"Yeah I had a shiny Charizard card but I just don't know where it is." "So...you lost it." "No! I know it's in my house somewhere. I just don't remember where it was." "Dude you're literally explaining what losing something means."
@@peanutbutter6720 I lost that to, fortunately buying a new one isn't expensive. I have a foil charizard, but since its not mint or first edition and its from second base set its near worthless.
my Vileplum, Wiglytuff and what else was that are probably somewhere... but not worth much anyway so it's just a weird sadness that I have no idea where
@@Z4KIUS I fortunately know exactly where what few cards I still have are. Sadly the whole collection is worth maybe $100 due to condition/set. I know before I moved I made the conscious decision to dumpster all my commons and uncommons(excl foils and hand picked cards). the only card I have lost is the ancient mew promo from the first(or was it second) movie.
I don't know how people can have the heart to ruin cards like that. Those types of videos where they cut cards before looking are literally just throwing money away.
As a magic the gathering player, I DESPISE the secondary market as it takes a game meant to be played and enjoyed and essentially turns it into a lottery based system that ruins the game for the rest of us. This is why I am now starting to focus more on proxies.
@@zackarieneifert7014 as someone who keeps $1k aside for stuff like that, I can verify that its insane how much money some local decks cost during 'friendlies'.
its always been a lottery based system, in fact card games are the first ever "pay to win" system in a game that was also attached to RNG gatcha mechanics. You buy a pack, You have a CHANCE to get something good. The secondary market only causes issues for adults or people who play competitively; Since if you're just playing a game then you dont care about how powerful you are or how rare your stuff is as long as its fun to play; the only downside you have is that you cant evolve chameleon unless you get lucky. As someone whos competitive level in World of warcraft i understand but you cant pretend that we arent the only ones effected by things like this People who just play the game will never understand why hardcore / competitive players get mad at things that cost more than the game itself. (Eg. 2nd hand cards costing $100s for your group and mount shops in MMO's for my group)
@BRANDON NGUYEN Reminds me of when my little sister loves Marnie and she found the Marnie box in Walmart and then said many grown men were staring at her as she was holding it
@@TheSerperior Yeah she got the last one, apparently it was hidden in a different spot from the card section. Glad she didn't get attacked for getting it
This is a topic of discussion I’ve been having with friends for the last several months. All the issues related to the scarcity of cards in stores due to scalpers is such a ridiculous thing to deal with for people, especially kids, that actually enjoy the hobby. Before the holiday season there was no trouble finding cards at my local stores. After that the shelves are always barren. Stores have had to change how they handle their shipments, keeping their stocks behind the customer service counter and limiting amounts each person can buy. The service desk staff are all tired of having lines of dozens of people every Friday morning hounding them for cards. I hope it doesn’t take too long to die down
So, when I gave away my old pokemons I gave my one mtg deck. And I can never find it. Pretty sure it was a goblin deck but the rare card that came with it was this enormous purple monster with its giant mouth open. Any clue?
@@amadhollow635 hmm. I suggest using the mtg card database. You can search for that card using a keyword from said card. Was it a goblin or one of the phyrexian cards?
If you really want to play the game with friends u can just print the cards yourself, they might not be useable in real games but now you have all cards to play with your friends.
This so much. I’m not spending more than a few cents on cardboard. There’s also free online versions to play these. Somebody can say that you can’t put a price on joy but in reality when somebody spends so much on cards you smack them beside the head and call them morons.
The kids who originally got into are now adults. The nostalgia factor is making prices go up big time as well. It's also become a form of art collecting as well.
It wasn't Grandma and Grandpa making 'Orange Man Bad' memes, it was the younger generation who did this as, well as voted for Biden (in part so they could continue to claim victimhood).
@@MartenFerret it was grandma and grandpa who caused global warming and elected orange man into office causing innocent Latin Americans to be deported and have their children locked in cages as well as increase the number of innocent African Americans being killed by the police and getting rid of the one thing that could have prevented the pandemic and saved the economy
Hmm idk, the competitive ones in MtG don't really care about the card prices as they tend to borrow the decks they played. It's mainly collectors that drive the market
My cards were only ever for collecting because I didn't know how to play. My sister still has them and they haven't left their sleeves in decades. They only ever came out to be shown off or to be moved from sleeve to sleeve as my collection grew. (They're in rainbow order) I have cards from the first two gens and Japanese cards our foreign exchange student brought us.
I still have my old cards from back in the day. What helped me was that my dad use to collect comic books when he was younger so he understands that these collectibles needed to be stored. So he got me a binder for my pokemon cards and well there’s my collection lol. Now I’m just buying cards that I’m missing haha
Lockstin: *shows old mewtwo card with a ticker of hundreds of dollars* Me: *realizing I saw that card in my old elemtary school binder just a few weeks ago*
I personally collect Yugioh cards but a lot of watt applies in this video applies to them as well. The market value of certain cards plummet once they receive a reprint in a different set. But particular rarities stay valuable even if other printings are available. We pay so much for pretty pieces of shiny cardboard 😛
I can't really speak to pokemon cards specifically but an interesting thing to note, often misprints make things like magic cards specifically more valuable, at least for in person trades
Same. All this craze as of recently has boughten out all the cards in my area. Still had plenty of every other type of card, just not the Pokemon packs in specific. Had the decks, bundle boxes, etc, but not the packs
It's commonly passed around that the PSA is receiving a ton of Pokémon cards, which is true, but the vast majority of what they grade is still sports cards. In fact, most of those scalpers who you see early in the morning at stores aren't just there for Pokémon cards, they're mostly there for basketball and baseball cards, and they pick up Pokémon cards to round out their purchase.
