I'm 34, collected Pokémon cards as a school boy and never touched them again after the age of 11, and I've recently got into the tcg. Thanks for this video.
I’m 31, parents belittled me out of it as a child. Recently realized I needed more passion in my life, Pokemon was one of my things I picked back up. Thank you so much for this video. 5:56 I’m only here and have already learned so much about collecting and have already been back in maybe a year. I collect every card that I pull and have my collection broke down into type and evolution. I put my fav art of the set in the front and trade the dupes, I only trade so it forces me out of my shell around people, I have came across so many collectors in doing so.
Not a Pokémon collector, but I appreciate how open and honest this video is, a lot of the Pokémon videos I see are more about spending more and more, when it’s a hobby, collecting should be about having fun and enjoying what you have. I appreciate that this video is more about how to have fun and enjoying it instead of making money. - a random record collector who somehow ended up here
I’m not super familiar with how the Pokémon collecting space is, but god, that sounds bad, just looking at the community from everything I’ve seen now, it’s full of scalping and purposely raising prices, record collecting has been like this a lot too sadly, most collecting has been, it makes me very sad, collecting should be about the joy it brings to you not the price, it’s not that I’m against expensive items, my all time dream record sells for like 300-350 dollars and if I had the money I’d probably buy it, but sadly Pokémon and many other collecting communities use scummy ways to scalp and artificially raise prices, hope your collecting is going well, and I hope crypto bros explode into the never ending void or something
I totally agree! Taking my 5 year old son into town tomorrow to start a collection and making sure its all about fun. He wants to collect pikachu. Dragonite and Mewtwo (yes i like overpowered) are my faves and I'm gonna collect as many as I can!
It was the term at the time. In fact, it still gets used. I guess technically it would be shiny card as opposed to poke but yeah. It's a thing.@@straw_hatlegend8802
Friendly tips: **1 normal holo is "worthless" a binder of them, especially playable ones, aren't. **Charizard is still valuable just depends on the card or if you run into a Charizard collector. **Build a stockpile of what you don't want so you can sell it to get booster packs/a few dollars or build a relationship w/ a competitive player/card shop/a master set collector who will buy certain cards for .25-$2+ a piece/ trade w/you for a card you want or just give it away to a children's hospital/other kids.
I just came across my collection. Back around 2006 I purchased booster boxes of first edition, fossil, and first edition, team rocket and opened them for the nostalgia. I sleeved them and put them in a binder and forgot about them. I am only missing a few from each set and I’m looking forward to completing it. Thanks for all the info in this video.
Mate I used to be a big a fan of the cardgame in the 90's and never got back into it. I was aware of the existence of new era's with different styles and stuff but never understood the chronology or hierarchy of it. However, if I wanted to have a clear explanation video of it, this video is probably exactly how I wanted it to be. Great stuff.
As a 90s kid, your videos have been incredibly helpful for me. Getting back into the Pokémon TCG has been daunting to say the least. I thought I could just walk into a store pick a pack and run with it, but I was struck with choice paralysis, and had a laundry list of questions. Your videos are exactly what I need and have answered most if not all questions I’ve had since that first day I walked into the store. Thanks a million!!
3:07 I have to say the symbols always looked prettier than the abbreviated set name… maybe a combination of both could’ve worked. Looks very boring and uninspiring now.
The entire hobby is majority people only thinking about how much money they can make and it’s ruining it. I grew up on the OG sets up to around team aqua v team magma maybe a set or two past that. 20 years nearly passed my oldest nephew loves pokemon and reminds me that there are still pure minds in the hobby he could care less about the money if he can trade buddies on the playground for another card he likes more no matter the value difference he does it. That’s pure. People my age and older who only care about sealed scalping and making money off singles, that’s all they care about. I literally just like buying an etb, a booster box, and special sets I buy all full art promo boxes and an etb, I love completing sets and absolutely hate having to buy singles but once you reach 70-80% completion you have no choice if you want to not waste hundreds of thousands. Surging sparks just messed up everything all over again. All over one single card that imo is basic and I much preferred the v v Star vmax designs over the teras I liked the tera cards at first but now find them extremely repetitive and basic. Now you having evolving skies 2.0 on its way and scalpers bought out everything months before its release and I’m sorry but people willing to pay scalped prices for sets need to learn to be patient. Values drop and eventually you’ll get the price you would’ve paid for had entire sets not been raped and get close to release date prices. Just wish people in the hobby cared more about collecting and playing the TCG rather than “how much money is this card I pulled worth?”
I run an online singles reselling business and let me assure you that my business isn’t about scalping anything. I make money collecting and selling cards from my favorite series. I also appreciate the collecting side of the hobby but also suffered from surging sparks inventory issues. Tldr not every card seller you see is the evil bad man ruining the hobby. Many of us share your same passion and frustration.
honestly so many of the cheaper cards are so slept on because they're just gorgeous , like maybe I'm the only one who really likes break cards from the xy era but I think they're really cool.
