I was really looking forward to Temporal Forces' release. The set has some of my favorite artworks of the SV era so far including on just C/UC cards (Golurk, Shaymin, Victini to name a few) but the opening experience has really soured my opinion. I thought at the very least that this set would match the pull rates of Paradox with hitting what felt like either 1 SIR or hyper rare per booster box. That felt like an appropriate balance to me. Rare enough that it felt like you hit big when you got one, but not so hard to get that you need to break the bank. I'm not a fan at all that TEF has seemingly taken yet another step backwards. I've opened 4 BB so far and although I got exactly 14 hits out of each, I only got 1 SIR total out of all 4. Its quite interesting to me that with pull rates like this the preorder prices of the huge hitter cards aren't higher. I thought there'd be at least 1 or 2 that were over the $100 mark. Either way, probably not going to be opening much more if any of this set for a good while. On one hand, its nice to have a little break to focus on filling out my collection of other sets, but I really would have loved TEF to have been a better opening experience too.
I actually saw the crown zenith bundles that looked like these at Walmart. I grabbed the 2 they had left and they scanned at self checkout for $5 each! Somebody messed up 😂
Glad to be skipping this set from opening. Will just buy singles. I am not wasting my money opening packs. Pokeco can suck my deek and milk deez nutz instead.
The only positive that came out of the production of the S/V set is that the prices of the singles in these sets has become affordable to buy singles of. I've found that waiting a few weeks, I can just buy the 5-6 hits I really want for ym collection still lower than the price of the booster box
Honestly i wonder if the changed the box look because it looked so similar to the build n battles, at a card store i work at people get them confused so easily.
They didn't want to give us free deck boxes So they decided to make these booster bundles trashy looking. Now you get your boosters, but can't use it for a deck box.
Thanks for taking one for the team Danny, I’ve opened 2 booster boxes and I pulled: 2 SIRs, 4 IRs, 5 FAs, 4 ACEs, and 12 DRs. Happy with my boxes, sorry yours have been rough 🫡
I have noticed that from the boosters ive opened you either get the crappy booster more than likely that comes with 2 full art pokemon and 1 full art trainer or you get the good booster box sometimes that comes with 1 gold card and 2 full art pokemon and 1 sar card
Not thrilled about the pull rates, already feel like the packs are expensive enough and the sets are so frequent. Struggling to get involved with the SV era
The low pull-rates of this set are definitely a let down. I've heard from multiple people opening multiple cases of BB that SIRs and Hyper Rares are significantly more rare in this set compared to the last. I completely agree that Paradox Rift felt like a better middle-ground for pull-rates.
Pokémon said oh you want to hoard the booster bundles as sealed box, bet. Hold this brown cardboard as a sealed box. They want their tcg to be that a TRADING CARDS GAME.
wow. pull rates look to be a little better than 1 hit in every 3 packs but a bit of a bummer to see more towards the regular ex. My son got pretty lucky and pulled the Gouging Fire SIR at the pre-release
My box was really good in terms of quality and quantity but I didn’t get any of my chases unfortunately. I got an SAR walking Wake, gold iron boulder, hero’s cape & reboot pod ace specs, full art Gengar & full art Eri. For IRs I got bronzor, cinccino & Reuniclus and 6 regular art EXs. There are definitely good boxes out there but of course it’s always a gamble.
Hey phanny, long time follower, new chatter. Fellow LGS owner here and the reason they changed it in my opinion is because they looked so similar to build and battles. Thats always one of the questions i get asked in store when people see my build and battle kits they ask me if they are booster bundles. Maybe changing the shape was to give it a unique product identity. Hope this helps, keep up the awesome work my man!
But didn't they not do a build box for Temporal Forces? That makes sense as incan see why some would get confused but if they aren't doing those anyways why change it now?
Hard for master collectors but it’s nice for the poketraders keeps the market alive I think they might do that with the next few iteration’s going forward for this reason. Tbh the scarlet and violet series we’ve had it kind of easy with what you can pull…I think it’s just swings and roundabouts
Idk if it's all over, just in Canada or just at my walmart, but they have all ETBs on for $60 CAD. I picked up 2 Paldea Evolved ETBs to put away for a rainy day. :3
I opened two booster boxes and pulled the Bianca sir, raging bolt sir, gastly ir, litten ir. those where my favorite pulls and the gastly and litten are my most wanted ir cards so I was super happy about that! guess I got lucky getting sir in both my booster boxes. I pulled a bunch of other stuff but that was my highlights for my taste!
