Do we think evolutions will be a better or worse investment than cp6?
I’m strictly a collector now, but I actually used to play the card game during the Base Set / Jungle / Fossil era.
Curious if anyone with knowledge of the current trading card game actually thinks the CP6 reprints are good competitive cards?
I know this set is missing many of the cards that were competitively broken from the original base set (mostly trainers such as Professor Oak, Computer Search, Super/Energy Removal, etc.). Blastoise was also a beast not included in this set. But I wonder if Hitmonchan and Electabuzz are still great? Have formerly useless cards (like Charizard) been given enough of an unpgrade to be competitively useful in the new environment? Would be interesting to hear.
What I was specifically referring to with Roaring Skies as an exception is that it had one card that skyrocketed in price. Shaymin not being reprinted was what gave it creep. Pokemon has a history of reprinting those types of cards in tins and whatnot, leaving many hesitant. I wouldn’t recommend looking at that as a way of doing things to someone new. It isn’t impossible to predict, but more experience and knowledge are necessary relative to Flashfire, for example. 
CP6 has been great for sure, but I don’t deal with Japanese sealed product. Until the English version proves itself, I won’t say much beyond what little speculation I’ve already stated. I think there’s more money to be made in English sealed product than in Japanese sealed product.
Generations is still vastly under printed, in my opinion, relative to long term demand potential. I’ve got some money in packs of it. Not as much as Evolutions, but a little bit.
Isn’t it always safe to invest in booster boxes if both the competitive and collectors market don’t shut down in the future?
Sure, you’re always hoping that a $100 box will become a $200 box, but it should always remain sellable, even if it’s not that good?
There’s no guaranteed assumption that the demand for old Pokemon cards will never fall. If the rate of demand was guaranteed and only the supply might fall, then surely everyone with a brain would buy up all the boxes they could. The reason people don’t buy every box possible is to guard against the risk of demand falling and actually taking a loss (or because they simply don’t have the capital make the investment).
Now, I’m not saying that demand will fall. Perhaps demand maintains itself as supply falls (which would increase the value of the box). Perhaps demand increases as supply falls (that makes the value of the box go way up). Perhaps demand falls but supply also falls at such a rate that the value of the box stays stable, or even increases. But you must also take into account the possibility of demand falling at a more significant rate than the supply falls.
As I said, there are no guarantees, or everyone would buy all these boxes. Is it possible that the value of all unopened boxes from all Pokemon sets goes up in the future? Sure, it’s possible. But far from guaranteed. It’s also possible that the value of all unopened boxes will fall in the future. Now, I don’t think that will happen at all, but it’s in the realm of possibility.
But I think the best answer is that, depending on which box we’re talking about - some of the values will rise and some will fall. The key as an investor is to identify which boxes have the best chance in rising in value as the years go on. But people are not foolish - the most obvious candidates for boxes likely to rise in value as the years go on, as they have so far, are the oldest and rarest boxes, and those are already very expensive.
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