Xy really had crap print quality! Nice cards. I remember the store near me used to have some of those winner stamp greninjas years ago I grabbed only the 3rd and 4th place cause they were dirt cheap lol
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Finally added the Jumbos that I was missing. PSA did me dirty on the grades, but at least they are off the list…
Submitted the Shikishi to be added to the registry, now to wait 3 months for them to take action on that!
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Awesome collection! It’s always fun to see the many different variant of cards that exist for some illustrations (sometimes I have trouble spotting the differences 
but the PSA labels help in this regard). Also great that Greninja has a shikishi—those things look sweet!
I returned to Pokemon around the Sun and Moon era (stopped at Generation II), mostly through PTCGO. I think that was near the tail end of the popularity of the Greninja BREAK deck, but it was always fun seeing it in action. I also built a Forbidden Light Greninja GX deck that I had a lot of fun tinkering around with 
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Thanks!! I am still torn on if I like all the little variants, or hate them because I have to hunt them down! Some of them are very tiny differences, I have had to fight PSA on several to get them to recognize variants. The cosmos foil variant of the XY Base holo and the Japanese Greninja V non-holo being the two that I had to argue with them the most about.
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Oh god, that non-holo Greninja V is exactly the one I was flipping back and forth on, trying to figure out what the difference was (since the PSA labels are the same) 
I did eventually figure it out, but it probably took like 8 back-and-forths.
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For the non-holo V they originally said it was the same thing as the holo, I had to send it back to them twice to get the correct label created.
I had to edit the Bulbapedia page myself for the Cosmos foil one for them to agree it was a separate variant…
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I mean, I had trouble with the scans, but shouldn’t it be fairly obvious if the cards are right in front of you I can see why it’s been a bit frustrating now
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Love the “anytime, anywhere” part of the label
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It is hilariously the name of the product that it came in.
" A smaller version of the set designed to be carried around was available from the same day—the Family Pokémon Card Game Anytime, Anywhere (Japanese: いつでもどこでもファミリーポケモンカード). This version only includes the Cinderace V and Pikachu V decks, plus a pair of single-player playmats, a regular-sized plastic coin, a pair of deck cases, and a sheet containing damage counters and status markers. Physical copies of the battle guides are not included, but players can view the video instead by scanning the QR code printed on the back of the playmats. Another difference in this version is that all Pokémon V cards included are non-holofoil instead of the regular holofoil copies in the 3-deck version."
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Newest addition, upgraded my 8 to this one! Currently only 5 PSA 10s exist, so the odds of me finding one are minuscule. I am quite happy with the 9.
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Newest additions, upgraded the SM197 Jumbo from a 6 to a 9 as well as the Unbroken Bonds Holo from a 9 to a 10. Also got my 1st graded pack, only an 8 but gotta start somewhere.
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Just got my grades back for my PSA submission I sent in June. Some huge hits in it! Super glad I went ahead and picked up the Unbroken Bonds Holo when I saw a 10 pop up. The Illustration Contest one seems that it will continue being crazy difficult to get.
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Sick return! Sad to see an 8 on that brand new illustration contest promo tho. Ouch
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The Illustration Contest cards are absolute trash, every single one I have gotten my hands on has had major issues. So far there have been a total of 238 of the Greninja graded, with only 6 hitting a 10. Plus, 2 of those 6 popped up in the last 3 weeks. Greninja is by far the worst one of the three too because it was on the pack of the pack they are in. The Bulbasaur has 17 10s and Arcanine has 15.
Luckily I already have a 9, but I feel like it will be forever till I come across a 10 and it is affordable.
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Dang. Typical English problems I see. I hope you’re able to get a 10 at some point. Do you have a JP one?
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Yup, graded it myself. Scroll up, its in the update post I made in April.
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Nice just saw it! How many more Greninja do you need?
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Of currently released ones, only 2 I do not have in some form. I have several non-TCG things I still need to grade along with a handful of things that I need to get in higher grades as well (I am still only #2 on the PSA Registry). Still have some newer ones that I need to grade and get added to the Registry too.
But of TCG cards, I am only missing the Prize Pack Series 3 Radiant Greninja, and the TV Tokyo Lottery 218/XY-P Ash-Greninja EX promo (only 100 exist of this card so I am probably never getting it.)
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