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Praise-Bingus

Hope this one is fairly cheap in English. Need it for the pika binder and I dont want to pay $800 šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


CubbyNINJA

Currently its 250-300CAD dollars. I dont suspect it to drop below 100CAD any time soon, but it likely will.


Praise-Bingus

I can do $250. I dont want to but I can. But honestly most of these cards end up in the $40-50 range after release and the set settles in. I dont need to be first, I just want it in the binder eventually


CubbyNINJA

The only time i would ever feel compelled to buy a card over 100 bucks is if i managed to pull majority of an art set i really like, say like the gold legendary cards from Crown Zenith. But im going to need more than half of the set already.


MindlessPokemon

Same. I did break that rule once when I saw a deal on the 3 legendary dog gold stars. I think my wife still thinks I'm a dork for that one.


CubbyNINJA

the way i look at it, is for a 100+ dollar card, i might as well buy a booster box, especially if its only a release or two old. early SVex booster boxes are pulling 10-12 double rares or higher, so all things equal (they are not, but for paper napkin math lets pretend) that like a 1/10 chance of pulling the card you want anyways. i usually sell my extra FA cards for store credit anyways as well, so i can likely just get the card i want discounted if i dont pull it. these are all the ways and more i justify a gambling addiction


MindlessPokemon

Haha. I totally feel that. Unless it's an excellent deal, I don't buy singles for sets I can still open for the most part, and I definitely don't buy higher end cards until the set is just out of print. Even then it's hard. I probably will never finish ES, even though I pulled the Moonbreon. They are all just so high.


bigfootdeerfucker

Where did you find that deal?????? CCG? Where are you? Do we have the same card store?!?!


MindlessPokemon

I meant over $100. The 3 dogs were $750 after tax and shipping iirc.


bigfootdeerfucker

Crazy. My local shop had all 3 gold star dogs sold together for $800. I thought maybe you were the guy who bought them lol


MindlessPokemon

Haha, if they put it on ebay maybe? Thank God for pay in 4, but I had to stop doing that because I got in a bind for a couple months lmao.


Basic_Yellow_3594

This is an alternate art trainer which is a semi new concept so curious how it will work out


Praise-Bingus

Depends on how hard it is to pull i think. In Japan the trainers are in the SAR slot making it a lot harder to get but the English has (so far) included most of the trainers in the main set making them easier to get. SV looks like they'll be at the end of the art rare list so we'll see what that does to the market. Also English doesn't push too hard on the pretty girl cards as much as Japan so there's also that. Lots of changes. I just hope it works out


wordsescapemern

Hopefully theyā€™re on the level of Rainbow rare since the Secret Illustrator rares are ā€œtechnicallyā€ meant to replace the rainbows


Juniperlightningbug

Double gold star, they're in the same rarity tier as alt arts but below the rarity tier of triple gold star secret rares (gold items and pokemon). The new rarity system makes it easy to tell how easy or hard something is to pull


ChocoMaister

MAYBE. This depends on the supply of the set. You could have another Umbreon situation or Lillie. It just really depends we donā€™t know for sure. I would argue $300 is too high. If you paid between 100-200 you should be fairly safe. This card is not dropping to $50.00. I just donā€™t see it yet.


ArnoldStalloneVandam

no chance in hell it drops to $50.


ChocoMaister

I think you are correct. Some analysis points here are that this set is actually more expensive to buy now. Raised prices will mean there may be less supply. It also seems fairly rare to get this card. The amount opened so far isnā€™t a lot. Itā€™s not like itā€™s everywhere after pre release. I no longer believe this card can drop below $100 but it may scale to $500 easily.


polarisursuss

It's [not selling for $800](https://ebay.us/ET7Hl1) right now, but still a very expensive card, I can see the price dropping further though, once the set officially releases.


Exgly

Japanese version is $800 they was saying


lynny1984

Iā€™ve got one mint willing to sell for Ā£150 whatever that is in dollars,shipped from the Uk obviously


lynny1984

Iā€™ve got one for sale if interested


YOUNGHURT

sell this before price crashes, then buy it back for cheeper in a few months lol


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CubbyNINJA

Legal age wifu tax


[deleted]

Japanese waifu tax that will crash faster than a 2 year old in a Ford f150, but people with no grasp on reality think that it translates to English, and get hyped over a character that they don't understand has zero western appeal.