Good video! Looks like the new packaging holds the packs in place a bit better, though I could be wrong. Could be a possible reasoning to change packaging
The bundles are limited to 25 on pokemon centre. Assume this design change means anyone ordering 25 in future will just receive a full case. Rather than lose bundles
I opened my first booster box the other day and got 2 illustrations, 2 full arts, 1 Ace a bunch of regular exs' and no special illustrations! This is definitely going to be a very rough set.😅
Pokemon increased the price of their products and made the pull rate harder. My local Target is filled to the brim with hardly anyone touching them anymore.
I skipped Paldean Fates with the plan to attack Temporal Forces. I guess I need to take a pause for a bit and see where everything is at. Sort of glad I didn’t preorder yet.
Personnaly, I will buy 2 ETBs and then just go after singles. Not going to jump onto many sealed products this time around. Just wish Pokemon wouldn’t release set after set. Perhaps take a little bit of time between releases. Haven’t even recovered from 151.
Hmmmm watched a lot of Temporal Forces openings now. Wondering if the high end rarities have been stolen by workers ala Fusion Strike and Evolving Skies...... Seriously missing the big hits.
Hi! New to pokemon cards but i was thinking to start collecting some cards. I'm living in Iceland and so far i could find only Temporal Forces and Paldean Fates. Witch one would you recommend i should start with or to wait for a new collection? Much appreciate it!
Honestly I would’ve been a little ticked that no SIR was pulled in all those packs but that’s the game I guess. Buying all the singles in like 3 months for sure
I dont understand how anyone who is a legitimate collector could want hits to be rarer. The only logical reason for that is you want to sell the cards. It makes no sense and its really frustrating. At this rate by the next set it will be one SIR per case
Prices going up and pull rates going down doesn't make sense. I think that paradox rift was much closer to perfect pull rates. The first few SV sets over did it but paradox was almost 1 SIR per booster box which I thought was a good balance. Bad pull rates doesn't even make it better for collectors if the cards aren't desirable. The cards are beautiful but so far the real bangers have been newer gen pokemon and therefore less desirable overall. Bad pull rates on less desirable sets just means bad sales for storefronts. I love ripping packs of any set but I'm going to keep a lot more of my stuff sealed and buy singles.
My theory on booster bundles has always been: a booster box divvied into 6 packages of 6. So, to me, it made sense that after opening 6 bundles, the number of hits was basically the same as a booster box. I can't speak to the quality aspect of it, but this video shows -- like everything else Pokemon -- booster bundles are a roll of the dice.
When it comes down to it, all packs from any one set have equal pull rates. The only reason people think booster boxes are more consistent with pull rates is because booster boxes have the most packs for any single sealed item making pull rates feel more consistent.
Love these videos phanny. It seems like those booster bundles are worse than other products. Idk if that’s a conspiracy theory or not but it felt the same in 151
Thats crazy that they've changed the pull rates on these openings honestly. Not only makes it harder for children and and young adults it just ruins the fun of the low pull rates honestly. For the people starting to look at these cards they can def look for singles instead of getting booster packs. As amazing as the cards look id def prefer getting singles for this. Anyways pretty awesome opening man.
I love collecting. Just started last year and have s&v base set mastered and 151 just missing Blastoise and Venasaur SIR to master. I have been also trying to keep up with all s&v promos but am missing a few. Bad news is I have fallen on hard times and might have to sell my collection. I wish I could at least win this Master set and keep my shiny mew from PF that I will never get rid of that would be AMAZING. love your content and wish everyone the best!
I was really looking forward to Temporal Forces' release. The set has some of my favorite artworks of the SV era so far including on just C/UC cards (Golurk, Shaymin, Victini to name a few) but the opening experience has really soured my opinion. I thought at the very least that this set would match the pull rates of Paradox with hitting what felt like either 1 SIR or hyper rare per booster box. That felt like an appropriate balance to me. Rare enough that it felt like you hit big when you got one, but not so hard to get that you need to break the bank. I'm not a fan at all that TEF has seemingly taken yet another step backwards.
I've opened 4 BB so far and although I got exactly 14 hits out of each, I only got 1 SIR total out of all 4. Its quite interesting to me that with pull rates like this the preorder prices of the huge hitter cards aren't higher. I thought there'd be at least 1 or 2 that were over the $100 mark. Either way, probably not going to be opening much more if any of this set for a good while. On one hand, its nice to have a little break to focus on filling out my collection of other sets, but I really would have loved TEF to have been a better opening experience too.