The only interesting cards I have are a Mega Rayquaza EX, I believe it's holo, not sure. Found that one on the ground in a sleeve. Then there's my Klefki. It's barely recognizable. I found it at school, in the parking lot, during winter. The entire back is wrecked. The front is very cracked. It is hilariously sad, and thats why I still have it.
Remember that YTMND about those Wall Street guys who would sat around a table showing each other their holographic Pokemon cards? A spoof of Mad Men IIRC.
I wonder why! I couldn’t find any Pokémon card packs at Target in Hixson since all there is is Pokémon sleeves and Pokémon binders, where you could store a bunch of Pokémon Pokémon cards in!
I had 2 non-first edition Charizards and a Blastoise as a kid a actually did lose all three of them. I never lose anything, so whatever happened to them haunts me whenever I see something about old Pokemon cards.
there is a card/nerd store a few blocks at my house and the only cards that they'd sell as singles were MTG because "They are the only company with a consistent media that knows when to stop printing cards". Yugioh and Pokemon would go up and down in price too much depending on that week's meta.
I owned a sealed first edition, mint condition, foil Machamp. I left for college in 2012, and my little brother found it in my closet. He didn't just open it. It was utterly destroyed. I only recently found out what that's worth, and by God when he's old enough to understand he's gonna get a talking to lol
Speaking of charzard card stories, I did have a Japanese holographic charzard for literally a few minutes. I got it from my sister on my birthday but being a 6 year old, I traded it for 2 common cards that I felt would help me more in all the card battles I never ended up having. Felt like a moron then and even more of one now.
@@zeberka3797 dont have to believe it. Was a sad and stupid day for me but it happens when your 6. Made my friend happy. Also I'm not saying it was first edition or anything lol. I cant remember that well because i was only 6. I'll have to see if I have a video from that birthday. Either way, my favorite pokemon at the time, like so many others, was charzard. so my sister went and got it for me. It was awesome to hold it for a bit, but yeah I'm glad others got some joy from it as well.
@@lewislast2142 ok,for me it seems unlikely for you to have once owned a extremely rare card worth thousands, but idk, might be possible .Not trying to be rude or anything.
@@zeberka3797 I understand. It's impossible to believe these things without some form of proof. I was just like any other kid in the 90s who was obsessed. I would spend every dime I earned in packs and decks of pokemon and yu gi oh cards. Even without the charzard I most likely had thousands of dollars worth of cards, including the raichu card shown in the video, though I know that wasnt a first edition. However when I got older, instead of selling out my toys, I donated them. I had mutiple yugi and kiba decks that I just opened and played with. I was a kid and never thought about it cared what these would be worth later in life. Just enjoyed having them. Heck even if I saved the cards, it wouldnt have stayed in perfect condition because I wouldnt have been able to resist playing with. So I wont go out of my way and say if I had it still I'd be rich, but yes I did get that card at one point. Shoot I had that
@@zeberka3797 I was always the nerd who would choose the cards over anything else. In 5th grade I had the option to get a suit and go to the concert me and my classmates were putting on or get a kiba decks, the last one at kmart that day. I chose the deck and was perfectly happy.
Lockstin when you said you were sponsored by Otis I thought you were going to talk about the elevator company I also thought that is a wierd sponsor for a poketuber
I traded my entire collection away as a kid (several hundred cards in binders - almost everything from the first 5-6 sets except the original Charizard) for a few N64 games. Not even good ones... Every time I see those games as an adult, it makes me a bit sick. I miss those cards so much.
There was a bunch of team rocket Dark cards I found at a garage sale for a dollar sadly most are faded and scracted after being in the lady's attic for so long
I am happy I had a binder back in 1997. All my Pokemon cards have sat in sleeves for over 20 years untouched. Never had a first edition charizard, unless it's one of the many cards that was stolen when I was a child including from my own family.
According to an unofficial Pokemon Collector's Value Guide (second edition) from CheckerBee Publishing that didn't even have the Gen 2 Pokemon names, holographic Charizard was also really expensive then. $260 to be precise.
I got started in Pokemon with a card pack in 1999 and found the anime the next week. I stopped collecting around half way through Diamond and Pearl and jumped back in late 2019 well before all of the cough stuff went down. Now I'm really regretting that collecting break considering a lot of Black and White sets are stupidly expensive now.
Funny thing about the collectables or antiques market, accountancy wise the items have no value. The cost occured to make them and profit made on selling them has already occurred. Any value more than scrap is arbitrary based upon how much people want the thing.
