Stryker2407's collection

[stryker2407]

Hi. Thanks for stopping by.
After collecting Pokemon cards in elementary school and shortly in 2015 I got back into the hobby in early 2021. This time I decided to collect in English so I needed to start completely from scratch. I try to mainly collect Diamond & Pearl, HGSS and Altarias but I mainly buy EX Era cards because … I don’t know I’m just bad at focusing on my goals. Therefore I wanted to make this thread where I can follow my progress and look back on my journey in a few years.
My current short term collecting goals are:

• catching up on my modern binder sets
• completing my childhood LP german binders
• getting all S&M Alt Art PSA 10 (8/34)

I will update this thread every once in a while and add some more categories once I figured out what the best way to photograph binders is.

Graded Cards

WOTC

EX Era

Diamond&Pearl/Platinum

Heartgold Soulsilver

Black&White

XY

Sun&Moon

Sword&Shield

[lamplamp]

Very nice collection thread. I’ve never seen this Sudowoodo card before and idk why but it’s face is hilarious to me. Thanks for sharing!

[deltazero]

You are doing a great job at collecting. The only way you’d be a bad collector is if you do something illegal or expect people to give handouts. However, you are not doing that, so no worries. Your goals sound like a lot of fun and the cards you have so far are great. I love pokemon cards with the sparkly borders.

[stryker2407]

Thank you. Sudowoodo’s face kinda looks like those weird tik tok filters.

[stryker2407]

Cards with holo borders are the best especially when it’s a cosmos foil border. They really pop under the right light.

[deltazero]

It also makes them more challenging to grade, so it is cool that you have so many 9s!

[stryker2407]

Updated my collection post with some recent additions that arrived this week.

and some CGC slabs which I bought a couple month ago to cross them over to PSA but never did as I wasn’t confident that they would upgrade/stay the same.

[trainerjack]

For someone self proclaimed as “bad at collecting” your collection is awesome and bursting with personality! Keep it up!

[pulpyfan]

Nice clean presentation. The gallery view displays your graded cards so well.

[camrok37]

@stryker2407

My favorite tag team card great additions!

[stryker2407]

Thank you for the kind words. I always had the problem though that I never stayed commited to one goal no matter what I collected.

[stryker2407]

Thanks. This ones definetely in my top three. Those two look simply so adorable. Only the Latias&Latios and Espeon&Deoxys Tag Teams are more beatiful in my opinion.

[trainerjack]

That can definitely be hard. Grabbing a bunch of stuff shows you really collect what you like though which is cool. If you’re looking to get more focused I hope you can

[stryker2407]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve slowly (and silently) added some cards to this thread but didn’t make an update post. I didn’t feel that it was necessary to make a post for a single card at a time.
Therefore I’ll just squeeze them into this update.

Today I received one of my 15$ specials back from PSA with a lot of sparkly cards. Overall I was very pleased with the grades although one or two were a bit iffy.

My next submission is already on the way back to me and should arrive next week (and this one will finally advance my SM alt art collection goal)

[trainerjack]

Those ex and LV. X

[stryker2407]

I love them way too much But there’s just so much nostalgia in those cards.

[trainerjack]

I’m with you! ex and LV. X emanate nostalgia for me! Looking forward to you and I getting more