Walmart Crown Zenith was the first time I saw this design of booster box.
that’s how the crown zenith bundles look
The hangers make sense, but I like the other boxes, I use them all as cheap deck boxes for all my random decks I make and have sitting around
That’s disappointing, my kid likes those old style booster boxes to carry her cards around. They were great holding sleeved cards too.
Buy her a deck box
I actually saw the crown zenith bundles that looked like these at Walmart. I grabbed the 2 they had left and they scanned at self checkout for $5 each! Somebody messed up 😂
which walmart? lol
wow bargain!
Glad to be skipping this set from opening. Will just buy singles. I am not wasting my money opening packs. Pokeco can suck my deek and milk deez nutz instead.
Also seen the cz bundles like that but they certainly weren't five dollars lol
Did you pull anything nice tho?
Getting rid of the storage box is a terrible idea
I always thought the booster bundles were perfect size. It looks like 3 times the size now.
That's a shame pull rates seem nerfed.
Some people mentioned the size change might be to help reduce shrink in stores. Not sure if it's true
these bundles look to be in the same style as the walmart crown zenith bundles
The only positive that came out of the production of the S/V set is that the prices of the singles in these sets has become affordable to buy singles of. I've found that waiting a few weeks, I can just buy the 5-6 hits I really want for ym collection still lower than the price of the booster box
Honestly i wonder if the changed the box look because it looked so similar to the build n battles, at a card store i work at people get them confused so easily.
I don’t get why Pokemon had to add more packaging to only 6 booster packs . The small booster bundle was so perfect
They didn't want to give us free deck boxes
So they decided to make these booster bundles trashy looking.
Now you get your boosters, but can't use it for a deck box.
it's like chilling rain but with less chase cards 😅
the only reason i can think for the change is for shipping but i hate those new boxes. i liked how you could use the old boxes to store cards.
Yes!! Part of the allure for me was the self-storage. Not a fan of the change!
TPCI are useless. Zero quality control and not getting better and now creating even more packaging waste. Such a terrible company.
Its probably just to make people think bigger box = more packs, or to differentiate booster bundle/build and battle.
Thanks for taking one for the team Danny, I’ve opened 2 booster boxes and I pulled: 2 SIRs, 4 IRs, 5 FAs, 4 ACEs, and 12 DRs. Happy with my boxes, sorry yours have been rough 🫡
I have noticed that from the boosters ive opened you either get the crappy booster more than likely that comes with 2 full art pokemon and 1 full art trainer or you get the good booster box sometimes that comes with 1 gold card and 2 full art pokemon and 1 sar card
So I opened two booster box cases (12 boxes total). Missing 5 for a master set.
Don't believe you for a second 😂
I rip 648 temporal forces packs, total of 3 cases booster box. There was a total of 4 sir hit. This set will be hard to master.
Dang so it does seem to be roughly 1 sir per 4 booster boxes. That's rough
Oof that seems really low. I thought me pulling 3 sirs out of a case was bad but 4 in 3 cases is just a money waste.
@@샤넬-r7o damn, guess I was lucky to get the one i did when I bought 2 booster boxes.
Not thrilled about the pull rates, already feel like the packs are expensive enough and the sets are so frequent. Struggling to get involved with the SV era
I love the old style booster bundles. I put bulk in those and then put the bundles in an etb when I sell my bulk. What the heck pokemon!
The low pull-rates of this set are definitely a let down. I've heard from multiple people opening multiple cases of BB that SIRs and Hyper Rares are significantly more rare in this set compared to the last. I completely agree that Paradox Rift felt like a better middle-ground for pull-rates.
Pokémon said oh you want to hoard the booster bundles as sealed box, bet. Hold this brown cardboard as a sealed box. They want their tcg to be that a TRADING CARDS GAME.
It's strange because usually they try and shrink down how much cardboard and stuff they use it seems but they went backwards here
wow. pull rates look to be a little better than 1 hit in every 3 packs but a bit of a bummer to see more towards the regular ex. My son got pretty lucky and pulled the Gouging Fire SIR at the pre-release
Opened a box and got no SIRs. There's no guarantee on the english boxes right?
My box was really good in terms of quality and quantity but I didn’t get any of my chases unfortunately. I got an SAR walking Wake, gold iron boulder, hero’s cape & reboot pod ace specs, full art Gengar & full art Eri. For IRs I got bronzor, cinccino & Reuniclus and 6 regular art EXs. There are definitely good boxes out there but of course it’s always a gamble.
