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Tapu Leles will be your main expense, $40 a pop just like good ol' Shaymin. Get 2-3 of them, there's no deck I've seen that uses four. That's $80-120, but everything else is cheap, a lot of the old staple cards like Sycamore, N, Ultra balls, ect remain, most of the new staples other than Lele are dirt cheap, choice bands, rescue stretchers and field blowers are like $0.50 each. If you have Greninja/Volcanion those decks are still top/high tier. Most of the GX cards range from $1-8 each with the best GXes in show right now, Metagross Espeon, Drampa, Ninetales, ect all sitting at about $4-5. Garbodors are down to under $1, not counting the Leles you can build Garb/Drampa for a couple of bucks if you have old staples laying around.
Welcome back! Well sorry for my late responce but the rotation is clear and will be happening at BREAKthrough. As a result I would first buy the most typical "engine" consisting out of Supporters, Items and a pair of Stadium. Currently I would get the newer sets but for reprints that doesnt really matter. To my knowledge Pokemon still has cool Tins for promo's if you want to get that promo and the bigger starter packages are actually quite good and cool.
Really though I think the first step into getting competitive again is anaylyse all the cards available in standard. I like to use https://pkmncards.com/sets/ for that a lot. Don't forget to check on the promos aswell
. Feel free to PM for an engine list, its easy to make out though if you check some of the Competitive decklists, the good engines in Pokemon are very often the same across several decks. The only real exception from BUS is Kiawe.Preorder to your liking! I think BUS is a fantastic set but will not contain the same hot-seller like Guardians Rising, simple reason being that it doesn't contain a Tapu Lele GX-like Pokemon. I believe that Gardevoir GX is going to recieve only more better cards so getting it now is probably a wise idea. The Super Rare version also seems to be legit very difficult to find. If you can get good prices on that, go for it. Guzma is not too expensive now, again another staple for a year to come and thus a playset is a wise investment. If you do run Volcanion EX Kiawe is a staple.Hellos everyone!
Burning question... Pun-ish me if you will!
What are y'alls' thoughts on pre-ordering singles? I know prices are inflated based upon anticipation for specific cards (i.e. Gardevior GX, Golisopod GX, Guzma, etc) but we widely know that these cards will be good in one form or another which means the price will likely go up as time goes on.
Do you all like the idea of pre-ordering and paying the premium or waiting a few weeks for the price to "stabilize" (which may or may not be a gamble)?
For the most part I let the BUS cards stabilize, there are some very cool Super Rares in the set but also way too high for me in cost to actually get. I love my holo cards but I dont love paying half a booster box for them
If I had to hand you the best cards from the BUS set I'd say Alolan Ninetales (regular) is the best regular Pokemon, Gardevoir GX is the best GX, Guzma is the best Supporter, Choice Band (Secret Rare) the best Item, so all in all I dont think the prices will be too obscene for this set. Cheap variants of those are still must gets offcourse.Cheers,
Depends which deck. Expect to pay $80 for a pair of Lele, $5 per non-Lele GX card you want to play, $0.25 or so for every bulk common/uncommon card, $0.10-$0.50 per trainer, $0.50-$1.00 per bulk rare.
I used to tell people $250 was the budget that built anything from scratch but only two decks pushed that number that high, Megagarde and Rayquaza. I'd expect Garde to be pretty pricey for awhile but all other GXes seem a bit cheaper than most EX cards were at their prime. I'd say the new 'you can do anything' budget is probably like $150 while most decks will run $120 or less.
Yeah $100-250 is regular Id say, with going more expensive including those newer Secret Rare cards. As someone who has recently stepped into Pokemon again I paid roughly 100 euro for the Volcanion EX deck I have now, I spend more on some random Machamp stuff but that's more because of collection reasons. This included some additional foil stuff but nothing too mad. Typically the players who like those full art cards will pay $250+ but usually that grows depending on how much one likes the deck
Offcourse if you spend on booster boxes more you get to trade more aswell, I personally dont have too much time or interest in trading however so in some cases I just pay a little more for what some might have in their binder for 'cheaper'.
Offcourse if you spend on booster boxes more you get to trade more aswell, I personally dont have too much time or interest in trading however so in some cases I just pay a little more for what some might have in their binder for 'cheaper'.
It all depends on how much money you are willing to spend and what your goal is either as a collector, a competitive player or somewhere in between. Personally as a collector, if I had a bunch of money I would have preordered all the Rainbow Charizards I could have. Preordering singles like Charizard is usually a good idea for a collector because Charizards are almost always increasing in value. Just look at XY Flashfire prices for Charizards. While Charizard is overhyped and inflated in price accordingly, I do not see the hype around him ceasing. Additionally, there will be less Rainbow Charizards as more packs get opened making him an even harder card to get. For cards such as these that are sure to skyrocket in value in the coming years, pre-ordering is worth it.Hellos everyone!
Burning question... Pun-ish me if you will!
What are y'alls' thoughts on pre-ordering singles? I know prices are inflated based upon anticipation for specific cards (i.e. Gardevior GX, Golisopod GX, Guzma, etc) but we widely know that these cards will be good in one form or another which means the price will likely go up as time goes on.
Do you all like the idea of pre-ordering and paying the premium or waiting a few weeks for the price to "stabilize" (which may or may not be a gamble)?
Buy booster boxes. You will get a bunch of useful cards if you play competitively and about 4-5 GX cards a box.
If I were you I would not buy a tin, instead I would buy singles or single packs. But if I had to buy one of the tins, I would choose Koko because I like the artwork.
Please don't listen to Rayquaza's advice.
the best option would be tapu bulu. He is a much better card, and actually has the potential to be very effective if you use him correctly. One person had success in worlds with a Tapu Bulu/Vikavolt deck.
I will say one thing though; I don't know what you're capable of buying. If you can only get stuff such as tins, then I recommend sticking with them, as they provide a GX and packs which may help you become better.
Tapu Koko, it is better because of its ability, unless you are making a VikaBulu deck, it's really up to you.
VikaBulu is the better deck between it and Koko though. The price of the cards as singles reflects this.
I was debating on whether or not I should buy a Guardians Rising box.
I won't do this. Even if you pull a Lele, it is cheaper buying singles. If you buy it because of the staples, you can also buy them cheaper as singles because there are no expensive staples like Bridgette in GuR. I also thougt about buying boosters but bought singles instead. Now I own 2 Lele and if I had a booster box instead (for the same price) I maybe hadn't even one today.
Deciding on a binder to hold my collection I'm working on expanding. Just need a cheap and effective binder. I've been told that a simple heavy duty half inch school binder and some binder pages would do the trick. Thoughts?
I bought a regular binder and 100 9-card binder pages. When you use both sides, they can hold 1800 cards and if you need more you can easily expand. For my Ultra Rare cards I have a regular pokemon binder.
I need a GX marker so I want to buy a product that includes it. Should I buy a GRI Elite Trainer Box? Would it be worth it? Another option would be selling the packs in it and keep the rest. What would you do?