By the time you catch any box legendary the game is over. All that's left is the elite 4 or maybe 1 gym. They've always steam rolled the rest of the game. Even a legendary bird will.
How can be analyze anything when his eyes can't even open!?
Bulk cards are worth like a penny each. They're so common and so weak they're literally just there to fill out space in the packs. It's not uncommon for TCG players at shops to open packs and then immediately give away all but the highest rarity cards and even those some times are bulk.
2 packs is unlikely to get you even 1 card you need for a deck. Pokemon is really specific and you're unlikely to open the right pokemon in just 2 packs.
More likely than not, the people who bring up kids don’t have them. It’s long been clocked as a cope to justify being greedy.
Yeah, it especially sucks when there’s actual usable cards too, but I feel like there’s a point where these people would be better off buying singles than trying to gamble.
I mean a lot of staples and key pieces are also printed as commons and uncommons. Not too long ago people were trying to pump up an uncommon because it was a must-add for every deck. They had to add it into the next set to make it accessible.
Even those are worth nothing until 10 years in the future when they break some legacy deck. I remember MTG cards you couldn't give away breaking £10 a decade after printing.
It's all fake. He's not buying anything from those stores. Like with Kick gambling streams it's all fake pretend money.
Some of them he seems to have an existing relationship. But some of these stores, they can hardly understand him and the whole thing seems incredibly awkward. It makes it difficult to imagine they've negotiated something when he walks in and there's an incredibly high language barrier. He's just walking into these tiny shit hole shops on the top floors of the commercial district.
In the first store as soon as he walks in they step out and wave at the camera. Seems like they know him or he's spoken to them before. Which makes me suspicious.
The first store is definitely an outlier in terms of how it genuinely looks like a casino parlor. The other ones are just him picking envelopes from trays they keep behind the counter. From the video he seems to justify it as a type of investment (he doesn't say the word investment). He believes the value of all pokemon cards will continue to rise. He is obsessed with "PSA 10" and implies he'll be getting some of these cards graded.
/sad/ I wan those...
the pokemon TCG is very inexpensive to get into. the only cards I can thik of that are past $10 at the moment are unfair stamp and maybe fezandipiti ex, but I'm not sure. decks very rarely will cross the $50 line. TPC is retarded and power creeps themselves in order to keep parity across players both new and old, so legacy formats are nonexistant. the closest we have is expanded and that's more equivalent to modern MTG.
there's this gambling aspect that seems to draw in people vicariously enough that these people can retardedly gamble away money and make it back up from youtube because they rake in so many views, likes and subscriptions. I hate it because there's people dumb enough to see it and try to copy them without that return youtube provides. players these days are the only ones who benefit since singles that aren't hits are dirt cheap due to so many being pulled.
TCGs like magic prioritize limited format, which set a horrible precedent for TCGs going forward from invasion block.
>Politoad Weather Ball
It's 'illegal', but there are pachinko machines on every street corner and the tallest buildings in many rural towns will be a Vegas Vegas.
Local archive of the Platinum PC port, sourced from this /v/ thread.
Some things that can be added would be the unused rival battle and speeding the damn game up, both of which are possible on original hardware due to arbitrary code execution.
Fezandipiti ex is actually around five bucks but you’re right about Unfair Stamp. Another card that’s been going up is Giant Cape and that’s due to Mysterious Rock Inn Crustle being an annoying little shit of a deck.
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