Possible source of no-rarity cards?

[gottaketchumall]

@missingno

@legendslugia251

has anyone tried opening them by the starter decks and contains no rarity cards? part of me thinks the no rarity cards are like our 1st edition base set print run but since the kids back in the days played with ALL their cards and so forth the collection of them have gotten shorter and shorter in the past 20 years?

There is the mystery of the different booklets inside those decks. The barcode that matches a certain deck MIGHT be the source of where these cards came from. Or the absence of the barcode I don’t precisely recall what it was.

I opened like 40 of the starter decks in the past 6 months or so. All had a rarity symbol, but I did have two different booklet variations. I want to say the boxes were identical on the outside, but I can’t say with 100% certainty.

[missingno]

@gottaketchumall

@missingno

There is the mystery of the different booklets inside those decks. The barcode that matches a certain deck MIGHT be the source of where these cards came from. Or the absence of the barcode I don’t precisely recall what it was.

I opened like 40 of the starter decks in the past 6 months or so. All had a rarity symbol, but I did have two different booklet variations. I want to say the boxes were identical on the outside, but I can’t say with 100% certainty.

If I am not mistaken there is 3 different booklets.

[omahanime]

@japanime

This is gonna sound a bit crazy, but last night I had a dream in which I learned of the true source of Japanese Base no-rarity cards

Could it possibly be that these cards all came from the “yellow” Gift Pack box set? I’ve personally never opened one of these, so I have no idea what cards were originally inside. However, the time at which they were released coincides with the time the no-rarity cards are thought to have originated.

Also, it might make sense given that the cards in the later Quick Starter Gift (aka “red and green” set) also lacked rarity symbols (unlike the vending machine cards on which they were based).

Perhaps this has been discussed before, but II did a search of the forums, but couldn’t find anything related to this idea.

Would love to hear everyone’s opinion!

EDIT: Added the word “never” (in bold) because I forgot to type it the first time!

The source is a time traveling @garyis2000

[Viral]

@pokemonsyndicate

@kkthxbai

Yeah… I wouldn’t be surprised something like this is happening (ink removal). I did hear from a source that the wotc factory in Japan was reprinting older pokemon cards again illegally. I don’t know if it was rumour, or real… But, it’s a scary rumour haha.

I personally think this non rarity crap has blown way out of proportion…

There is a fair few charizards on ebay now… Just going unsold. One went at auction for under $60 opened!! I remember seeing it… And it was near mint- ex. Venusaur fell for $27 recently…

I already found 6 non rarity holos including 2 charizards… in just a 13 weeks in Japan, and I’m not even focusing on them.

I know of the Japanese retail value of a non rarity lizardon, and it’s not as much as everyone is making it out to be.

Yeah but try finding a mint copy. The japanese have no idea what there doing selling copies for the prices they do. It is same with gold stars, theyll sold this gut 2 gem mint 1st ed quaza for 6,000JPY each Both of em got 10’s -___-

[richiel1991]

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIgaRQwQsc

[pokemonsyndicate]

@richiel1991

Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRIgaRQwQsc

Thats the dude who wants 20kusd for the box xD

[milhouse]

Bought a couple of random TCG related books from Y!J. They are really cool pieces of history because they explain and show decks from the 1996 Meta. But what is very interesting is that all the Base Set Scans are No Rarity. Although I wouldn’t get too excited because I am guessing they are the same stock scans as we have seen elsewhere.

[shizzlemetimbers]

Very cool is the mag from 1996?

[milhouse]

@shizzlemetimbers

Very cool is the mag from 1996?

It is from 1996.

[shizzlemetimbers]

Also these are different no rarity images than the ones in this poster - the ones in your mag have minimal borders more of a earlier prototype kinda feel.

[kevinw]

I recently bought some sealed product, including the porygon/snorlax promo’s sealed. And while looking in it I found this:

If you look at the poliwhirl in the picture to the left of the starter deck, you’ll notice he doens’t have a rarity symbol! It is hard to notice on the scan (my scanner isn’t that great). But I urge the people who have this “folder” to go and check.

EDIT:

On the folder back it says the dates are 1995-1996 but according to bulbapedia it was released in december 1997.

[missingno]

Dang that page on your booklet is beautiful, mil.

[pokemonsyndicate]

WELLLLL WEEEEEEELLL WELLLL !!! Awesome finds! @milhouse and @kevinw

tHIS is pretty kewwwl stooooof.

lOOK at the beautiful venubae… Mighty stoicemess, and cheerizeard… and last but not least de beautifool pikachu

Hmmms @milhouse … I cant see the weight of the pokemon posted, or the numbers in the corner properly… but do they contain the no rarity weight and numbers which should be different to the unlimited of course…

Venusaur no raritan should be NO. 068 instead of NO.003

Charizard No raritan should Have a weight of 70.5KG instead of 90.5KG, and a Height of 1.5M instead of 1.7M on unlimited.

