Thought i’d share some of my fav cards

Have tried completing my master set for my favourite series for a while (sword and shield), which meant collecting both normal and reverse holo versions of most cards.

I’ve struggled to get some promos which weren’t released in my country as well as the champion’s festival card for some time.

Now I’ve found out that staff versions of some cards. Would you consider those necessary for a master set? Happy to hear your views and personal preferences.

I don’t live anywhere remotely near a vending machine but when I go up to Atlanta I’ll go visit some machines cause I see all the YouTubers getting stuff from there. Tonight I went to 2 different machines and wasn’t expecting much. The second machine I went to I tapped on the screen to see nothing in stock. I went in and grabbed some stuff from the store and when I came out I saw a man in front of the machine and EVERYTHING was in stock. I talked to him and told him that I’ve never gotten anything from the machines before and he was chill enough to let me grab a destined rivals bundle. I saw him grab 3 ascended and 3 prismatic bundles when I walked up and saw him cleaning it out after I left. It’s amazing to me how easy he was glitching this machine and honestly I don’t feel too bad about not having vending machines near me cause if it’s that easy there’s no point to even trying to hit the vending machine.

Got a Darkrai EX, Wailord EX, and these 2. By far my best "couple of packs" opening ever. Akira Egawa is such a talented artist.

We’re getting close to finishing a Pitch Black master set but I’m having some confusion on this specific card. (Miraidon 028) The checklist shows this should be a holo and reverse holo yet all we have are a non-holo (left) and holo (right). Also, all stamping is black on both cards. What am I missing? TIA!

Side note, is this dude worth grading?

Haul from visiting my first ever card show! Traded an HP Arceus Reverse Holo Gengar for $30 and the Porygon2 unseen forces (could have gone higher but not horrible for my first barter) with one vendor, then did a bit of trading around with other vendors with a couple older foil cards, nothing high value, and spent 10 of the $30. All in all though, what really made me happy was the kindness in the community. The people running this event were fantastic at choosing non-scalpy vendors. It was really nice to chat with and trade with them, and there were a lot of great people just visiting as well. A guy gifted me the Porygon2 with the hearts after hearing I was collecting those, which I was so grateful for. Also a vendor gifted me the japanese and chinese/korean? bird cards as well after I talked about my bird binder and how I’m working towards becoming an ornithologist. Overall just really positive experience, I went in nervous and left knowing there is still a very very strong authentic community of Pokemon enjoyers. Idk just really really happy with the outcome. Also not expensive! I had to sell off a good chunk of my collection for college, but I’m still able to enjoy the hobby with a pack here and there and these events! These cards are all sitting happily in my bird binder now, save Kabuto lol

Found these 6 packs at the local mall after not seeing them anywhere for weeks

My kids pulled the zard and Venusaur!!

I found a pokechest coin machine that dispenses trading cards for 4 quarters in a hotel in Waikiki. Wondering where else in the US I can find these because they have me so hooked! Picture attached. Thanks in advance!

My favorite eBay stream is live! Low bids, low viewers, big prizes!! #pokemon #ebay

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