@@JordanMarshDev I appreciate that. I totally try supporting local shops any chance I get and fortunately have one like 7 minutes from my house, I’ll even pay slightly more for singles for sets I’ve completed too much of so have no choice over buying online I don’t even like buying anything online always been in person business, never been to a card show but my main hobby makes pokemon look cheap when inflated prices happen, hobby shops and if I’ve found a really unbeatable deal I’ll buy from big box on occasion it was hard not to when they had tempest and origin boxes for 35$ and 151 for 45-55$ before it was just scalped to death. I think alot of what’s happening is unintentionally happening, but also easy to see, pack ripping channels are literally making people worry more about the value of there cards and less about appreciating the artwork, the way to play them, not how so many channels do it where they celebrate “making money” off pull cards and you have kids to adult seeing this and there being shown you can make money off of it, only these channels/streamers often get paid thousands doing nothing but pack openings and I’ll never understand how anyone can willingly donate to the big ones these people makes thousands even tens of thousands a month off making videos and now little kids will see this and see they can make more money raping a hobby than actually learning a trade they don’t wanna be doctors firemen pipefitters and welders they say they wanna be video game streamers and trading card resellers and make money sitting ripping thousands of packs. It’s not good and I’m sure most mean good but I find majority of pack opening channels start as good and legit as could be and overtime magically when they start getting bigger they have impossible pull rates everyday everytime, that makes a false sense of how easy it is to pull certain cards and people watch and try to scalp up as much as possible and it’s like child gambling that adults fall for as well. I didn’t find it bad until I saw how much the hobby changed in 20 years and not even 10 months into the hobby have seen how 151 and now especially surging are just becoming all about how much money people can make rather than opening packs and boxes they want it all sealed I get having 1-2 boxes of a set you don’t open as collection pieces I get that but not buying cases of boxes and only seeing what they can make off of it I. 3-6-9 months 1-3-5-7-10 years it’s a shame.
@@Charlie-qi1xn 100% agreed I loved the Vmax cards the basic ones i absolutely loved pulling a 2-3$ Vmax machamp and the one in evolving skies Vmax rayqueza I didn’t care about oh I can resell these in a few years for more money I happily put them in sleeves then the set binders along with every other card I’ve bought minus the ever growing bulk. I liked the Tera cards from early S&V they were the classic pokemon like arcanine gyrados and mewtwo they looked dope even tyranitar did looking like electric rocks but now you have them as full arts and it’s just all about resell resell resell
I work at a library and we do a PokeClub for kids once a month, so this was super helpful in learning more about the cards. I don't know if you play the game at all, but a run-through would be super cool as well! A lot of the parents of the kids coming to the programs are MTG players and don't know where to start with Pokemon.
Very good video. I think it's also worth mentioning that the QR-code card which has been in every booster pack for some years now vary in weight and thickness. They made this solely to solve the problem of weighting single packs for possible holo cards. So people who buy older solo packs for higher prices off ebay or something don't have to worry about this as long as the pack contains a QR card.
Won yourself a new subscriber here. Never collected pokemon cards but the mobile tcg game got me addicted to it (+ my recent trip to Japan where I cluelessly bought a bunch of different packs).
Thank you for the helpful video full of information to catch me up to speed! I'm 31 and stopped collecting back in elementary school. I've gotten back into Pokemon TCG about 1-2months ago and went on a rampage trying to buy stuff I knew and stuff I was totally unaware about. Now with this helpful knowledge, I can spend more wisely and my wife will quit giving me grief for the impulse purchases on 'Whatnot' 🤣🤣😅
As someone who's been DEEP into collecting since 2019 when my family got me back into it, your videos are incredibly insightful while also being beginner friendly. I appreciate how unbiased your viewpoint is so people can have a full grasp on what it's really like right now. Keep on keeping on!
I don't know why but even though I've played every single Pokemon game since Pearl, I never had any trading cards. I'm being sucked into the rabbit hole recently, it's insane. Love the artwork on the cards, it's so nice and often very nostalgic
You are my hero. I started collecting and competing in 1999. I competed really well for 3 years and was (almost) unbeatable. 34 now, stopped when I was 14. I was a really poor kid so when Pokemon was banned in my whole town and not just the schools, my very supportive dad couldn't afford to take me further and further away. The only reason I was playing at all was because an extremely nice foreign exchange student reached into her own collection and helped me build a deck (when she saw how well I was doing a year later and how I was still quite poor and could barely buy new cards, she let me build another). I ran two Japanese decks with her translations for 3 years. So I dropped it altogether - I figured the least painful thing to do would be to binder my cards, seal them in a box, and never look at them again. An uncomfortable amount of years later (I do not feel old) my girlfriend is a pharmacy tech at a grocery store chain and got a whole case of the Halloween TCG booster packs for literally $5. All of a sudden, I had nearly 65 cards or more. So I got out the binder. I made a deck. That was literally the first time I had ever opened a pack of Pokemon cards since I was 13. It was unbelievable, euphoric actually, I got shot backwards back in time. All of a sudden, I was like - I almost have a deck. Why not get back into it? So I did. And it's been a CRAZY amazing journey but it's a LOT and a steep learning curve. I'm a disabled paramedic and I highly doubt I'll ever be good enough to compete again, but I would love to. Videos like this definitely help furthering me towards maybe (just maybe) getting back up to spec. Thanks to an awesome card store, I'm almost over 300 Pokemon cards by pulling them individually. AND I got my girlfriend massively into both collecting and playing just by restarting my journey. I don't know. For an autistic kid like me who couldn't even afford a Gameboy, Pokemon was magical. I was good at it - I was really good at something. Losing that hurt me more than I'd ever realized. It's crazy to be back and videos like this literally make it all possible going forward.
Honestly just watching the videos of grown men, who are more than likely scalpers on that "grindset", fighting and pushing each other over what's essentially a product made for children is so annoying and I'm suprised there isn't more community uproar over it
I say it every time but unfortunately Pokémon has it the worst out of all the other card games with speculators due to how much more marketable the IP is and the vast amount of uninformed people that buy from scalpers to encourage them. Not that other card games don't have collectors at all, but their communities tend to be tighter knit and actively shun people that aggressively hoard and flip cards for profit.
@@zankiohex yup and and some guy called me broke here for not chasing the hype. These people are mentally unstable and don't care about collecting at all. Who cares if a card is 10$ or 1000$ if the card looks cool.
