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    July 12, 2020

    Pokémon TCG Second place so far my first tournament

    Second place so far my first tournament

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 03:41 AM PDT

    Top 10 most expensive cards in standard - week 28

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 12:14 AM PDT

    I'm definitely not going to do this every week, but here is this week's iteration of the top 10 most expensive cards in standard, this time with a few cards grouped together. Included some investor info, but I don't neccesarily recommend investing in most of these cards. Better to find cards which have yet to realize their value.

    1. SR basic energies – 20-100 packs
    Basic SR energies have seen big increases over the last couple of weeks and are now basically back at their pre-crash levels. The previous peak was right around new years, but then they crashed when Fairy pokemon were announced to be discontinued. Fairy energy had at that point for quite a while been around 130 packs and clearly the most expensive SR energy. In the wake of the fairy crash pretty much everything crashed. These days fairies are now the least expensive SR energy with a value just around 20. At the top we have SR darkness getting close to 100 packs. SR fire has come down again and is in the high 40's, while all the remaining SR energies are hovering around 30 plus/minus a couple of packs.

    Investor info: Solid investment if you are taking the long view. Will always be standard legal. Will always have demand. You need to be prepared for wild swings in value though and I generally wouldn't recommend flipping these although some traders do. The main risk here is that the values are now cllsing in on their alltime peak and that new SR energies could potentially come along.

    2. SR Quick Ball – 55 packs
    Stabilizing around the mid- to sometimes high 50's after a brief stint in the 70's. An easy 4-of in pretty much every deck and should remain so for a long time.

    Investor info: Huge upside, just look at PLF Ultra Balls. The main risk, obviously, is that some other card (like a reprinted Ultra Ball) upstages it. That risk is probably not too great at the moment.

    3. HGSS era reverse foil trainer cards – 10-50 packs
    I grouped these together. Didn't want to ignore them, but frankly these are very hard to price. Not much market activity at all, but the supply is very limited and decreasing over time and some people are willing to pay big for them. The most valuable standard legal ones tend to be Switch, Pokemon Communication, Rare Candy and Pokégear 3.0, less so for cards like Fisherman and Copycat.

    Note: Since HGSS Switch is included here, I have not included the SR Switch, which is also highly valuable.

    Investor tip: You need to know what you are doing here. These are a pain to trade for and not even particularly easy to sell (for a good price, that is). The upside however, is that the supply chain is dead. Except for old players returning, the pool of these cards will only shrink over time. The main risk, however, is if the game brings back legacy events which rewards HGSS era packs. If that happens then these crash big time. Another risk is going after the expensive standard legal ones, because they could drop once they are no longer standard legal. Cards like Switch and Rare Candy, that are reprinted endlessly, should probably be safe though.

    4. SR Crushing Hammer – 31 packs
    Crushing Hammer is one of the most annoying cards in the game and also gets reprinted a lot. Despite many prints this is the only bling version of the card and hence very expensive.

    Investor tip: Quite meta dependent. In a meta with lots of energy recursion few decks will play this. Currently popular due to ADPZ and Dragapult VMAX really hating this card. The upside is that this probably remains standard legal for a very long time as the card is quite perfectly balanced.

    5. RR Zacian V – 22,5 packs
    The most hyped pokemon from Sword & Shield base set. This is for the beautiful "gold" rainbow rare Zacian V, which is considerably more expensive than the regular Zacian V (which sits at around 11.5).

    Investor tip: Highly meta dependent. As long as Zacian V remains part of a top tier deck this should retain high value.

    6. COL energies – 12-22 packs
    After the SR energies, the foil energies from Call Of Legends are the most popular bling energies. Darkness is currently the most expensive around 22 packs with most others hovering in the 12-16 range.

    Investor info: Like other HGSS stuff, pretty painful to trade for. The upside here is that the supply chain is dead. Infact, it is hard to see a major downside.

    7. RR Dragapult Vmax – 20 packs
    The most hyped new pokemon from Rebel Clash. Tier 1 deck. The regular art is around 1 pack cheaper.

    Investor info: Totally dependent on Dragapult Vmax staying tier 1. Many people are speculating that this will end with Eternatus V coming out.

    8. AA Arceus & Dialga & Palkia GX - 19 packs
    As ADP-Z has refound favour in the meta, ADP has gone back up. Most valuable is the alternative art, which is around 19 packs and have gone up quite a lot over the last week.

    Investor info: If ADP-Z becomes dominant again after DAA drops, this could go even further. If not, well it won't.

    9. SR Scoop Up Net – 17,5 packs
    This has stabilized around 18 packs after flirting with 30 a couple of weeks ago.

    Investor info: Big upside. Card is insane. Main risk is the banhammer. I have a hard time seeing this below 20 in the future.

    10. FA Boss's Orders – 16 packs
    The best gust card in standard. Has to be expensive.

    Investor info: The best FA supporters tend to be valued lower than the best SR items and this has only been exacerbated by the new standard of printing both a FA and a RR version of supporters in the SWSH era. This means that we are probably unlikely to have a new Cynthia situation (Cynthia was around 50 packs for a long time). A value of maybe 20 for the best gust card in standard sounds about right to me, but who the hell knows?

