In that case that indeed is the only possible way, hopefully they’ll be available somewhere in western marketplaces, would ease the search
There’s reverse holos? Oh boy, my wallet’s gonna hate me now.
I know! Since they are a unique holo, they are going to be added to my wants list. I imagine any Eevee that had a reverse holo in English in SM and SWSH will probably get one in Chinese now.
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I was thinking the same thing. Adding all the reverse holos to my list since they’re unique. Wonder if it’s unique because it’s the first set or if reverse are here to stay for every set.
Reminder: as everyone talked about in the replies, any Common, Uncommon or Rare card in this set has reverse holo variant. Good luck hunting them!
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I’ve indeed heard about it from @tonysandlin, but thanks for the reminder as well. 
Looks like there are 7 cards to find instead of 5 then.
And I might just buy a booster pack or box to open for funsies, once I know a place to buy them.
Greetz,
Quuador
Are there picture lists of all the sets and decks?
The original list is a picture list, but as we mentioned you can only open the list inside WeChat app after providing a local phone number, and it’s going to take a while for anyone to replicate the list outside the app given the enormous 1416-card (627 set + 453 rev. holo + 336 deck) list.
If you’re looking for any specific Pokémon, I might be able to just take a quick snapshot of that specific portion from the list, or if you’re interested in any secret cards in the set then photos in the previous few posts should have already covered them.
Just looking for all the FA trainers available. Are they all already posted? Is there more than 1 deck?
Are you in China? Wondering what the pull rates are like.
All FA trainers are already in previous posts: 8 from 1a, 8 from 1b, 9 from 1c and 4 from the decks. The GBB Lillie is only a leaked photo and not announced officially yet.
Given that the deck has a 336-card list, it’s likely that the deck is a random deck previously seen in other Asian-exclusive Starter Decks.
And no, I’m not in China.
Anybody here know in general how well the product is doing in China? I’m not sure how I should be gauging it’s popularity there. The bilibili pack opening videos I’ve seen have fairly modest view counts (~40k) for what I assume are larger names in the pokemon tcg community there. Then again, maybe the view counts are low simply because it’s only officially launched there recently and needs time to gather steam? The comments seem to be a mixture of enthusiasm, people complaining about the price, and those people being rebutted by yugioh players saying it costs way less to get into Pokemon than Yugioh. Charizard is the most popular lol, of course.
Is anybody here in China? Did they sell the cards in physical stores or is it all on Taobao? Are stores selling out? Is anybody playing the physical card game?
From what I gather, the first wave was relatively small so people are scalping it already. Does anybody know if the first wave has any edition markers? There are people claiming the next waves will be a lot larger.
Also the price of random singles seems way higher than english, especially gold cards. I see people cheering over a gold ultraball ($105 there) vs (~$25 here).
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The Lillie is apparently in a separated product:
Some of the booster boxes and deck are available on eBay (although probably way overpriced in comparison to buying them from China directly). But should anyone buy and open any boxes and is willing to sell (duplicated) singles, lmk.
I only want seven cards spread over all three sets and the deck.
PS: Does anyone have any tips on recognizing Traditional vs Simplified in an instance for these Chinese TCG cards? I can recognize all other 13 languages right away, and would like to be able to do the same with these cards somehow.
Greetz,
Quuador
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3 methods for telling without recognizing the characters:
Method 1: Check the expansion mark, Asian sets released after SWSH or SM in China has a non-bold alphabet appended at the end of the original expansion mark to indicate the card’s language:
- ‘F’ is Traditional (F for Fanti) Chinese
- ‘C’ is Simplified Chinese
- ‘T’ is Thai
- ‘I’ is Indonesian
SM series in Traditional Chinese doesn’t have this language mark but Simplified Chinese has, so it should help you identify them easily.
Method 2: Unfortunately promos don’t have language marks, but since Simplified Chinese has a different card list than Traditional Chinese, you should be able to tell promos apart if you know both promo lists (unless a card occupies the same index on both lists, which hadn’t happen yet as of this writing).
Method 3: all regular holo, GX holo and FA cards in Simplified Chinese has anti-counterfeiting mark etched at the bottom left corner, which is exclusive to the language and not seen on Traditional Chinese cards.
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Thank you, that’s very useful! And didn’t knew about the watermark of the third method, that’s pretty cool as well.
Greetz,
Quuador
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And the watermarking just got even better!
Finally got the boxes I ordered. Turns out that:
- The micro logo watermark is on every Holo card, including the Reverse Holos
- Full Art cards get an additional, larger logo watermark in their rule boxes, and it even comes with a latent Poké Ball image!
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Does this mean that only the non-holos lack the watermark?
Greetz,
Quuador
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Seems so!
Top to bottom: Rare Holo, Reverse, GX, Prism, Shiny, Shiny FA, FA, Gold
For the Starter Decks, regular GX doesn’t get watermarked as they’re not Holo, and FAs get the same treatment as pack FAs. (The FA shown above was actually from a Starter Deck which is why it doesn’t have a rarity mark.)
And didn’t notice yesterday, but seems that half art Shinies also get the cool latent watermark:
Also some pull rate numbers:
- For 5-card packs: 4 non-Holo and 1 Holo
- For the regular box (30 5-card packs), the 30 Holos will be:
- 10 Reverse Holos
- 11 Rare Holos
- 5 GXs
- 1 Prism Rare
- 2 half art Shinies
- 1 Full Art or half art Shiny - I got FAs in all 3 boxes I bought, but some videos on YouTube showed that you might get a 3rd half art Shiny and no FA at all
Only got 3 regular boxes so not sure what are the pull rates for 25-card packs and cartons.
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Hoping other languages pick up the Pokémon logo mark as well. Could be a great way to kick off the SV era.
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What is a half art shiny?
