What are your 2022 Pokemon collecting goals?

[quuador]

My goals are pretty similar as last year overall.

But let’s start with a recap of how I did with what I mentioned in the 2021 thread:

@quuador

I’ve been able to finish some of my collection goals this year, which is awesome. But in general it’s still somewhat similar as last year, except maybe slightly less:

1. Keep up with Pikachu releases. This is and always will be the toughest challenge for me…

I gave up on this. It’s just too hard and expensive to keep up, and I’m happy with my decision to collect Pikachu up to February 27th, 2021 (25th Pokémon Day) for all languages, and only all English Pikachu cards as well as the Base Set variations in all languages from that point onward. I also did pretty well with the Pikachu cards released prior to this date, since I’m missing just 10 out of 1433 right now, which was still 20 at the start of 2021.

2. Keep up with new English and Japanese exclusive FA Supporter cards. This collection is currently complete, and I love it, but I’d like to keep it complete.

Well, this is basically the same. It’s still complete, and I’d still like to keep it that way.

3. Keep up with new Seviper releases (I doubt any new Seviper card will release in 2021 tbch, since I’ve already been spoiled in the Sun & Moon era regarding new Seviper cards. But if any new Seviper would release next year, I’ll get every version of it to keep my Seviper collection in all languages complete.)

Apparently I was wrong, since a new Seviper was in the Chilling Reign set, but I do have all variations in all languages for it in my collection since about two months ago, so Seviper is still 100% complete.

4. Find the Japanese 1st edition Pokémon Web booster pack that contains a Moltres, and possibly find a CGC-10 graded English Moltres, to finish this collection.

I actually did both. But unfortunately it didn’t complete the collection, since I discovered Swedish (and possibly Danish) sealed variations exist for the Moltres WotC #21 promo, which is currently one of my biggest wants.

And that’s about it. I’ve stopped collecting my National Index collection; I will try to get one more Yu-Gi-Oh misprinted rarity, and then stop with this collection for now as well; and my Ancient Mew PSA-10 collection is complete except for the Korean version, although I’m not sure if PSA grades those yet (I will be sending two of those once the raw cards have arrived at my place).

I added the PSA-10 South Korean Ancient Mew. I haven’t graded it myself though (for obvious reasons), but I was able to buy one for less than the current grading costs (125 USD including shipping/taxes), so pretty happy to complete the sixtet of PSA-10 Ancient Mew versions.

So yeah, my 2021 goals went very well looking back.

As for (hopefully) realistic goals for 2022:

1. Keep up with FA Supporter, Seviper, and English Pikachu releases
2. Try to find the Swedish sealed Moltres
3. Try to find the German/Spanish Surfing/Flying Pikachu promos (not too realistic in terms of rarity and availability, since I’ve only seen two each ever - but the only realistic Pikachu cards left in terms of prices from the ten missing, since the others are: one English Art Academy Pikachu; four Japanese Art Academy Pikachu; and the Japanese SNAP Photo Contest Pikachu.
4. Try to find the bronze, silver, golden, and metallic blue Seviper figures and Seviper Amada stickers (and perhaps some other missing non-TCG Seviper stuff). Apart from one Chinese knockoff figure that’s sold out everywhere, those metal ones are the only Seviper figures I’m aware of that I’m still missing.

Greetz,
Quuador