# Did you ever pull the card you wanted when you were younger? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** story-time\ **Created:** [July 25, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687 "2023-07-25T04:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charizard1020](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/charizard1020/32/252961_2.png) [@Charizard1020](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Charizard1020)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 4:58am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/1 "2023-07-25T04:58:32Z")
I never did get charizard but I did get a venusaur out of a base set as a kid. How about you? What was your best pull when you got into Pokémon? ---
**Author:** ![koala](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/koala/32/1805_2.png) [@koala](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/koala)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/2 "2023-07-25T05:17:18Z")
I wanted the Neo Destiny Dark Typhlosion so pulling it out of the Dark Theme Deck was easy 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/will/32/223509_2.png) [@Will](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/3 "2023-07-25T05:36:26Z")
I want to say I opened maybe 4 packs growing up and one was base set charizard sitting in the parking lot at Zany Brainy. I don’t have a great memory but that I remember 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![anh0nym0us](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/anh0nym0us/32/39455_2.png) [@anh0nym0us](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/anh0nym0us)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:47am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/4 "2023-07-25T05:47:22Z")
My first ever pack was a base Charizard. I don’t remember what happened to it now, but at the time I felt destined for greatness. My cousin of the same age pulled a Blastoise shortly after, which was quite fitting because at the time I had chosen Pokemon Red while he went Blue. ---
**Author:** ![Charizard1020](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/charizard1020/32/252961_2.png) [@Charizard1020](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Charizard1020)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 5:49am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/5 "2023-07-25T05:49:26Z")
Seems as you guys had some better luck than I did. Awesome memories! ---
**Author:** ![Mussundwerdich](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mussundwerdich/32/113467_2.png) [@Mussundwerdich](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Mussundwerdich)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/6 "2023-07-25T06:07:22Z")
The best Card I have ever pulled was a Venusaur from a Base Set Pack but I remember a very cool Story from CHildhood: My best friend at that time and I bought 2 Neo Genesis Booster Packs (one for each of us) and I pulled only a Trainer Card but he pulled out the beautiful Lugia. Both of us where so so happy this day! ---
**Author:** ![renato](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/renato/32/89565_2.png) [@renato](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/renato)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 7:41am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/7 "2023-07-25T07:41:50Z")
I wanted the goldstar charizard went hunting for ex dragonfrontiers packs on my bike as a kid, eventually pulled it at 11 years old. its still with me as a psa 4 will never sell it. the card that kickstarted me backinto the hobby! ---
**Author:** ![Neutral](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/neutral/32/78581_2.png) [@Neutral](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Neutral)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 7:45am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/8 "2023-07-25T07:45:20Z")
I pulled a Charizard and wanted a Venusaur so opposite of op, it got bully traded away haha. To balance my luck I once got a pack of base set from toys r us which - I swear - contained only energy. 11 energy cards. I doubt people were resealing in 1999/2000. ---
**Author:** ![ShiriusuSutaa](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/shiriususutaa/32/75982_2.png) [@ShiriusuSutaa](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/ShiriusuSutaa)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 7:56am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/9 "2023-07-25T07:56:33Z")
My little sister and I both pulled the cards that we wanted on the day of the Base Set’s release in 1999! I pulled Charizard, and she pulled Mewtwo. First packs ever! We still have them to this very day (I was nine then, and I’m thirty-three now)! ✨ ---
**Author:** ![decoypalmette](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/decoypalmette/32/254336_2.png) [@decoypalmette](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/decoypalmette)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 9:51am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/10 "2023-07-25T09:51:30Z")
My parents bought me very very few booster pack, I can remember every single good pull: -legendary reverse holo Sandshrew -salamence delta species -unseen forces scizor ex -cyber end dragon in yugioh To be honest I chose packs randomly and kid brain wanted just something cool to put in the binder lol. But pull rates seemed so bad that I was forbidden by mom to buy them ☹ > [@koala](#): > > I wanted the Neo Destiny Dark Typhlosion so pulling it out of the Dark Theme Deck was easy 😀 It reminds me of when I bought the Celebi Forest Guardian theme deck. For some reason my baby brain was convinced that Metagross was the boss card. Lol everything was screaming GRASS but you can’t stop a kid’s dream I guess. ---
