Was trying to figure out if it was time to jump and buy this card.
In terms of quality/rarity, is there any big difference between these 4 languages? (im not familiar at all with these).
In terms of how they are produced, I have observed no major difference. Prices seem to vary between the languages which could imply scarcity between them.
Yeah it’s a bit confusing. Korean are very hard to find and tbh, i might as well just grab any of the Thai/Indonesian since they seem to be the same in price while the chinese is the most expensive.
I have the Thai one myself and it looks great!
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For quality, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Indonesian cards as usual were printed in the same factory as Japanese, so they have the same quality as Japanese SRs/SARs (with unfortunately some minor flaws you would expect from SV-era cards such as slight texture shifts). Korean was also printed in their own factory as usual so texture and/or quality will be close to TPCi prints.
For rarity, all languages were released as top prize cards in local events, so no need to expect they have huge differences such as “extremely limited events” vs “regular events” vs “mass production (sets/gift boxes)” like we’d seen in Charizard VMAX distributions. Rarity of each language will be purely based on number of events held in each region, so you’ll get a sense of it if you’re able to estimate that.
If the number of events held stays roughly the same from previous Sealed Battle events, you should expect the Traditional Chinese copies to be the most distributed. However as Traditional Chinese:
- Was the first language the cards were announced in and distributed which triggered FOMO purchases, especially as the cards were never released in Japan and TPCi regions and thus attracted collectors from those regions as well
- Had demand from Chinese markets which is significantly larger than other languages (with Mainland China counted in as the cards were yet to be announced in Simplified Chinese)
Those had resulted in a noticeable premium added to the Traditional Chinese cards regardless of their actual rarities against other languages. If you don’t have specific language preferences, you can just grab the cheaper language you found on the market.
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This is great information.
From what i’ve gathered here and on the internet, i’ll just go with Thai/Indo since the print quality seems great for a cheaper price.
With the SAR list for Terastal Festival ex mapped out, I think it’s safe to say that SAR Victini ex will not be releasing at all in JP. If we’re following the case of UPC/SA Charizard VMAX with VSTAR Universe, 2023 JP cards will not be reprinted in the 2025 high class set. It’s more likely to have a Simplified Chinese release instead, when they catch up
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The price for this card has also pretty much settled and with prints in english/jp most likely out of the scope, it seems a good to collect it.
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Been noticing that trend as well but unlike a lot of other cards right now, i feel this one genuinely has a lot going on for it. I might have to pay the current prices since i highly doubt this will come lower.
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But the card doesn’t have much visibility. I think only a few people know about it, so I don’t see it rising much. The market isn’t very fluid
Totally, it flew under the radar. Just shows how “hype driven” is the current market.
maybe after more BW sets and tini gets another SAR, people will see this one and wonder how to get it :copium:
Korean PSA population is considerably smaller than the other languages, and I see it coming up less for sale/auction. Just adding my 2 cents
For some unknown reason several raw Korean copies were dumped on Mercari in Japan around last October to November when you can get one as low as $300. I got two at the moment and both ended up in PSA 10s, so I added one into my collection and eventually completed it.
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Beautiful set, I’m super jealous!
Funny coincidence though, I was literally looking at the Mercari.jp sold listings the other night and saw all those sales from last year. I just received one I purchased off of eBay and it is pretty dinged up (still NM), the pictures definitely did not show the edgewear. Kinda disappointed.
I just purchased a set off mercari.jp for 290, I’ll share the condition once I get it.
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Thanks! 
Both my 10s were from the wave I mentioned so with some average luck they should have a chance for 10s. There may be corner wears as you can actually spot on one of my copies (this is actually quite common as I had seen several copies with the same wear at the same spot), but looks like PSA still accepts them as 10s so shouldn’t be a problem if your target is 10s.
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There are a couple of korean versions up for sale on ebay as well.
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There ise a PSA 10 chinese one at auction on ebay :
It will be interesting to see the price it will go at.