    10. SR Pokémon Catcher – 16 packs
    Probably the least SR looking SR trainer in the game, but it is the only bling version of a sometimes used gust card.

    Investor info: After the release of Boss's Orders, I can't really see this going much further, but who knows? Gusting in an item card IS potentially very very strong.

    10. FA Welder – 16 packs
    You all know it. Broken fire supporter.

    Investor info: Attached to fire decks. Only legal for one more year. Invest at your own risk.

    Final investors tip: I shouldn't really do this, but people keep asking, so here it is. If you do want to invest in cards from this list I would recommend SR Quick Ball and SR Scoop Up Net for fairly easy trades and I would recommend HGSS trainers and COL energies for those willing to put in a lot more work. However, I mostly recommend going for cards that have yet to realize their value. As with all investments, this is super speculative. I would suggest cards like FA Marnie, FA Professors Research and Eldegoss V. I also recommend investing in evergreen expanded bling cards like ACE specs, VS Seeker and N, amongst others. Other cards with potential upside include stuff like SR Twin Energy and SR Triple Acceleration Energy, but that is HIGHLY speculative in that they require strong cards that depend on them to be released, if that doesn't happen they are borderline worthless. And obviously for the rich out there, you rarely go wrong with gems and beaches, but they already know that.

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    Great opening hand....

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 04:53 PM PDT

    Oh my..

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 03:55 PM PDT

    Clone Trade feature...

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 06:03 AM PDT

    I want to trade more of my spare cards; playsets of special energy, evolution chains for pokemon fans, stuff like that...

    But the Create Trade process is tedious and it's even worse to create a bunch of small trades at a time. A simple Clone Trade feature would be awesome to make creating duplicate trades for bundles of stuff easier... or for reposting your trade prior to it expiring.

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    New Player- Just Pulled This Guy. Any Value Here?

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 08:09 AM PDT

    My budget Mach Strike Deck for Expanded. Any room for improvement? Still a newbie here. The Energies I'm running are 6 Fighting & 4 Double Colorless.

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 06:19 AM PDT

    Do mobile players get notifications about their trades when the game isn't active?

    Posted: 12 Jul 2020 06:08 AM PDT

    I'm assuming not, but can the app notify "trade completed"/"posting expired" when it isn't in focus? That would be a nice touch IMO.

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    Are there any decent Rayquaza GX decks? I’m trying to do something with the ones I got from VS ladder.

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 06:58 PM PDT

    Side note: is anyone else having server issues?

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    Muted by Moderator

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 07:05 PM PDT

    I just tried green-smiling at someone and was told that a Moderator had Muted my account. Does anyone know how this happens and how to undo it? Nothing comes to mind that I did that should have caused this to happen. Thanks!

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    Why did Rebel Clash value drop so drastically in the last 2 weeks?

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 06:08 PM PDT

    Rebel Clash packs seemed like they lost almost half of their value at some point in the past 2 weeks. It looks like they bounced back slightly, but still not what they were.
    They were holding their value strong for a while. Was there something specific that caused the drop?

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    Free Ring of Lightning deck to whoever is quickest on the draw!

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 04:34 PM PDT

    Is there a reason to level past 16 besides for cosmetics?

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 06:20 PM PDT

    I believe 16 (15?) is when you get access to tradeable pack challenges. I'm around the mid 20s and was wondering if there's a reason to purposely level up besides cosmetics.

    Does the chance of getting a rarer challenge for a specific type increases as you increase the type's level?

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    sorry noob question here

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 10:02 AM PDT

    why are packs worth so much like I know only packs that are bought in the real world can be traded but why are they so common to see in the trade log

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    Just packed this thing, anyone have any idea what I’m looking at lol

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 12:05 PM PDT

    Was trying to build ADP and now I got the last card I need :D

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 02:28 PM PDT

    If you got a Tropical Beach, or an equal number of packs, what would you do with it?

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 03:37 PM PDT

    The lowest Tropical Beach price in packs is 550 RCL

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    About ice types

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 10:54 AM PDT

    So, question, has there ever been any like, sub support for ice types in a set? Like I know their part of the "water/blue" type, but has any set I dunno had some cards that thematically involved ice Pokemon? Also, as someone new to the game, has weather conditions, such as hail, ever been implemented? I imagine it would be a stadium or such.

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    If you wanted to watch some competitive play, today is the start of the bracket rounds for The Player's Cup.

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 12:22 PM PDT

    Blacephalon GX attack question

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 04:42 PM PDT

    Dumb question, sorry. But is Mind Blown cumulative?

    That is, for any energy sent to lost zone for prior attacks from different Blacephalons, will they count with new Mind Blown attacks?

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    We did it boys, Dragapult VMAX is no more!

    Posted: 11 Jul 2020 03:52 PM PDT
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