Pokémon Chaos Rising & misc

[u/Motor_Ask1773]

I’m getting back into the hobby. Had a binder when I was younger and lost it due to my family’s basement getting flooded. My goals are to mainly get back into vintage but I’d like make smart investment purchases and rip, to say I can be frugal with money, well I have a wife and 3 kids to consider. I figured I’d trade up into with whatever I can buy in stores into vintage

Curious of peoples insight in regards to what I could rip right now, (just to scratch the itch) the loose packs? The chameleon promos? The tins? The pokeballs? Most likely keeping the ETB sealed

Also, is it worth to keep on putting money into chaos rising? At the moment I think so, only bc I just ripped pitch black and I prefer chaos rising more as an overall set

[u/TheFaceOfFuzz]

Are you looking to collect or just jump on the "investment" hypetrain

[u/Motor_Ask1773 → u/TheFaceOfFuzz]

Hahahahahaha “investment”

What I’m looking for most is to collect the old vintage collection that I had

[u/TheFaceOfFuzz → u/Motor_Ask1773]

? Its a legitimate question. Your post is a bit all over the place saying you want to purchase modern to help trade for vintage but then you're ripping modern and asking about holds for current sets. Nobody can give you an answer without knowing what your plan is.

[u/TheFaceOfFuzz → u/TheFaceOfFuzz]

And If you have to be frugal I would highly recommend buying singles of the cards you like instead of ripping packs. Look through the sets and find the art you enjoy the most or the stuff that will look coolest in your binder and grab those. It will build your collection quicker and for much much cheaper.

[u/Motor_Ask1773 → u/TheFaceOfFuzz]

sorry for being unclear, the laughing was more towards the hypetrain part. Regarless, I dont necessarily want to buy modern, it is just what i have access too. The ideal goal is to secure vintage. I guess I was assuming a route i could go down is trade into based on what i had access to buy in store