@@Starpotionat least with Pokémon, it’s all about alt arts and collectors items. In Yugioh, scalpers will go after anything you need to survive let alone play in the meta and Konami encourages them.
@soopakoopa6461 high value modern charizard would be charizard paldean fate 156 dollar or 151 178 USD Umbreon 892 USD while 178 is a lot, Umbreon surly more seek after then charizard, obsidan flames also consist of rather too many charizards making it less wanted is also very easy cards to get from boxes with promo , even tho is used alot in competitions is not really that wanted as they are cheap and easy to get.
It's not just since Obsidian Flames. This has been brewing for years. Ever since they started over printing Charizard. About 5-10 years roughly. Not just since Obsidian Flames. Other lackluster zard sets include Darkness Ablaze, Champions Path, Celebrations and to a slightly lesser extent Brilliant Stars and those aren't the only sets in the last 5 years where zard makes an appearance but mostly the one that very few care about. It's Charizard overkill since roughly the beginning of Sun & Moon.
Just getting back into collecting the cards since selling my early 90s collection back in 2016 (still kicking myself), thanks for this video, super helpful!
Holy cow, having not touched them since I got the Fossil deck box back in 1999? 2000? Which my mum had her friend in Seattle buy and ship over to the UK. I was such a cool kid in primary school. This seems more complicated than Magic.
I still remember pulling 3 or 4 holo Venomoths as a 10 year old. Packs were $5 in Aus so roughly 2 or 3 dollars in the US. Back then no one cared about any of the 2nd gen cards everyone was collecting the base set.
Wonderfully explained in great detail. Thank you for sharing❤. I just got into Pokémon collecting this year and was able to travel to Japan for a trip and it was an incredible to see the Pokémon stores there and the card stores. We don’t have much here unfortunately 😅. I was able to pick up some cards that are hard to get in Australia 😊 Can’t wait to see more videos!
Im not judging the people who buy a bit of sealed product and try to make a bit of scratch.. i am judging the people who use bots to buy up all the orders and then put them online immediately for a profit.
I'm 34 and S&V 151 is what brought me back. I already mastered set it and is now regretting selling my OG base set cards back when I was a kid. I recently purchased complete master sets of OG Base set, Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket, Base set 2 from eBay because nostalgia hit me bad. As much as I wish to buy OG booster packs and open them up, there ain't no way I'm buying OG booster packs in todays prices. Doesn't make any sense. I'll be spending 10x more just to master set it.
i wasn’t alive back then, but coopscollection’s videos have me in a chokehold, and so the algorithm has also introduced me to pokichloe and deeppocketmonster. i’d love to start a collection someday
"No one cares about Charizard anymore" while showing a 1st ed base set is just an out right incorrect statement. Vintage overall has been on the rise especially grails. And Charizard is the #1 chase card in 151 which is a HUGE reason the tcg overall has gained so much traction and attention since the sets release, why? Because people still love a zard...
@@chrisonaldo0936 ça sera la même chose pour quelqu'un qui détient juste de l'argent sur son compte en banque ainsi que du cash ils finiront par se suicider. Seulement l'or et uniquement l'or sera fiable le reste ne vaudra strictement rien
It's like people forget it's actually a game. All the collectors have seriously ruined the fun of playing older formats any more because of how expensive they all got for the sake of hoping they can make money off GAME pieces. I swear it feels like not a single person I've ever met even knows how to play.
I worked on a "grandmaster" xy set and it took me 6 months to get close searching sites every break/lunch break at work. I became insane, would only recommend a master set
I am so sad… I actually live in Amsterdam and have done for many years now. But I missed out on the Van Gogh Pokemon exhibition 😭 Only getting back into TCG now, at 36 😅
in elementary a kid got hit by a car and when he came back all busted up in a wheel chair a whole bunch of kids gave him their charzards cards. i wasnt into pokemon but for some reason i remember that
Good and informative video. After my trip to Japan I'm back collcecting cards and this is really, really helpful. Thanks a lot. Definetly will guide my viewers to your channel whenever questions come up.
I remember i was getting into pokemon cards so my parents went to get pokemon cards for everytike we did something good and they wers in a line just for pokemon cards and they had to get a vivid voltage pack and i remember getting an amazing rare reshiram one time and that was my first good card
Hi! I'm back in the hobby after years, and your videos are the best I've found here these past few weeks. Full of interesting information, full of good ideas, perfect storytelling... Thanks for your hard work, I wish you all the best. Greetings from France!
The biggest disappointment to me as an old guy who just likes buying a booster of pokemon or mtg once in a while is that people are xraying and weighing packs and so unless I buy a sealed box from a non-cardshop retailer, I'm basically guaranteed to not get any awesome pulls because the shop has already yoinked them.
Love the video bro. For that, I subscribe! Great job for putting all this information. The time and effort you put into this work, pays off. Great information
collecting all base versions then slowly replacing with rarer and rarer variance of each 1024. Figured it would be neat to have a grand master set of the rarest versions I could find
Honestly, I've been away from the tcg since 2012. Coming back to tcg after playing the tcg pocket, I'm so lost on all these different cards with their rarities and the different name structures than the regular ex I was used to back then.
I lived next to the mall i pulled a expensive charizard and blastoise from the barnes & noble and then i went right back to the card shop in the same mall
Simple math if vintage doesn't sell anymore modern will take 2x the damage. In 2020 there used to be alot of listings for certain rare cards and you can practically just wait till they come at a convenient price now... For certain there is only a few listings left these will eventually be extremely hard to get your hands on so its now or never.
