I opened a booster box case. The pull rates are the same as the last couple of set. There are cards that no one wants, so yeah people gonna complain. About every other box was a dud, so I would say half of people are gonna experience that. Isn't this what people wanted. People were complaining about the easy pull rates of the earlier S&V sets. Box 1: 6 ex, 3 IR, 3 Full arts, 2 Ace specs, 1 SIR (15 hits) Box 2: 6 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 2 Ace specs, 1 Gold, 1 SIR (15 hits - pulled the Pikachu SIR) Box 3: 7 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 1 Ace spec, 1 SIR (14 hits) Box 4: 6 ex, 3 IR, 3 Full arts, 1 Ace spec (13 hits) Box 5: 6 ex, 2 IR, 3 Full arts, 2 Ace specs (13 hits) Box 6: 6 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 2 Ace specs (13 hits)
People getting screwed by pokemon company makes me happy. I quit collection a year ago because the company is trash for supporting scalpers and investors over actual fans.
They just know their main audience is gambling addict 20-30 year olds that’ll blow $300 to try and chase the highest valued card in the and not care about the rest.
@GiggityGiggity_Jawn Depends on what your interpretation. I used to collect entire sets and play the game. Thats my definition. I have not paid a single penny towards any tcg since 2023 November. Just waiting till something worth my time shows up.
@@rickys.tcg96It sucks, man. It sucked in 2021 and for some reason, it seems worse this time around to me for some reason. It happens in all pop culture collectibles, tho. I collected toys and games in the past and that had its moments, too.
I opened three Surging Sparks booster boxes. I pulled two (2) SIR Pikachus, one (1) SIR Lisia’s Appeal, and one (1) Hyper Rare Jet Energy. It isn’t that bad.
My LGS got a 2nd shipment from distribution, and prices for a BB went from $129 to $149. Crazy how they claim that distribution charged them more for their 2nd shipment. It's hard to believe that distribution is charging more. It hasn't been that long.
People complain about LGS raising the prices of boxes to market pricing and they obviously have no idea how little a shop owner actually makes per year for sitting in that shop all day. Margins are thin and expenses are high. If they want to raise the prices by 10 or $20 a box to finally make a little profit, good for them.
really good pulls for my kids. son pulled the Pikachu SIR from his ETB and daugther got the Hydreigon and Latios from her booster box. Son is leaving his booster box sealed he said since he got the card he wanted
Went to my first TCG convention yesterday, wanted to pick up some gold items for my deck. Vendor had two gold night stretchers…….$60 each. I go on TCG and eBay and they are selling at 25-30. Ask the vendor if he’d meet me at market, he says $60 was market on Friday. Show him the comps at $30 (10+ mind you), refuses to budge or meet at $40 because he bought one and pulled the other. Guess what was still in the cases when they were packing up? Some vendors are so petty to take the L on a horrible buy they made.
Bought a case for $650, opened 5 Boxes of out 6 and pulled the Milotic SIR, Jasmine's Gaze SIR, and Pikachu Sir! So opened 180 packs and leaving the 6th box sealed! Great video!
Got fucked with the minimum number of hits in my booster box(12), no sir or gold. Then i see people posting theirs with 15 hits and and sir. Shits infuriating, especially since these boxes are already so expensive at release. Opened another 24 loose packs, and still nothing worth mentioning. I open the news sets for fun with my kids, and I'm not under the impression that I somehow deserve to get the best pulls, but it is still very disappointing to pull so little overall.
Some singles of Surging Sparks is ridiculous... Ceruledge IR is like almost $30. I gotta wait next year so this set can cool down while the eevee set distracts them.
Personally I like to do master sets. Spend $200 -$300 on release then buy singles. So for this set I bought 2 Pokemon Center ETBS, a booster box, and 2 booster bundles. Didn’t pull a single SIR. I honestly prefer early SV pull rates. Imagine Paldea evolved pull rates with surging sparks cards. Couldn’t give a shit about how much cards are worth just trying to collect beautiful arts for the binder. Sucks that the pikachu SIR is so hard to pull. Almost feels legit unachievable to pull without spending $1000+ and the average joe trying to complete his binder isn’t gonna spend $300 for a single off tcg player. I’m a firm believer that every booster box should contain 1 SIR.
