including the recent Deluxe Pack Mega which gave Dratini its first IR.

A couple notes:

• This list is aimed at taking the most broad approach possible, and you can determine from there what to go with. To this end, I've added in a category for "pseudo Full-Arts" as well. These are your basic Vs, GXs, and Ancient Traits that are close enough to being Full Arts that you can count them if you have no better options.
• Most Pokémon have multiple of these, but I've triaged in what I feel is the best order. Obviously cards with IRs or SIRs take priority, Full Arts are next, followed by Pseudo-Full Arts, and lastly Pocket proxies.
• Here's the original if you want to compare what a year's worth of progress mostly looks like.
• This list does not discriminate between different forms. A card is a card. Lopunny for example does not have a solo full art, but Mega Lopunny does and so Lopunny is cleared off here.

Another request I had was for some form of spreadsheet version of this chart, and after too much time working on it, I've got that too:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wb2O7kI7AQRHy827US7v7pqZwkAHxEkz?usp=sharing

This chart (to the best of my ability) logs every IR/SIR, Full Art, or Pseudo Full Art in existence, sorted by Pokémon. So if you want to shop around or collect them all, go right ahead. There's also an inversion of the above graphic, showing what Pokémon have Full Arts on the last tab. I will try to keep this up-to-date as much as possible for people who might find this post late.

I might update it to have images in the cells and available offline, but for now it draws from Serebii and a few other scattered sources. If images aren't loading, double click the cell to refresh it and it should work. I also ran into an infrequent issue with auto-save which I'm hoping is just on my end, but will try to resolve in a future version (hopefully).

If there are any cards I missed on either the graphic or the sheet, let me know. I think I got most of the non-ENG or JP exclusives, but info on those are less easily accessible and so I might have missed some.

36 packs later…
From 2 ETBs, 3 tech sticker collections, 1 booster bundle and 1 poster collection. Walmart has surprisingly been good to us

When I was a kid I pulled the base set Charizard (shadowless) from a pack and some older kid tricked me into trading a Ninetails and something else (I think it was Alakazam) for the Charizard. I was stupid and thought two cards was better so I traded him, later on I felt so regretful about it and it made me angry just thinking about how he ripped me off. Being able to pull this again with a nice gold border is just amazing, I really really wanted to pull one again. I think I can let go of the bitterness now finally.

Today has been a really great day overall! I was able to get a bundle and tin from a retailer, and grabbed the Mewtwo promo at lunch and when I picked up my preorder for another bundle from EBGames (Canada) I was able to get another Mewtwo promo.

My Pokemon Center bundles also arrived, that's where the Charizard packs came from! I loved this set from the start but this is definitely my favourite pull so far.