This was a fun one to open, lots of great looking cards. Gholdengos not my favourite but that SAR looks awesome.

Trying to decide which packs to open next month. Prices are pretty good on boxes at the moment.

Tarasal Festival (prismatic evolutions) $47. Inferno x (phantasmal flames) $43. Mega Dream (ascended heroes) $38.

Which would you go for?

I wasn't too happy with this collection but managed to get a box for super cheap, thought i'd have a chase for a cool looking meowth. No luck...

When will Pokemon cards be available in stores for MSRP again? I’m wondering how long this scalper generation of Pokemon will last. Demand and prices for cards are high now because kids who collected in the past are collecting again with their own money.

Since kids of the current generation can’t even get their hands on enough cards to collect or play unless they’re parents are willing to pay a premium, they’re not going to have that nostalgia and demand when they get older and have their own money.

By that time the current adults who are buying up cards might still be into it, but maybe as they get older they’ll stop and there will be a gap where neither of those generations are buying cards and presumably prices will drop and availability will go back up. Pokemon company must be planning for this and maybe will boost supply soon to build nostalgia for future generations to close that gap. What’s their long play?

Decided to grab the Chinese versions of the first partner set as they come with the cool 30th anniversary stands.

Main pulls from mega dream. I decided next month i'll open an M3, hopefully chase down a cool meowth card!

My favourite card i've pulled so far. I love these comic style cards, they look absolutely amazing! I think i'll open another box of mega dream next month.

I was happy to pull this AR, the art work is really nice.

First pack of the new box and I pulled the guaranteed SR, my least favourite of the lot. Oh well, hopefully some nice ARs to make up for it.

Still no charizards to be found but i really like the ambipom AR, the colours are awesome and the card really pops.

I generally open 1-2 packs a day throughout aomth and see if some nice artwork comes out. No Charizards in sight but; Really like the Flygon art, the background scenery works really well.

Togedemaru is such a clean looking card, really crisp.

Charcadet has a nice balance of colours.

Finally Mega sharkpedo ex, very cool looking card very busy with the colours but i think it works well.

I'm not a Pokemon card collector - I used to play TCG when I was a kid, but didn't really continue and played a little bit of TCG Pocket recently. Safe to say I'm an amateur. The closest I get to collecting cards is Yu-Gi-Oh but I do that more for the love of the game and don't really care about grading.

So, my question are not necessarily what the PSA is and how they grade, but some more in-depth questions that are maybe not obvious at a glance

• Does PSA publish a list of "criteria" that makes a 10?
• Does PSA provide the end-user with a list of reasons why a card was not graded a 10?
  • In my mind, a picture of the defects with measurements would be expected but I've never seen something like that mentioned
• Are the other measurement systems really gaining steam to replace PSA or is that mostly just wishing from those burned by PSA?
• What's the barcode on the PSA case for? I would assume it relates to question (2)

I realize I could look up most of these questions, but I did just want to chat about what, as an outside, seems like a flawed system and see what people who are not streamers or public figures think about the system

Thank you in advance!

Help me identify this card, the set symbol appears to be incorrect and does not match the card number. Only Base Set was printed shadowless.

Help me identify this card. Usually is mispelt in the bottom left corner and the set symbols reports base set 2 but the number reports 67/102.

"Easily mistaken for a Monster ball.". - Error version.

Help me identify this card, set symbol says base set 2 but number is 12/64. From what i can tell this card should not exist.

The card was never printed part of base set 2