I know there's Scarlet & Violet 151, but I really wish there were some means to just buy Base Set; Gen1 to Gen3 Pokemon cards as they were. Without the ridiculous price of course. As a kid I obviously didn't have the monetary freedom to buy many cards. Now that I do have some money, I just don't get that interested in all these Pokemon I don't recognize. I guess I would have to settle for 151, but I'm not getting in unless there is an English reprint.
i can't help but feel the volume of TCG releases over the years gives an impression that the franchise is driven more by money rather than creativity within the I.P.
This is great. I’m sure there are a bunch of people in their 30s and 40s who are getting back into Pokemon cards because of their kids. That’s what brought me here!
I started collecting the cards when they first launched in the US. When I was like 13 I thought I was too "grown" for them, so I thought it would be a good idea to give my collection to a younger cousin of mine. I don't even think my cousin even liked the franchise. Boy, do I regret that now. They are gone forever and that's a hard pill to swallow.
Just came back into the hobby. My Goal is to first collect every pokemon from gen 1. Don't care from which set the cards came. Once I complete gen 1 I might look into replacing pokemon with better versions. But I don't see it as a requirement. After which I'll go and collect every pokemon from gen 2, gen 3 etc. I also want to collect every Horsea ever printed.
I traded a brand new Alakazam opened in a store in 2000 with a 1st edition Blastoise because I had a water earth strategy in the card game. Then I stopped playing like 3 months after and now I found it at my moms home and it's like 500$ .... Wow
Pulled umberon v max at a GameStop with my 5 dollar monthly reward from the GameStop membership, It’s my favorite modern card ever released and I get why everyone likes it, crazy that it’s actually the single best modern card these days
I wish when i was young born in 92 i kept all my base set cards, i had so many, played them everything, then through rocket and jungle, those are worth money, but sadly those cards are long gone I will say i pulled a umbreon vmax from my second booster pack in the booster box when that set came out, and its sitting in a card binder, and i want to grade it, but its worth so much ungraded right now
Millennial Nostalgia and their Midlife Crisis will be insane to watch in the next 5-15 years. The cards will soon start to be very difficult to get lol
So all in all, the actual opening of packs and cards themselves seem, more generous and fun to experience. But the INSANE amount of cards might feel a bit too overwhelming and maybe not really worth it depending on your pockets. It seems like you could get 100 amazing beautiful cards, but none of them will be the ones you wanted
I'm 34, collected Pokémon cards as a school boy and never touched them again after the age of 11, and I've recently got into the tcg. Thanks for this video.
Just to add, I've watched a whole bunch of your videos recently and they're great, really informative.
Same here!
Same
I’m 33. Same boat with getting the off pack here and there as a kiddo. Getting the itch to buy some packs again.
Dude im 37.. ive spent so much money this month getting back into it. The fucking price of sleeves are killing me xD
your wall looks like my floor so now I cant stop picturing you laying down thru this entire video - great video tho :)
Shhhh don’t tell anyone it’s a floor wall
That's hilarious. 😂
LMAO!!!
Now my brain hurts.
Yo same now
I’m 31, parents belittled me out of it as a child. Recently realized I needed more passion in my life, Pokemon was one of my things I picked back up. Thank you so much for this video. 5:56 I’m only here and have already learned so much about collecting and have already been back in maybe a year. I collect every card that I pull and have my collection broke down into type and evolution. I put my fav art of the set in the front and trade the dupes, I only trade so it forces me out of my shell around people, I have came across so many collectors in doing so.
Welcome back to the hobby
Not a Pokémon collector, but I appreciate how open and honest this video is, a lot of the Pokémon videos I see are more about spending more and more, when it’s a hobby, collecting should be about having fun and enjoying what you have. I appreciate that this video is more about how to have fun and enjoying it instead of making money. - a random record collector who somehow ended up here
Thank you for the honest take
this. the majority of poketubers are just cryptobros.
I’m not super familiar with how the Pokémon collecting space is, but god, that sounds bad, just looking at the community from everything I’ve seen now, it’s full of scalping and purposely raising prices, record collecting has been like this a lot too sadly, most collecting has been, it makes me very sad, collecting should be about the joy it brings to you not the price, it’s not that I’m against expensive items, my all time dream record sells for like 300-350 dollars and if I had the money I’d probably buy it, but sadly Pokémon and many other collecting communities use scummy ways to scalp and artificially raise prices, hope your collecting is going well, and I hope crypto bros explode into the never ending void or something
I totally agree! Taking my 5 year old son into town tomorrow to start a collection and making sure its all about fun. He wants to collect pikachu. Dragonite and Mewtwo (yes i like overpowered) are my faves and I'm gonna collect as many as I can!
That’s really nice to hear! I hope he gets some cool dragonite, mewtwo, and pikachu cards!
"The future is now, old man".
Dewey 😂
The year was 1998 and I traded a my shiny Chansey for a shiny Venusaur during recess in elementary school. Man what a core memory experience that was!
When you say “shiny” do you mean holo? 😂 shiny Pokémon didn’t exist in 1998.
@@straw_hatlegend8802I mean yeah obviously
@@straw_hatlegend8802everyone I knew as a kid called them shinys
@@straw_hatlegend8802it’s a shiny card though are you ragebaiting or something
It was the term at the time. In fact, it still gets used. I guess technically it would be shiny card as opposed to poke but yeah. It's a thing.@@straw_hatlegend8802
Friendly tips:
**1 normal holo is "worthless" a binder of them, especially playable ones, aren't. **Charizard is still valuable just depends on the card or if you run into a Charizard collector. **Build a stockpile of what you don't want so you can sell it to get booster packs/a few dollars or build a relationship w/ a competitive player/card shop/a master set collector who will buy certain cards for .25-$2+ a piece/ trade w/you for a card you want or just give it away to a children's hospital/other kids.