[japanime]

@kkthxbai

I personally think this non rarity crap has blown way out of proportion.

And yet I’m still wiping your drool off of the penny sleeves holding the no-rarity complete set that I showed to you a few weeks ago.

Seriously, though, I agree to a certain extent. The cards are definitely rare — and certainly almost impossible to find in mint condition — but the eBay hypesters/hucksters have made them out to be way more valuable than what they can realistically be obtained for here in Japan.

[pokemonsyndicate]

@japanime

@kkthxbai

but the eBay hypesters/hucksters have made them out to be way more valuable than what they can realistically be obtained for here in Japan.

The japanese sell them for nothing… BUt even they cant find decent copies, and so these arnt really about money. Your gonna have to live in japan, and be lucky enough to pick up the dam cards before who ever in them hobby shops stupidly sells them for 3,000JPY Do you know how small a window that is going to be for you… It is crazy. and when and if there mint is the thing that will drive you crazy… I reckon syju and a few others have talked to the people in the hobby shops or whatever, and they got them to hold the mint ones when they show up for them… SO with people like syuju taking them mint ones, your gonna have a hard time beating them to the punch. The centering is so dam bad on these that im afraid the majority of the mintest ones will be mint 9’s. I sent a perfect, and I am talking pristine fresh alakazam with absolute no flaws to bgs, and it had centering issue, but they 8.5 the centering… I will throw things. Uncommon/common are definitely possible to find mint now, it wont be to hard as listings are showing up in japan a fair bit, but the holos always suck …, There has only been one gem mint holo from yahoo i received, and one nm/mint one in nirly a year… OHHHH AND GUESS WHAT… IS there one there now? am i hinting at something that i cant bid on atm…
A NM-Mint 8 mewtwo no rarity was sold recently by syuju for 150usd… pretty crazeballs.

As it stands for me personally, i dont measure cardlings in monies worth, and no amount of currency is worth more then these cards mint… Plenty of Fiat currency in the world, but hardly any mint copies of these… Money is cool and all, but its only good for buying more pokemoon cards xD Only purpose in life it serves… Ohhh and food, rent ect… but then again, more monies means more cardlings xD… though these arnt about monies… the endless cycle of no raritan confirmed.

[snap]

@pokemonsyndicate

@japanime

but the eBay hypesters/hucksters have made them out to be way more valuable than what they can realistically be obtained for here in Japan.

The japanese sell them for nothing… BUt even they cant find decent copies, and so these arnt really about money. Your gonna have to live in japan, and be lucky enough to pick up the dam cards before who ever in them hobby shops stupidly sells them for 3,000JPY Do you know how small a window that is going to be for you… It is crazy. and when and if there mint is the thing that will drive you crazy… I reckon syju and a few others have talked to the people in the hobby shops or whatever, and they got them to hold the mint ones when they show up for them… SO with people like syuju taking them mint ones, your gonna have a hard time beating them to the punch. The centering is so dam bad on these that im afraid the majority of the mintest ones will be mint 9’s. I sent a perfect, and I am talking pristine fresh alakazam with absolute no flaws to bgs, and it had centering issue, but they 8.5 the centering… I will throw things. Uncommon/common are definitely possible to find mint now, it wont be to hard as listings are showing up in japan a fair bit, but the holos always suck …, There has only been one gem mint holo from yahoo i received, and one nm/mint one in nirly a year… OHHHH AND GUESS WHAT… IS there one there now? am i hinting at something that i cant bid on atm…
A NM-Mint 8 mewtwo no rarity was sold recently by syuju for 150usd… pretty crazeballs.

As it stands for me personally, i dont measure cardlings in monies worth, and no amount of currency is worth more then these cards mint… Plenty of Fiat currency in the world, but hardly any mint copies of these… Money is cool and all, but its only good for buying more pokemoon cards xD Only purpose in life it serves… Ohhh and food, rent ect… but then again, more monies means more cardlings xD… though these arnt about monies… the endless cycle of no raritan confirmed.

That should have deginitely been labelled as an episode on lifemens with syndicate

[thetropicalwoodsman]

Is there anything to these deck boxes? The centre bit of the pokeball is black rather than white on a couple of them.

page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g183792179

[missingno]

I have a strong feeling that NR’s came out of the earliest deck boxes. That’s that.

[smpratte]

Those might be colored by someone. It is difficult to tell with yahoos terrible images.

[japanime]

@smpratte

Those might be colored by someone. It is difficult to tell with yahoos terrible images.

That was my first thought as well. Almost certainly colored in by a kid.

(Rushes down to the storeroom to see if any of my starter decks have Pokeballs with black centers.)