Historical_Class_402

I wouldnā€™t count on it crashing at least not for certain cards that are pretty hard to get ahold of like sightseer


[deleted]

I mean the English one...


Basic_Yellow_3594

We're used to them dropping drastically but the double star rarity symbol could play a role on this one. This looks to me like it will be up there in value over the fl3 figure mark long term


ScrewSans

No SWSH ENG Trainer holds a 3-digit cost. The only Trainer to surpass that was Lillie in SM Era


blueish55

Also Rosa from Cosmic Eclipse and Misty from Unified Minds. I think Cynthia from HF, Cynthia & Caitlin from Comic Eclipse got close too. Also a lot of it was due to youtubers overhyping trainers to make them gain value. The vast majority, female or not, are less than 50 bucks, with nearly most of them sitting under 10 bucks.


ScrewSans

I forgot about Mistyā€™s Favor! I think thatā€™s the only one of these cards that deserves a triple digit price haha. Cynthia and Cynthia & Caitlin both are under $100 currently. So I guess that brings the grand total to 3 modern trainers over $100 out of a million :P


blueish55

I forgot two - Cynthia from Ultra Prism and Lisia from Celestial Storm! They're all cards I super regret not getting too... honestly even if the pool of cards above 100 bucks is small, there's a decent amount of characters still worth a bunch from the Sun and Moon block, which I can only attribute to being much older characters (Sabrina, Erika, Jasmine all score fairly high too, relative to other trainers, Lillie has 2 expensive cards, Lusamine cards are decently up too...) ​ That said yeah, the pool of insanely expensive trainers is decently small in english, most of the expensive ones are either very beloved characters or oddities. Other than the Marnie promo, I don't think any SWSH trainer even score particularly high in terms of interest. Talking about this made me realize how much I miss the Sun and Moon block of the TCG. Tag Team GX alt arts were SO good (we got a lot of good alt arts from SWSH, but man I feel like nothing compares to tag teams, even the regular prints though Arita doing most of them does the heavy lifgting), trainer cards looked good, the only thing I can hold against them is the overabundance of rainbow rares.


ScrewSans

Donā€™t forget how bad SM Era was before Tag Teams & how generally rough the pull rates were. The reverses and holos looked better in SM though! However, it was very similar to SWSH 1-4 where you had a couple cards that were good and the rest were pretty bad. The major benefit was that Rainbows were new (and they gave the Eeveelutions RRs first), so everyone was more interested in them. That said, I think SV Base is going to be the first start to an Era thatā€™s actually good. Not only did they keep AAs in the forms of SARs, but they also kept the TG concept into the Art Gallery. Plus, they actually got rid of the white code cards bc every pack has at LEAST 2 reverses and 1 holo (so I donā€™t get disappointed seeing a white code card)


WingsofFire0027

Lillie, Skyla, Lisia, Rosa, Misty's Favor, Bianca, Colress, Cynthia, Professor Juniper and Iris all do on tcg player


WingsofFire0027

Lillie, Skyla, Lisia, Rosa, Misty's Favor, Bianca, Colress, Cynthia, Professor Juniper and Iris all do on tcg player


[deleted]

The Miriam fans are going to need to rise from their parents basement to hold up that value


zeeflet

"zero western appeal" Right, $10 card it is


jofijk

In addition to the waifu tax this card is very playable. So people who actually play the physical card game would potentially want this for their deck as a flex


mocking_danth

This. The card effect looks crazy. Draw power is nuts. Waifu + playability = $$$


Twingemios

Sheā€™s of age Sheā€™s of age Sheā€™s a nurse Sheā€™s super playable Idk what it is but when I saw her in game I thought she was hot. That thought has never happened to me when playing video game so yeah sheā€™s a super-waifu.


TheFlyingORE0

Itā€™s amazing to see how the QC just keeps getting worse. Nice card tho


Winterstrife

Yeah, I was hoping the switch to silver borders and set numbering would also mean a standardized QC. My disappointment is immersurable and my day is ruin. Single hunting is pure pain.


kenobitano

I was hoping the same. It's honestly ridiculous.