I just came across my collection. Back around 2006 I purchased booster boxes of first edition, fossil, and first edition, team rocket and opened them for the nostalgia. I sleeved them and put them in a binder and forgot about them. I am only missing a few from each set and I’m looking forward to completing it. Thanks for all the info in this video.
Mate I used to be a big a fan of the cardgame in the 90's and never got back into it. I was aware of the existence of new era's with different styles and stuff but never understood the chronology or hierarchy of it. However, if I wanted to have a clear explanation video of it, this video is probably exactly how I wanted it to be. Great stuff.
As a 90s kid, your videos have been incredibly helpful for me. Getting back into the Pokémon TCG has been daunting to say the least. I thought I could just walk into a store pick a pack and run with it, but I was struck with choice paralysis, and had a laundry list of questions. Your videos are exactly what I need and have answered most if not all questions I’ve had since that first day I walked into the store. Thanks a million!!
Thank you for watching!
@ you’re really butthurt about that arn’t you.
3:07 I have to say the symbols always looked prettier than the abbreviated set name… maybe a combination of both could’ve worked. Looks very boring and uninspiring now.
At the risk of the card being cluttered, I like the idea of combining the two
The entire hobby is majority people only thinking about how much money they can make and it’s ruining it. I grew up on the OG sets up to around team aqua v team magma maybe a set or two past that. 20 years nearly passed my oldest nephew loves pokemon and reminds me that there are still pure minds in the hobby he could care less about the money if he can trade buddies on the playground for another card he likes more no matter the value difference he does it. That’s pure. People my age and older who only care about sealed scalping and making money off singles, that’s all they care about. I literally just like buying an etb, a booster box, and special sets I buy all full art promo boxes and an etb, I love completing sets and absolutely hate having to buy singles but once you reach 70-80% completion you have no choice if you want to not waste hundreds of thousands. Surging sparks just messed up everything all over again. All over one single card that imo is basic and I much preferred the v v Star vmax designs over the teras I liked the tera cards at first but now find them extremely repetitive and basic. Now you having evolving skies 2.0 on its way and scalpers bought out everything months before its release and I’m sorry but people willing to pay scalped prices for sets need to learn to be patient. Values drop and eventually you’ll get the price you would’ve paid for had entire sets not been raped and get close to release date prices. Just wish people in the hobby cared more about collecting and playing the TCG rather than “how much money is this card I pulled worth?”
Yeah I can't pay over retail for packs.... People are trying to charge $10 a pack and that's not acceptable lol
I run an online singles reselling business and let me assure you that my business isn’t about scalping anything. I make money collecting and selling cards from my favorite series.
I also appreciate the collecting side of the hobby but also suffered from surging sparks inventory issues.
Tldr not every card seller you see is the evil bad man ruining the hobby. Many of us share your same passion and frustration.
honestly so many of the cheaper cards are so slept on because they're just gorgeous , like maybe I'm the only one who really likes break cards from the xy era but I think they're really cool.
@@JordanMarshDev I appreciate that. I totally try supporting local shops any chance I get and fortunately have one like 7 minutes from my house, I’ll even pay slightly more for singles for sets I’ve completed too much of so have no choice over buying online I don’t even like buying anything online always been in person business, never been to a card show but my main hobby makes pokemon look cheap when inflated prices happen, hobby shops and if I’ve found a really unbeatable deal I’ll buy from big box on occasion it was hard not to when they had tempest and origin boxes for 35$ and 151 for 45-55$ before it was just scalped to death. I think alot of what’s happening is unintentionally happening, but also easy to see, pack ripping channels are literally making people worry more about the value of there cards and less about appreciating the artwork, the way to play them, not how so many channels do it where they celebrate “making money” off pull cards and you have kids to adult seeing this and there being shown you can make money off of it, only these channels/streamers often get paid thousands doing nothing but pack openings and I’ll never understand how anyone can willingly donate to the big ones these people makes thousands even tens of thousands a month off making videos and now little kids will see this and see they can make more money raping a hobby than actually learning a trade they don’t wanna be doctors firemen pipefitters and welders they say they wanna be video game streamers and trading card resellers and make money sitting ripping thousands of packs. It’s not good and I’m sure most mean good but I find majority of pack opening channels start as good and legit as could be and overtime magically when they start getting bigger they have impossible pull rates everyday everytime, that makes a false sense of how easy it is to pull certain cards and people watch and try to scalp up as much as possible and it’s like child gambling that adults fall for as well. I didn’t find it bad until I saw how much the hobby changed in 20 years and not even 10 months into the hobby have seen how 151 and now especially surging are just becoming all about how much money people can make rather than opening packs and boxes they want it all sealed I get having 1-2 boxes of a set you don’t open as collection pieces I get that but not buying cases of boxes and only seeing what they can make off of it I. 3-6-9 months 1-3-5-7-10 years it’s a shame.
@@Charlie-qi1xn 100% agreed I loved the Vmax cards the basic ones i absolutely loved pulling a 2-3$ Vmax machamp and the one in evolving skies Vmax rayqueza I didn’t care about oh I can resell these in a few years for more money I happily put them in sleeves then the set binders along with every other card I’ve bought minus the ever growing bulk. I liked the Tera cards from early S&V they were the classic pokemon like arcanine gyrados and mewtwo they looked dope even tyranitar did looking like electric rocks but now you have them as full arts and it’s just all about resell resell resell
In europe the secondary market is largely on a platform called cardmarket.
Keep up the good work!
And it works like a charm!
Im so glad to hear you and Coop are friends! youre definitely the two people ive been the most grateful for since getting back into the tcg
Clearly explained, accompanied by examples, smooth transitions without excessive stuff on screen. A+ video, thank you!
