the if you had to start over again? thread brought up a question I often ask myself which is “if for some reason, you had to sell off most of my cards and could only keep a few, or even just one, which ones would remain?”
How would you answer this question?
I’m not sure how I’d answer it myself. I can get down to a pretty small number of cards, but I start to hit a wall after getting down far enough.
I could part with the gold star ray and not feel too bad.
after that, the decisions would definitely kill a part of me, but next to go would be the other two gold stars, then the play ray, then the absol, and finally the umbreon ex; leaving just Karen’s Umbreon as the final card remaining if I had to only keep one from my collection.
notes about me:
I am a huge modern/special art simp and believe there has never been a better time to be into pokemon. I buy cards from nearly every set that comes out now that there are at the very least ARs that I can add to my nat dex collection.
Also, I grew up with wotc, and stopped collecting before neo. There is no nostalgia at play in my final choices. I just like these the most out of everything I own.
I’ve thought about this too, and like I like to do, I’m going to steal something from the coin world. There’s a company, Dansco, who makes coin albums. One of those is called the 7070, which is a “type album”. This just means that there’s a slot in the album for one type of coin from every design and denomination.
I’d take a similar approach with cards. I would want one card from each of these categories. I don’t include everything, and bet others may do it a little differently
yeah i think i’d end up in a similar spot, having one of each era icon that i am fond of such as an oldback (corocoro mew), an e-series, an ex, an adv/pcg holo, a gold star, a pt shiny (milotic), a bw ur (shiny garde), a tt gx special art (umbreon x darkrai), a swsh special art (tough choice… probably g-zapdos), and a sv special art (probably ting lu)
This is painful to think about, haha. Without hurting my brain, these are the first few that game to mind as the highlights of my collection. I liked @Will’s idea of representing different areas of the hobby, but I tried to be a little more narrow both in total number and to my specific collection. The CD promo Venusaur is a random one, but mine is a holo bleed like the card below and I probably spend more time looking at that card than I should. I’m simple and like shiny things, haha.
I definitely agree with @c0ll3ct0r’s point that if I had to start again I probably just wouldn’t. It would be incredibly hard to cut down my collection to a few cards, but if I absolutely had to I’d probably keep my signed cards, a few of the most sentimental and important ones, and some of my favorite card arts.
If i had to, i would probably keep my staff binder, its only got like 15 cards in it right now but i feel like that would be the one to grow in 20 plus years. The plan is to pass everything to my son when he is getting his first actual house to help fund a down payment or pass on to his kids.
I’ve thought about this before but for my non-TCG. Much easier in that respect. I’d keep my Lake Biwa Shiga Prefecture Pokelid Gyarados Replica, my complete set of Gyarados Pracoro Dice, my Himeno signed Calendar, my 1998 Televikun Lottery Phone Card, Tamamushi University student ID set, Gyarados Metal Shooter, Gold Gyarados Pop Up Card, 2002 Pokemon Center Tokyo Manju Bun Box, and my Search for Red Gyarados Postcard set.
As for TCG, though, I’d keep the two signed cards I have that were personally made. I’d also keep the original 5 Gyarados cards that started my collection - making 7 personal cards. So to balance out, I’d choose my top 7 favorite Gyarados cards:
I could probably narrow my collection down to a 360 pocket binder.
My expedition Master set + 3 blank 9 pocket pages.
These 27 cards would be my favorite Komiya artwork and cards with sentimental value such as signatures or memorable trades.
For the expedition cards, I’d crack out my best condition cards from their plastic tomb and replace my binder copies.