This video reminded me of when a copy of _Blue Rose Diva, Yukina Minato_ (SSR rarity, Cardfight Vanguard) was listed for 30 grand. 30 000 freedom dollars! It's mindboggling. I'd personally never pay more than $20 or so for a single card
Funny thing is that my pokemon card collection started when my friend in preschool gave me four cards. Torterra, Blazekin, Giratina, and. Lvl X Empoleon(Screw the dog that destroyed this card). After that, my dad gave me his collection from when he collected in the 90s. He even showed me his rare hollow Gyarados and Poliwrath cards from gen 1. Funny thing to me is that he even had all the promo cards from the 1st movie. This is what got me into collecting cards and all the EXs, Breaks, GXs, V, and VMax cards I own now.
The best way for modern cards to retain value for investment purposes is to keep them as sealed product meaning a whole box of pack still in the booster box and the box is still sealed in plastic.
God, even back then I put all my cards in folders, organized them and sleeved them and made sure they were safe in zipped binders, and I know one of the ones I have IS the charizard, and I know where they are too xD Safe in a box from moving some years ago, but safe nonetheless haha.
My younger brother had some rare pokemon cards and he forgot that he left them in the pocket of his pants, which where already in the washing machine...
When I was a little kid I would cross out the names on cards and write my own nicknames on them. Imagine any big collector looking at my hundreds of cards with weird names on them now.
Not to be that guy, but at 8:50, Generations isn't really a "Generations" set. It was a promotional set for the 20th Anniversary that was more for the "Generations" of mythicals. If you look at the set list for the individual cards, they're all just XY or newer cards. For an actual nostalgia set, you'd look to Evolutions, that came out the same year as Generations, the difference is that because the boarders look like Gen 1-2 cards, it caters to that nostalgia button a bit harder. Plus you have straight or spiritual reprints of basically lots of popular Base-Jungle cards in that set. Minus the EX cards, which I always viewed as additional layers compared to the rest. I know I'll probably get a ton of hate for pointing this out, since every time I've ever pointed this out people always say "but muh set name! It obviously shows off lots of cards!", to which I point out "Gen 1 pandering, massively, then you have the Radiant Collection which has like 3 out of the 6 generations involved". Like out of the entire 20ish years that the card game's been a thing, I don't think there's been a single set that has all current generations represented. Since the cards are a way to sell popular merch. So unless we want to shove Garchomp, Dragonite, Salamence, T-Tar, Greninja, name a Gen 5 Pokemon there's lots of not top 10 but certainly popular ones, Lycanroc, and any of the Gen 8 (Since we're still in Sword and Shield era as of the writing of this comment), all inside one set, we're probably never going to get an all encompassing set. Even if we did I'm almost guaranteed there's gonna be people that say something to the effect of, "Wow you certainly blew your entire load of good ideas on this set". Since most sets really only have around 20 playable cards. Maybe 50 if we're lucky. This is to keep you coming back every quarter outside of Japan, or every month inside Japan, so you're constantly searching for that new card that's gonna make your deck better.
I still have this charizard card with me. Card is still intact and flat but some tiny damages on the sides. I feel like if I had it appraised it be like 5 or something or not even worth it lol
I'd be interested in learning more about how to get PSA to grade cards. I have the entire base set and a ton of first edition Rocket cards, so this is an appealing prospect.
I had most of the first base set and more stored in a binder, in pokedex number. I hate myself everyday for not taking care of it, now I have no idea where they are.
Those rare, rainbow-outlined VMAX shiny cards from the past year(?) are super cool. I just want them because the art is fantastic. Watched Arin open a few and strangely got super invested.
You know, I have no idea what my old collection could be worth. The only card I ever actually cared about protecting was the holographic Mew, and that was because it was my very first card ever. Though I have a feeling I could make quite a bit just selling my duplicates.
I’m a 90’s baby here born 91’ I was putting my cards in a sleeve as soon as I hit the parking lot running out of the mall from KB toys!! I still remember the day I found my Holographic Blastoise! That was the day! I’ve kept good care of my cards and let’s be honest yall “Pokémon card buyers” of today will never know the feeling of getting those cards when they were first coming out and you were waking up to watch Pokémon on tv grabbing the gold plated cards at Burger King in the drive through and slipping your rare cards into plastic sleeves! And yes I still have my cards I doubt I’ll ever sale my blastoise though 🤔 maybe I’ll get him rated one day?
Boy am I glad I got into TCGs after developing the attitude that I should protect my possessions and the mindset that would lead me to build budget decks. Also, MTG is my jam as opposed to Pokemon, at least when it comes to TCGs. I wonder if MTG card prices vary to the same extent as that of Pokemon and YuGiOh since MTG cards aren't tied to video games or anime. The thought is that ties to a form of media would have a polarizing effect on demand for certain cards based on how popular and how heavily featured they are in said media. One would think that polarized demand would in turn polarize price. The closest MTG has to a link to media is the promotional materials, which do prominently feature some characters. But promotional materials have nowhere the reach of a video game or anime. Thus, one would think that promotional materials wouldn't have as strong a polarizing effect on demand and consequently price of individual cards.