I'm mad because the pull rates F'in suck, i just opened an ETB and pulled the same rare 5x out of 9 packs, like wtf is that? 5 gourging fires from 9 packs
@@fishermanjim5654 I highlighted the worst ETB I opened, it’s not the only one . I opened 3 ETBs and 2 of the 3 pack boosters bundles . 33 packs total. Absolutely nothing !
The ETBs from this set seem to consistently suck - I watched several unboxings on YT which almost always have 2/9 hits: a Braviary IR (always that one for some reason) and one normal ex, only very occasionally something better. I'd probably rely more on booster boxes - I bought packs from shops that opened them (picking the packs randomly from the opened box). I bought 4 packs from one - 2/4 hits (an ace spec and a normal ex), and 4 packs from another - 3/4 hits (an ace spec, full art ex Tatsugiri, and a normal ex).
@@edselyong7609 very nice! I’ve come to the same conclusion. I opened 3 ETBs ( the one I mentioned previously was probably the worst of all time ) aswell as (2) 3 pack bundles . Total of $140 bucks wasted , no value whatsoever. I have a sealed booster box , 2 ETBs and 2 sealed 6-packs left and idk if it’s worth it to take the chance . According to another YT channel , who opened over 2000 packs. We’d have to open 2 booster boxes to get 1 SIR
if the pull rate is too easy, ppl get mad because there's no 'value, if the pull rate is too hard, ppl get mad because they can't get any good cards....can never win
I've had a binder slowly building of just regular IR's like u said, there's soooo many good ones out there. The past 3 years i've been good at not spending money on sealed product, but surging sparks comes along and i really mess with this set, and i spend $400 RETAIL price on product and pull maybe 3 IR cards i like from the set LOL.
So as a casual, pokemon tcg pocket has been such a refreshing experience. So much fun and now seeing this come out I realized I get my fix with the app and in having a lot more fun with it. So I’ll be buying only on pocket from now on
It's been rough for me, worse than 151 and twilight masquerade. We had better luck with paldea evolved as well. I'd put this on par with lost origins for my experience thus far
The pull rates seem to be less than the other sets, but Infinity better than Swsh. I think the SV era spoiled us. Shrouded Fable is the perfect example of bad pull rates If we're talking about SV tho
I recently bought a chi-yu SIR. Poppy SIR, Goliospod SIR, Gardenia's vigor from CZ, and 3 art rares for the price of a surging sparks ETB. Now is a fine time in the hobby if you're not chasing what everyone else chasing.
Ive opened a booster box 2 etbs two triple blisters two single blisters a 3 loose packs i got struck down by the mighty surging sparks pull rates 😢 Came home with 4 full arts and a bunch of exs and about 4 i.r cards . I didnt deserve that. Im not mad tho. Its the nature of the beast, and im an adult , that csn regulate my emotions 😂
These psa 10 pikachu prices are ridiculous. When these prices drop (and they will), people are going to feel stupid. I’m also noticing a lot of the cards that are not the pikachu SIR and latias from surging sparks has dropped significantly. I wasn’t expecting prices to drop this fast. I’m wondering if it’s because the influx of cards in the market.
I collect mainly, but I'm so glad my life doesn't revolve pokemon enough to make me stress over it lol. I opened a case of SS booster boxes and didn't get the pikachu, but it is what it is I'll live. And I still hate the tera crowns and looks of them haha
Bro I haven't even been back in the hobby for long. Since VSU and I've already seen so many shifts in market sentiment and prices tip from sky highs to low lows.
I dont think the pull rates are difficult per say, they are more just all over the place. I opened 1 booster box that was not great and then i opened up on that was seriously busted and had great pulls in it. Havent ever really experienced such a pull rate difference like that openeing booster boxes and ive been doing that for a few years 🤷♂️
Yeah I'm mad about Surging Sparks! I'm mad because I didn't get a single SIR out of 64 packs! Meanwhile these prissy @ss Poke-Tubers and their Poke-tuber luck over here getting Pikachus from a single ETB! The pull rates are lower than my paycheck!😂😐
You’re goina hate this comment but 3rd pack into my first booster bundle I grabbed the sir pikachu, sadly not psa 10 quality but sold that dude for $400 same day lmao
A whole bunch of 151 booster bundle and booster case products all of a sudden appeared on my local marketplace EVERYWHERE. They must be trying to get back some money for Christmas OR they’re pushing their 151 products out to dump the money into prismatic.. I have no idea but there was a dry spell for a while and now it’s saturated.