Really appreciate this as a 36 year old getting back into the collecting game. Subbed up, great channel!
Awesome, thank you!
I work at a library and we do a PokeClub for kids once a month, so this was super helpful in learning more about the cards. I don't know if you play the game at all, but a run-through would be super cool as well! A lot of the parents of the kids coming to the programs are MTG players and don't know where to start with Pokemon.
I frequently share your vids with my LGS friends and with my small social group of Pokemon fans. Dis one iz a topper - thanks heaps‼️
Thank you, I appreciate that so much.
As someone who grew up in the 90s and only recently got back into collecting Pokemon cards, this video helped a lot. Thanks and subscribed!
Very good video.
I think it's also worth mentioning that the QR-code card which has been in every booster pack for some years now vary in weight and thickness. They made this solely to solve the problem of weighting single packs for possible holo cards. So people who buy older solo packs for higher prices off ebay or something don't have to worry about this as long as the pack contains a QR card.
As a non collector I find that type of stuff so interesting, good comment👍
love these videos, man, keep up the good work
Hey, appreciate it!
Such a great video, thanks so much for taking the time to put it together and share with us. Learned a ton!
Thank you for watching!
Won yourself a new subscriber here. Never collected pokemon cards but the mobile tcg game got me addicted to it (+ my recent trip to Japan where I cluelessly bought a bunch of different packs).
Thank you for the helpful video full of information to catch me up to speed! I'm 31 and stopped collecting back in elementary school. I've gotten back into Pokemon TCG about 1-2months ago and went on a rampage trying to buy stuff I knew and stuff I was totally unaware about. Now with this helpful knowledge, I can spend more wisely and my wife will quit giving me grief for the impulse purchases on 'Whatnot' 🤣🤣😅
0:03 "dont you worry charizard I still care"
me too!
As someone who's been DEEP into collecting since 2019 when my family got me back into it, your videos are incredibly insightful while also being beginner friendly. I appreciate how unbiased your viewpoint is so people can have a full grasp on what it's really like right now. Keep on keeping on!
Glad you're enjoying the videos! 😊
Just in time to ride the Pokemon TCG Pocket hype. Cheers
I don't know why but even though I've played every single Pokemon game since Pearl, I never had any trading cards. I'm being sucked into the rabbit hole recently, it's insane. Love the artwork on the cards, it's so nice and often very nostalgic
Yeah I really like the artwork too.
I played every game up to pearl then got too old 😢
You are my hero. I started collecting and competing in 1999. I competed really well for 3 years and was (almost) unbeatable. 34 now, stopped when I was 14. I was a really poor kid so when Pokemon was banned in my whole town and not just the schools, my very supportive dad couldn't afford to take me further and further away. The only reason I was playing at all was because an extremely nice foreign exchange student reached into her own collection and helped me build a deck (when she saw how well I was doing a year later and how I was still quite poor and could barely buy new cards, she let me build another). I ran two Japanese decks with her translations for 3 years. So I dropped it altogether - I figured the least painful thing to do would be to binder my cards, seal them in a box, and never look at them again. An uncomfortable amount of years later (I do not feel old) my girlfriend is a pharmacy tech at a grocery store chain and got a whole case of the Halloween TCG booster packs for literally $5. All of a sudden, I had nearly 65 cards or more. So I got out the binder. I made a deck. That was literally the first time I had ever opened a pack of Pokemon cards since I was 13. It was unbelievable, euphoric actually, I got shot backwards back in time. All of a sudden, I was like - I almost have a deck. Why not get back into it? So I did. And it's been a CRAZY amazing journey but it's a LOT and a steep learning curve. I'm a disabled paramedic and I highly doubt I'll ever be good enough to compete again, but I would love to. Videos like this definitely help furthering me towards maybe (just maybe) getting back up to spec. Thanks to an awesome card store, I'm almost over 300 Pokemon cards by pulling them individually. AND I got my girlfriend massively into both collecting and playing just by restarting my journey. I don't know. For an autistic kid like me who couldn't even afford a Gameboy, Pokemon was magical. I was good at it - I was really good at something. Losing that hurt me more than I'd ever realized. It's crazy to be back and videos like this literally make it all possible going forward.
I'm a 90's kid but don't care for Charizard for some reason, but I did buy a S-Chiniese Umbreon, not spending 1000+ on the English one I'm not crazy.
Never liked charizard or really any of the fire starters, glad to see someone who feels the same way
Honestly just watching the videos of grown men, who are more than likely scalpers on that "grindset", fighting and pushing each other over what's essentially a product made for children is so annoying and I'm suprised there isn't more community uproar over it
I say it every time but unfortunately Pokémon has it the worst out of all the other card games with speculators due to how much more marketable the IP is and the vast amount of uninformed people that buy from scalpers to encourage them. Not that other card games don't have collectors at all, but their communities tend to be tighter knit and actively shun people that aggressively hoard and flip cards for profit.
Scalping and "Pokeinvesting" by people who don't actually care about Pokemon at all has really gotten crazy
@@zankiohex yup and and some guy called me broke here for not chasing the hype. These people are mentally unstable and don't care about collecting at all. Who cares if a card is 10$ or 1000$ if the card looks cool.
@@jafes7Pokémon is an anime IP. Go invest in something practical instead of fucking up someone else’s hobby dipshit.
@@Starpotionat least with Pokémon, it’s all about alt arts and collectors items. In Yugioh, scalpers will go after anything you need to survive let alone play in the meta and Konami encourages them.
