A nice budget collection is all the radiant cards from the Swsh sets. A buck or two a piece and the cross holo patterns all look really nice next to each other in a binder page.
I think holding an xy era full art card really makes you appreciate them more, even though the colors are more muted. The depth of the texture is just so much for amplifying for the artwork than the shallow grooves that they use today. I think the value in full arts is still quite high from the earlier xy too due to the lower print quality, making 10s an actual chase
I personally quite like the v union gimmick as well as the legends cards where you have multiple cards combining into one artwork! I also think jumbo cards are underrated!
Prism stars look totally insane once you collect all 27 of them and put them in binder on 3 subsequent pages. The design is incredible, they look like pokemon cards created by Magic the Gathering illustators :D. If you want some cheap complete collection that looks absolutely stunning, these cards are no-brainer. You can get most of them around 1 Euro and only like 3 of them are between 4 - 7Euro. So extremely cheap to finish, but looks totally awesome imho.
The Van Gogh gimmick on paper was good and what Pokemon should do more often however, there should never be not enough stock where scalpers take advantage. The idea of travelling to get a card which is only accessible in a certain location taps into what made Pokemon for me anyway, so great (feels like an adventure).
its really hard for company's to attack scalpers, try to think of a hobby or niche that doesn't have one. there isn't. we need to stop looking at the company's but ourselves. miss out on the card? don't buy it on the resell market. that simple.
@@joshuahperez3117 "don't buy it on the resell market. that simple" this is silly logic. pokemon is one of the largest games and you're going to cycle through a lot of new people every year who will have to discover and rediscover the do's and don't's. there's also a gambling aspect to consider. it can easily be an addiction as much as a hobby and sometimes the two are confused. objectively speaking it is not simple.
pokemon go game was an "adventure," i get that aspect. it was nice to see people out and about instead of inside and more social. traveling to another country is a bit next level or privileged and that's okay on whatever level. that said, after it was made exclusive to people who traveled there, they should've printed it into the ground a few months later. they could do it with a different stamp on the card so the people who traveled there could truly get an 'exclusive' card.
Character Rares(trainer gallery) actually came out in SM cosmic eclipse. Would have love in we dig deeper into vintage as well to appreciate these subsets!
I just recently got back into TCG collecting and Trainer Galleries (plus the 12 from cosmic) were the first full "set" of cards I completed for my collection; and it's still my favorite. It's satisfying to flip through and was relatively easy to put together.
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I really wish they continued the Amazing Rares the texture and look were amazing (no pun intended)
I think the gold secret rares from XY were a bit of an omission from the list. The Gyrados from Breakpoint, Alakazam from Fates Collide, several Mewtwos. They were like a predecessor to tag team cards and had multiple pokemon on one card. Really cool!
I love full art cards. What ive learned over the past few years is no matter the gimmick no matter the awful new pokemon someone out their is obsessed.
V Unions. I agree with you other than the Crown Zenith Morpeko & Marnie V union cards. Those ones in particular are textured like an alt art so they actually look amazing in person.
I just recently had my whole collection stolen in storage and I had no idea where to start. I restarted collecting hard in the sun and moon era and GX hards have my heart but definitely the illustration rares and trainer gallery cards are just so beautiful I chose to collect those first! I loved how the prism star cards looked so clean though!
I’m a huge fan of amazing rares. It’s a shame they stopped producing them… would have been great to see more of the legendaries get amazing rate printings!
Great video Jake! I buy art cards i really like. For example the gold sinnoh cards from CZ or the beast trio from CZ and here and there some other cards. I really like the mega cards but those are quite expensive unfortunately and im bummed that i missed out on so many sets
I am shocked that hyper/rainbow rares didn't make it into your list of Sun & Moon gimmicks. I thought they were a big game changer in terms of being chase cards. They're also beautiful cards imo.
Kind of missed the point with the prism star cards. These were amazing for players of the game, and added a really cool dynamic to decks. Remember that collector/investors are only one part of the hobby and sometimes it's about the players!
I remember getting back into collecting and I bought an old pack and got the Hydregion and Machamp break cards. Thought they were kinda cool but then realized no one liked them and they are worth a dollar.
Don't forget we were lucky enough to see Shining cards for just 1 set (Shining Legends, 2017) for the first time since 2002. One of only 3 sets ever with Shining Pokemon. My favorite "gimmick" ever, up there with Gold Star cards. I will say though, the original Vivid Voltage Amazing Rares are incredible looking cards in person (especially Rayquaza, Jirachi and Celebi). Some of the nicest cards ever made. Kind of a bummer that they're quite this common. I think 1 every other booster box would have been perfect.
I wish I had found a video like this when I first started and a generation one after not being in hobby for so long I run into cards I never seen and have to search the set.
