That change was badly needed.
Gaming Pokémon Strumfest
- Thread starter Snowjoe
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and obviously, Lana is anal backwards
Wow.Can't wait to get this, 1 more month still.
yes
Can't believe Nintendo put that in the game! That's brilliant...
My team is unbalanced as feck, 3 ghosts(could even be 4 if I switched Oricoro's type). Can't get rid of any of Mimikyu, Decidueye or Marowak though.
So I couldn't help myself and bought an over priced booster from Tesco. Furious Fists. Only went and got a Heracross EX Full Art 
Sorry if it's oversized, fits fine on my phone.
Sorry if it's oversized, fits fine on my phone.
So I couldn't help myself and bought an over priced booster from Tesco. Furious Fists. Only went and got a Heracross EX Full Art
Sorry if it's oversized, fits fine on my phone.
It gets you every now again again doesn't it
Nice pull though!
It gets you every now again again doesn't it
Nice pull though!
Yeah mate! I got to the till last week with a 4 pack tin and realised I'd forgot my bab card and only had cash. Probably a good job because I'd have ended up buying a booster box on the back of it haha. Might treat myself to a box for Xmas though..
Guys, one of my boys wants to start collecting Pokemon cards. I'd like to get him started with some for Christmas. Can any of you recommend where I start? So many different games and cards to choose from.
Oh my God
My boy just keeps getting the boxes of them, as much as I love pokemon I must admit I have no idea about all that myself.
Happened to be at London ExCeL today for an exam, and stumbled on to the European Pokemon Championships. Trading cards and Nintendo DS competions.
Oh my God
Oh my fecking god.
Thinking I should get him some of the boxes off of eBay that have 100 plus cards from mixed games. Reckon he will be quite happy with that for now.
I've got some holo promos, holo and non-holo rare cards and a couple of ultra rares I can post you out in sleeves if you want them. Just drop me your address and I'll do it before Xmas. They are gathering dust and will be a nice add to any starting collection for a youngster.
Oops it happened again, it is Christmas after all.
Thanks guys. I'll pm you.
Good stuff.
Ok also I'll give you a bit of a rundown about the types of cards you can get, your son might find it interesting (@Redlambs dunno if your son knows much about it either so he may be interested).
Basically there are now a silly amount of sets, they make a new release every few months each called something different and mostly they will have different cards or variations of cards in compared to other sets. Each set obviously has its own name such as BreakPoint, Generations, Evolutions etc. There's a new release soon for the new games, but to be honest when you start out they won't really care about what set it is, they just want the shiny cards! It's too expensive for kids to complete a whole set anyway.
So each set is made up of 3 main rarity of card, common, uncommon and rare. Each pack has an assortment of common, uncommon and 1 rare card in, plus a reverse holo card which can be any rarity. You can tell by these symbols on the bottom of the card what rarity the card is. Circle is common, diamond uncommon and rare is the star.
In general none of these are worth any money and are easy to get hold of as single cards.
Anyway onto the cards that get kids excited, the shiny holographic cards.
So the card on the left is a reverse holo, any common, uncommon or rare card can be a reverse holo, and you get one in each pack. The card on the right is a "normal" holo, where the Pokemon box itself is holographic, these are always rare and you aren't guaranteed one in a pack. You can actually get the holo cards as a reverse holo version, which technically is rarer than the normal holo version.
Now onto what kids will really start to find exciting. The ultra rare cards, despite still only carrying the rare star logo they are actually rarer.
The first is called a break card, a type of evolution card to power up a Pokemon, if you get one in a pack then it comes in the spot where a reverse holo would be and they all are printed landscape and look like this...
The next is a half art EX card, a more powerful version of a normal Pokemon, which will have EX after the name and look something like this...
Then you have my favourite which are the full art cards, which are usually full art versions of other cards in the set, very obvious because the artwork takes up the whole card, look after these ones...
Finally you have what are secret rares, which are usually full art cards but not always. You can tell if it's a secret rare by the card number in the bottom corner. If a set has 110 cards then the secret rare would be numbered higher than that, so 111/110 for example. These are two of mine, you can see the numbers down at the bottom... 123/122 and 110/108.
That's it really, they do funny stuff with sets sometimes but that's the gist of it. The ones to look after are the secret rares, full arts, EX and break cards. Some end up being worth a little bit in the future but it can be hard to predict which.
TL;DR don't worry about which set to get the kids, they'll just like the shiny cards!
That's an awesome post, reckon I might understand it now. Never collected any kind of card game, so wasn't really in any position to help him understand it. Much appreciated.
No problem. I don't know much about the actual playing of the game if he gets into that but I'm sure there's someone who knows a bit.
That's an excellent breakdown, cheers mate!
The best crossover ever!what kind of heresy is this!?
Professor Snow
Longest post I've ever written. Such a loser.
Nice! Finally got that golden dragonite eh.
Just wanted to say thanks again, @Snowjoe. He loves the cards you sent. I don't know if you can make them out, but he's holding up his favourites. Merry Christmas!
Legend
Aww that's awesome, well done @Snowjoe absolutely brilliant mate.
Well done Joe.
I just spent way too much on cards. Bollocks.
I'm going to buy Pokemon Sun and/or Moon in a few hours, any recommendations for my first run? I already have a few pokemons mind for my team, anyone around for trading if I need to evolve something?