Still waiting on my preorders to come in but I got some packs for my daughter to open until that comes in. Opened ten sleeved packs and man was she pissed that she didn’t get anything lol. Oh well she knows how it is!
I got 3 booster boxes back when they were still under 100. When they restock (and they WILL)the prices are going to go down. I might grab some more and if you didnt get your preorders in, you should too. Rare candy is dropping surging boxes for 130 tomorrow, go after it my dudes
I'm just glad I'm gonna be able to pick up most of my chases from the set for $20-$30 total on the secondary market, but I'm definitely hoping some like the SIR Alolan Exeggutor & Hydreigon drop a ton.
I’ve been doing the same thing! A lot of the good SIRs from SV and IRs are stupid cheap right now. As well as vintage. I had a GameStop gift card and picked up 10 sleeved boosters of sparks.. and didn’t pull a damn thing. Good reminder of why I don’t really buy packs that much I suppose. Def not buying into the hype, I will wait it out. Once prismatic comes out, sparks will be an after thought for the hype crowd anyway. 🤷🏻♀️
I’ve been trying to collect the original Japanese base set, fossil, jungle, gym trainer, rocket and it’s awesome how cheap those cards are. I got a pretty nice base set charizard for 50$
The worst thing I noticed in my two booster boxes (and one my LGS opened while I was in there is how the duplicates lined up. If you numbed the packs 1-36 every two packs 1/2 3/4 5/6 and so on, had the exact same common cards.
Yup, I'm also a 2 free digital packs a day guy. I'm also the guy checking Pokemon Center 5 x a day looking for ETB restocks...I can't be investing real money in both, if I wanna win.
I got like 3 booster boxes and open three of them got pretty decent pulls but don’t get your hopes up thinking you’ll get the top card just have low expectations best advice I can give you
Preordered a booster box that remained in "delayed shipping" for three days only for it to be cancelled so I can understand the feeling. It's annoying when these online stores put up pre-orders BEFORE they get their allocation numbers. But tbh I want the SIR Galvantula more than anything else right now and that card really isn't that badly priced. I just like my spooders. :D
People are really out here throwing hands, and trashing the stock of products just for shiny cardboard. Just like the Stanley Cup craze, it feels too similar.
I love how I can get 2 or 3 art rares for less than what a pack would cost. I’ve kinda just been going set by set after like 2 months of it coming out and getting all the art rares I want for like the price of a booster bundle. It’s great 😊 👍
For me the pull rates have been absolutely garbage . I've opened 4 etbs 4 booster bundles 75 sleeved singles. And I got 1 durant sir. 7 ir 6 full art 12 ex 6 ace spec . Seems to be alot harder on pull rates for this set. But it's all good I'll just buy the singles of the few cards I still want.
I pulled my chase (latios) but my issue wasn’t with the pull rates but the quality control, the back was basically whitening across the sides straight from a pack
That's normal. You don't get a gem mint with every pull if you did psa 10s wouldn't be worth so much. I understand how you feel but I think your expectations are unrealistic for a card game
To each it’s own hell it happens but I was fortunate with just two booster bundles. Seen rainbow borders twice in each bundle A couple illustration rares as well one bundle had four hits the other bundle had three hits
I have zeros concerns about surging sparks and if I don’t get any products it doesn’t matter to me. If need be I will buy the cards I would like to have (Latias ex, hydreigon ex, milotic ex, larvesta, latios, Appleton and flapple.
Been saying the same thing about obsidian for friggin ever. Its not a crazy set. Its been cheap as hell forever and there are some really cool cards in it. It also has the benefit of being relatively small and the pull rates were good making it an easy master set. I'm honestly shocked that people can look at the patterns in this hobby and still be surprised by prices. Its wild.