**Author:** ![inertgeometry](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/inertgeometry/32/2537_2.png) [@inertgeometry](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/inertgeometry)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 11:20am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/11 "2023-07-25T11:20:39Z")
no bc i grew up poor and only had a chance to open a few packs in my childhood. i think i only pulled a couple holos ---
**Author:** ![jabby](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/jabby/32/26318_2.png) [@jabby](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/jabby)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 12:22pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/12 "2023-07-25T12:22:11Z")
My first ever pack was a Base Set 2 booster pack and I pulled a Charizard. I’ll never forget it! Hard to believe 20+ years later I’d get a CGC 9.5 for the going price of a PSA 8 at the time, lol: ![charizard_base_2.PNG](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/0/a/0aafb263d8574b0bd0f77d4adea355055c1121b4.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![pokemonargentina](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pokemonargentina/32/70617_2.png) [@pokemonargentina](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/pokemonargentina)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/13 "2023-07-25T12:40:42Z")
My best pull ever as a kid was a 1st Edition Dark Blastoise Holo. I still remember the day i pulled the card and how hard everyone was trying to trade for it 😅 My dream pull at that time was a 1st Edition Spanish Charizard, never happened. ---
**Author:** ![implode](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/implode/32/2129_2.png) [@implode](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/implode)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/14 "2023-07-25T13:47:37Z")
Never pulled a dark charizard holo. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Rattlesnake](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/rattlesnake/32/245396_2.png) [@Rattlesnake](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Rattlesnake)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/15 "2023-07-25T14:13:35Z")
Base set Gyrados, from Overgrowth Deck… Don’t recall pulling a single holo from a booster pack, mainly because there was so few. 10 year old me did not have much discretionary capital. ---
**Author:** ![salaryyy](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/salaryyy/32/2171_2.png) [@salaryyy](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/salaryyy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/16 "2023-07-25T14:38:05Z")
To be honest I never really knew the differences between packs so I didn’t know what was possible from each pack I managed to get my hands on. I remember getting one pack of Neo Revelation for Christmas from my parents one year and it had a Suicune on the front so I wanted to pull that… and lo and behold I did! That was a great memory. The other card I remember pulling (and still have) was a Shining Noctowl, but I didn’t even know about the other shinings except for Steelix which my brother pulled. (we must have been insanely lucky as I doubt we opened more than a few packs each) ---
**Author:** ![PokemonProfessor](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pokemonprofessor/32/75604_2.png) [@PokemonProfessor](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/PokemonProfessor)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/17 "2023-07-25T14:42:06Z")
Yes, I pulled a Charizard and Venusaur in 1999, both 1. Edition. I still have them, and will never sell. I never pulled a blastoise though. ---
**Author:** ![eames](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/eames/32/52072_2.png) [@eames](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/eames)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/18 "2023-07-25T18:12:48Z")
I didn’t get too many packs of Pokemon cards but I believe I pulled a few holos as a kid. I vaguely remember pulling a base set Blastoise, the card I remember vividly is a holo Kangaskhan from Jungle because it got creased during a potential trade. I was the only little weirdo who put all his cards in a binder, everyone else just kept stacks with rubber bands! ---
**Author:** ![wadeit0ut](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/wadeit0ut/32/1190_2.png) [@wadeit0ut](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/wadeit0ut)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/19 "2023-07-25T18:38:41Z")
I pulled a Venusaur base and then Charizard in a single pack my mom got me at Toys R Us. I wanted Blastoise though ☹ _Edit_ Me and PokemonProfessor living the same life lol ---
**Author:** ![martin](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/martin/32/183480_2.png) [@martin](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/martin)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687/20 "2023-07-25T19:17:07Z")
As a kid, I did not really know all the Pokémon cards that existed so I was just happy with the cards I pulled. I remember pulling Fossil Gengar, Magneton and Jungle Vaporeon holos. I still have them in my collection. [Next page](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/did-you-ever-pull-the-card-you-wanted-when-you-were-younger/42687.md?page=2)