I love the togepi with the beard!! That needs to be a card!!
Illus. @chefonaquest
On the card!
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My good friend @stagecoach did some OSINT and used his findings to get me some perfect gifts I wouldve bought myself.
First off, this card made me laugh so hard (in a good way). The :0 face just killed me lmao, plus a little pokerap rhyme and interesting fact about Sugimori!
Next, two shikishis of my favorite pokemon (and my first shikishis ever!). These illustrations are perfect depictions imo and theyll be proudly displayed in my home office. It’s cool to see how some pokemon have the same name in japanese and english, but then the classic “Laglarge” for Swampert - a great japanese name imo.
I have slowly been expanding into some of my favorite YGO cards, and this is a top art for me. Actually something I was going to buy myself soon but @stagecoach beat me to it! (that OSINT coming in handy!). This art is really so good.
Im also a big fan of old magazine pages. They have great art, are easy to store, very affordable, and sometimes have cool paragraphs to read! Gen 3 is my sweetspot, and these hit so right.
I had a blast opening all of this, it really is/was special. (Not pictured were a handful of blister packs! - I opened them already :p) @stagecoach youre the man, I hope you know how much this gift was appreciated!
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I want an official card of that meowth, absolutely way too adorable.
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New profile pic @stagecoach ?
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He is precious.
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absolute unit
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If you told me this was Yu Nagaba’s Meowth, then I would not question it.
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What an honor to be gifted by the ‘coach. You are blessed @stagecoach
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I can see the scalpers lining up now…
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I’m so happy you liked everything. 
I really wanted to get you at least one card I knew for a fact you wanted, but it was tough because I don’t know very much about your preferred cards. I especially didn’t know anything about YGO, but I asked around to some members here to try to decode the cards and get you the right thing. I am really relieved it was the correct card. I hope it makes you happy.
I had a lot of fun picking out the other stuff as well. The shikishi and magazine pages were the kind of thing I love to browse so I really enjoyed seeing what was out there and picking out things I thought you’d like. I wouldn’t be offended if you ever resold anything down the line (or immediately) but I definitely prefer you be happy with the selection and I am really happy that you are!!
Thank you to the other friends and members who helped me research your stuff.
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Thank you so much @zards_r_us i absolutely love the gifts! I’ll be adding the signature card to the community binder! Over the holiday I’ll be hanging with a friend who doesn’t get to open much and we are going to have a blast opening the box. It really means a lot. Happy holidays everyone! 
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Like many, I am impatient and could not wait until Christmas.
WOW! Thank you so much @sad279
You absolutely nailed the gift!!
A Jirachi pin I didn’t have with the adorable Togepi drawing, incredibly fitting.
The celebi slabs are awesome! One of, if not my favourite alt art that’s been on my buy list for a while. The gorgeous Corocoro promo too. These are going on my work in progress display shelf right beside my celebi sitting cutie.
The sudowoodo and snorlax JP cards are awesome and some of my favorite mons! I rarely go out of my way for the JP counterparts and they always are so much nicer!! The new foil pattern of that Snorlax is gorgeous in person too.
The three birds black star promos bring back a wave of nostalgia. I had these cards 20 years ago and were lost to time so it’s so awesome to have them again.
The Cyrus box! My favourite villain from my favourite era. I never realized how cool This product was with the matching sleeves, deck box, promo etc.
Absolutely stellar promos of Cyrus.
Opened the packs with my fiancée and she was the one who opened all 3 hits which were some awesome cards, love the Arita Lugia especially
And of course the Jirachi cards!!! 2 world champ cards I need for the collection!!! Not easy cards to come by, I really appreciate it
The JP promo of one of my favourite Jirachi’s has also been on my watch list. I couldn’t ask for better Jirachi’s if I tried!
Thank you for everything @sad279
It was an awesome gift and a blast to open.
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I’m so glad you liked it. I had a ton of fun shopping for you. There’s such great art for your favorite mons. I may have picked up some Celebi cards for myself while I was looking.
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Huge thank you to my Secret Santa! They didn’t leave their name on anything so I have been making some wild guesses. So please chime in so I can actually thank you for everything!
I thought I was going to hold onto the package for a bit longer, wanted to get closer to X-mas, but my curiosity finally got the better of me.
Shot of everything sent!
I loved the note, and appreciated the effort to look into any Greninja I was actually missing. I would have been very impressed if you had found anything I needed to upgrade. Also, I love the Greninja art! That is certainly going to be something to hold onto forever.
1st of on what they sent is the graded cards. Salamence is just so cool, and the holo in EX Dragon cards is simply amazing! Thanks so much!
Then I got to the stack of raw cards and was simply blown away! So many amazing cards! I love them all! All the Torchic cards made me initially think my Santa was Tapp, but after checking and seeing they were not participating in Secret Santa I was back to scratching my head…
Last but not least are my pulls from the packs I was given. My pack luck continues to be absolute ass, but that’s my fault 
Once again, thank you so much my secretive Secret Santa! I really enjoyed going through all the cards you sent me, I don’t know a ton about EX era stuff so it will be even more fun doing some extra research on all the cards you sent. It certainly looked like they were from a bunch of fun sets!
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I recently received an amazing gift from @Alec ! Opening this was so awesome, thank you so much!!
First are some great plushies, I always love getting these and while I don’t usually purchase them myself, I have a small collection of plushies I’ve been gifted over the years. These will make awesome additions!
Next, a beautiful Darkrai shikishi drawing and some amazing miscellaneous stuff. I have no idea where the sticker sheet is from, but the copyright on it says 2004 so I assume they’re from some PCG era product. I love the Roaring Moon sticker and keychain/charm, I didn’t put this in my wants, but I collect the Pokemon Center charms and didn’t have Roaring Moon yet!
Last but certainly not least, some Roaring Moon sleeves, a Dragons Exalted booster pack, and a graded Rayquaza ex! The Dragons Exalted pack will be staying unopened in my sealed collection. The Ray looks super clean for a 7 and is one of my favorite old ex cards. It’s one of the first cards I bought when I got back into the hobby, so it has a special place in my heart.
Thanks again for all of these gifts!
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