Sometimes I genuinely feel like these videos are targeted directly at shit I've said personally. LMAO Quoting myself: "Surging sparks is not a fun set, its overpriced, overhyped, the art is overrated and the rates are garbage.
I opened a booster box case. The pull rates are the same as the last couple of set. There are cards that no one wants, so yeah people gonna complain. About every other box was a dud, so I would say half of people are gonna experience that. Isn't this what people wanted. People were complaining about the easy pull rates of the earlier S&V sets.
Box 1: 6 ex, 3 IR, 3 Full arts, 2 Ace specs, 1 SIR (15 hits)
Box 2: 6 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 2 Ace specs, 1 Gold, 1 SIR (15 hits - pulled the Pikachu SIR)
Box 3: 7 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 1 Ace spec, 1 SIR (14 hits)
Box 4: 6 ex, 3 IR, 3 Full arts, 1 Ace spec (13 hits)
Box 5: 6 ex, 2 IR, 3 Full arts, 2 Ace specs (13 hits)
Box 6: 6 ex, 3 IR, 2 Full arts, 2 Ace specs (13 hits)
"Bro, these crystal hats on these Pokemon suck."
Sees Eevees with the crystal hats.
"Yoo, these Pokemon with the crystal hats are bonkers cool."
@@sleepyespurr2922 literally me
@@voydkid money
People getting screwed by pokemon company makes me happy. I quit collection a year ago because the company is trash for supporting scalpers and investors over actual fans.
They just know their main audience is gambling addict 20-30 year olds that’ll blow $300 to try and chase the highest valued card in the and not care about the rest.
Cap. Your still in the hobby. Lol
@GiggityGiggity_Jawn Depends on what your interpretation. I used to collect entire sets and play the game. Thats my definition. I have not paid a single penny towards any tcg since 2023 November. Just waiting till something worth my time shows up.
If your "hobby" makes you mad, it's time to take a break.
Why??? Don't give up lol if ur hobby is. Sports u gonna give up because u mad??
@@Ttyronebigummshe literally said take a break… sounds like someone needs to take a break themselves💀
It pisses me off when people scalp and and manipulate and ruin it for true genuine collectors/players.
@@rickys.tcg96It sucks, man. It sucked in 2021 and for some reason, it seems worse this time around to me for some reason. It happens in all pop culture collectibles, tho. I collected toys and games in the past and that had its moments, too.
I opened three Surging Sparks booster boxes. I pulled two (2) SIR Pikachus, one (1) SIR Lisia’s Appeal, and one (1) Hyper Rare Jet Energy. It isn’t that bad.
My LGS got a 2nd shipment from distribution, and prices for a BB went from $129 to $149. Crazy how they claim that distribution charged them more for their 2nd shipment. It's hard to believe that distribution is charging more. It hasn't been that long.
They’re 100% lying. Distribution prices never change.
People complain about LGS raising the prices of boxes to market pricing and they obviously have no idea how little a shop owner actually makes per year for sitting in that shop all day. Margins are thin and expenses are high. If they want to raise the prices by 10 or $20 a box to finally make a little profit, good for them.
My Wal-Mart was covered head to toe on Surging Sparks and I didn't buy anything.
Happy for those who enjoy it, but the sets not for me.
really good pulls for my kids. son pulled the Pikachu SIR from his ETB and daugther got the Hydreigon and Latios from her booster box. Son is leaving his booster box sealed he said since he got the card he wanted
Went to my first TCG convention yesterday, wanted to pick up some gold items for my deck. Vendor had two gold night stretchers…….$60 each. I go on TCG and eBay and they are selling at 25-30. Ask the vendor if he’d meet me at market, he says $60 was market on Friday. Show him the comps at $30 (10+ mind you), refuses to budge or meet at $40 because he bought one and pulled the other. Guess what was still in the cases when they were packing up? Some vendors are so petty to take the L on a horrible buy they made.
Bought a case for $650, opened 5 Boxes of out 6 and pulled the Milotic SIR, Jasmine's Gaze SIR, and Pikachu Sir! So opened 180 packs and leaving the 6th box sealed! Great video!
