Gen 9 Pokémon unsurprisingly has the largest representation of AR & SAR in its own Scarlet & Violet era, and more of the lesser known Pokémon from every other generation are gradually being checked off with each set. Does this help expand your interest in Pokémon you never thought to collect before?
I’ve noticed I enjoy more pokemon designs after getting back into collecting. Never was interested in swablu and altaria when I played the games, but their card arts are so beautiful that I learn to appreciate the pokemon.
I think the thing that will most likely draw my attention to new pokemon are the games. I really like the ARs from S&V but I collect Japanese and in all honestly I have no idea what the names of those pokemon are 
Yes for me. It’s unusual because I generally dislike a lot of designs after Gen 3, but things like cards with amazing art and more specifically seeing a Pokémon in action in the anime can bring them to life for me.
I don’t really know how to describe it other than it makes me remember what made me like certain Pokémon as a kid. As an adult, it’s much easier to see a still image of a trainwreck of design and completely avoid anything that gives that Pokémon personality.
I voted yes but I’m not sure if I’ve voted correctly - for example I collected the Frigibax AR line by Komiya in Sv2p cos it’s some of my favourite art in Modern so far, but I’m not really interested in collecting that evolution line any further. Unless more fantastic arts come out of course.
´Yes or no´ doesn´t leave a lot of room for nuance so I had to think a bit. But I do find myself caring more about some of these Pokémon, so yes, sometimes. Often not. I do think it is a good way in general to make the new Pokémon more alive.
After all, every generation needs to have recognizable Pokémon, otherwise the franchise is dying.
I’ve voted no, but mostly because I already went down that path once and try to focus my collections a bit more these days.
When gen 7 was released, and I was watching the anime, I liked Mimikyu quite a bit and decided to start collecting it. Since it was a new Pokémon, I could just keep up with new releases to collect it. But after a while I noticed I didn’t look nearly enough at that collection compared to some of my other sub-collections, and with the Teams Up set, there were also 82 cards in total for three of my sub-collections, which were also almost all FAs, so it became to expensive with that single set. At the point, I decided to stop collecting Mimikyu.
I also still have multiple collection goals in the pipe-line to perhaps start/continue one day (e.g. continuing my National Index collection for the SwSh+SV era; a connected artwork collection similar to Joponnes’; a Ditto, Haunter, Alakazam, and/or Sudowoodo collection; etc. etc.), so seeing nice art on a new Pokémon doesn’t really affect me in wanting to start another sub-collection.
In the past I’ve collected way too much at once. And although that’s still the case today, the huge difference is that in the past all sub-collections were W.I.P. at the same time, whereas now I’ve completed most of those sub-collections and primarily focus on new releases.
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This happens to me, but more from an appreciation perspective than outright collecting in the sense that I become a species collector for that Pokemon. For example, a Furfrou just released from the latest set that has an attack for a single colorless energy that deals 30 and accelerates any basic energy from the discard pile to one of your benched Pokémon, making it right in the sweet spot of power level and relevancy in our games we play.
It always seems to be the most random, unappreciated Pokemon that winds up getting an impactful card and makes me develop a liking for it.
Yes ish. If I was still in my “collect a lot” phase today, I’d be hard pressed not to pick up cool ARs like cleffa, minior, and castform (I got the marill due to a seller accident). But since I’ve moved to species collecting only, it’s more of a dang that card looks so cool rather than being compelled to buy. But I wouldn’t even consider a non good looking cleffa, minior, or castform
Pokemon can make Gholdengo cards with rarity like RR, SR, SAR all they like, that won’t convince me to buy it being a modern mass produced card.
Nothing to do with the art either although, great art would be a bonus!
Make it a Japanese exclusive promo though and it’ll have my curiosity, make it <5000 copies and it’ll have my attention.
unfamiliar pokemon?
no
but pokemon that I consider less collectable but that have been given amazing artworks?
yes
cards such as that mimiku
this is an example of what I’m talking about
I do NOT collect mimikyu but a card like this I would love to have because of the unique art
but a pokemon I’m completely unfamiliar with? not willing to spend real money on
thankfully I try to keep up with powerful pokemon from the new gens because of competitive so I know about the new roaring moon, great tusk, ext ext. If I’m completely unfamiliar then I consider the pokemon forgetable and therefore a good artwork wont spike my interest
From what I’m seeing here you mostly like to buy high money and chase card pokemon? All of the cards that I’ve seen you show are high cost cards and niche grails.
This is from what I see in your posts, I can’t necessarily speak for everyone else.
i have plenty of low cost cards,
I just dont really post about them because I dont think anyone would be interested. There is a reason they are low cost, either common/high pop or they arnt too interesting for most
for example I was really excited to pull charizard 215 from obsidian flames. but I dont even think it got a single vote in the charizard popularity thread. Its not that hard to pull, and worth maybe $60-$70 bucks in a psa10. I have it prominently in one of my favorite binders but I dont think it will interest you guys if I post about these type of cards
recently i posted my swablu and bayleaf from dragon frontiers, hardly groundbreaking though.
I also posted about pulling a shadowless charmander, that card is worth maybe $100 in a 10? I didnt even mention the other cards in the pack including the rare just that I was thrilled with the charmander. So it gives you an idea of what I’m after mostly
but like most ppl. of course I am after the biggest and rarest chases in the hobby
Idk I don’t necessarily like chase cards that have horrible artwork. Of course there are some oldheads that could crucify me for this, but I dont like the base set charizard artwork.
There are many beautiful AR/SAR cards, but its more about the art than the pokemon. I know its not Gen 9 but this Jerky Tapu Koko is a great example:
Beautiful art, but the pokemon isn’t the focus. Basically I’d buy many AR/SAR cards for the art, and not necessarily the pokemon.
to each his own
its completely fine not to love that card but even til this day that is my favorite card in the entire pokemon tcg. You can say its nostolgia, but a fire breathing dragon (yes i know hes not dragon type) is about as cool as it gets. That was THE chase card growing up and still is today. When I was a kid, to pry a charizard out of my hands you would have needed to give me 7-8 other holos and it better have included both blastoise and venusaur
Also if you notice, that charizard is the mascot for this forum when you sign in to e4… and it’s even displayed prominently on the front page of psa’s website
it’s definitely the most important card of the pokemon tcg and pokemon’s success today is in large part owed to charizard
I’m not sure you ever noticed, but outside of say machamp the original base set holos were all just realistic art style portraits. Thats why (IMO) venusaur looks so lame, they went with like a hyper realistic giant frog look and it made venusaur look so underwhelming. Charizard was an action shot and the red color really commands your attention the way a bull is attracted to a matadors muleta
but at least tapu koko is a very famous pokemon and, i would hope, everyone on this forum is familiar with unless they are just now getting back into the hobby from childhood
now keep the same exact art and replace Tapu koko with Arboliva, would you still have interest in the card?
Yes, for me there is a marginal difference between TK and Arbolivia. The majority reason is the art. Another example is the Urshifu aa:
I couldn’t care less about Urshifu but the art is really nice, so I bought a couple when it released!
I don’t know, I don’t think it’s all that strange that people that didn’t grow up with vintage aren’t huge fans. If these cards don’t hit you in the nostalgia I can see where they probably seem a little boring.
