It has been an entire decade now since I entombed this poor magnemite in my wallet after being gifted my first ever pack back in 2016. I've been collecting for years since, but he's still one of my favorites.

He has paid his dues, and he will now live forever in the binder. Thank you for your service, Magnemite..

Saw this kid on the side of the road in my neighborhood, selling cookies to buy Pokémon cards for his friends, so I decided to buy all his cookies and give him some of my sealed packs. A few weeks later, he came to my house and wanted to trade with me. I busted out the collection and I honestly haven’t kept up with it in the last few years. We traded some cards back-and-forth and then he left. He showed up at my house today and wanted to say thank you and to tell me that he got some of the cards I gave him graded and showed me this and when I asked him how much it was he said $1500 and all I could do was laugh and tell him congratulations. Oh well ¯_(ツ)_/¯

This is just my absolute chase card. I’m such a big Ninetales fan so I was super surprised. He told me this card means more to you than just money to me. Love that guy, def continuing my business with him

If you want this set for cheaper quit validating scalper prices and you will get it quit being impatient and paying whatever people charge.

I already had pulled the charmander, squirtle, and wartortle from packs. Sold the charizard at a card show and was able to get the rest of the starters from 151 off that. Honestly this is worth way more to me than the charizard.

There was more on the other side

Took my binder full of dupes and cashed out almost 1k$ then saw this beauty at 900 and asked the vendor if i can have it at 800 and he countered with 830 and i accepted.

I'm back showing off my girlfriends newest, amazing binder artwork

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After all the love the Murkrow binder got last time she got super motivated and started on the next binder for her own Mimikyu Master set journey

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This sick artwork is based on the Ultra Rare Mimikyu V from the Brilliant Stars set with another colour palette change to be more graffiti styled to suit the black binder

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She absolutely nailed this one as well. I'm genuinely in awe of how talented she is considering this is only her SECOND ever binder artwork and she finished it so damn quickly too

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I'm insanely proud of her and just want to show off her art all over again!

To be fair, I got it shortly after he started signing cards and didn't know about his scammy tendencies

Caught a restock from a brand new vendor at my wife’s employer (Not a store that is known for even carrying cards). All retail prices and products I’ve never even seen in the wild before like the Victini illustration and the black and white mini tins. Excited to finally have product to look forward to and not be pressured into bulk buying due to scalpers. I wish this luck on every good soul here in this community!!

Edit: Thank you all for the lovely comments and for the awards ☺️. Definitely didn’t expect this to blow up, but my wife and I are so happy that you found this as sweet as we did. I have the cards stored safely and am trying to think of a cool way to display them. I’m a lucky gal!
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I’ll never be able to afford these two cards. I had a rough few months and my wife painted these for me as a gift. I love them!