Love your booster box openings Jake! You're so positive but also acknowledge that the hobby is really about luck, but you don't let it get you down when your pulls aren't great :)
Great video! It's a good reality check that even though you can get a bb that's really good, you're not very likely to regain your value. Then again cracking packs is value in itself. I had fun watching
Opened a Fusion Strike booster box last night for $125. 8 hits! 2 VMAX, 4 Vs, and 2 V Alternate Arts (Greedent and Sandaconda). Tons of fun to open! Aroind $85 in value (best card value wise was Gengar VMAX) but I'm happy!
@@rulerrex3 Yes. I guess i pulled the two worst Alt arts lol. Not too worried, tho, i love the art on the Greedent! Gengar VMAX is $22 and Greedent V Alt art is $19 currently on TCGplayer.
Great video Jake! Guess this is why some people say booster boxes were primarily made for card shops to display and sell and singles rather than individuals buying a whole box to open - definitely a hit or miss for $100+ with a whole box
Great video Jake! I have a recommendation which you can perhaps adopt moving forward; when you do the card trick and remove the Energy card from the back, you sometimes also slightly lift the hit card so I can tell sometimes when a hit is coming .. so perhaps just do 4 cards to the front and remove the energy from there ? Keep up the good content !
I do like your video rather than the others. You see the card as a hobby, not money investment, or crazy gambling. You don't waste the cards just pulling it and you give a lot of advices and ideas for new beginners.
I opened two Fusion Strike booster boxes. They were definitely both worse than the one in the video. I feel so burned by them I might even stop buying cards for awhile. 😔
I get that about bad luck booster boxes but will say you will eventually get on the flip side. My first evolving skies booster box was abysmal like I got the worst FA and and a secret energy and so I saved and got another, the second booster box has three Alt Arts including the Rayquaza vmax alt! I also brought the promo three packs of fusion strike and pulled the Mew V Alt- so what I’m saying is that sometimes your luck can be super bad but don’t give up!
We pulled two VMAX, a full art, gold trainer and about 5 V cards plus some holos in one booster. Next 1/2 booster had 11 of 18 white code cards... Very weird.
Hi Jake, when would you think is the best time to pickup singles of this set? I spent a lot of money on ES so I think singles for FS is just more affordable for me. I would appreciate your input.
@@drwalka10 I personally prefer Vs or Vmaxs holos just feels like that "hey look you could've gotten a much cooler card but here's a crappy butterfree or obstagoon" repetitive...
I've pretty much given up on booster boxes as this point. 130$ could guarantee me at least one alt art card from this set if not more. The only things I buy are etbs at retail price for the collectibles or promo sets. Great video as always Jake!
@@agosta44 you're not wrong. However, I like the boxes, artwork and the collectibles that come with etbs. I don't want to jinx myself either, but I tend to get great pulls from them as well. I won't pay over retail though and only buy 1
I bought a little 3 pack set just for fun recently and pulled the alternative Mew V and the Elesa' s sparkle Rainbow Rare. I had no idea the Mew was so valuable lmao. Lowkey proud for such a cheap little set!
Jake, I’ve never sold bulk but from what I see advertised in the large groups, i usually see people paying very little. Do you have a link to somewhere that pays your claimed bulk prices?
I think mainly its on secondary marketplaces where people sell bulk for $5 per 100 cards or $0.05 per card. For websites, its around $0.025 per card which is already okay 👊 Good way to get rid of bulk
Hey Jake I’m Jacob, and I was wondering if Full Art Galarian Zapdos V good from Chilling Reigns? I got it plus a full art slowbro z but I can’t find out if they are really good or not, would love the help!
Thanks for your video, based on this i will hold off buying fusion strike and save up to grab the new brilliant stars! Cant wait for your review on that one!
I remember when a basic holo was the chase card. Now, it's about alt arts and you aren't even guarenteed one in a box. You can go 2-3 boxes without one. THEN you get several you don't like before you finally get the one you do. By then you're $400-1000 deep maybe more. TPCi is slowly shooting themselves in the foot by printing these massive sets with several chase cards and hundreds of fluff. Watch any youtuber and the only thing they are looking for is the alt cards. Most of them don't even bat an eye at a V or VMAX card anymore. These 4-5 chase card sets are so boring. Evolving skies was an amazing change up with so many desired cards that no one cares about alt arts. Sure we wanted some in every box but it didn't matter since every box was a banger. I opened 10 booster boxes of ES and got so many amazing cards. Fusion strike has 4-5 great cards.... And that's it. Being one of the biggest sets printed that's quite sad. Just my opinion. If yours is different, good for you. Lol
Fusion Strike booster box is $85 now, I think I should be able to breakeven. I just bought 3 cases, 18 booster boxes. Crazy how much people paid for these when they first came out which was only 4 months ago.....