As a degen collector and lover of textured hyper rares, I'm eating GOOD
Danny Phantump opens 2000 Packs to see how the Pullrates are and to see how many packs it takes for a masterset. He said the pullrates are atrocious
Got fucked with the minimum number of hits in my booster box(12), no sir or gold. Then i see people posting theirs with 15 hits and and sir. Shits infuriating, especially since these boxes are already so expensive at release. Opened another 24 loose packs, and still nothing worth mentioning. I open the news sets for fun with my kids, and I'm not under the impression that I somehow deserve to get the best pulls, but it is still very disappointing to pull so little overall.
I have my doubts people didn’t get the booster boxes they thought they would from distro. I think they cancelling and holding it
Nooooooo you mean some of those guys are hamming things up and lying? Nooooo wayyyy 😐
lol you think they are mad for surging sparks? Wait till January for eeveelutions
Opened 8 packs and got all 11 SIRs, and all the Gold Cards… guess I’m done with the set just in time.
Some singles of Surging Sparks is ridiculous... Ceruledge IR is like almost $30.
I gotta wait next year so this set can cool down while the eevee set distracts them.
Team rocket will overshadow both
It's going down already just wait till the market floods with listings and the race to the bottom ensues then go for it!
IM STEAMED UP
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I’m virgin
GANG!
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@@ggcrunchyz 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Personally I like to do master sets. Spend $200 -$300 on release then buy singles. So for this set I bought 2 Pokemon Center ETBS, a booster box, and 2 booster bundles. Didn’t pull a single SIR. I honestly prefer early SV pull rates. Imagine Paldea evolved pull rates with surging sparks cards. Couldn’t give a shit about how much cards are worth just trying to collect beautiful arts for the binder. Sucks that the pikachu SIR is so hard to pull. Almost feels legit unachievable to pull without spending $1000+ and the average joe trying to complete his binder isn’t gonna spend $300 for a single off tcg player. I’m a firm believer that every booster box should contain 1 SIR.
Those people haven’t visited your channel to get that sweet sweet poke positivity.
Still dislike the pikachu, if I pull it I’d just sell.
I'm mad because the pull rates F'in suck, i just opened an ETB and pulled the same rare 5x out of 9 packs, like wtf is that? 5 gourging fires from 9 packs
The pull rates sucked on that one etb you opened. We had fantastic pull rates, both with etbs and booster boxes.
@@fishermanjim5654 I highlighted the worst ETB I opened, it’s not the only one . I opened 3 ETBs and 2 of the 3 pack boosters bundles . 33 packs total. Absolutely nothing !
The ETBs from this set seem to consistently suck - I watched several unboxings on YT which almost always have 2/9 hits: a Braviary IR (always that one for some reason) and one normal ex, only very occasionally something better.
I'd probably rely more on booster boxes - I bought packs from shops that opened them (picking the packs randomly from the opened box). I bought 4 packs from one - 2/4 hits (an ace spec and a normal ex), and 4 packs from another - 3/4 hits (an ace spec, full art ex Tatsugiri, and a normal ex).
@@edselyong7609 very nice! I’ve come to the same conclusion. I opened 3 ETBs ( the one I mentioned previously was probably the worst of all time ) aswell as (2) 3 pack bundles . Total of $140 bucks wasted , no value whatsoever. I have a sealed booster box , 2 ETBs and 2 sealed 6-packs left and idk if it’s worth it to take the chance . According to another YT channel , who opened over 2000 packs. We’d have to open 2 booster boxes to get 1 SIR
if the pull rate is too easy, ppl get mad because there's no 'value, if the pull rate is too hard, ppl get mad because they can't get any good cards....can never win
1 hour, 1500 views. You're picking up ;)
Why get mad? It's the same as going to the casino and blowing you're money it's freakin gambling lol
I've had a binder slowly building of just regular IR's like u said, there's soooo many good ones out there. The past 3 years i've been good at not spending money on sealed product, but surging sparks comes along and i really mess with this set, and i spend $400 RETAIL price on product and pull maybe 3 IR cards i like from the set LOL.
I’m doing pretty well too thanks for asking.
