Pre grading your cards isn’t anything special, you’re simply checking over your cards before sending them in for grading. However, there are a handful of tricks and tips that will help you identify potential defects, so it’s important to pay close attention and understand each step.
Theoretically, this can happen anywhere along the life of a booster pack. From the factory to the distributor, outlet to customer, and even on Facebook Marketplace, packs can be resealed. In this article we will outline the red flags you need to look for.
Staff Pokémon cards are still this kind of untouched secretive space within the hobby, and it could be very beneficial to hop on before people start to figure it out and they all sky-rocket in price!
You may have noticed a card in your old collection that has the word ‘PRERELEASE’ printed right on the artwork of the card. If you have one, you’re rather lucky. Some prerelease cards can be exceptionally rare, and some are worth big bucks.
Virtually all trading card games have rules stating that the back of each card must be identical. This is so the player cannot distinguish a unique card before drawing it from their deck. But there are actually over 20 different Pokémon card backs! Some are not legal for tournament play, and others are highly collectible.
When I saw that Top Deck now makes binder for top loaders, I knew I had to buy one. This post isn’t sponsored, nore have I ever been in contact with Top Deck, I purchased this product for my own personal use and after 3 months I want to give it an honest review.
Topsun Pokémon cards are some of the earliest known Pokémon cards to have ever existed. They are separate from the TCG, and were sold in packs of gum in Japan.
We’ve pulled together every size of Pokémon card, where they came from, and a little bit of history for each.
For years now I’ve been handing out Pokémon cards for Halloween. What else do you do with all of the bulk laying around? But its super cool to see TPCI actually catching on to this trend and spreading it across the world.
All WotC cards are vintage, but not all vintage cards are WotC. The WotC era ended during the e-series cards, which were carried on briefly by TPC. Even though the production of Pokémon cards changed hands, the cards themselves didn’t’ change that much.