I was big into Yu-Gi-Oh back then, and had a cousin who had LOADS of cards. Years later I was still into it, but he wasn't. He didn't even bother asking if I wanted them before throwing them away in the trash 😔
I collect Magic, Pokemon and Yugioh cards, and I can verify these things get stupid expensive. My buddy bought a $300 Magic card that now costs, just six months later, over $700. Also, I have a copy of my favorite game, Chrono Trigger. And that is going up too
You keep bringing that Mewtwo up in the "Rare" category but there's a reason for the "Mewtwo wrecks your **censored**" meme. That card was horrifying for a while.
Card Games with random chance packs have always been a lottery based system, in fact card games are the first ever "pay to win" system in a game that was also attached to RNG gatcha mechanics. You buy a pack, You have a CHANCE to get something good that will increase your power to a point of winning. The secondary market only causes issues for adults or people who play competitively; Since if you're just playing a game then you dont care about how powerful you are or how rare your stuff is as long as its fun to play; the only downside you have is that you cant evolve chameleon unless you get lucky. As someone whos competitive level in World of Warcraft I understand but you cant pretend that we aren't the only ones affected by things like this People who just play the game will never understand why hardcore / competitive players get mad at things that cost more than the game itself. (Eg. 2nd hand cards costing $100s for your group and mount shops in MMO's for my group) Also learn to concede we're killing the planet too by sitting here using talking boxes made of dead dinosaurs and metal rather than actually going out and doing something about it.
funny enough before you made this video there are three youtubers i watch whove been addicted to buying pokemon cards and hoping to get rare, money making cards, lol, theyve been streaming their unboxings for awhile now
I think the most valuable card I own is a Japanese first edition Gold Star Latios. Not in the best shape, but it's worth more than any other singular card I have.
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WTF
"Yeah I had a shiny Charizard card but I just don't know where it is."
"So...you lost it."
"No! I know it's in my house somewhere. I just don't remember where it was."
"Dude you're literally explaining what losing something means."
Literally me with that promotional Mew card. I lost it in a move, but I’m still acting like I have some amount of ownership over it.
@@peanutbutter6720 I lost that to, fortunately buying a new one isn't expensive.
I have a foil charizard, but since its not mint or first edition and its from second base set its near worthless.
my Vileplum, Wiglytuff and what else was that are probably somewhere... but not worth much anyway so it's just a weird sadness that I have no idea where
@@Z4KIUS I fortunately know exactly where what few cards I still have are. Sadly the whole collection is worth maybe $100 due to condition/set.
I know before I moved I made the conscious decision to dumpster all my commons and uncommons(excl foils and hand picked cards).
the only card I have lost is the ancient mew promo from the first(or was it second) movie.
Everyone at least actually knows how to play the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG.
My man smacking Charizard is honestly hilarious
Thank you for the heart! Here is one for you too! ❤
It's honestly adorable and funny at the same time
Its oddly *S A T I S F Y I N G*
IpreferVenusaurokay?
Charizard smacking compilation:
1:06
5:06
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12:45
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my heart broke a little when he tore that card even though it was probably just a common worth 10 cents at most
My heart broked totally i dont even have a single pack of pokemon cards :(
You would not like maxmofoe’s card openings for some videos.
@@bijoypalbalmiki5812 Same :(
I don't know how people can have the heart to ruin cards like that.
Those types of videos where they cut cards before looking are literally just throwing money away.
As a magic the gathering player, I DESPISE the secondary market as it takes a game meant to be played and enjoyed and essentially turns it into a lottery based system that ruins the game for the rest of us. This is why I am now starting to focus more on proxies.
Magic the Gathering was ruined by standard bans. Modern is going the same way now too. Commander is about the only fun format now.
Also, you can play pokemon tcg online for pretty cheap.
@@amartyrsfallsbassist5914 ah yes. EDH, where you need hundreds of dollars to begin entering local hobby shop games
@@zackarieneifert7014 as someone who keeps $1k aside for stuff like that, I can verify that its insane how much money some local decks cost during 'friendlies'.
its always been a lottery based system, in fact card games are the first ever "pay to win" system in a game that was also attached to RNG gatcha mechanics. You buy a pack, You have a CHANCE to get something good. The secondary market only causes issues for adults or people who play competitively; Since if you're just playing a game then you dont care about how powerful you are or how rare your stuff is as long as its fun to play; the only downside you have is that you cant evolve chameleon unless you get lucky. As someone whos competitive level in World of warcraft i understand but you cant pretend that we arent the only ones effected by things like this
People who just play the game will never understand why hardcore / competitive players get mad at things that cost more than the game itself. (Eg. 2nd hand cards costing $100s for your group and mount shops in MMO's for my group)
"due to the laws of suply and demand , no one want's to buy shells cause there's loads on the sand" - Ren
20 years later after finding out how valuable my cards were, I still don't care.
I’d be interested in a TCG expansion that got artists in the west like Gendy Tartakovsky to do Pokemon Cards.
that sounds cool.
Imagine Greninja in Tartakovsky’s style
Wait until they add a cyborg sword wielding pokemon first
When I saw the title, scalpers come to mind
@BRANDON NGUYEN Reminds me of when my little sister loves Marnie and she found the Marnie box in Walmart and then said many grown men were staring at her as she was holding it
@@AznYunHou sad
@@AznYunHou wow, that's terrifying.