I’m always happy to hear you’re doing good 😎
@@OpossumBud 😚
So as a casual, pokemon tcg pocket has been such a refreshing experience. So much fun and now seeing this come out I realized I get my fix with the app and in having a lot more fun with it. So I’ll be buying only on pocket from now on
Yea it actually is a great time for genuine interest in the hobby and new collectors - healthy growth
It's been rough for me, worse than 151 and twilight masquerade. We had better luck with paldea evolved as well. I'd put this on par with lost origins for my experience thus far
Mfw people seemingly forgot what happened to Vivid Voltage.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw the hype for this set lol its goin to tank hard when prismatic and the rocket set drops
The pull rates seem to be less than the other sets, but Infinity better than Swsh. I think the SV era spoiled us. Shrouded Fable is the perfect example of bad pull rates If we're talking about SV tho
Yeah I feel like people don’t remember Sun and Moon pulls 👀 that was rough
I recently bought a chi-yu SIR. Poppy SIR, Goliospod SIR, Gardenia's vigor from CZ, and 3 art rares for the price of a surging sparks ETB. Now is a fine time in the hobby if you're not chasing what everyone else chasing.
Bought 15 sleeved boosters at target yesterday, pulled about 0 cents worth. I’m done ripping. Lol
RIP 🫡
RIP. ❤
Itll be cheap and bountiful one day
For sure for sure
I think it’s lame when people compare sets; is this set “Evolving Skies 2.0??”
Just enjoy the set for what it is. Let ES be ES.
Ive opened a booster box 2 etbs two triple blisters two single blisters a 3 loose packs i got struck down by the mighty surging sparks pull rates 😢 Came home with 4 full arts and a bunch of exs and about 4 i.r cards . I didnt deserve that. Im not mad tho. Its the nature of the beast, and im an adult , that csn regulate my emotions 😂
Opossum: " hey nick, did you have bad pull rates during your surging sparks opening?"
Pokerev :"yes"
My LGS normally has really good prices on everything but Surging Sparks is already above MSRP. I’m better off ordering straight from PC
These psa 10 pikachu prices are ridiculous. When these prices drop (and they will), people are going to feel stupid.
I’m also noticing a lot of the cards that are not the pikachu SIR and latias from surging sparks has dropped significantly. I wasn’t expecting prices to drop this fast. I’m wondering if it’s because the influx of cards in the market.
I’ve been going crazy buying singles right now. The prices are just too good.
Of SS?
@ no, older sets
I collect mainly, but I'm so glad my life doesn't revolve pokemon enough to make me stress over it lol. I opened a case of SS booster boxes and didn't get the pikachu, but it is what it is I'll live. And I still hate the tera crowns and looks of them haha
the price crash of SIR trainers and even the Bloodmoon make no sense if you like collecting for the art
Bro I haven't even been back in the hobby for long. Since VSU and I've already seen so many shifts in market sentiment and prices tip from sky highs to low lows.
It’s repeating the cycle SwSh did this too just not as violently
I dont think the pull rates are difficult per say, they are more just all over the place. I opened 1 booster box that was not great and then i opened up on that was seriously busted and had great pulls in it. Havent ever really experienced such a pull rate difference like that openeing booster boxes and ive been doing that for a few years 🤷♂️
I’m not mad, I got my pikachu and good deals on product. But that’s me being biased
I hated it at first too but now it’s kind of pretty L O L No one complained about the single strike red smoke over every Pokémon head back then
Yeah I'm mad about Surging Sparks! I'm mad because I didn't get a single SIR out of 64 packs! Meanwhile these prissy @ss Poke-Tubers and their Poke-tuber luck over here getting Pikachus from a single ETB! The pull rates are lower than my paycheck!😂😐
I ripped 190 packs and got an off center durant SIR with ink stain dots
Same here. 80 packs and no SIRs
Ouch
You’re goina hate this comment but 3rd pack into my first booster bundle I grabbed the sir pikachu, sadly not psa 10 quality but sold that dude for $400 same day lmao
@@dylanlewis8450 Mad luck bro. I got a Durant SIR with red ink spots on it. Let's call it blood Durant.
A whole bunch of 151 booster bundle and booster case products all of a sudden appeared on my local marketplace EVERYWHERE. They must be trying to get back some money for Christmas OR they’re pushing their 151 products out to dump the money into prismatic.. I have no idea but there was a dry spell for a while and now it’s saturated.