Maybe the design change was cause the booster bundle looked very similar to build and battle box???
Thanks for pulling this data together, really helps!
Hey phanny, long time follower, new chatter. Fellow LGS owner here and the reason they changed it in my opinion is because they looked so similar to build and battles. Thats always one of the questions i get asked in store when people see my build and battle kits they ask me if they are booster bundles. Maybe changing the shape was to give it a unique product identity. Hope this helps, keep up the awesome work my man!
But didn't they not do a build box for Temporal Forces? That makes sense as incan see why some would get confused but if they aren't doing those anyways why change it now?
Hard for master collectors but it’s nice for the poketraders keeps the market alive I think they might do that with the next few iteration’s going forward for this reason. Tbh the scarlet and violet series we’ve had it kind of easy with what you can pull…I think it’s just swings and roundabouts
Idk if it's all over, just in Canada or just at my walmart, but they have all ETBs on for $60 CAD. I picked up 2 Paldea Evolved ETBs to put away for a rainy day. :3
I opened two booster boxes and pulled the Bianca sir, raging bolt sir, gastly ir, litten ir. those where my favorite pulls and the gastly and litten are my most wanted ir cards so I was super happy about that! guess I got lucky getting sir in both my booster boxes. I pulled a bunch of other stuff but that was my highlights for my taste!
What do you mean by master set? Do you mean all reverses holos and rares etc or just the base cards?
Wow! Felt like most pulled fire at our pre-release. Thought the pull rates would be way better. 😅
I have 8 of the CZ bundles that are the same size. Due to CZ not having a booster box I think of 6 of these as close to a BB as possible.
Good video! Looks like the new packaging holds the packs in place a bit better, though I could be wrong. Could be a possible reasoning to change packaging
Are these booster bundles comparable in pricing? Kind of silly to change to trash only packaging when previous could still be used as a cheap deckbox.
These boxes reming of the crown zenith boxes that had 6 packs I believe I think it was a booster bundle I seen a couple of them at Walmart
I noticed cards in Booster Bundles had bad quality. Hopefully this fixes that
I think this is why this did it...
The good thing is it'll make cards rare'er in 151. Heheheee
The bundles are limited to 25 on pokemon centre. Assume this design change means anyone ordering 25 in future will just receive a full case. Rather than lose bundles
I hope the deerling / sawbuck combo art work is a strong indicator of a return to the Legendary card combos like Raikiu and Suicune from 2010s!
I opened my first booster box the other day and got 2 illustrations, 2 full arts, 1 Ace a bunch of regular exs' and no special illustrations! This is definitely going to be a very rough set.😅
Pokemon increased the price of their products and made the pull rate harder. My local Target is filled to the brim with hardly anyone touching them anymore.
I skipped Paldean Fates with the plan to attack Temporal Forces. I guess I need to take a pause for a bit and see where everything is at. Sort of glad I didn’t preorder yet.
I open a case of booster boxes only 1 sir out of a case seeing a lot of other people get the same while opening
Interestingly enough the Pokémon center vending machines are stocking the original Booster bundle design for tbis set
Personnaly, I will buy 2 ETBs and then just go after singles. Not going to jump onto many sealed products this time around. Just wish Pokemon wouldn’t release set after set. Perhaps take a little bit of time between releases. Haven’t even recovered from 151.
Wow, that was kinda rough. I bought a single pack of Cyber Justice and ended up getting an Ace Spec (the one that looks like a gas pump).
Wow how many packs ripped to already be 4 cards from master set
Hmmmm watched a lot of Temporal Forces openings now. Wondering if the high end rarities have been stolen by workers ala Fusion Strike and Evolving Skies...... Seriously missing the big hits.
bought one to get the gamestop promo. Only got a regular illustration rare and a normal ex
Problem is they're over printing now when there's not as much demand imo. When that happens, the quality control is bound to suffer.
CANT WAIT TO CRACK THIS SET
i fully expect the value of this set to drop but slowly climb 151 handled the market pretty well tough set to beat
I like the old booster bundle design over the new one
Got one yesterday. Seems like alot of box for 6 packs
Did people just forget about Crown Zenith booster bundles?
Hi! New to pokemon cards but i was thinking to start collecting some cards. I'm living in Iceland and so far i could find only Temporal Forces and Paldean Fates. Witch one would you recommend i should start with or to wait for a new collection? Much appreciate it!
maybe it was changed due to the shipping costs. i imagine now its cheaper to ship.