Scalpers? Oh... you mean those people who volunteer to be punching bags. Boy do I enjoy slugging them.
@@TheSerperior Yeah she got the last one, apparently it was hidden in a different spot from the card section. Glad she didn't get attacked for getting it
Man, I remember the days when I had sold a pokemon card deck for high prices to my friends
Nice
The Millenials in 2020 part hit hard
I can relate.
The failure of capitalism
for a second I thought you were suggesting a zubat card or something caused pokémon cards to become valuable
This is trudging up some very old addictions and I like it
Dredging, not trudging
This is a topic of discussion I’ve been having with friends for the last several months. All the issues related to the scarcity of cards in stores due to scalpers is such a ridiculous thing to deal with for people, especially kids, that actually enjoy the hobby. Before the holiday season there was no trouble finding cards at my local stores. After that the shelves are always barren. Stores have had to change how they handle their shipments, keeping their stocks behind the customer service counter and limiting amounts each person can buy. The service desk staff are all tired of having lines of dozens of people every Friday morning hounding them for cards. I hope it doesn’t take too long to die down
Welcome to what MTG players went through 15 years ago
And still go through today. 😂😅😔
@@KnightsofGaming2016 Can confirm.
So, when I gave away my old pokemons I gave my one mtg deck. And I can never find it.
Pretty sure it was a goblin deck but the rare card that came with it was this enormous purple monster with its giant mouth open.
Any clue?
@@amadhollow635 hmm. I suggest using the mtg card database. You can search for that card using a keyword from said card. Was it a goblin or one of the phyrexian cards?
Imagine crying about the value of your banned paper black flower that doesn't have a flame on it's tail.
The majority of people who buy the cards just open them for fun and don’t even know how the game works
That was me with Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards when I was little. I don't know how to play it. I don't even like Yu-Gi-Oh!.
If you really want to play the game with friends u can just print the cards yourself, they might not be useable in real games but now you have all cards to play with your friends.
This so much. I’m not spending more than a few cents on cardboard. There’s also free online versions to play these. Somebody can say that you can’t put a price on joy but in reality when somebody spends so much on cards you smack them beside the head and call them morons.
@@ColdEmperor yes but playing irl with cards is better than playing on pc and you can print and invent every card you want
The kids who originally got into are now adults. The nostalgia factor is making prices go up big time as well. It's also become a form of art collecting as well.
It's scalping, not nostalgia.
You're not wrong our parents and grandparents did become the thing they told us not to be
It wasn't Grandma and Grandpa making 'Orange Man Bad' memes, it was the younger generation who did this as, well as voted for Biden (in part so they could continue to claim victimhood).
@@MartenFerret it was grandma and grandpa who caused global warming and elected orange man into office causing innocent Latin Americans to be deported and have their children locked in cages as well as increase the number of innocent African Americans being killed by the police and getting rid of the one thing that could have prevented the pandemic and saved the economy
11:16 All that music reminds me of is Tango Tek
Same.
Competitive tcg players are literally caring the card game yet they get the least amount of attention
Hmm idk, the competitive ones in MtG don't really care about the card prices as they tend to borrow the decks they played. It's mainly collectors that drive the market
@@nathanielbrown1542 not in pokemon
Just like comics from the 60's, they are expensive because every year there are less of them.
That Blastoise plush in the back is me currently seeing this at 3AM EST
My cards were only ever for collecting because I didn't know how to play. My sister still has them and they haven't left their sleeves in decades. They only ever came out to be shown off or to be moved from sleeve to sleeve as my collection grew. (They're in rainbow order)
I have cards from the first two gens and Japanese cards our foreign exchange student brought us.
Time to look at my pokemon card collection again.
I wanna see the reactions on you playing with those cards lmaoooooo
Okay, using the ad read to still teach about the topic is a really smart way to go about it.
every time i hear the copyright free tangotek intro song. yes.
I still have my old cards from back in the day. What helped me was that my dad use to collect comic books when he was younger so he understands that these collectibles needed to be stored. So he got me a binder for my pokemon cards and well there’s my collection lol. Now I’m just buying cards that I’m missing haha
Almost had a heart attack when he started talking about his brand deal. Thought he was talking about nfts for a second.
Lockstin: *shows old mewtwo card with a ticker of hundreds of dollars*
Me: *realizing I saw that card in my old elemtary school binder just a few weeks ago*
I got super spooked at the beginning of this video and thought I somehow sponsered this video...
Lol
I personally collect Yugioh cards but a lot of watt applies in this video applies to them as well. The market value of certain cards plummet once they receive a reprint in a different set. But particular rarities stay valuable even if other printings are available. We pay so much for pretty pieces of shiny cardboard 😛
I can't really speak to pokemon cards specifically but an interesting thing to note, often misprints make things like magic cards specifically more valuable, at least for in person trades
I love collecting Pokémon cards and seeing empty store shelves makes me sad since I used to be able to just walk in and walk out with new packs.
Check the Cinnamon Toast Crunch boxes. That's where I got my most recent pack.
Well, this video explains why I couldn't find ANY Pokemon cards over the weekend! I went to THREE diffrent stores! And I rarely buy cards.