I think Paldean Fates will be a bust...just like Shiny Fate. They should just bring back 1st edition base set style hollows. That would sell like hotcakes.💯
disagree on break cards. the color scheme is still present at the top of the card. i've been collecting quite a few. the same complaints about break cards can be said about a lot of card rarities which are not ideal for play but fine for collectors.
I agree 100%. Jake has thought provoking and quality content. I appreciate his calm but passionate demeanor which makes the audience feel like they are sitting down at a coffee shop talking with friends.
I believe tag team is the best thing pokemon ever done. They should keep that mechanic in all generations. Or at least make the cards art rares that can’t be used in competition
I highly disagree with your thoughts on gen 5-6 full arts. They are by no means my fav eras but full arts for pokemon were great. For one, the print quality was better back then compared to the thin cardboard cards have had since the sun and moon era. The pokemon full arts actually had unique backgrounds too and had more of a premium feel. I'd argue pokemon full arts are less impressive today because of that difference, the simple layout of just a colored font depending on the pokemon's type and then just the pokemon sticking in the middle. Trainers were also pretty good but I'd agree that a lot of the supporter full arts today are better in some ways but it depends on the card.
Now that Pokemon had arrived in mainland China there are waves of exclusive cards there arriving not found anywhere else. This year I got the Chinese alola friends, venasor/blastoise exclusives, Taipei pokemon center, and Japanese battle deck bulbasor and squirtle exclusives. Don’t know if I can keep it up 😅 but most importantly because the scarlet violet sets have been super boring to me.
I gotta disagree with you on the trainer galley cards. I think IR and SIR cards are waaaaay better than the trainer gallery cards. I do agree with you on the amazing rares though! I hope they make a come back, but maybe not print them into the ground this time lol.
I am surprised you didn’t talk about VSTAR. VSTAR Pokémon weren’t my favourite. VSTAR Pokémon I think we’re trying to be like GX Pokémon, but it didn’t feel the same. I enjoyed the GX gimmick Pokémon did. When GX crossed over to the tag team series, I thought Pokemon was at its best. I kind of lost interest in playing with the Pokémon TCG when VMAX came out though.
pokémon needs to bring back tag teams straight up man. no gimmick e free n comes close to them and it’s so fun getting 2 pokemon on one card. also bring back XY era textures. full arts these days are pathetic versus 10 years ago
I personally think the Mega pokemon in XY is my least favorite gimmick in the TCG. I buy english cards for english text not japanese text. I understand it's the name of the move in Japanese but I don''t care. I don't want extra text that takes away from the art of the card!
@@purpleraikoufr, if you only collect for value, you will most likely just get disappointment. Collecting because you like the art of the cards is the way to do it.
that's how it was with tag team cards. During sun & moon and swsh era, they were dirt cheap and no one cared about them at all but once prices were going crazy, everyone suddenly loved them now LOL
lol I can tell u didn't play newer series of Pokemon LOL, Pokemon shiny nowadays usually take 5min to 30 min for 1 shiny Pokemon thank to the power of sandwich and shiny charm LOL
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A nice budget collection is all the radiant cards from the Swsh sets. A buck or two a piece and the cross holo patterns all look really nice next to each other in a binder page.
I think holding an xy era full art card really makes you appreciate them more, even though the colors are more muted. The depth of the texture is just so much for amplifying for the artwork than the shallow grooves that they use today. I think the value in full arts is still quite high from the earlier xy too due to the lower print quality, making 10s an actual chase
I personally quite like the v union gimmick as well as the legends cards where you have multiple cards combining into one artwork! I also think jumbo cards are underrated!
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@@mhutch5082 I said "personally" 😳
No mention of radiant, they were easier to get but I liked that the pokémon were in "real" settings rather than white background
I was very sad to not see Amazing rare Suicune and Entei. The Raikou just feels so lonely in its binder, without his legendary friends :(
100% If they do one of the trios/pairs they should do them all. Imagine if silver tempest had an alt art ho oh to go with the lugia 😩
Prism stars look totally insane once you collect all 27 of them and put them in binder on 3 subsequent pages. The design is incredible, they look like pokemon cards created by Magic the Gathering illustators :D. If you want some cheap complete collection that looks absolutely stunning, these cards are no-brainer. You can get most of them around 1 Euro and only like 3 of them are between 4 - 7Euro. So extremely cheap to finish, but looks totally awesome imho.
The Van Gogh gimmick on paper was good and what Pokemon should do more often however, there should never be not enough stock where scalpers take advantage. The idea of travelling to get a card which is only accessible in a certain location taps into what made Pokemon for me anyway, so great (feels like an adventure).
its really hard for company's to attack scalpers, try to think of a hobby or niche that doesn't have one. there isn't. we need to stop looking at the company's but ourselves. miss out on the card? don't buy it on the resell market. that simple.
