Hey, guys! Ive noticed that, while Pokemon seems to be most members main collection hobby, that a good amount of us had side collections; mainly YuGiOh. So, I thought it would be cool to hear about and discuss people’s YuGiOh collection goals and details! Id love to see some pictures of people’s OG card or misprint collection.
Id also like to discuss what some of the more avid collectors think about the rarity and other contextual information regarding trophy cards in YuGiOh, and how it compares to Pokemon trophy collecting. Ive definitely noticed a far smaller, more ambiguous, and more niche market for YuGiOh, so I wanted to see what collectors of both had to say about it, as compared to the much more well-known Pokemon trophies. Details like ‘unsealed’ copies, release numbers, Japanese vs American market, and just overall knowledge are aspects id like to see what people discuss. So please let me know what some of you guys think!
If I had to pick between buying a 1st Ed. PSA 10 Base Zard and a Yu-Gi-Oh! worlds prize card I’d pick the Zard.
They’re about the same price but the Zard will grow quicker and is much more liquid.
You can’t compare yugioh and pokemon cards at the same price point. The games and their exposure are just too different. $200 for 1 card is high-end yugioh, that isn’t even mid-range for pokemon.
The short answer is that unless you really love yugioh you shouldn’t touch prize cards unless you’re buying them to flip quickly. The long answer is on a case-by-case basis for different cards but there’s better cards to buy at similar price points. Yu-Gi-Oh! prize cards are terrible investments relative to what you can use the money on instead.
And for the last point, aside from a handful of promos and old core set cards japanese yugioh is relatively worthless compared to english yugioh.
I can go really in-depth but I’d be writing essays.
I used to play and collect yugi oh but do not anymore. I still have some older cards I want (holo promo rescue cat, dpyg dark magician girl, eyc). Of the newer or future cards i just want feline or hedgehog looking cards, or cards related dark magician girl, dark magician, dark paladin, blue eyes white dragon. But i dont put money into cards besides pokemon so i try to trade for wanted yugis when i find cross collectors.
i agree with everything you said lol. However, how do you see them from a nonprofit perspective? More specifically, just from the collectibility side of things. Assuming youre a die hard YuGiOh and Pokemon fan, how does collecting trophy cards stack up, in your opinion?
I think they’re kind of boring tbh. Japanese Nationals give out a reprint of the previous year’s first place Worlds prize card to participants and I think they’re much more interesting than English prize cards. The cards they choose as English prize cards aren’t drawn very well either.
English prize cards are in a weird position because some of them are actually playable. They’re released as ultra rares and super rares. The super rares are given out at many types of events while ultras are for 1st place only so there’s a huge price discrepancy between the two prints.
1 became a format staple and another was needed to play an entire deck. They both were reprinted a year later and dropped by more than half of their value.
These prize cards are released as promos in Japan as well before they become prize cards, they don’t really feel unique because they’re released in a $10 book making them worthless. Konami needs to change this formula imo.
See, i can understand where youre coming from for the most part, but I dont think youre giving credit where credit is due. I really enjoy the fact that the Worlds cards are usually made specifically relevant for the location and context of where the contest takes place, i think the fact that the art or card changes every year is more original than Pokemons regurgitated cycles, and i think the fact that they keep the classic Ultra Rare format makes it more nostalgic and not over the top. However, i definitely agree with the constant recycling of the cards in the meta taking away from the nobility of the card haha. Thats why the OG trophies, or the 1 of a kind T3s and such are, by far, the coolest trophies in any tcg hobby. IMO
I’m going to have to say you’re wrong here. The G3-11 Dark Magician Girl Secret rare is easily the most valuable yugioh card as of now. It was handed out for a Japanese tournament in 2000 and there’s only about 300 in existence. It’s definitely not the rarest but the demand for this card in Japan is extremely high. a few excellent copies sold for over 500k yen this year and a NM copy sold for 900,000 yen at an online Japanese store. But the card isn’t really that well known or valued outside Japan.
Also, just last year it was only worth about 300k yen but due to the scarcity the price has risen. Right now there’s a NM copy on ebay is listed at 14k and a scratched copy is listed for 800k yen on the same Japanese site that sold the NM copy. Also it has a regular rare counterpart with 1,000 copies that sells for $600+ or more.
I do know that cards have sold for more, like Grizzly Red Star which went for 15k a long time ago, but I doubt there’s any1 else out there that will drop more than 3k for those Trophy cards.
They’ve actually changed it to this for the last 3 years… I’m not a fan tbh.
The ultras looked clean.
I have some of the old participation world promos but to own a complete set of the 1st and 2nd place promos would be impossibly hard. I just don’t care for them.
Yeah, i saw that, but i still kind of like it. Dont like the way pendulum format looks, but they look nice in person, with their case haha.
And yeah, the difficulty with actually getting these trophies, especially with them mostly being won by Japanese winners, especially back in the day, makes the hunt a lot more worth it to me, ya know?
I do have two more of the ones mentioned, as well as two more (with third incoming) not mentioned yet. Will post pictures to that thread when the third one has arrived.