Same. All this craze as of recently has boughten out all the cards in my area. Still had plenty of every other type of card, just not the Pokemon packs in specific. Had the decks, bundle boxes, etc, but not the packs
I haven't seen a Pokemon booster pack in ages.
I can't even get my hands on the promotional giant cards of the Alolan Starters.
It's commonly passed around that the PSA is receiving a ton of Pokémon cards, which is true, but the vast majority of what they grade is still sports cards. In fact, most of those scalpers who you see early in the morning at stores aren't just there for Pokémon cards, they're mostly there for basketball and baseball cards, and they pick up Pokémon cards to round out their purchase.
The only interesting cards I have are a Mega Rayquaza EX, I believe it's holo, not sure. Found that one on the ground in a sleeve. Then there's my Klefki. It's barely recognizable. I found it at school, in the parking lot, during winter. The entire back is wrecked. The front is very cracked. It is hilariously sad, and thats why I still have it.
Remember that YTMND about those Wall Street guys who would sat around a table showing each other their holographic Pokemon cards? A spoof of Mad Men IIRC.
I wonder why! I couldn’t find any Pokémon card packs at Target in Hixson since all there is is Pokémon sleeves and Pokémon binders, where you could store a bunch of Pokémon Pokémon cards in!
“200k that’s a house”
Laughs in LA
I had 2 non-first edition Charizards and a Blastoise as a kid a actually did lose all three of them. I never lose anything, so whatever happened to them haunts me whenever I see something about old Pokemon cards.
I'm glad you did this video, I wanted to understand the recent addiction to shiny cardboard
I appreciate the Raichu cry at 4:11. Nice attention to detail!
I ask myself that question with Yu-gi-oh cards.
cause otherwise you'd just be a third-rate duelist with a fourth-rate deck.
@@JT5555 help me
“This guy that children idolize for some reason.” I can’t express how much I was cackling when I heard that! 😂👏💕
"Cardboard is expensive"
Laughs in magic the gathering player
*laughter turns to crying at the Reserved list*
there is a card/nerd store a few blocks at my house and the only cards that they'd sell as singles were MTG because "They are the only company with a consistent media that knows when to stop printing cards". Yugioh and Pokemon would go up and down in price too much depending on that week's meta.
I pulled a shiny full art charizard, then 30 minutes later this comes out
Dude!!! Congratulations!!!
I owned a sealed first edition, mint condition, foil Machamp. I left for college in 2012, and my little brother found it in my closet. He didn't just open it. It was utterly destroyed. I only recently found out what that's worth, and by God when he's old enough to understand he's gonna get a talking to lol
"Having money due to not going out" Bold of you to assume
I had money before pandemic and went out
Bold assumtion indeed! i never go out en never have money!🤨🤪
Speaking of charzard card stories, I did have a Japanese holographic charzard for literally a few minutes. I got it from my sister on my birthday but being a 6 year old, I traded it for 2 common cards that I felt would help me more in all the card battles I never ended up having. Felt like a moron then and even more of one now.
Yeah right...
@@zeberka3797 dont have to believe it. Was a sad and stupid day for me but it happens when your 6. Made my friend happy. Also I'm not saying it was first edition or anything lol. I cant remember that well because i was only 6. I'll have to see if I have a video from that birthday. Either way, my favorite pokemon at the time, like so many others, was charzard. so my sister went and got it for me. It was awesome to hold it for a bit, but yeah I'm glad others got some joy from it as well.
@@lewislast2142 ok,for me it seems unlikely for you to have once owned a extremely rare card worth thousands, but idk, might be possible .Not trying to be rude or anything.
@@zeberka3797 I understand. It's impossible to believe these things without some form of proof. I was just like any other kid in the 90s who was obsessed. I would spend every dime I earned in packs and decks of pokemon and yu gi oh cards. Even without the charzard I most likely had thousands of dollars worth of cards, including the raichu card shown in the video, though I know that wasnt a first edition. However when I got older, instead of selling out my toys, I donated them. I had mutiple yugi and kiba decks that I just opened and played with. I was a kid and never thought about it cared what these would be worth later in life. Just enjoyed having them. Heck even if I saved the cards, it wouldnt have stayed in perfect condition because I wouldnt have been able to resist playing with. So I wont go out of my way and say if I had it still I'd be rich, but yes I did get that card at one point. Shoot I had that
@@zeberka3797 I was always the nerd who would choose the cards over anything else. In 5th grade I had the option to get a suit and go to the concert me and my classmates were putting on or get a kiba decks, the last one at kmart that day. I chose the deck and was perfectly happy.
4:15 listening to this on my headphones, I was so confused what in my room could have made that noise
Pokémon TCG players: Oh no cards are so expensive these days
MTG players: MY PAIN IS GREATER THAN YOURS!
Whales:ffffeeeeeedddddd mmmmmmeeeeeee!!!!!!
Lockstin when you said you were sponsored by Otis I thought you were going to talk about the elevator company I also thought that is a wierd sponsor for a poketuber
I was thinking the dog from Garfield.
"why are pokemon cards so expensive? I need to find out more about this. Computer! Search up pokemon inflation!"