Hope your channel blows up, incredible production value and digestibility in all of them. TCG Pocket is gonna create another tcg wave
It definitely got me back into the collecting cards. Just ordered 4 booster packs a few days ago 😅
"Nobody cares about Charizard" as long as you don't look at competitions ever since Obsidian Flames released.
@soopakoopa6461
high value modern charizard would be charizard paldean fate 156 dollar or 151 178 USD Umbreon 892 USD while 178 is a lot, Umbreon surly more seek after then charizard, obsidan flames also consist of rather too many charizards making it less wanted is also very easy cards to get from boxes with promo , even tho is used alot in competitions is not really that wanted as they are cheap and easy to get.
I clicked on this vid immediately after watching the Zard mirror in the Stuttgart finals, so that made for a good laugh
It's not just since Obsidian Flames. This has been brewing for years. Ever since they started over printing Charizard. About 5-10 years roughly. Not just since Obsidian Flames. Other lackluster zard sets include Darkness Ablaze, Champions Path, Celebrations and to a slightly lesser extent Brilliant Stars and those aren't the only sets in the last 5 years where zard makes an appearance but mostly the one that very few care about. It's Charizard overkill since roughly the beginning of Sun & Moon.
Just getting back into collecting the cards since selling my early 90s collection back in 2016 (still kicking myself), thanks for this video, super helpful!
Holy cow, having not touched them since I got the Fossil deck box back in 1999? 2000? Which my mum had her friend in Seattle buy and ship over to the UK. I was such a cool kid in primary school. This seems more complicated than Magic.
Your channel is exactly what I've been looking for! Content's fantastic, very well explained! Subscribed
I still remember pulling 3 or 4 holo Venomoths as a 10 year old. Packs were $5 in Aus so roughly 2 or 3 dollars in the US. Back then no one cared about any of the 2nd gen cards everyone was collecting the base set.
Wonderfully explained in great detail. Thank you for sharing❤. I just got into Pokémon collecting this year and was able to travel to Japan for a trip and it was an incredible to see the Pokémon stores there and the card stores. We don’t have much here unfortunately 😅. I was able to pick up some cards that are hard to get in Australia 😊 Can’t wait to see more videos!
Your calm and to the point presenting style is so refreshing!
Im not judging the people who buy a bit of sealed product and try to make a bit of scratch.. i am judging the people who use bots to buy up all the orders and then put them online immediately for a profit.
Im 33. Had dam near every 1st edition cards and threw them away when I got too old to be into them. Crazy how much my old cards are worth today.
I'm 34 and S&V 151 is what brought me back. I already mastered set it and is now regretting selling my OG base set cards back when I was a kid. I recently purchased complete master sets of OG Base set, Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket, Base set 2 from eBay because nostalgia hit me bad. As much as I wish to buy OG booster packs and open them up, there ain't no way I'm buying OG booster packs in todays prices. Doesn't make any sense. I'll be spending 10x more just to master set it.
i wasn’t alive back then, but coopscollection’s videos have me in a chokehold, and so the algorithm has also introduced me to pokichloe and deeppocketmonster. i’d love to start a collection someday
I really appreciate your videos! Thanks for getting me back into this hobby after finding my old cards :))
Yeah, I stopped in 1999. Now my daughter wants to play and I have no idea what's going on. 😂
"No one cares about Charizard anymore" while showing a 1st ed base set is just an out right incorrect statement. Vintage overall has been on the rise especially grails.
And Charizard is the #1 chase card in 151 which is a HUGE reason the tcg overall has gained so much traction and attention since the sets release, why? Because people still love a zard...
I’ve recently got into Pokémon again and wanted to start collecting! This helped a bunch!
Welcome back to the hobby!
A 1st Edition Charizard with a PSA 9-10 Is still the king of the crop regardless and nothing is gonna change that! 😅
I want to see the charizard owners when the next BIG financial crisis is hitting their existence 😂
@@chrisonaldo0936 ça sera la même chose pour quelqu'un qui détient juste de l'argent sur son compte en banque ainsi que du cash ils finiront par se suicider. Seulement l'or et uniquement l'or sera fiable le reste ne vaudra strictement rien
@@chrisonaldo0936 It is not about the money for me, just owning a pristine piece of my childhood
This is such an excellent guide! Great work bud!! 💪
Thanks dude 🤛🏻
Amazing video. really helped me out! Just subscribed, thanks for the content.
Cheers from Brazil
This was a great video. Your presentation of the information was done perfectly
It's like people forget it's actually a game. All the collectors have seriously ruined the fun of playing older formats any more because of how expensive they all got for the sake of hoping they can make money off GAME pieces. I swear it feels like not a single person I've ever met even knows how to play.
I worked on a "grandmaster" xy set and it took me 6 months to get close searching sites every break/lunch break at work. I became insane, would only recommend a master set
Yaa Incredible timing on this video. Sure enough, I wasn't alone with an Itch for TCG.
Fantastic Break down!
I am so sad… I actually live in Amsterdam and have done for many years now. But I missed out on the Van Gogh Pokemon exhibition 😭 Only getting back into TCG now, at 36 😅
By Master Set he really means Divorce or Bankruptcy guys, wake up 😂
I'll stick to my shiny starters and legendary birds from gen 1. Those cards are getting my daughter through school. Good luck everyone else!
in elementary a kid got hit by a car and when he came back all busted up in a wheel chair a whole bunch of kids gave him their charzards cards. i wasnt into pokemon but for some reason i remember that
Amazing video for someone just getting into the hobby, thanks very much mate, appreciate the help!
Good and informative video. After my trip to Japan I'm back collcecting cards and this is really, really helpful. Thanks a lot. Definetly will guide my viewers to your channel whenever questions come up.
Glad it was helpful!
