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I've been slowly working on filling out a decent Pokémon card collection over the last few months. I'm staying a bit casual and only started fairly recently, so it's nothing to raise an eyebrow yet. Plasma Blast was my most complete collection when I started, so I figured I'd try and fill that one out first. At the moment I'm up to 75 out of the 105 total for the expansion (including the secret cards). I'm also working on the Legendary Treasures Radiant Collection at the same time, and that's around halfway finished. My rule is that the card must be the highest tier available. If it's holo, I get that. Otherwise, I get the Reverse Holo of the card. If neither of those are possible, I get the First Edition of the card. The PSA Grade must be 7 or higher. I don't really open booster packs that much, so most of what I get is from Amazon.com or, in the rare case they don't have what I need, other sites that specialize in trading cards. Currently the most I have paid for a single card is Plasma Blast 96 (Full-Art Virizion-EX) at around $12, though considering the next set I'll be working on is the HeartGold & SoulSilver expansion, the LEGEND cards are likely to push that number up quite a bit. My favorite card so far is Call of Legends 75 (Vulpix), which apparently I have two of in collectible quality.

 

But counting the cards I'm not considering collectible, I probably have around a thousand cards total, give or take. Most of them are from the EX era, which in my opinion is the TCG's weakest era, owing mostly to its obsession with the e-Reader.

 

But what about you? Do you have a collection of Pokémon cards? How big is it and how much of it do you consider collectible? How long have you been working on it? What's your favorite card? What's your most valuable card? How badly do you wish they'd bring back Holon Pokémon?

 

And for everyone else, what collections do you have? Cards? Plushies? TF2 items? I myself have a level 21 Strange Collection for TF2, which I have spent much more on than my Pokémon collection. I also have some a few snipers and as many taunts as I can find at level 21.

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I used to collect pokemon cards when I was a kid, got some stuff that I think is kinda expensive?  I remember a few 3star rarity "shining" pokemon cards were the pride of my collection and I might have a misprint lying around somewhere?

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I only have a handful now.But I saved the rarest cards which are base set 1 charizard,blastoise, and venasuar with all their previous evolutions.

I also have a shining tyranitar my little brother found laying on the street.

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I found my deck from like 2002 a few months back. I had wayyyy too many energy cards lol. But I don't have many cards because I always lost them when playing against the other kids because they always beat me :( Still have a charmeleon card from my first opened pack that I never played because I didn't want to lose it lol

 

 

I do still have a fat stack of flippos though. My mum wanted to throw then away but I didn't let her :) flippos were cool as fuck

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My brother has an insane collection of Pokémon cards. I've briefly collected a long time ago; I remember getting the first deck to be released when I was 7 or 8 and felt all cool because it contained a sparky effect machamp (which of course is super common because that was a standard deck). I did a little trading but stopped collecting at some point either right before or right after the 3rd gen era, partially because my brother bested me anyway and Im a pretty sore loser (I was even more so back then). He spent his money on it and I felt like that'd be a waste :P

Collections I have? I have a large collection of puzzles (both 3d and flat ones), though I havent seen most of the flat ones in ages. I used to make them all the time when I was younger; had a floor full of them. I also have a small collection of rocks and minerals Ive either bought or found on hiking trips through the mountains, and I have a collection of glass orb ornaments. I tried to start a collection of winning lottery tickets, but Im failing miserably at that.

In TF2 I dont really collect anything specific, other than manndarin-sheened prof ks soldier stuff

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Oh and longer ago I used to collect bionicle lego figurines, and I had a stack of flippos and beyblades (if thats how you spell it; they were in chips bags). Almost forgot about those.

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I collect worries, wrinkles and existential / nihilistic crises on my way along a bitter, lonely journey towards the edge of my mortal coil. Also Red Text.

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I stopped collecting pokemon cards seriously around the time of Neo Destiny (Gold/Silver era). I still buy the occasional pack or so when me and my buddies get a hankering for a game, but most of my purchases nowadays is mainly for the pins that come with them. I'd guestimate my collection is around 2-3,000 cards.

 

As for other collections: For collectible games, the big ones would be Star Wars Miniatures and Star Trek CCG 1st Edition. both sets are ~90% complete with about 1,000 minis and 12,000 cards. I also collect various merchandise for both Wars and Trek, with my current focus being action figures and the like from my childhood (mid 90's). I also like to collect, build, and display Lego sets (with the occasional Mega Bloks one thrown in). Where my collecting becomes extreme is my gaming, both for board and video games. I've got around 100 different board/card games so far, and with video games, I'm sitting at around 1,500 physical games, with a heavy focus on the Xbox 360, which is about 60% complete (Collection link: https://vgcollect.com/emporerdragon).

 

As for TF2, it's all about the Green Confetti. While certainly not the most valuable collection, it is the 3rd largest single-effect collection out there, so that's still a feather in my cap.

