A smaller update today in terms of card quantity, but nonetheless a very significant one!
As many species collectors know, randomized start decks can be some of the hardest cards to track down in other languages. Many Asian languages have a version of this product where the odds of getting the cards you need are 1 in 9, 1 in 18, or in the case of Start Deck 100, 1 in 101. Furthermore, a lot of sellers don’t list their bulk, so messaging a bunch of random sellers and asking if they have the specific set code you need gets old very quickly.
To start, I searched every Slowpoke/Slowbro card on every Korean website that I can actually see the listings for. I was able to find my RHs and my V/Vmax this way, but could not find the nonholos anywhere, nor the numbered deck they came in (deck 079). I also messaged every Korean eBay seller I could find, posted all over my Instagram story, posted on Korean Facebook groups, asked everyone I could think to ask… and nothing.
After a few months of this, I reached out to chocodedenne on Instagram. They offered to put up a buy post for the specific numbered deck I needed. Remarkably, someone actually had the entire deck! Huge thanks to them for being so helpful, I have absolutely no idea how would’ve been able to find these cards otherwise.
Anyway, here they are! My Korean Start Deck 100 nonholos:
I can’t express how good this feels to see in my spreadsheet:
