Calling it a “trick” is what irks me more than the act itself. I prefer to get disappointed the old fashioned way.
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I guess the “trick” is only useful for youtuber to build suspense.
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If Japanese cards were more expensive than english cards, we would be saying that Japanese cards are better and English is Inferior.
Sun and Moon was one of our best era’s overall in terms of the anime, game, and tcg.
Mega Rayquaza was and still is the most broken character in competitive gaming history
There is no bubble, this is the new norm for pokemon
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I know you have a very hard bias but Xerneas and Zacian would like to say hello!
Also, aren’t Japanese cards widely accepted to be better than English?
Cheers!
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Zacian and Xerneas never created a new tier on the list and can one shot pokemon with 7 different moves. They are however EXTREMELY broken. Japanese cards to average collectors are ranked lower than english and some refuse to collect them,
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Smogon Singles is an unofficial fan created format, including Ubers and AG.
VGC is the official competitive format, in which Mega Rayquaza was very strong (it won 2016 worlds thanks to Wolfe Glick), but not the meta-warping forces that Xerneas and Zacian-Crowned were in their respective metagames.
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Nvm I’m wrong ddk has won like every single tournament here.
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Don’t get me wrong, Mega Rayquaza was a huge deal back in the day when Singles was more popular than VGC. Even though Zacian-Crowned and Miraidon also got banned to AG, Mega Ray set the bar and is best remembered for that.
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Pop reports do not always reflect rarity. I think this has been stated here before. Crazy markets often recycle unpopular opinions. I hate when I see it’s a pop 1 PSA 10 SV Krabby. Yeah well no kidding. Who’s grading this!
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?Are PSA hiking prices because everyone’s now scrambling to grade their SV Krabby? Sudden incentive to grade, when you can see the dollar signs!
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Positive feedback loop for the monopolist. 
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It feels like the same thing with PSA is happening like last time, after the first hype cycle. Where the all knowing ‘guru’ proclaimed 30k bulbasaurs to the world and suddenly there was a year long PSA backlog where people where sending anything and everything to be graded.. out of curiosity, I wonder what the graded trend for 1st edition bulbasaurs looks like.
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Unpopular opinion: right now is actually a fantastic time to buy. If you’re quick enough, you can still find genuinely mint cards being pulled out of attics and priced as if they were LP–DMG, usually because the seller is benchmarking against whatever shows up on eBay or PriceCharting.
Extra points if you operate in the strange little corners of the hobby. Variants and error cards tend to slip through the cracks while everyone stampedes toward the usual suspects like Zards, Umbreons, Gengars, and Rays.
The window isn’t huge, though. Most of these listings survive for about 90 minutes before someone with faster thumbs adopts them. But, amusingly, the phenomenon seems to repeat itself almost daily.
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Sets shouldn’t have chase cards.
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Never cook again
A set with one card would have a chase card
It’s just the card people want most. It can’t be removed from a set.
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Fine - every card should be guaranteed to be pulled in a single booster box.
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A lot of people that pretend to be collectors driven only by passion are in truth investors with small pockets. Their irritation and frustration about the current market state derives from them being outpriced and left out of the growth cycle because they made the wrong initial choices. They pretend to be binder collectors but are just as greedy as the people they call out.
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Bait so obvious even I dont feel like starting a argument about it.
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