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I collected Yu-Gi-Oh cards. I had at least 10 custom decks. Even had the Obelisk Tormentor. Wow. The memories... It was great going oustide with friends and just spending the whole afternoon trading cards and playing YU GI OOOOOOOH. I turner on the computer rarely, all I did was just play Yu Gi Oh with friends outside. I appreciate that soooo much right now. 

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Oh about other collections:

In TF2 I had a lvl 1-100 strange neon annihaltor collection for a while. Not sure why I did it.

And in real life I used to collect bottle caps. I have a shitload of them, and throwing them away seems like a waste. Then again, it is quite literally trash

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also another silly collection (actually pokemon related): in the GBA series (the ones you could exchange with the GC ones), I had a collection of all 28 different unown at lvl 100. I really wanted a shiny one, which I ended up getting, but on a different game.

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Got a few Pokémon cards left. My favs are Kingdra Ex and Zapdos (1st gen).

 

I also collect stamps, but nowadays these aren't used as much as a few years ago, so it's kinda fading out.  :unsure:

 

 

TF2: I collect (uncraftable) Tricornes. Don't know why.

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The Shining Pokémon are really good cards. In good condition, especially if you were lucky enough to get one that's 1st Edition, you've got a solid chunk of cash if you choose to sell it. I have a Shining Tyranitar myself. It's a little tattered, though, and not 1st Edition. My sister managed to accrue quite a few of them. Shining Steelix, Shining Celebi, Shining Charizard, and Shining Magikarp. She might have had a Shining Kabutops, too. I can't remember. Very rare and sought-after cards, though. Alone, those 8 cards can bring the Neo Destiny set to well over $300, even without them being 1st Edition.

 

I never really got into collecting flippos. I think I still have all the ones I got when I would buy the decks, but they're tattered and well-used, so I wouldn't consider them collectible even if I was collecting them. I also still have tons of damage counters leftover.

 

I forgot to mention I also have a small Rubix Cube collection. Currently all I have is a 3x3x3 Cube, a 2x2x2 Cube, a 3x3x3 Gear Cube, a Minx, a 3x3x3 Sudoku Cube, and a Skewb Xtreme. I can solve all of them except the Skewb so far. I've got my eye on a 4x4x4 cube and a Gear Minx, though.

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I forgot to mention I also have a small Rubix Cube collection. Currently all I have is a 3x3x3 Cube, a 2x2x2 Cube, a 3x3x3 Gear Cube, a Minx, a 3x3x3 Sudoku Cube, and a Skewb Xtreme. I can solve all of them except the Skewb so far. I've got my eye on a 4x4x4 cube and a Gear Minx, though.

 

NICE!

I got about 8 3x3x3's (some with pictures on), one 4x4x4, one 5x5x5, a 2x2x4, a pyraminx, a megaminx

 

and one I don't know the name of:

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I don't know how to solve the 4x4x4 and 2x2x4 at the ending without looking things up.  :mellow:

The 5x5x5 is really fun to solve.

 

 

I also collect all special kinds of beer and soda glasses.

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I actually got back into Pokemon recently. I played the card game a little back in 2010 but didn't really have anyone to play it with. But a few months ago a few of my friends got into playing it so I got back into it and I found out a comic store nearby me sells packs and you can go there most days to just play with people. Anyway though the collection thing. Best thing I got was from a X/Y Generations pack I got recently that had a fullart mewtwo ex. my friend looked it up and apparently most people are selling them for around $20, so that's not bad. I don't have any specific collection, I have a lot of cards, but nothing like having a bunch of holos or anything.

 

Best ones I have are 2 mega venasaur ex cards (I used to use a grass/steel deck until i realized it was pretty bad), 2 regular venasaur exs, and another mewtwo ex that isn't fullart. Oh and the comic store I go to had a pre-release tournament that I got a taurus gx out of that I was able to sell for $10 and a promotional passimian (keeping this one though because I use it and like the look of it anyway).

 

As for TF2, I never really collected things, just traded around to get what I wanted and occasionally for profit to get what I wanted to use with that anyway.

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I also also collect bionicles. The vast majority are from when I was a kid but I started collecting some others I never had in the last few months. In TF2 I used to collect unique bats outta hell, I think I have around 150. I collect nintendo consoles too. I've got everything except a SNES, GBA, virtual boy, and a GBA nano.

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Pokemon cards

i used to play/collect as a kid. never opened a charizard from base set 1.

ive got a massive collection now. spent thousands in it.

Overall happy as its worth more than i bought it from so if anything ive made an investment and got more money!

but i got over 14k cards only base set. upto legendary set cards. psa graded charizards and 92 base set 1 unlimited charizards. + 2 boxes.

i dont like the new cards or the new pokemon.

they look like common animals you see around you i think the devs have lost it a bit.

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