I've seen Fusion Strike boxes in my local store (never normally seen booster boxes in my local store), I think the hype/demand isn't there as much as the past few sets as a lot of people are still after Celebrations and even Evolving Skies. I imagine demand for Fusion Strike may rise after the new year
@@AcousticOlli Yeah every Poke card friend i have has the same thought, skipping this set and if they want to collect this set pick up some products when the price comes down a bit when everyone is hyping the next one. Personally quite like some of the cards in the set this but as you said a bit of a weird time.
I got 2 boxes from different sources and both had 8 pulls. Was super excited after hearing about other people not having much luck. Nothing crazy, still chasing cards, but i'm happy regardless
i was very happy with my 1st booster box. I pulled a Alternate Art Gengar Vmax a regular Gengar Vmax were the main 2 I got. Usually I buy 2 booster box 1 is good and the other is meh
Maybe a bit of a crazy question.. but did anyone cracked open a Fusion Strike Booster Box and still have the box (without content)? I am a newly Gengar collector and I’d love to have this booster box for display. If you have a spare one in good condition, please hit me up
I opened a booster box of Evolving skies and seriously only got 4 hits but 8 holos that no one needs tbh. I was really mad and sad because I had to sell some of my cards for that. Spend 150€ on the booster box and for like 40€ out of it
Bought 15 packs yesterday and pulled a Breloom V, Rillaboom Vmax, holo rares of both yellow (x2) and blue toxtricity with butterfree so decent pulls but man like u I wanna get the alt art as well and still haven’t pulled my first one yet
I have a booster box just sitting, idk if I should open or not? Kinda scared with the pull rates. Thinking about selling it and buying alt art gengar vmax once it drops some!
Totally up to you, some people enjoy opening the box and get just from the experience so I would weigh that in. And if having bad pulls really hurts then you can go with your own idea!
If you worry about value you're better off keeping or selling the the booster box sealed. Rarely will you get pulls from BB that will make up the cost you paid for for it. Getting Singles is always cheaper and safer route though not as fun and rewarding
The profit they got from the TCG would make me think they'd want to invest into the game as much as they can just to hook people in but I'm still glad they're finally acknowledging the TCG gaming aspect of the franchise.
@Luis Sanchez like me lol, i just collect the artworks that i like....dont even care much about the rarity 90% of my cards go to the local kindergarden 🤣
Waking up at 7am to go to a frisbee tournament and seeing you've uploaded a video for me to watch, it definitely makes the morning a bit better. always enjoy your videos man!
After I found out how many card were in this set I said I'll pass on this one and wait for the next set. But on the plus side I have a master set of celebrations including promos except the upc promos and another set about 80%+ complete. Hopefully I can find a retail upc.
Just getting into collecting. Your channel has been a good resource thanks a bunch!
Love your booster box openings Jake! You're so positive but also acknowledge that the hobby is really about luck, but you don't let it get you down when your pulls aren't great :)
Great video! It's a good reality check that even though you can get a bb that's really good, you're not very likely to regain your value. Then again cracking packs is value in itself. I had fun watching
Opened a Fusion Strike booster box last night for $125. 8 hits! 2 VMAX, 4 Vs, and 2 V Alternate Arts (Greedent and Sandaconda). Tons of fun to open! Aroind $85 in value (best card value wise was Gengar VMAX) but I'm happy!
Worth more than the alt’s?? That’s kinda surprising
@@rulerrex3 ya because those 2 pokemon aren't as popular.
@@rulerrex3 Yes. I guess i pulled the two worst Alt arts lol. Not too worried, tho, i love the art on the Greedent! Gengar VMAX is $22 and Greedent V Alt art is $19 currently on TCGplayer.
Great video Jake! Guess this is why some people say booster boxes were primarily made for card shops to display and sell and singles rather than individuals buying a whole box to open - definitely a hit or miss for $100+ with a whole box
Great video Jake! I have a recommendation which you can perhaps adopt moving forward; when you do the card trick and remove the Energy card from the back, you sometimes also slightly lift the hit card so I can tell sometimes when a hit is coming .. so perhaps just do 4 cards to the front and remove the energy from there ? Keep up the good content !