Good. Water me.
Latios AR in Japanese is like a $6 card. Latios IR in English $45ish🤣 Easy choice to make if you just want it for the artwork
Fr 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
151 OR NONE BABY 🚀
Every vid I’m here for it 😂
You are right, there are some good deals right now. If you're not after whatever is super hot, yeah, some decent deals.
I collect Blastoise 🐢 where's his hat at lol
For real
I can agree pull rates were ass for me oppened an ETB case and not a single SIR
😐 sorry to hear
Its pokemon it happens, but lots of stuff to buy gonna snatch up alot of these cheap AR & SIRs
Still waiting on my preorders to come in but I got some packs for my daughter to open until that comes in. Opened ten sleeved packs and man was she pissed that she didn’t get anything lol. Oh well she knows how it is!
That’s how it is hopefully her next pulls are better 👍🏽
Bought a Sparks BB on impulse on Friday and was real fun, haven't opened English in a bit but was happy. 2 SRs, 1 gold, 3 ARs and a bunch of EXs
Out of 3 packs we had a full art Alolan Executor 😂 this is the penny pinchers guide! Was happy with lots of the common arts
It’s all playable baby lol great video much love and respect 🙏 seriously glad I’m taking a break from the hobbie
Best of luck we will be here when you get back 🙏🏽
3 boxes, I've pulled a $19 card. POG!
Tera Crown back tracking is so predictable 😂 its gonna show even more as time goes on
I opened 2 bb and 1 ETB. I would say the pull rates were about the same as the rest. Wouldn’t say it’s terrible from my small amount of cards.
I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about the pull rate, saying it’s the worst they’ve seen in SV minus Shrouded Fable
@@OpossumBud I don’t think anything is as bad as Shrouded Fable.
@ that’s the worst one I’ve seen or heard so far
This video is pure gold. It’s exactly how everything is right now!
I just punched a wall. Got to have my splooging spoinks
😂 splooging
I wish Pokemon would stop having gimmicks. Mega evolution made sense... everything beyond that is just like.... what? Lol
It will take a bad ass mew card with the dumb crown to convert me lol. Also I agree just stick to the 2 free packs a day on pocket!
I got 3 booster boxes back when they were still under 100. When they restock (and they WILL)the prices are going to go down. I might grab some more and if you didnt get your preorders in, you should too. Rare candy is dropping surging boxes for 130 tomorrow, go after it my dudes
I'm just glad I'm gonna be able to pick up most of my chases from the set for $20-$30 total on the secondary market, but I'm definitely hoping some like the SIR Alolan Exeggutor & Hydreigon drop a ton.
I’m sure they will man patience is key. You already know
I’ve been doing the same thing! A lot of the good SIRs from SV and IRs are stupid cheap right now. As well as vintage. I had a GameStop gift card and picked up 10 sleeved boosters of sparks.. and didn’t pull a damn thing. Good reminder of why I don’t really buy packs that much I suppose. Def not buying into the hype, I will wait it out. Once prismatic comes out, sparks will be an after thought for the hype crowd anyway. 🤷🏻♀️
Great video! The hype is so crazy for SS and Priz that emotions are running ridiculously high. I love the boom.
Pulled the epic Pika on 3rd pack from a single booster bundle from Best Buy. I was floored. I have crap luck with pulls.
That is awesome my dude!! Love it
@BotterBro Yeah, shit luck has finally moved positive, lol
Jeez that’s lucky congrats!
I’ve been trying to collect the original Japanese base set, fossil, jungle, gym trainer, rocket and it’s awesome how cheap those cards are. I got a pretty nice base set charizard for 50$
The worst thing I noticed in my two booster boxes (and one my LGS opened while I was in there is how the duplicates lined up. If you numbed the packs 1-36 every two packs 1/2 3/4 5/6 and so on, had the exact same common cards.
Yup, I'm also a 2 free digital packs a day guy. I'm also the guy checking Pokemon Center 5 x a day looking for ETB restocks...I can't be investing real money in both, if I wanna win.
