Hello all,
I am thinking about picking up a few sealed burning shadow booster boxes and holding on to them. I know many people say this is a waste because they are printed so heavily, but because the Rainbow Rare Charizard is the only real chase card that has come out so far in Sun and Moon, I believe it can be valuable in the future. Isn’t that why flashfire has increased so much faster than the sets around it?
Very difficult to tell. I think (I haven’t actually looked at any numbers) there are currently more PSA 10 rainbow rare charizards than probably both flashfire secret rares combined.
There are a lot more burning shadows product than flashfire just because of the whole s&m printing boom.
In terms of looks, the hyper rare charizard gx looks gross and I’d rather have the full art Charizard ex from flashfire instead. However lots of kids grew up with this Charizard gx being their chase card, just as many of ours was base unlimited zard.
So perhaps in 10-15 years the price of a burning shadows booster box might surpass flashfire (once kids get some sort of income and chase their nostalgia).
It’s all a gamble anyway. Just buy what you like as opposed to risking it for the biscuit.
Yes, because Charizard collectors are fanatics.
I highly doubt it. Flashfire is a Charizard set, Charizard is in the booster boxes, there are 6 Charizard-EX cards in the set (iirc) and everything is built around Charizard as a mascot. The value is in that marketing and that perception.
Is Platinum Supreme Victors much more valuable than the other Platinum sets? Not really. The presence of one Charizard does not a good investment make.
It is hard to tell tbh. My gut says that it would. Hyper rare charizard is a card many collectors want, and the card is a great art piece in itself.
buy base set boosters instead.
They cost the same and they’re not in print like burning shadows
No.
There’s a more important idea that you’re overlooking here. People that were going to make huge piles of cash by “investing” i.e. holding, have already made their money with WOTC era product. New product doesn’t follow the same pattern as vintage product for the following reasons:
Supply - There are videos on youtube of people buying and sitting on (literally) pyramids of new product composed of dozens of booster boxes. There’s no telling how many people are out there doing this but it’s definitely not a few. There will be a steady supply of new product for the next 20 years and then some.
Reprints - As demonstrated with Roaring Skies, there’s no telling when the Pokemon Co. will decide to reprint a set or whether they will do it 1:1 etc. It’s all up in the air. You could buy several boxes only for them to be worthless 10 years from now due to a reprint.
It’s Old Hat - Speculation is like a magic trick: once the market magicians do it and show their secrets, everyone can do it and the trick is worthless. That’s why you see tons of people sucking up Pokemon product and sitting on it hoping it’ll hatch one day into a nice nest egg. It’s unlikely to work like that. The secret is out. Everyone knows about speculating in Pokemon. In any given market, if everyone is speculating then the object of that speculation is a dubious investment. Much like newer Pokemon sets.
All box prices will increase simply because there is a finite amount produced and once they go out of print, the supply only goes down. It’s not a matter of “will the price increase?” but rather, “is it worth my time and physical space to hold these boxes?”
If you just care about making money, there are so many better options available. I’d take almost any box pre-XY over Burning Shadows. Hell, I’d buy PSA 5 1st ed base holos before Burning Shadows. That’s just my opinion though.
and with regards to the conversation about the rainbow charizard population:
I’m honestly shocked that people are still paying over $200 for them in PSA 10 haha. It’s a sobering reminder that even though the card is difficult to pull, it’s by no means “rare”.