I just got into the TCG, thinking of making this set my first Box purchase. Maybe one to open and one to hold on to
This might explain why I didn't get any hits in my pre-release.
The packs are less damaged in these boxes Interesting if you want to keep mint packs in your sealed collection
They have a bunch of those for sword and shield sets even crown zenith
Thank you for always keeping us in the loop as much as you can!
This set is going to be tough but I still think the price of singles will be similar to paradox.
They save on the shipping? Could be one of the reasons.
Honestly I would’ve been a little ticked that no SIR was pulled in all those packs but that’s the game I guess. Buying all the singles in like 3 months for sure
Where do you think Danny orders the cases I've been trying to find place that sell cases never can
He says he has a store, so I assume directly from the factory.
@@ChiefManny1 makes sense any time I've tried to reach him on Instagram no reply just sucks
Happy Tuesday everyone! :)
Pull rates do indeed look tough, probably just going to pikc up one or 2 singles from this set 😅
I bought a few Crowne Zenith booster bundles that looked just like this
I picked up a bunch of this style but for Crown Zenith
They had to differentiate it from the Build N Battles
Opened 1 booster box and 2 etbs and no gold or sir. Rough pull rates for ne
Watched your recent stream and you're not wrong about the pullrates. It looked painful
feel like i must have scored big with grabbing one booster and getting the eri SIR
Need the trainer cards over the Pokémon for temporal forces the Salvatore cards is sick mortys conviction good too
Id imagine they changed the packaging so vendors had more options, the bundles would end up all over the place
Thought I would hate it, but the the cards look way too cool to hate. Sorry to hear that they are a lot if issues with QC.
I like the old boxes…I use them for cheap deck boxes when building decks.
Like the old model better because I collect each set box. Guess we have to adapt lol
I dont understand how anyone who is a legitimate collector could want hits to be rarer. The only logical reason for that is you want to sell the cards. It makes no sense and its really frustrating. At this rate by the next set it will be one SIR per case
Dang. I was gonna snag a booster box ASAP… maybe not! I won’t be grabbing any bundles that’s for sure
Wow, started really good...and then went really cold..
I believe the new packaging is to keep the packs from bouncing around damaging the cards people complaining about quality control
Prices going up and pull rates going down doesn't make sense. I think that paradox rift was much closer to perfect pull rates. The first few SV sets over did it but paradox was almost 1 SIR per booster box which I thought was a good balance. Bad pull rates doesn't even make it better for collectors if the cards aren't desirable. The cards are beautiful but so far the real bangers have been newer gen pokemon and therefore less desirable overall. Bad pull rates on less desirable sets just means bad sales for storefronts. I love ripping packs of any set but I'm going to keep a lot more of my stuff sealed and buy singles.
I like to get one of each product that comes out for a new set, but I'll definitely focus on buying singles after my initial opening.
My theory on booster bundles has always been: a booster box divvied into 6 packages of 6. So, to me, it made sense that after opening 6 bundles, the number of hits was basically the same as a booster box. I can't speak to the quality aspect of it, but this video shows -- like everything else Pokemon -- booster bundles are a roll of the dice.
When it comes down to it, all packs from any one set have equal pull rates. The only reason people think booster boxes are more consistent with pull rates is because booster boxes have the most packs for any single sealed item making pull rates feel more consistent.
Love these videos phanny. It seems like those booster bundles are worse than other products. Idk if that’s a conspiracy theory or not but it felt the same in 151
Thats crazy that they've changed the pull rates on these openings honestly. Not only makes it harder for children and and young adults it just ruins the fun of the low pull rates honestly. For the people starting to look at these cards they can def look for singles instead of getting booster packs.
As amazing as the cards look id def prefer getting singles for this. Anyways pretty awesome opening man.
Evolving skies type pull rates….interesting 🙃
I could tell pull rates we’re going to be tough
Really helpful as usual. Will definitely open less with the adjustment to pull rates
Thanks for the content Danny!! God bless you and the family!!
I love collecting. Just started last year and have s&v base set mastered and 151 just missing Blastoise and Venasaur SIR to master. I have been also trying to keep up with all s&v promos but am missing a few. Bad news is I have fallen on hard times and might have to sell my collection. I wish I could at least win this Master set and keep my shiny mew from PF that I will never get rid of that would be AMAZING. love your content and wish everyone the best!
Oof got a booster box early from my lcs and got 1 gold 1 sir 3 full arts, 2 ir, and 6 exs, thought pull rates were great again, guess not 😂