That’s exactly what I do myself. I make sure to follow my collection goals. But there is multiples ways to buy the same card. For example graded or ungraded. What condition? What grade etc. So for cards that I’m not confident in I do a binder copy. Cards I know are undervalued I buy graded. Regardless I just love collecting and i find plenty of ways to simply collect what I like. 
Wow. That’s crazy people shouldn’t be so shy.
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EXs from Ex Deoxys. With how expensive a boxes/packs are now you’d think the Regular Exs like Rocket’s Raikou would be worth way more
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Any trophy card
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Looking at the Japanese market, rarity is being valued much higher compared to the market growth in general, than in English (and all other languages for that matter). Even obscure prize cards with reprinted art that just feature a stamp or something go for high amounts, when similar cards in English, some even with unique art, don’t find similar appreciation. I guess you could say the underrated aspect is “exposure”.
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Unfortunately rarity doesn’t equate popularity. I have a few ex deoxys PSA 9s and they don’t even get the same views / watches like some of the other items.
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You’re right, the complete opposite of this has been happening with some English cards lately, like a PSA 9 base unlimited Charmander or 1st ed jungle Eevee selling for $50+… While these are not as available as sword & shield commons, there’s no real scarcity for these… But huge demand can drive prices up like this apparently.
A clear indicator for some potential scenarios:
a) People buying these cards are not collectors, in the sense they just chase what’s popular hoping to get some cash in the near future.
b) Collectors that just wanna collect what’s cool and relevant, not interested in rarity most of the time.
c) New collectors that just lack the knowledge to know what’s really scarce/rare, and just jump into what’s more trending nowadays.
d) Popular cards are more desirable (no shit, sherlock) and just the sheer popularity carries more of a price vs rarity.
e) All of the previous points.
It’s very hard or near impossible to really know the distribution of each group, but one should think in all these scenarios when buying “possible undervalued cards” as in, a very rare card might be undervalued for collectors who chase rarity but overpriced for someone who is not into obscure items but at the same time, a Charizard might be overprice for that rarity collector, since the card is extremely common.
Of course from time to time we get a card that checks all the boxes but those are the exceptions.
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ex deoxys box is easily over 60k, holos and everything besides gold stars are stupid cheap. You can get holos mint for 1$. Something will change mark my words
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EX Deoxys holos and reverse holos have already increased quite a bit. I know this because I had literally 1000+ of them (I purchased like 20+ of each card in reverse holo when building my set because it’s super tough to find them in nice condition and they were so cheap). I paid like 25 cents each for NM reverse holos. Now most of them buylist for close to $1 each. And I did the same with the holos and they also have increased quite a bit. For instance, I remember buying ~30 Brelooms for 45 cents each several months ago and I recently buylisted a bunch to Troll and Toad for ~$3 each. So I’m not sure if they will increase much more from where they’re already at. But I hope they do because I still have dozens of extra holos that I’d like to buylist lol.
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This is basically the case with all exs (and EX Series cards in general). EX Series boxes are insanely expensive/scarce and few people open them anymore. Not something specific to EX Deoxys.
Additionally, exs have already gone up quite a bit. Like, most are already 4-5x what they were in March/April. And they’re still going up and have consistently been going up since then, which is the weird thing. Most cards have stopped increasing, but not really exs. I still think some of them are undervalued (or at least underappreciated), but they’re pretty damn expensive already haha.
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Sometimes it feels like the Japanese market is what the western market would look like if you took out all of the hype people and money people.
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everything I have up for sale
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Energy cards are being slept on. They make a great mattress.
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PSA 9 Unlimited Charizard Latin
Japanese
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imo all Korean sets. I think Japanese are in a good spot vs English and I think English are super over hyped vs Japanese… but why are Korean boosters $25 for 30 packs for almost all modern product where Japanese is 2-3x that and English is even more (Double Blaze/Unbroken Bonds for a perfect example)
It’s heavily slept on
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Psa doesn’t grade Korean. And people follow psa like sheep.
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Japanese is rightfully slept on. Nodody likes it and nobody should buy it. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. Who even are you?
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Any quality and sought after card that has not had a x3 growth in price since the beginning of this year. The more in demand cards have had a x10 growth (Mario pikachu).
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