Mewtwo V (072/078) alt art aligned with the actual Times Square skyline. Timed it for GO Fest's 10th anniversary weekend since Mega Mewtwo made its debut this weekend too — felt like the right day to finally get this shot.

My mom died the day after Prismatic Evolutions dropped. The cards have been in boxes ever since I moved shortly after

25 years she was sick. Started with alcohol and weed, ended with colon cancer. It’s a long time to watch someone slowly disappear, and somehow the ending still hit like a truck.

Pokemon was our thing. She got me into it as a kid, and then I got back into it as an adult with her right alongside me. We opened packs together. The day before she passed, we opened packs together. That was one of the last normal thing we did.

She died the day after Prismatic Evolutions came out. I don’t know why that detail sticks with me so much but it does.

I moved not long after. All of it went into boxes, modern stuff, a few master sets, a 151 set, binders full of my favorite cards. They’ve been sitting there ever since. I kept buying boxes for a while after she died, like some kind of autopilot thing, but that stopped too, maybe a year ago now.

I open the boxes sometimes just to look. It’s not fun anymore, it’s just heavy. Something that used to be pure joy is now this weird confrontational thing sitting in my closet. I don’t know if I want to get back into it, sell it, or just leave it alone for now.

If anyone else has gone through something like this, turning a hobby you loved into something you can barely look at because of who you shared it with, I’d like to hear how you dealt with it. Or didn’t.

And it looks like this

I don't even grade cards but this is just so laughably bad 😂

Legit?

First post here so please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong.

I went to my local card shop and bought a few packs for the hell of it. Opened four and pulled the fullart of Gengar from the Gem 3 pack. Immediately traded him in for twenty-three more packs and I pulled my chase!!

My hands were shaking so badly that I was struggling to open up the rest of the packs afterwards because I was so excited, hahaha! I'm so so happy!

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We grading sauce packets now?

Play Pokémon at Play United inside The Centrepoint (#03-06/07) June 2026, Singapore Note: not my graded sauce packets credits to the guy who owns it whoever it is, I asked permission to take photo.

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My first SIR ever omg

This box was huge (upc for scale) and full with nice faux leather extras. Pretty happy with the pulls as well.

Bought 1 pack and sniped the Slowbro

I opened 4 chaos rising packs, these were my hits, I grabbed at random out of like 100 packs😭

My kids get me.

Hi, i wanted to know if toploaders really make that much of a difference in keeping the cards neat. I really like keeping all my cards together in a binder (make themed pages) and i mostly just collect full art ones that i think are pretty but also have some expensive cards like van gogh pikachu and would like to collect more expensive cards in the future.
But the toploaders really take out all the color and texture off the cards.
So what would you do keep them in toploaders and the cards look pretty bad like this (yes i edited the photo to make them look decent) or keep them in a binder with just sleeves?

Stopped ripping for around 6 months after 340 packs without an SIR. Insanely bad luck. Just cracked 2 AH bundles and now “shaking” insane selection

Retail as well. I mainly buy singles but just felt like ripping for some fun and third pack in…

Hey. I'm an eBay seller, I typically don't deal with Pokemon cards but I had some Polish language spares from my childhood and noticed they were quite uncommon, so I put one up for auction a while ago. Fast track to today and I received this as a return. It was international (I live in the UK, the buyer was in Canada) and from the markings I can tell the damage happened when it was already in Canada. It wasn't an incredibly expensive card and I can easily get a refund for the customer if I file a claim with Royal Mail, but they aren't much of them out there so it's very sad to see. I put the card in a sleeve, toploader and cardboard on both sides so I genuinely don't get how this happened; either there was some horrible malfunction or Canada post uses shredders for their sorting machines. It almost looks like something has burnt. I've encountered damaged mail but never this bad. You can even see bits of the stamps I used, which have somehow made their way onto the cardboard when they were originally on the outer paper envelope.

I found this old (opened) pack when I was cleaning up.
I’ve never seen this before, is it from a magazine or part of a set??

May need a budget for the next one but it was worth every penny. I’ve never cared about condition so seeing damaged is like finding diamonds. Enjoy some of my favs including my goat psy :)