Fantastic choices of cards and artworks, you’ll have to post a picture once the frame arrives to show us how it looks.
Dark Hypno is a unique choice and a good one at that!
It’s always a good idea to take a breather once in a while and I hope you can find more enjoyment again in the future.
It is glorious! Really well curated and also gives a glimpse on you as a collector. Pretty sure every card has a story and core memory behind it. Would really also see the frame display after you have built it.
You have truly been a wonderful friend and fellow collector to talk to. It is a bitter sweet feeling but I truly wish for you to find the joy and peace you want with regards to the hobby and what it means to you. I wish you nothing but happiness.
Cheers!
Impeccable taste 
Aerodactyl Fossil prerelease cosmos foil variant plus a Dratini Bandai Sealdass sticker card junk slab
I love the backs of these cards!
Aside from being the cosmos version of prerelease Aerodactyl, this Aerodactyl also has a double swirl, and you can see the weld line(?) cutting off an orb. This line indicates the beginning of a new foil sheet which allows 2 swirls on 1 card (I think… please correct this if wrong)
Since cosmos foil was released in sets with Base 2, a double swirl on a cosmos foil predating Base 2 was of slightly elevated interest to me
My normal Aerodactyl prerelease was mislabeled by cgc as the cosmos variant, so I’m happy to now have both the galaxy and cosmos versions in my small prerelease collection
Found this sealed and in minty condition, and I am OVER THE MOON RN! I found this and just outright asked my grandma for it to be the ONLY gift she gets me for christmas, and she accepted! It’s super hard to find one in mint condition and I haven’t found much sales of it (there probably are more though)! For now, I am content!
Nice arena deck. Congrats on the find.
Similar to what I shared on 12/8, that booklet was released around 1996–1997 and it was one of the first full beginner guides ever printed. Bright, colorful, magazine style instructional book.
Today I’m sharing an exciting purchase. This is a simple monochrome rulebook for kids learning the basics. It was released in 1999-2000 and was packaged with beginner decks & used in teaching events
Both are official, but they served different teaching purposes and were printed in different eras.
I THINK this was illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno as well, but I can’t find any information on that. But anyways, I’m very excited to frame both!
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This looks great!
Nice pickup! The box look cool. Keldeo maybe slightly cooler looking. Your grandma is also super lovely to get this for you. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers!
This is awesome! Is the cover a special plate with the holo pattern applied already? Separately, I recently learned that you could add holo patterns to just about anything in theory… (here’s someone making holo food haha: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/alHz1fX120U).
Today I got this nice Hoopa Movie promo. I got to admit that I did buy it because of the cute Pikachu that rides on a Latios.
Big congrats on the huge pickup!!
Sneaky Alcremie cameo. I have the Larry SAR in the mail which should hopefully arrive by the end of the year.
Beautiful first post! Wonderful card to add to the collection.
Welcome to the fourum! 