@@joshuahperez3117 "don't buy it on the resell market. that simple" this is silly logic. pokemon is one of the largest games and you're going to cycle through a lot of new people every year who will have to discover and rediscover the do's and don't's. there's also a gambling aspect to consider. it can easily be an addiction as much as a hobby and sometimes the two are confused. objectively speaking it is not simple.
pokemon go game was an "adventure," i get that aspect. it was nice to see people out and about instead of inside and more social. traveling to another country is a bit next level or privileged and that's okay on whatever level. that said, after it was made exclusive to people who traveled there, they should've printed it into the ground a few months later. they could do it with a different stamp on the card so the people who traveled there could truly get an 'exclusive' card.
I made like $600 from the van Gogh promos so I’m not complaining
@@EvolvingSkiesEnthusiast I bet you did killjoy.🤡
Character Rares(trainer gallery) actually came out in SM cosmic eclipse.
Would have love in we dig deeper into vintage as well to appreciate these subsets!
hot take 🙋♂️ but i love break cards. the all gold look is sick personally
I just recently got back into TCG collecting and Trainer Galleries (plus the 12 from cosmic) were the first full "set" of cards I completed for my collection; and it's still my favorite. It's satisfying to flip through and was relatively easy to put together.
I really wish they continued the Amazing Rares the texture and look were amazing (no pun intended)
My favorite gimmicks are Tag Teams. They are just amazing. I always loved them. Team Up is my favorite set.
I think the gold secret rares from XY were a bit of an omission from the list. The Gyrados from Breakpoint, Alakazam from Fates Collide, several Mewtwos. They were like a predecessor to tag team cards and had multiple pokemon on one card. Really cool!
Shiny Pokémon and Amazing Rare cards are my favorite gimmicks
I love the trainer gallery cards and the full art cards. I am not a fan of the shiny pokemon cards and am probably going to skip Paldean Fates
Tag Teams are goated imo, would love to see more concepts like it.
I love full art cards. What ive learned over the past few years is no matter the gimmick no matter the awful new pokemon someone out their is obsessed.
I really hated break cards, I also really don't like those cards that are one big picture cut into four cards they look awful
V Unions. I agree with you other than the Crown Zenith Morpeko & Marnie V union cards. Those ones in particular are textured like an alt art so they actually look amazing in person.
I just recently had my whole collection stolen in storage and I had no idea where to start. I restarted collecting hard in the sun and moon era and GX hards have my heart but definitely the illustration rares and trainer gallery cards are just so beautiful I chose to collect those first! I loved how the prism star cards looked so clean though!
Yea I love the Tag Team cards. A little too expensive to start getting after them now.
This is a helpful recap as someone recent to the hobby.
I’m a huge fan of amazing rares. It’s a shame they stopped producing them… would have been great to see more of the legendaries get amazing rate printings!
Great video Jake! I buy art cards i really like. For example the gold sinnoh cards from CZ or the beast trio from CZ and here and there some other cards. I really like the mega cards but those are quite expensive unfortunately and im bummed that i missed out on so many sets
Disappointed no mention of v union cards, literally the biggest biggest gimmick
I am shocked that hyper/rainbow rares didn't make it into your list of Sun & Moon gimmicks. I thought they were a big game changer in terms of being chase cards. They're also beautiful cards imo.
Kind of missed the point with the prism star cards. These were amazing for players of the game, and added a really cool dynamic to decks. Remember that collector/investors are only one part of the hobby and sometimes it's about the players!
Great job, Jake. I would definitely be a sucker for any of these gimmicks LOL being a newer collector All of these cards look Good to Me.
Out of this whole list, I feel like Amazing Rares are the least appreciated ones. I hope they bring them back in future sets.
I love full arts, def under rated!
I remember getting back into collecting and I bought an old pack and got the Hydregion and Machamp break cards. Thought they were kinda cool but then realized no one liked them and they are worth a dollar.
Vmax alts are the best. I wish they would hade continued them tell ends of s&s era.
I also think Character Rares are better overall to Illustration Rares. I've collected all CHRs and CSRs from the SWSH era in Japanese and I love them!
Don't forget we were lucky enough to see Shining cards for just 1 set (Shining Legends, 2017) for the first time since 2002. One of only 3 sets ever with Shining Pokemon. My favorite "gimmick" ever, up there with Gold Star cards. I will say though, the original Vivid Voltage Amazing Rares are incredible looking cards in person (especially Rayquaza, Jirachi and Celebi). Some of the nicest cards ever made. Kind of a bummer that they're quite this common. I think 1 every other booster box would have been perfect.
Nice video, thanks Jake! It would be perfect to make more videos about other gimmicks!
The amazing Rares look awesome together in a binder, one of the best looking gimmicks IMO!
I wish I had found a video like this when I first started and a generation one after not being in hobby for so long I run into cards I never seen and have to search the set.
