exactly, we are in a very avalanche prone situation right now. So if you are uncomfortable with the risk just stay at the refuge and wait for better conditions. Maybe you like the risk. Nobody is forcing anyone from buying anything. And the reason behind avalanches is because snow happens in the first place, and snow is good, that is why our mountains are beautiful
BOOOOO 
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>Japanese vintage was indeed for a very long time undervalued compared to English and the recent ballistic price hike is relatively speaking justified and just a catching up.
>No rarity finally significantly overlapping english 1st edition base was obvious & inevitable.
>Japanese cards are the true grails, classics and first editions of this hobby with the original language.
>The japanese font is much more aesthetically pleasing than the latin font which makes the art look much better.
>Japanese will continue to dominate.
I am also abit biased however, I did not grow up in an english speaking country so I never played with english cards but we always used to have some japanese cards here so that is why they are more nostalgic to me.
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Sometimes the best sellers are the 0 feedback Italians and Japanese who unbeknownst to the masses are actually serving 10s and feeding families
God bless
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For real, quit fn ripping cards. There are easier ways like opening eyes and looking. -_- vent over though im seeing this to be my unpopular opinion.
Cheers!
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My unpopular opinion of the day : No rarity are juste error cards and are less appealing than “first edition” stamped cards.
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An even more beautiful sight is hype beats getting airlifted to the trauma center after exhausting the borrowed momentum they used to outpace the rest of us.
This is true. I had major holdings in every fortune 500, but I took them out to buy Cradilys. Sold off all my crypto to get PSA10s, just in case. Still landed in credit card debt that quickly compounded.
Months later? Divorce. She takes the kids. I lose the house, the job. In a moment of desperation I beg my parents for a few hundred to buy the cheapest place in town.
Now I just sit and wait in my dilapidated apartment, binders in hand, waiting for the debt collectors to take what little I have left in this world.
Don’t be like me. Invest in Sealed.
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All this above… @eeveeteam @smpratte @Bellsprout . Never harder to collect and find your collecting satisfying… EVEN when I’m managing to get cards already Mint graded… It feels empty, like
It arrived… OK
If anyone buys-out the mtg basic lands I’m chasing, I will totally lose it. 
(Not outside the rhelm of possibilities, but if it DOES happen, I’ll consider it a personal attack.)
There are too many messages in the market threads when I open the fourum in the morning.
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Everyone becomes a clairvoyant during a market boom and periods of financial irrationality.
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I’d rather have art rares have no holofoil than the awful iridescent stripes pattern we’re seemingly stuck with…
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Lv. X > Gold Star
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Prime cards are actually awesome
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@zubat
Me dropping by the unpop op today:
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In the 21st century we do some really crappy things for the environment. Getting the raw card you want is already damaging enough - ship raw materials to factory, print a bunch of bulk cards that sadly go into the landfill to be printed alongside the card you wanted. Ships to distributor, ships to Whatnotter. Whatnotter throws away all extra packaging from TPCi. Pack gets opened through the screen of a smartphone, card gets shipped to you. Discard bubble mailer into the landfill. Ah, you finally got your card. But we can’t be done…
Now we put the card in a card saver 1 (cant be anything else, F you PSA) that ends up in the landfill, ship the card to PSA, their employees drive to work to grade your card. In return you get your card encased in plastic shipped to you after being in a Fedex truck for 4 days.
Man, for 1 hit card to be graded, the whole process is a huge middle finger to earth. And now we sell it on ebay, another bubble mailer in the landfill.
Has anyone ever stopped and thought about how we went from riding our bikes to the local store to get a few packs or cards… to this? Absolutely disguisting. Sadly I am part of the problem too, as grading cards helps fund the collection
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