~some meme i saw
I traded my entire collection away as a kid (several hundred cards in binders - almost everything from the first 5-6 sets except the original Charizard) for a few N64 games. Not even good ones... Every time I see those games as an adult, it makes me a bit sick. I miss those cards so much.
Lockstin: "why are pokemon cards so expensive"
Me: *laughs in magic the gathering player*
I genuinely had so many of these super rare cards as a kid. Wish my grandma or dad saw this happening and told me to keep them all in good condition.
There was a bunch of team rocket Dark cards I found at a garage sale for a dollar sadly most are faded and scracted after being in the lady's attic for so long
I am happy I had a binder back in 1997. All my Pokemon cards have sat in sleeves for over 20 years untouched. Never had a first edition charizard, unless it's one of the many cards that was stolen when I was a child including from my own family.
According to an unofficial Pokemon Collector's Value Guide (second edition) from CheckerBee Publishing that didn't even have the Gen 2 Pokemon names, holographic Charizard was also really expensive then. $260 to be precise.
I got started in Pokemon with a card pack in 1999 and found the anime the next week. I stopped collecting around half way through Diamond and Pearl and jumped back in late 2019 well before all of the cough stuff went down. Now I'm really regretting that collecting break considering a lot of Black and White sets are stupidly expensive now.
Funny thing about the collectables or antiques market, accountancy wise the items have no value. The cost occured to make them and profit made on selling them has already occurred. Any value more than scrap is arbitrary based upon how much people want the thing.
This video reminded me of when a copy of _Blue Rose Diva, Yukina Minato_ (SSR rarity, Cardfight Vanguard) was listed for 30 grand. 30 000 freedom dollars! It's mindboggling. I'd personally never pay more than $20 or so for a single card
This Video: Talking about a card's worth in thousands of dollars
me: "Haha pretty pokemon picture with sometimes funny move names go *BRRRRR* "
This makes me really glad that I never got rid of any of my card collections. They're still intact and safe in my overstuffed binder.
Funny thing is that my pokemon card collection started when my friend in preschool gave me four cards. Torterra, Blazekin, Giratina, and. Lvl X Empoleon(Screw the dog that destroyed this card). After that, my dad gave me his collection from when he collected in the 90s. He even showed me his rare hollow Gyarados and Poliwrath cards from gen 1. Funny thing to me is that he even had all the promo cards from the 1st movie. This is what got me into collecting cards and all the EXs, Breaks, GXs, V, and VMax cards I own now.
The best way for modern cards to retain value for investment purposes is to keep them as sealed product meaning a whole box of pack still in the booster box and the box is still sealed in plastic.
Me whatching this vid: does that mean my binder is full of thousands of bucks?
God, even back then I put all my cards in folders, organized them and sleeved them and made sure they were safe in zipped binders, and I know one of the ones I have IS the charizard, and I know where they are too xD Safe in a box from moving some years ago, but safe nonetheless haha.
My younger brother had some rare pokemon cards and he forgot that he left them in the pocket of his pants, which where already in the washing machine...
When I was a little kid I would cross out the names on cards and write my own nicknames on them. Imagine any big collector looking at my hundreds of cards with weird names on them now.
Not to be that guy, but at 8:50, Generations isn't really a "Generations" set. It was a promotional set for the 20th Anniversary that was more for the "Generations" of mythicals.
If you look at the set list for the individual cards, they're all just XY or newer cards. For an actual nostalgia set, you'd look to Evolutions, that came out the same year as Generations, the difference is that because the boarders look like Gen 1-2 cards, it caters to that nostalgia button a bit harder. Plus you have straight or spiritual reprints of basically lots of popular Base-Jungle cards in that set. Minus the EX cards, which I always viewed as additional layers compared to the rest.
I know I'll probably get a ton of hate for pointing this out, since every time I've ever pointed this out people always say "but muh set name! It obviously shows off lots of cards!", to which I point out "Gen 1 pandering, massively, then you have the Radiant Collection which has like 3 out of the 6 generations involved". Like out of the entire 20ish years that the card game's been a thing, I don't think there's been a single set that has all current generations represented. Since the cards are a way to sell popular merch. So unless we want to shove Garchomp, Dragonite, Salamence, T-Tar, Greninja, name a Gen 5 Pokemon there's lots of not top 10 but certainly popular ones, Lycanroc, and any of the Gen 8 (Since we're still in Sword and Shield era as of the writing of this comment), all inside one set, we're probably never going to get an all encompassing set. Even if we did I'm almost guaranteed there's gonna be people that say something to the effect of, "Wow you certainly blew your entire load of good ideas on this set". Since most sets really only have around 20 playable cards. Maybe 50 if we're lucky. This is to keep you coming back every quarter outside of Japan, or every month inside Japan, so you're constantly searching for that new card that's gonna make your deck better.
“Losing it with more words.” Ive never even laid my eyes on an OG charizard... 😔😭
I still have this charizard card with me. Card is still intact and flat but some tiny damages on the sides. I feel like if I had it appraised it be like 5 or something or not even worth it lol
I'd be interested in learning more about how to get PSA to grade cards. I have the entire base set and a ton of first edition Rocket cards, so this is an appealing prospect.