I needed this video my daughter just got in to pokemon and it's been over 15 years since I opened a pack
The Van Gogh Pikachu phenomenon was madness 😅
i love that i am a tcg player and not a collector
Thanks for the shoutout - we absolutely love your content!
Thank you!
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks dude.
This channel is so good for people coming back into the hobby
I remember i was getting into pokemon cards so my parents went to get pokemon cards for everytike we did something good and they wers in a line just for pokemon cards and they had to get a vivid voltage pack and i remember getting an amazing rare reshiram one time and that was my first good card
That pikachu with the hat is now worth over $800
collected in 2005 , quit then got into again with the S&V 151
Perfect video.
Many people are coming back to Pokemon this is a huge help
Hi! I'm back in the hobby after years, and your videos are the best I've found here these past few weeks. Full of interesting information, full of good ideas, perfect storytelling... Thanks for your hard work, I wish you all the best. Greetings from France!
Thank you so much and welcome back to the hobby!
The biggest disappointment to me as an old guy who just likes buying a booster of pokemon or mtg once in a while is that people are xraying and weighing packs and so unless I buy a sealed box from a non-cardshop retailer, I'm basically guaranteed to not get any awesome pulls because the shop has already yoinked them.
I love these videos so much,
as someone super new returning to pokemon this channel has been so resourceful and helpful ❤️
Man this video blew up I'm happy for you bro keep it up
Thank you so much! 🙏
Love the video bro. For that, I subscribe! Great job for putting all this information. The time and effort you put into this work, pays off. Great information
Thank you so much
Awesome video. Lots a great info
You can also use he pp whatnot to buy singles you want. You get to see what you are buying
I’ve actually seen clips of your buddy coop and I just randomly came across this vid, gunna have to give both you gent’s a sub 🫡
Protect Coop at all costs!
I absolutely enjoyed your video man, just subbed!
Thanks!
collecting all base versions then slowly replacing with rarer and rarer variance of each 1024. Figured it would be neat to have a grand master set of the rarest versions I could find
Honestly, I've been away from the tcg since 2012. Coming back to tcg after playing the tcg pocket, I'm so lost on all these different cards with their rarities and the different name structures than the regular ex I was used to back then.
I lived next to the mall i pulled a expensive charizard and blastoise from the barnes & noble and then i went right back to the card shop in the same mall
Missed opportunity to say Pokémon cards have evolved
Great content!! Wish i saw rhis a couple months ago when i got back into collecting
My partner just got me back into pokémon cards after she bought me some for Christmas, so thanks for this video. As a 90s kid, I approve.
"Down below the like button." That's smooth
Simple math if vintage doesn't sell anymore modern will take 2x the damage.
In 2020 there used to be alot of listings for certain rare cards and you can practically just wait till they come at a convenient price now... For certain there is only a few listings left these will eventually be extremely hard to get your hands on so its now or never.
the point for me isnt the price of the card, its appreciating the cool artwork that rare cards often come with
I know there's Scarlet & Violet 151, but I really wish there were some means to just buy Base Set; Gen1 to Gen3 Pokemon cards as they were. Without the ridiculous price of course.
As a kid I obviously didn't have the monetary freedom to buy many cards. Now that I do have some money, I just don't get that interested in all these Pokemon I don't recognize.
I guess I would have to settle for 151, but I'm not getting in unless there is an English reprint.
You can buy those on tcgplayer or any number of other websites and most of them are cheaper than modern pulls
i can't help but feel the volume of TCG releases over the years gives an impression that the franchise is driven more by money rather than creativity within the I.P.
seems like you know your demographic brother xD your videos have helped me a lot, thanks!
This is great. I’m sure there are a bunch of people in their 30s and 40s who are getting back into Pokemon cards because of their kids. That’s what brought me here!
I started collecting the cards when they first launched in the US. When I was like 13 I thought I was too "grown" for them, so I thought it would be a good idea to give my collection to a younger cousin of mine. I don't even think my cousin even liked the franchise. Boy, do I regret that now. They are gone forever and that's a hard pill to swallow.
You are not alone, my friend. I hear this comment ALL THE TIME
Just came back into the hobby. My Goal is to first collect every pokemon from gen 1. Don't care from which set the cards came. Once I complete gen 1 I might look into replacing pokemon with better versions. But I don't see it as a requirement.
After which I'll go and collect every pokemon from gen 2, gen 3 etc.
I also want to collect every Horsea ever printed.
I traded a brand new Alakazam opened in a store in 2000 with a 1st edition Blastoise because I had a water earth strategy in the card game. Then I stopped playing like 3 months after and now I found it at my moms home and it's like 500$ .... Wow
A friend of coop is a friend of mine! And i had no idea that tcgplayer was owned by eBay
Pulled umberon v max at a GameStop with my 5 dollar monthly reward from the GameStop membership, It’s my favorite modern card ever released and I get why everyone likes it, crazy that it’s actually the single best modern card these days
I wish when i was young born in 92 i kept all my base set cards, i had so many, played them everything, then through rocket and jungle, those are worth money, but sadly those cards are long gone
I will say i pulled a umbreon vmax from my second booster pack in the booster box when that set came out, and its sitting in a card binder, and i want to grade it, but its worth so much ungraded right now
Congrats on the redemption. That’s pretty cool
Millennial Nostalgia and their Midlife Crisis will be insane to watch in the next 5-15 years. The cards will soon start to be very difficult to get lol
So all in all, the actual opening of packs and cards themselves seem, more generous and fun to experience. But the INSANE amount of cards might feel a bit too overwhelming and maybe not really worth it depending on your pockets. It seems like you could get 100 amazing beautiful cards, but none of them will be the ones you wanted