Fair enough 👍🏽
I got like 3 booster boxes and open three of them got pretty decent pulls but don’t get your hopes up thinking you’ll get the top card just have low expectations best advice I can give you
For sure the top card is always a hard card to pull
I just found you channel and this is the first video I watched and honestly bro I found you hilarious, tellin it how it is, keep makin great content
I like the new set . As a collector. You get a little bored so thus is a fresh breathe
4:40 lmao 😅😊😂😮
Found 6 surging sparks packs in the wild. All just holos lol. 😂 I’m out. Not going out of my way to hunt for packs like with CZ or ES
my store usually gets a good amount of new product on release but we barely got any etb's and a hand full of blisters
If your opening go with BBs. Ive opened a couple bundles and etbs. Got completely rinsed 🤣 $200 down the drain.
im new collector, iv pulled from a few of the newer sets, surging sparks feels real bad
Dang really?
Preordered a booster box that remained in "delayed shipping" for three days only for it to be cancelled so I can understand the feeling. It's annoying when these online stores put up pre-orders BEFORE they get their allocation numbers.
But tbh I want the SIR Galvantula more than anything else right now and that card really isn't that badly priced. I just like my spooders. :D
People are really out here throwing hands, and trashing the stock of products just for shiny cardboard. Just like the Stanley Cup craze, it feels too similar.
Pull rates on sparks still better than evo cries or chilling pain by a mile
Truth SWSH pre trainer gallery was rough
I will never understand what people like about the charizard from 151.
I personally like the whole set not just charizard. Pretty cool story got all three of them framed together.
It’s an iconic art. It’s ok to not have taste.
The Latios AR is heavily slept on right now.
I love how I can get 2 or 3 art rares for less than what a pack would cost. I’ve kinda just been going set by set after like 2 months of it coming out and getting all the art rares I want for like the price of a booster bundle. It’s great 😊 👍
I opened a 6 pack booster bundle from target. Got a pikachu ex and an exeggcute sir. Also got an ex card. Not bad pull rates.
For me the pull rates have been absolutely garbage . I've opened 4 etbs 4 booster bundles 75 sleeved singles. And I got 1 durant sir. 7 ir 6 full art 12 ex 6 ace spec . Seems to be alot harder on pull rates for this set. But it's all good I'll just buy the singles of the few cards I still want.
I remember when Max did so many BB openings of S&M for rbw zard. That was really bad.
It was, it really was. People forget how bad it used to be
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Pulled the pik first box last pack I’m happy
I pulled my chase (latios) but my issue wasn’t with the pull rates but the quality control, the back was basically whitening across the sides straight from a pack
That's normal. You don't get a gem mint with every pull if you did psa 10s wouldn't be worth so much. I understand how you feel but I think your expectations are unrealistic for a card game
To each it’s own hell it happens but I was fortunate with just two booster bundles. Seen rainbow borders twice in each bundle A couple illustration rares as well one bundle had four hits the other bundle had three hits
I opened 5 PC Etb's and didnt get sh*t, I am not opening anymore, just gonna keep it sealed.
I have zeros concerns about surging sparks and if I don’t get any products it doesn’t matter to me. If need be I will buy the cards I would like to have (Latias ex, hydreigon ex, milotic ex, larvesta, latios, Appleton and flapple.
Flapple and Appleton are so good
Surging my sparks till I SIR
Oh that’s so surging sparks right now
Been saying the same thing about obsidian for friggin ever. Its not a crazy set. Its been cheap as hell forever and there are some really cool cards in it. It also has the benefit of being relatively small and the pull rates were good making it an easy master set. I'm honestly shocked that people can look at the patterns in this hobby and still be surprised by prices. Its wild.
Pulled the pikachu on my first booster bundle. Great pull rates imo
GG
My wife and I have opened about 80 packs and no sir. She did pull the Latios though.
I opened 1 etb and 1 booster bundle. Got 2 Reg Ex
Sometimes I genuinely feel like these videos are targeted directly at shit I've said personally. LMAO
Quoting myself: "Surging sparks is not a fun set, its overpriced, overhyped, the art is overrated and the rates are garbage.
My buddy opened one etb, got an sir, ar, trainer, and rainbow exegotor
Sheesh that’s good luck