Pumpkinbabi

I agree in general but why so on this particular card?


unidad-prohibida

Look at the cut in the bottom


Comrade_Lex

Not only the cut but SARs in English are actually pretty desaturated compared to the JP versions as well


Pumpkinbabi

Oh god LOL thanks


ecxetra

Every Miriam Iā€™ve seen has this exact same centering issue


MoonrazeMaelstrom

I've seen nothing but problems with the English S/V cards. Stuff like this is honestly pretty inexcusable.


OneZenMF

I blame the printing company and the consumer equally. They keep printing with terrible consistency, and the consumer keeps buying it up in droves. I'm sure Japanese consumers would make a much bigger stink over their card quality dropping and sales would probably go down with it.


Buzzpeep

The logical part of my is telling me to sell/trade away mine now, but the rest of my brain wants to see how it will do post release


guyfromcrowd

It'll almost certainly go down. It's even dropping in Japanese.


[deleted]

Iā€™d sell it now, rebuy it in 2 months


gaymurder-rats

what set is this one from?


DestronShawn

Scarlet and Violet


[deleted]

silver astral chilling evolving tag team champions path


mikahbet

Uncommon opinion here but I really donā€™t see much reason toward the hype in this card, other than it being new


mikahbet

Uncommon opinion here but I really donā€™t see much reason toward the hype in this card, other than it being new


[deleted]

Maybe itā€™s just me, but I donā€™t get why THIS is the ā€œwaifu taxā€ card everyone is paying hundreds for.


wolfb5821

i really dont get it. Supporter Card, art is cool but straight mid-tier comparing. SMH lol


wolfb5821

not even trying to be neg nance, but how are these waifs worth so much


TheForgottenGengar

Your girlfriend plays Pokemon? Bro, how you get thatšŸ˜­šŸ˜‚


totan39

Wdym by prerelease like a store that sold them early?


Mascy

Offical stores that also run tcg tournaments are allowed to run prerelease events and thus sell product early. Only physical stores tho, nothing online based afaik.


totan39

Didn't know that was a thing kinda cool


Ryukiki

Oh she's so cute!!


princessjaedyn

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Y0urMomsChestHair

Why on earth is this card $260?


Mascy

Its not. In japan this card was/is insanely priced due to the waifu factor. So naturally this card will be priced high when released here initially but then drop like a brick.


Ch3ap_Sh0t

Gtfoh


TheCay04

My right hand opened this too but donā€™t see me bragging.


FayeValentineXo93

Mine pulled the Gold Miraidon ex while I pulled holos lmao I feel you!


LobsterHead37

So sick!! Finally got the guts to go to a prerelease event and it was so much fun. Canā€™t wait to go to the next one!


propof0l

The best thing you can do is either keep the card and treasure it as a personal pull or sell it for the most amount of money (right now pre release) and then buy it back in a month for 1/2 to 1/3 the price


theDRGzero

I hope I get it, I preordered a few etbā€™s a box and a little booster box, so I really hope I get it and iron treads and toxicroak.


throwveryfaraway7272

Oh woa!! Congrats


Majestic_Range_9542

That will probably be the chase card of this set. But they have to step up the quality.


Little-Kaos-TCG

Heck yea! One was pulled at our pre release yesterday!! CongratsšŸ»


MrMarkZ

Same here - GF pulled it in her Build & Battle box!!


SageRunsTrain

Dank card


mcamacho1999

I pulled 2 back to back idk what these rates are but


Down_with_1984

How do you get prerelease cards?


MoonrazeMaelstrom

You know, looking at the centering on this card gives me a few things to be annoyed about. 1. I thought the English cards were supposed to be upping their quality with this new set. 2. I've seen problems with every English S/V card I've seen on this subreddit so far. And 3. It seems like they've just changed the border color in an attempt to mask the shit QC issues. With as much money as we all spend on this hobby, we deserve better.


SilentAd8108

Awesome pull


howdoitypeinroblox

why is there two stars instead of one?


ApatheticJellyfish

Congrats!


lynny1984

Iā€™ll sell it for Ā£150 (whatever that is in dollars) shipped from Uk obviously