Recent content by Scoop

I will say, both PLANETA and 5ban were both super solid back during the BW/XY eras. But I think we gotta remember the real GOAT of 3D Pokemon cards: Ryo Ueda. His full art EX's during the XY era with that really defined cel-shading look is still my favorite thing they've ever done with 3D art. I...

I'm sorry, but I can't entirely agree with you here. I've been around since 2014, and this has only become a recent issue. Hidden Fates was the first set that was actually hard to come across. Then in 2020 with the COVID boom, things got crazy, and now with the Pocket boom we're beyond even...

I hate to be apocalyptic, but these days truly feel like it's the death knell for the TCG as a hobby normal people can enjoy. I do hope TPCi is actually aware of how bad things are, but at the rate things are going I don't have much faith. I dunno. Even if they do print more, who's to say that...

I really do want these illustration promos. I've been planning on getting them with a Clodsire plush for my girlfriend, but I'm really not looking forward to the site breaking tomorrow because this $150,000,000,000 company can't maintain a functional website whenever a product drops because of...

Imagine being so pathetic that you, as an adult, get into an actual physical fight over Pokemon cards. There's certain times where people deserve to be gatekept out of a hobby (cough Logan Paul fans cough). Stuff like this Costco incident is one of those times. If you participate in this hobby...

I've been collecting cosmos holos of SV cards for a while now- It's such a jump in how nice promos are what with the holo borders, so the more the merrier for these!

Glossy front, the back part was black, and they were better-fitted to the cards.

Do we know if the sleeves in the Stellar Crown ETB are similar to the Shrouded Fable ones? They were the best ETB sleeves we've had since like... 2015. Not like they're the pinnacle of quality, but they actually fit inside of binder pages which is refreshing.

It's not out of the realm of possibility. UPCs have always included some of the highest-rarity cards in the TCG. Think the Full Art Mewtwo-EX & Mew-EX from Generations, the Rainbow Rares in the Sun and Moon ones, or the three alts in the Charizard box. Hell, what about the recent Greninja and...

Grumble grumble! Popular Pokémon gets merchandise! How dare company market marketable character! Grumble grumble! Jokes aside, I’m happy to see any merchandise in the west that isn’t just stock Sugimori art over a background- Even if this is pretty generic art, it’s done pretty tastefully. The...

Yknow, I’m not going to fully defend PTCGO, it had its flaws, but I mean… The fact that PTCGL was worse in just about every conceivable measure while taking away features from a 13 year old TCG client really makes this unsurprising. I don’t know who out there thought that PTCGL’s visual… Style...

Not at all, Megas are my favorite cards in the TCG and considering the text on the card artwork is entirely a stylistic choice, with no bearing on card function, I’m not bothered by it. If anything, it’s a neat localization quirk that at least makes the two different and gives reason to collect...

I’m not going to say much on this, other than that I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt here that if there ever was a translation error that affected things THAT much it would be either errata’d or forced to be made consistent in translation. I feel like you’re making a mountain out of a...

I'm currently in the process of exiting this hobby and selling my collection, but it's really nice to see the jump in how nice cards are this coming generation. Galaxy foil borders are so nice to see back. While I'm sitting it out from now on, it's at least nice knowing a lot of things I wanted...

It's been a whole one set out of a most-likely three year generation. There's plenty of time for all kinds of different Pokemon to get ex's, and with how good they've done recently with diversifying both popular and strange picks for Ultra Rares (See stuff like Lumineon V), I'm not too worried.