Jake, you didn't mention the rainbow rares and gold cards
I think Paldean Fates will be a bust...just like Shiny Fate. They should just bring back 1st edition base set style hollows. That would sell like hotcakes.💯
Super interesting and informative, nice one!🔥💥
disagree on break cards. the color scheme is still present at the top of the card. i've been collecting quite a few. the same complaints about break cards can be said about a lot of card rarities which are not ideal for play but fine for collectors.
Hmm, I didn't know this. Thanks for the information. Happy Holidays!
We should do a break like gimmick of retaining the Pokémon’s previous moves eventually maybe for megas return
i love XY era full arts and mega evo cards! lol
Keep up the amazing work Jake! You are one of the best content creators in the community
I agree 100%. Jake has thought provoking and quality content. I appreciate his calm but passionate demeanor which makes the audience feel like they are sitting down at a coffee shop talking with friends.
I believe tag team is the best thing pokemon ever done. They should keep that mechanic in all generations. Or at least make the cards art rares that can’t be used in competition
Idk but I like those break cards haha. I think they are underrated
That van gogh is very cool❤❤
Trainer gallery cards and illustration rares are almost exactly the same to me
I highly disagree with your thoughts on gen 5-6 full arts. They are by no means my fav eras but full arts for pokemon were great. For one, the print quality was better back then compared to the thin cardboard cards have had since the sun and moon era. The pokemon full arts actually had unique backgrounds too and had more of a premium feel. I'd argue pokemon full arts are less impressive today because of that difference, the simple layout of just a colored font depending on the pokemon's type and then just the pokemon sticking in the middle. Trainers were also pretty good but I'd agree that a lot of the supporter full arts today are better in some ways but it depends on the card.
I pulled the Blastoise EX full art in Japan when I was a teenager - still have it in excellent condition. No idea how with how I kept it!1
Nah. Different strokes. XY full arts and Breaks looks so sick.
One gimmick I want is a Gen 2 exclusive set just like 151!
The Van Gogh card is so cool men
Full arts started in black and white
Loved this. Can you do one from base set to XY?
XY FA's look better than their more modern counterparts except some Alt Arts. The Japanese writing popping out looks like its ripped from an anime.
Now that Pokemon had arrived in mainland China there are waves of exclusive cards there arriving not found anywhere else. This year I got the Chinese alola friends, venasor/blastoise exclusives, Taipei pokemon center, and Japanese battle deck bulbasor and squirtle exclusives. Don’t know if I can keep it up 😅 but most importantly because the scarlet violet sets have been super boring to me.
I gotta disagree with you on the trainer galley cards. I think IR and SIR cards are waaaaay better than the trainer gallery cards. I do agree with you on the amazing rares though! I hope they make a come back, but maybe not print them into the ground this time lol.
I personally think that XY fullart are still the best
Let’s be honest that’s what Pokémon does chase card in most new sets charizard, charizard, charizard and again charizard
What about masterball reverse holos?
What about the radiant cards
Tag team ftw
Great vid!
Excellent review overall!
tagteam for sure #1
I am surprised you didn’t talk about VSTAR. VSTAR Pokémon weren’t my favourite. VSTAR Pokémon I think we’re trying to be like GX Pokémon, but it didn’t feel the same. I enjoyed the GX gimmick Pokémon did. When GX crossed over to the tag team series, I thought Pokemon was at its best. I kind of lost interest in playing with the Pokémon TCG when VMAX came out though.
Not a fan of collecting everything twice because of reverse holos
pokémon needs to bring back tag teams straight up man. no gimmick e free n comes close to them and it’s so fun getting 2 pokemon on one card. also bring back XY era textures. full arts these days are pathetic versus 10 years ago
I personally think the Mega pokemon in XY is my least favorite gimmick in the TCG. I buy english cards for english text not japanese text. I understand it's the name of the move in Japanese but I don''t care. I don't want extra text that takes away from the art of the card!
Let’s be real, people don’t like full arts because they aren’t worth a lot 😂
Those people don't like any cards then. They just like money
@@purpleraikoufr, if you only collect for value, you will most likely just get disappointment. Collecting because you like the art of the cards is the way to do it.
that's how it was with tag team cards. During sun & moon and swsh era, they were dirt cheap and no one cared about them at all but once prices were going crazy, everyone suddenly loved them now LOL
@@purpleraikou lol people can like both
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Break and rainbow rare are the worst. They should discard rainbow rare too.
I love Zard but I am ready for something new exciting that WOW factor 😮
Didnt even mention legends smh
lol I can tell u didn't play newer series of Pokemon LOL, Pokemon shiny nowadays usually take 5min to 30 min for 1 shiny Pokemon thank to the power of sandwich and shiny charm LOL
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you calling design choices “gimmicks” is disrespectful
I'm sure he isn't offending pokemon😂