Lmao bro just keep ur opinion to ur self. No one cares
@@bigwiteonebigwite1125 Patrick is spitting facts though it saves time and isn't so finicky
I do like your video rather than the others. You see the card as a hobby, not money investment, or crazy gambling. You don't waste the cards just pulling it and you give a lot of advices and ideas for new beginners.
Hey jake, do you happen know if ace grading is reliable?
Wow even with all those pulls and then bulk, still not half of the booster box price 😳 still good video though!
I opened two Fusion Strike booster boxes. They were definitely both worse than the one in the video. I feel so burned by them I might even stop buying cards for awhile. 😔
I love mew and all but this set is tough on one hand you can get an insane mew or gengar card, and on another you can get greedent or crawbomidable
Should I buy celebrations Japanese booster box
Up to you. I would look at the set list before openning, its not too expensive either
The gengar vMax art is top tier my chase for sure
Thoughts on Vmax Climax set coming out? Japan only set?
I get that about bad luck booster boxes but will say you will eventually get on the flip side. My first evolving skies booster box was abysmal like I got the worst FA and and a secret energy and so I saved and got another, the second booster box has three Alt Arts including the Rayquaza vmax alt! I also brought the promo three packs of fusion strike and pulled the Mew V Alt- so what I’m saying is that sometimes your luck can be super bad but don’t give up!
My LCS had them for $110 here in modesto ca. Utopia is the lcs they are awesome. I bought 2 and got a celebi alt art....
Nice, that Celebi is my chase card!
0:33 "And Evolving Skies is currently going for around $120..." Me watching this video over a year later: 🥲...
We pulled two VMAX, a full art, gold trainer and about 5 V cards plus some holos in one booster. Next 1/2 booster had 11 of 18 white code cards... Very weird.
I dont want to be a know it all but you mean booster box, right?? Otherwise this is the most amazing god booster i have ever heard of 🤩
Hi Jake, when would you think is the best time to pickup singles of this set? I spent a lot of money on ES so I think singles for FS is just more affordable for me. I would appreciate your input.
I feel January! I'll be getting my all my singles for sets 2-3 months after release
I pulled the gold card sheep guy (forgot it's name) from a blister pack from Walmart
Seems like my luck wasn't as bad as you... I ended up with a box full of Chandelure not even kidding... pulled too many holos though
whats wrong with holos ?
@@drwalka10 I personally prefer Vs or Vmaxs holos just feels like that "hey look you could've gotten a much cooler card but here's a crappy butterfree or obstagoon" repetitive...
I've pretty much given up on booster boxes as this point. 130$ could guarantee me at least one alt art card from this set if not more. The only things I buy are etbs at retail price for the collectibles or promo sets.
Great video as always Jake!
ETBs are pretty garbage for price:pack ratio. You could get 10 sleeved boosters for the same price and probably get better hits.
@@agosta44 you're not wrong. However, I like the boxes, artwork and the collectibles that come with etbs. I don't want to jinx myself either, but I tend to get great pulls from them as well. I won't pay over retail though and only buy 1
I had sh*t luck with EVS ETBS and even Shining Fates.... I'm buying my first Booster Box for Fusion Strike. RIP me anyways
@@FieryPoky well I hope you get lucky!
@@igotcha77 thanks bro!! One Full Art Card would make my day :D
What should I do with my code cards I have like an etbs worth of them??
I bought a little 3 pack set just for fun recently and pulled the alternative Mew V and the Elesa' s sparkle Rainbow Rare. I had no idea the Mew was so valuable lmao. Lowkey proud for such a cheap little set!
This box was awesome! I had my best box ever with this set! Two alt arts and a gold secret rare
My fusion strike booster box just shipped can't wait to start ripping on my channel!
Jake, I’ve never sold bulk but from what I see advertised in the large groups, i usually see people paying very little. Do you have a link to somewhere that pays your claimed bulk prices?
I think mainly its on secondary marketplaces where people sell bulk for $5 per 100 cards or $0.05 per card. For websites, its around $0.025 per card which is already okay 👊 Good way to get rid of bulk
@@Caceresneo what are the best websites and etc, to sell the bulk too?
