I am mainly collecting Wizards of the Coast and then after that, I’m collecting cards that were created by the Pokemon company before 2010 .The reason is because I can see a clear delineation between Wizards of the Coast. and everything that came after. I’m trying to stay away from sets that were over printed
Yeah Base set, it was printed to death; or it looks like it was printed to death because those cards are still around. In theory, if Wizards of the Coast kept the same printing amounts between Base and gym leaders you would see those cards in equal amounts I don’t know if they were printed at the same level,
and if they were, I don’t know what happened to those booster packs and cards.But regardless… I am collecting based on scarcity first. Secondly, I’m collecting based on what I believe has long-term popularity.
I don’t think your new cards have long-term popularity. And I have a lot of issues with some of the things that the Pokemon Company did after Wizards of the Coast. Basically, I’m not really a fan of all those EX and lv cards, but I do see value in the variants created for gameplay as far as collectability goes
but I stay away from newer Pokemon cards and even cards in the mid period, because I think that they printed too many sets and those cards are still hanging around. And I also see a separation, a new delineation between pre- and post-art card. I’m not cool with cards that were created specifically for the collector’s market. And I don’t really trust the Pokemon company anymore right now, specifically recently, but I don’t even trust their handling of their IP in early 2010s either
So I think that as far as collectability goes, there’s going to be a big separation between Wizards of the Coast and cards that were created after Wizards of the Coast. And then there’s going to be a separation between pre- and post-art card.
And as far as pre-art card, the stuff that I think will be worth a little bit of money is going to be those special EX, GX, LV cards, and things like Delta Species, Shinies, and all the other variants.
I think that in general card prices are going to go down significantly for the majority of all the cards, including Wizards of the Coast. Because I’ve seen cards that are lower in price now than they were in Pojo’s magazine. Do we even know what happened with prices pre-recession? Stuff like this is why I’m just collecting cards and not trying to make an investmen. But I do think that
some of the Wizards of the Coast cards that were not printed as much will be worth a little bit more money than others long term.
The Artificial Scarcity cards that we’re seeing now are not really going to be worth anything. Artificial Scarcity is what killed Beanie Babies, and so I don’t
trust any of this new stuff.