Transported to another beat to death question world, maybe?

Trying to write a Japanese light novel I guess.

Anyways, I was looking through my collection and really thought for a second about this one card. Zapdos isn’t even my favorite pokemon, or even in my top 30 according to the favorite pokemon checker website, I just love this card. I realized I don’t want to sell any copies of it, and just wanna buy more and more copies of it, and actively am for the right price (not buying here and won’t respond if you contact, only spur of the moment on Mercari basically). Rationally, I know I probably should sell some because, to some degree, it’s useless to have so many.

But I want to know what is that one card that, despite all rational thought, you just can’t persuade yourself to let go of a single copy, and if you do, it is with an incredibly heavy heart. Not counting things like personal items from your past. I’m talking about a card where the art is so inspiring/or personally beautiful that you are compelled to just buy more of it to encompass an entire page in your binder and beyond. I’m interested to see the collection you have at this current point of that card. There is something about a massive collection of a single card that is really cool. My choice of card is kinda expensive so it’s rather small at the moment, but I can’t even dump my HP ones…

This zapdos is that card for me, however only the foil one. The non-foil doesn’t do it for me, and it’s not only because I’m a glutton for shiny cardboard. I think the foil makes the background darker, but still visible and adds an extra bit of darkness and depth to the picture. Makes it more forbodeing. Plus it helps zapdos pop significantly more. Posing is also just classic Zapdos.

The card(s) that I use for my shiny cardboard gluttony are the E series Mcdonalds Foil energies. I love them with a passion. purely for sparklyness.

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Your passion, dare I say, compulsion is inspiring. I may not understand it, but man do I respect it. Keep doing you.

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@pulpyfan, you’ve certainly got the taste for art haha! Opening your collection to art academy craziness! My god what beauty! Can’t really collect many copies of those I imagine, eh.

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Lugia ex PLAY promo—I just love this card and want to buy every one I see.
Light Ninetales—do yourself a favor and create a binder page to look at as you drift off to sleep.

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Jungle Pikachu. I have hundreds of copies and will always pick up more when they are cheap

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Tbh, I don’t had any cards like that personally. Sure, I love buying the same artwork in multiple languages for some of my collections, but I never liked having more than one copy of the exact same card. Every card I have more than one of goes into my duplicated stack to be sold. For Yu-Gi-Oh I had some cards quite a lot, like Monster Reborn or Mystical Space Typhoon, because I was playing the game and they were in all my decks. For Pokémon I never played the TCG, so never had any need for a playset or copies in multiple decks, and I never wanted more than one of the same card - not even my favorite artwork of all TCG cards (Moltres WotC #21 promo).


Also, I’m wondering what @RayquazaTCG would answer here. :thinking: :wink:

Greetz,
Quuador

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Ugh… all of that was sold for pretty high considering… but who would have guessed they would be like $70+ raw now. Fml. Lol

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Ah, I forgot you sold most of them. :sob: That’s indeed a bummer considering their current prices. Would have been a killer investment, even though you just bought them because you liked the Pokémon and artwork. :blush: Kinda reminds me of that Japanese Neo Lugia collector that had three full binders filled with it.

I assume you’ve used the earned money for some new signed cards?

Greetz,
Quuador

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Now this is something I can get down with. I love it, PidgeySyndicate! My, is the Zapdos a marvel, and for the exact reasons you provide. It has incredible depth. One of the finest pieces of art in Pokemon history.

Mine would have to be this rivaling masterpiece! The green void of evil is great with this one.

I am in the midst of organizing/re-bindering chaos and can’t seem to find my many Japanese copies, but I won’t be happy until I have them all!

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I always thought owning a ton of the same card was super dumb but then I realized just how much I love this card

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I have a few pages of the EX Dragon Salamence E league promo in my binder. thats a card I really love and happen to have a ton of. I also just buy EX Legend Maker holos indiscriminately. No one in particular, but I have boxes and boxes full.
My MTG version of this is Chromium from english legends - the original BEWD

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These two say hello:




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0 ten candidates btw and only 2 nine glaceon candidates, 0 leafeon.

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I vividly remember discovering Shadowless Base Set and the No Damage Ninetales fairly early-on after getting back in Pokémon (2009). Shadowless Base has always been by-far my favorite Pokémon Set - even more-so than 1st Ed. Base Set and No Damage Ninetales is THE ERROR within Shadowless Base Set! Unfortunately, I could never justify spending that kind of money on a single-card and/or I had other priorities for my personal collection.

It wasn’t until 2016 that I finally added this “grail” into my collection. It was a raw copy that I immediately placed into my Shadowless Binder. Eventually, I decided to grade this card and it came back as being PSA 7. Shortly after getting this card back from PSA, I remember seeing two auctions for PSA 6 and PSA 4 Copy. I kept my eye on those auctions (eventually won) and decided that I’d try to build PSA 1 through PSA 9 Set of No Damage Cards. That quickly escalated into scrapping the 1-9 Set and just buying as many copies of this card as I could afford!

