LOL Secret Rare sowsow in a High Class Deck. Pokemon Company with the big cheese move again. Luckily, you can still order that thing for delivery in August. Everything else is looking good as usual because they are hiring quality artists, but I am hoping they mix up the styles a little more for the next release. The overly fancy painterly thing is as cool as it gets for Pokemon, but so far my favourite set this year is still Matchless Fighters because of the mix of art styles.
How much do alt arts usually cost when bought as singles? And it seems like each Eeveelution card has two alt arts–I thought usually each major card in a set only had one alt art?
In think the most expensive Japanese SR of 2021 so far has been the Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX. I haven’t checked the price of that card specifically too recently but last time I saw it was still pushing over 15,000 yen. Next tier would be the Calyrex VMAX Arita art, Galarian Moltres, Blaziken VMAX which vary depending on condition but seem to start from about 10,000 yen. Then after that it ranges from 2500 to about 6000 depending on the card. Speaking raw Japanese market prices here.
And to answer your other question there is one card for regular V and another for the VMAX form.
Post edit - This really is great, the last secret stadiums came out so late in the Sun/Moon generation; hopefully this means plenty of time for a lot more secret stads to come out. I don’t see it happening but maybe it will also give enough time for them to try out different artists/perspectives on secret stadiums. Thanks for the tag @Llyrwenne
So far there is a V alt art and the VMAX alt art. Standard eevee heroes booster box has the alt art for every V card and the VMAX alt art for Umbreon, Sylveon, Glaceon, and Leafeon.
This means we have Espeon Flareon, Vaporeon, and Jolteon VMAX cards left. As we can see the Espeon VMAX is a promo with the special box.
I have no clue if or how we will get alt arts for kanto VMAX.
Almost all of the bot orders actually got canceled, from what I understand. PCJ was super aggressive in emailing and calling people with orders, asking for responses (in Japanese obviously) to confirm shipments, and inevitably calling you (which would be, your tenso phone number for most accounts) if they were super suspicious. Many people were getting manually written emails to them with questions like “Why is your address name different than your credit card name?”
the biggest thing to remember when it comes to the bots and the sneaker community going after these things is that they WILL claim success early on (for getting confirmed orders) and it’s easy to get frustrated by it, but the orders usually always get canceled and you’ll never hear that side of the story.
tldr: PCJ fought the bot fiasco pretty hard, very impressed / pleased
Edit: added special art line
Everything besides the red/blue rectangles in this picture can be found in the standard Eevee Heroes Boosterbox/Pack
The red rectangle is from the Eevee Heroes VMAX Special Set
The blue rectangle is the promotion box
For the gaps (kanto + espeon rainbow vmax) and (kanto alt art vmax) I have no clue if they’ll be released.