Hey Jake I’m Jacob, and I was wondering if Full Art Galarian Zapdos V good from Chilling Reigns? I got it plus a full art slowbro z but I can’t find out if they are really good or not, would love the help!
Thanks for your video, based on this i will hold off buying fusion strike and save up to grab the new brilliant stars! Cant wait for your review on that one!
These booster box videos are very fun to watch 😊
I remember when a basic holo was the chase card. Now, it's about alt arts and you aren't even guarenteed one in a box. You can go 2-3 boxes without one. THEN you get several you don't like before you finally get the one you do. By then you're $400-1000 deep maybe more. TPCi is slowly shooting themselves in the foot by printing these massive sets with several chase cards and hundreds of fluff. Watch any youtuber and the only thing they are looking for is the alt cards. Most of them don't even bat an eye at a V or VMAX card anymore. These 4-5 chase card sets are so boring. Evolving skies was an amazing change up with so many desired cards that no one cares about alt arts. Sure we wanted some in every box but it didn't matter since every box was a banger. I opened 10 booster boxes of ES and got so many amazing cards.
Fusion strike has 4-5 great cards.... And that's it. Being one of the biggest sets printed that's quite sad.
Just my opinion. If yours is different, good for you. Lol
Is it wrong that I've only opened 1 Fusion Strike pack so far and ive pulled a Gangar VMAx out of it
I'm trying fusion strike now and this pull rate is rough man
Fusion Strike booster box is $85 now, I think I should be able to breakeven. I just bought 3 cases, 18 booster boxes. Crazy how much people paid for these when they first came out which was only 4 months ago.....
I've seen Fusion Strike boxes in my local store (never normally seen booster boxes in my local store), I think the hype/demand isn't there as much as the past few sets as a lot of people are still after Celebrations and even Evolving Skies. I imagine demand for Fusion Strike may rise after the new year
@@AcousticOlli Yeah every Poke card friend i have has the same thought, skipping this set and if they want to collect this set pick up some products when the price comes down a bit when everyone is hyping the next one. Personally quite like some of the cards in the set this but as you said a bit of a weird time.
Wow. I pulled 4 V's and one vmax from my booster box. That's it. Had a lot of regular holos I guess
I bought 4 packs and got rainbow Schoolboy and rainbow Elesa's Sparkle back to back! Seems like pull rates are fairly high for this set!
I got 2 boxes from different sources and both had 8 pulls. Was super excited after hearing about other people not having much luck. Nothing crazy, still chasing cards, but i'm happy regardless
Hey Jake do u still play Hearthstone , I've been playing since closed beta really love the game even tho it does have its issues now and again .
i was very happy with my 1st booster box. I pulled a Alternate Art Gengar Vmax a regular Gengar Vmax were the main 2 I got. Usually I buy 2 booster box 1 is good and the other is meh
Greedent VMax gonna sit on the competition out there.
Maybe a bit of a crazy question.. but did anyone cracked open a Fusion Strike Booster Box and still have the box (without content)? I am a newly Gengar collector and I’d love to have this booster box for display. If you have a spare one in good condition, please hit me up
I opened a booster box of Evolving skies and seriously only got 4 hits but 8 holos that no one needs tbh. I was really mad and sad because I had to sell some of my cards for that. Spend 150€ on the booster box and for like 40€ out of it
Bought 15 packs yesterday and pulled a Breloom V, Rillaboom Vmax, holo rares of both yellow (x2) and blue toxtricity with butterfree so decent pulls but man like u I wanna get the alt art as well and still haven’t pulled my first one yet
These really were the best pulls I've seen in Fusion Strike booster box opening! Great video man!
Can you do a video on TGA grading service?
Fusion Strike is gonna be another Battle Styles lol But thats cool. Least the prices will me manageable
Can't wait to see the espeon VMAX 😍
I just got one and I pulled a celibi alt art and only normals vs so not the best luck
Pulled Gengar Vmax on my first pack and pulling a gengar was my goal! First etb with my partner was a dream etb with that and mew v
Getting a Greedant Vmax is like getting a call from an ex you regret dating
had 30 sleeved boosters, 10 hits and 20 duds. 5 regular holos, 1 v Max, 1 full art v and 3 regular v. ridiculously bad pull rates
What booster boxes are your favourites to pull and gave the best pulls?