Nowadays, I guess you can say that I’m kind of known for my No Damage Collection! Haha Lot of people ask if Ninetales is my favorite Pokémon and to be honest; I’m not a huge fan of Ninetales :flushed: Just absolutely LOVE the No Damage Ninetales!!!

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I dont usually do binder pages of cards, but for these I though they warranted it! Also wish i did one of professor elm’s lecture when it was cheap!

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Hahah this is wonderful! So much better than I was expecting! I wanna reply to the choices of everyone but sadly I had to sleep and now I’m at work. I plan to respond after work to the beautiful choices and stories everyone’s got so far. Thanks for responding!

@oldskoolpokemon, that is so awesome man. As you know, I’m just as big a fan of shadowless. Thanks for sharing that. Yours easily wins the hoard card cake!

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@gengaranimal , YES! I love that card as well, such a beautiful pose for Lugia. Only got one copy, but need to acquire a binder copy one of these days. Bummer it never made it to English, but also kinda nice at the same time I suppose. I didn’t even know it existed until this year. Light Ninetales is so chill and relaxing, thats the one to look at for falling asleep for sure. Light vaporeon is also a ray of sunshine hahaha!

@thatpikachuguy , Can’t go wrong with a cheap and easy to acquire classic. What’re your thoughts on the “jungle” not jungle pikachu from the intro packs? Those are pretty sweet if ya ask me.

@pottsinator , My god!!! that is ridiculous! True though, it was like a 5$ card for a heck of a long time. Nice job on picking that one, probably made a killing after selling haha! How many do you have remaining?

@brendantheclayboy , Couldn’t agree more with this choice. I’ve always had a huge appreciation for that card. The pure green background feels very audacious and outstanding when compared with everything else of the time. Isn’t it also the first instance of a trainer on a card? At least in terms of English set cards?

@kingboo64 , Definitely solid choice. The card that I picture the easiest when I think of a deoxys card. This is one of those cards that I was actually super jealous of my little sister over as a kid. She got the promo version and I coveted it hard. Pretty sure I did a bum trade with her to get it, but then felt bad as an adult when looking through my childhood stuff and just gave it back to her hahaha!

@bbqcat , I’m not the only one who loves this card! This card is the reason I bought several of the movie sets! That and the Lenticular, but still mostly I loved this card. Thoughts on the blastoise from the set? Atsuko is one of my favorite artists, but not really a fan of the Blastoise personally.

@candle , damn, pages of it! that sounds intense! Are you talking about the one with the winner stamp? It is pretty epic art though, can’t disagree there. nice posing and I’m also one of the people that thoroughly enjoys the e series borders. Not sure what it is, but I’ve always been a fan. I feel like it makes your eyes work harder to enjoy the image and therefore appreciate it more. Odd explanation, but yeah.

@connorc , Solid, I feel like these two Pokemon are at the top of the underrated favorites for people. They’re quite unique ideas for pokemon and just overall really fun characters and personalities. That delibird is beautiful, great choice with the reverse for it as well. I feel it fits the water typing of the card, and the ice typing of the pokemon super well. Makes it feel more like the winter wonderland that it should.

@oldskoolpokemon , WOW! I’ve wanted one of these for a long time, but could never pull the trigger because there was always something else more pressing to me. Kudos to this collection, definitely one to be proud of. even if only for terms of value as far as I know. Funny enough, I’ve started somewhat of a shadowless Ninetales collection over here even though I love in Japan. I found like 3 of em for good prices on Mercari and said, why not. Beautiful card, can’t go wrong.

@rybatony , I didn’t appreciate the cards when they came out, but it’s funny what time and completing collection goals will do to one’s mind and desires. When I stop being overly obsessed with my era of cards and really truly look at the art work of more recent stuff, I realize what I’m missing. Hence my “I"m too easily swayed to love a new card” thing in my profile quote. Nice choices, the dragonite especially. I’m kinda burned out on Charizard, no pun intended. But Dragonite deserves all the love he can get. yeah, doing the Elm would be cool, he has such nice use of colors thanks to the three starters, it would make for a vibrant page for sure.

@vic , That milotic, big yes for me. Absolutely stunning art. I should’ve bought more of em. Just glad I got at least one for now though. I love how the ocean looks like it could just be clouds and the Milotic is flying. of course it isn’t but it appears that way. The dichotomy of black to white is also very interesting. Actually, ya know what? Are they clouds? I’m observing the card right now and see the mountain behind Milotic that looks eerily familiar to Mt. Fuji just because it’s so perfectly conical. not to mention it’s only the top of the mountain, and fuji often has cloud covering the top. Hmm, what’s your take?

Thanks everyone for posting here, I really enjoyed looking at some more arts and seeing what people binge over. Gave me a little more appreciation for arts that I already love, and others that I had yet to appreciate enough.

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@pigeonsyndicate I’m a big fan of the intro deck Pikachu! Its another one of my favorite artworks and one im considering for my Pikachu tattoo I’m planning. Jungle Pikachu was my first ever card and is my favorite Pokémon so im trying to acquire roughly 500 copies to fill a 12 pocket binder and also a PSA 1-10 set

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