Garchomp

[The Pikachu Mafia]

I don't think a $10-15 price tag will stop people from playing them. Also, Pokémon has been very against the secondary market making big money off their cards for awhile. When cards like Mewtwo get up to 70 dollars apiece and they need to be used in every deck, it's terrible for the game.

agreed, right now Darkrai is worth $60 by himself, but it doesn't stop people from playing it and it's still the BDIF. They play it because it's good, even if they don't like the price. It's really all about stock and demand, and even after we get our EX tins I bet Garchomp is going to look cheap in price when compared to some of the EX's....

(also on a side note in contradiction to your first post, Garchomp is a rare holo according to Bulbipedia)

 

[Celebi23]

agreed, right now Darkrai is worth $60 by himself, but it doesn't stop people from playing it and it's still the BDIF. They play it because it's good, even if they don't like the price. It's really all about stock and demand, and even after we get our EX tins I bet Garchomp is going to look cheap in price when compared to some of the EX's....

(also on a side note in contradiction to your first post, Garchomp is a rare holo according to Bulbipedia)

Yeah, you're right about it being holo. The tins should actually reduce the price of the big EX cards. I would rate Darkrai above Tier 1.5, but not a lot of people agree with me on that one. Exploitable card is still exploitable.

 

[SotS]

Celebi, they will still definitely be cheaper once the hype settles down, but it does bug me that they had an official ad with the good ones just to switch them up later.

I highly agree with you on the secondary market messing the game up for some, especially since that's the very reason I quit playing before Noble Victories came out. The good decks back then were pretty cheap, but still a bit on the expensive side with the back then expensive Reshiram and Zekroms (and Catcher, though more expensive now, was also up there). I wasn't even very interested anymore after that so I skipped NV. Well, once I came back, there was flippin' Mewtwo EX who was a must play and cost $60.

So yes, some EXs are being put in tins, we know that, but I'm finding it hard to justify coming back when I know more must have EXs are coming in the nearish future at more stupid prices. I don't know, I guess when I think of it the blame belongs to more than just Pokemon though, Pokemon Company for putting such a limited number of EXs in each box is one, the second-hand market for raising prices through the roof another, and myself for even bothering if I know what I'm trying to get into before I even try. I'm not denying that I don't have to come back if the prices are too high, but I really do miss my friends there. =/

The Pikachu Mafia, it may not stop the people who can find a way to get them, but it is stopping people. It's stopping me COMPLETELY from playing. You can't just throw out "it's not stopping people" when it is.

 

[Cake101]

Its probably going to be like $8-18 because stage 2s will still be a bit hard to play.

 

[The Pikachu Mafia]

The Pikachu Mafia, it may not stop the people who can find a way to get them, but it is stopping people. It's stopping me COMPLETELY from playing. You can't just throw out "it's not stopping people" when it is.

what I meant was, it wont stop the same people who got their hands on mewtwo and darkrai (which was a surprising amount of people) I don't like the prices any more than you do and I'm not loaded with cash, but I'm not going to stop playing a game I like because of that (also these holo's will most likely be cheaper than pachirisu CL, which hit $25 in it's prime days) If garchomp getting up to $15 stops you from playing, that's fine. However most of the people who have played this spring wont stop playing because of garchomp. I could name a dozen cards that were "must haves" off the top of my head that are or were more expensive than garchomp. It's the nature of any tcg to have expensive cards, and actually pokemon is way cheaper than something like Magic.