I opened an etb sf box had 10 white codes but two of them were error packs 😢 Was happy with the cards i pulled had a few shiny and v and vmax
got a mew vmax and elesa's sparkle full art from my box, bought it for around $120 USD
Why are the pull rates fort his set so bad?
I pre ordered 2 ETBs and didn't get a single hit. The pull rate on this set is ridiculously bad
Those codes are gone in seconds...😳
I think if you like collecting Pokémon cards a box like this is worth because its not about the money.
So excited for this set!! My booster box came in the mail yesterday, hoping to get the gengar!!!
without seeing the 3/4 of the video: HOW is it expectable to break even with the "hits" worth 1,50$ to 3,50$?
Mew vmax alt art looks better than I thought. My favorite is the inteleon vmax alt art
I got the espeon v max alt art secret rare last week on my 2nd of 7 booster packs!!
TwicebakedJake's audio makes my speaker go : BBZZZTZ BABSG
Not mine
Mew v aa card is the best in this set. The art work on it is amazing!
To be honest not really. The gengar one is top best looking card and the espeon vmax Mew V is sorta weak alt looking card
I have a booster box just sitting, idk if I should open or not? Kinda scared with the pull rates. Thinking about selling it and buying alt art gengar vmax once it drops some!
Totally up to you, some people enjoy opening the box and get just from the experience so I would weigh that in. And if having bad pulls really hurts then you can go with your own idea!
@@TwicebakedJake I really do wanna open I have so much fun in doing so but the pull rates have seem low after watching so many openings
@@kbd777 open it unless opening it would prevent you from buying ur alt gengar
If you worry about value you're better off keeping or selling the the booster box sealed. Rarely will you get pulls from BB that will make up the cost you paid for for it. Getting Singles is always cheaper and safer route though not as fun and rewarding
Dodrio is such an awesome Pokémon, you can fight me on that.
plz more breakeven videos! so much fun! =)
Great video jake ur the best youtuber for pokemon u keep it 100 and dont have the fake excitement like other ppl
That Hoopa looks sick! love the colours!
Yes Jake! Great insight on the new set before I buy. Thanks mate 👊🏼👑
This was a great box, i feel like you got 12 white cards
3 full arts aint bad probably skipping this set since I bought whole alot of Es and 25th lol
Some very cool hits. I am picking up singles as I like so many cards in this set.
Amazon has 117 for evolving skies.
Hey Jake,
Thanks for another wonderful video. I'm looking forward to opening some Fusion strike myself!
I agree I've seen some real bad ones and some real good ones.
I'm really looking for the Espeon and a few of the alt art card's 😁
They should make a luxray V-star I reckon
Heaviest packs are non holos in the set
Seen a post where someone got 24/36 hits
The profit they got from the TCG would make me think they'd want to invest into the game as much as they can just to hook people in but I'm still glad they're finally acknowledging the TCG gaming aspect of the franchise.
@Luis Sanchez like me lol, i just collect the artworks that i like....dont even care much about the rarity 90% of my cards go to the local kindergarden 🤣
Waking up at 7am to go to a frisbee tournament and seeing you've uploaded a video for me to watch, it definitely makes the morning a bit better. always enjoy your videos man!
Gengar, there's no other designs like it? clefairy!
i ordered one booster box online and the store i ordered from sent me 6 lol :)
I brought my first booster box the other day I went with vivid voltage and I’m so excited 🤞😁
Great set!
Opened an ETB, booster and 2 sleeved packs, not a single full art. Awful.
the reason fusion strike isnt hyped up is because of celebrations
I got a vmax gengar from my booster box yesterday
Opened a booster box last night got a gengar vmax and mew v full art everything else was meh
Im just going to wait a few months when this stuff hits CR and BS prices. Really solid set.
All those cards together will be worth 3.00 in a month
I got 1 hit. A V card. From the ENTIRE BOOSTER BOX!
I'm gonna skip this booster box for sure if this is considered a soild pull :/
3,2,1 MARK
After I found out how many card were in this set I said I'll pass on this one and wait for the next set. But on the plus side I have a master set of celebrations including promos except the upc promos and another set about 80%+ complete. Hopefully I can find a retail upc.
fusion strike, well you didnt strike out but no home run either. Looks like a single base hit :)
Just be happy with what you get.
I haven't watched yet. I suspect no. But good luck!
Auto skip this massive set🥳🥳 just buy single cards👌🏼