Lockstin's pokemon card rap coming soon
I had most of the first base set and more stored in a binder, in pokedex number. I hate myself everyday for not taking care of it, now I have no idea where they are.
We're literally just going through what comic book collectors went through in the 90s
Those rare, rainbow-outlined VMAX shiny cards from the past year(?) are super cool. I just want them because the art is fantastic.
Watched Arin open a few and strangely got super invested.
I remember in elementary school for my 100 day school project some kid brought a poster with holographic glued on them
You know, I have no idea what my old collection could be worth. The only card I ever actually cared about protecting was the holographic Mew, and that was because it was my very first card ever. Though I have a feeling I could make quite a bit just selling my duplicates.
So, what you're saying is that now is the time to sell the binder of gen 1 cards I've held onto for years?
No joke, it's literally 2-inches thick.
I and my brother kept all our rare holo pokemon cards back then in a single book, but we kept fighting over them, and then the book disappeared...
I kind of hate the fact that Pokemon cards have become so popular again. It makes it so much harder to do anything.
I’m a 90’s baby here born 91’ I was putting my cards in a sleeve as soon as I hit the parking lot running out of the mall from KB toys!! I still remember the day I found my Holographic Blastoise! That was the day! I’ve kept good care of my cards and let’s be honest yall “Pokémon card buyers” of today will never know the feeling of getting those cards when they were first coming out and you were waking up to watch Pokémon on tv grabbing the gold plated cards at Burger King in the drive through and slipping your rare cards into plastic sleeves! And yes I still have my cards I doubt I’ll ever sale my blastoise though 🤔 maybe I’ll get him rated one day?
Boy am I glad I got into TCGs after developing the attitude that I should protect my possessions and the mindset that would lead me to build budget decks. Also, MTG is my jam as opposed to Pokemon, at least when it comes to TCGs. I wonder if MTG card prices vary to the same extent as that of Pokemon and YuGiOh since MTG cards aren't tied to video games or anime. The thought is that ties to a form of media would have a polarizing effect on demand for certain cards based on how popular and how heavily featured they are in said media. One would think that polarized demand would in turn polarize price. The closest MTG has to a link to media is the promotional materials, which do prominently feature some characters. But promotional materials have nowhere the reach of a video game or anime. Thus, one would think that promotional materials wouldn't have as strong a polarizing effect on demand and consequently price of individual cards.
I was big into Yu-Gi-Oh back then, and had a cousin who had LOADS of cards. Years later I was still into it, but he wasn't. He didn't even bother asking if I wanted them before throwing them away in the trash 😔
oof, feelsbad
I collect Magic, Pokemon and Yugioh cards, and I can verify these things get stupid expensive. My buddy bought a $300 Magic card that now costs, just six months later, over $700.
Also, I have a copy of my favorite game, Chrono Trigger. And that is going up too
Evolutions also made things rise. Generations had similar cards but, Evo had the same art and format as the easy WoTC cards.
You keep bringing that Mewtwo up in the "Rare" category but there's a reason for the "Mewtwo wrecks your **censored**" meme. That card was horrifying for a while.
I remember seeing an illustration pikachu in someone’s Pokémon binder at school and freaking out and then realizing it was a knockoff
I have the x and y remake of the shiny charizard card,so it’s not valuable,I just think it’s cool
@@atommidas2002 the base set reprint? It’s worth a bit nowadays, especially in good shape
@@rusty8311 I have the evolutions reprint
I’m not special
the video title should be 'Why Pokemon Company is selling piece of plastics and cardboards for 100's of dollars
Card Games with random chance packs have always been a lottery based system, in fact card games are the first ever "pay to win" system in a game that was also attached to RNG gatcha mechanics. You buy a pack, You have a CHANCE to get something good that will increase your power to a point of winning.
The secondary market only causes issues for adults or people who play competitively; Since if you're just playing a game then you dont care about how powerful you are or how rare your stuff is as long as its fun to play; the only downside you have is that you cant evolve chameleon unless you get lucky.
As someone whos competitive level in World of Warcraft I understand but you cant pretend that we aren't the only ones affected by things like this
People who just play the game will never understand why hardcore / competitive players get mad at things that cost more than the game itself. (Eg. 2nd hand cards costing $100s for your group and mount shops in MMO's for my group)
Also learn to concede we're killing the planet too by sitting here using talking boxes made of dead dinosaurs and metal rather than actually going out and doing something about it.
It’s not just me who was pay more attention to the music in the last 2 segments (not including outro) instead of him, right?
funny enough before you made this video there are three youtubers i watch whove been addicted to buying pokemon cards and hoping to get rare, money making cards, lol, theyve been streaming their unboxings for awhile now
Let me guess, Nogla? 🤣
@@ryuiichikune6250 yep lol, plus wildcat and panda
Yeah my misprint pidgeot from jungle is in horrible shape because I used to battle with it at toys r us tournaments. The memories are worth it though
Im 22 and still have 3/4 binders/maps full of Pokémon cards. I don’t if, when or where I should sell them
I think the most valuable card I own is a Japanese first edition Gold Star Latios. Not in the best shape, but it's worth more than any other singular card I have.