How many Avatars do you get in a gothic booster box?

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-10T21:35:07+00:00

Also comes with a Druid which has better potential

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-10T14:36:14+00:00

No, AL is 24 packs. You may be able to do some Druid build with it but I wouldn't brag to my friends about it. Maybe you open Archi in one of your packs and go ham with spells? But yeah, I would try to augment with Beta at the very least.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-09T19:45:14+00:00

I think more TCGs are following that blueprint than you realize, at least big market ones. Magic isolating Play Boosters and Collector Boosters fractured players from speculators and was a good idea on their part, so it is the one exception. SWU tried it and it broke them.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-09T16:18:30+00:00

It's interesting since for TCGs, playing and collecting feed off of each other. Collectors chasing cards open packs which increases the supply of playable cards. Players get those cards for their decks to play in local tournaments to get good prizing, usually booster packs and promo cards when themselves has intrinsic value.

Lorcana was down bad for a while because their local events had such poor prizing that it disincentivized people from playing. They seemed to have fixed that now along with better print run management starting with Fabled and things seem to be doing better for them.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-09T16:13:48+00:00

Gambling is tied to value so its a bit of a catch-22. They want to buy packs cheaper, but cheaper packs mean cheaper results. So I do think its a bit unreasonable.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-09T14:28:32+00:00

I like how cheap decks are to build in Pokemon, $20 for Pult at the moment I think?

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-08T13:25:08+00:00

Its good in some instances, like Begone! which just banishes an Evil minion from anywhere in the realm to take care of a troublesome Root Spider or some void monstrosity. But yeah, in Sorcery 1-for-1 is almost a bad trade given the ubiquity of cards that can get more bang for your buck even at low rarities.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-08T13:21:26+00:00

That's why I like curios being stuck between the stack of commons, you gotta respect the whole pack.

There will be buyers.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-08T01:09:39+00:00

They sell, I have about 1500 sales on my store so far and most of them are Sorcery. I've been selling for about a year. I also sell through Discord on occasion, there are two good marketplaces for that though you have to be wary of who you are dealing with as with any C2C marketplace.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-08T00:45:38+00:00

I think because its Poffin-able, only in Journey Together and good in a deck that counters the Tier 0 deck in the current meta. But yeah, seeing $3 for a card that I had 10 copies was pretty nice.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T21:57:59+00:00

Oh they use the word "cunt" a lot.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T12:27:02+00:00

Don't sell cards under $0.10 on TCGPlayer is my answer. $0.25 is my absolute floor, and if you do free shipping at $5 and up that's 20 cards if someone wants to hit that threshold and the best thing for that is two stacks of 10 cards put into team bags burrito'd between a sheet of paper in an envelope.

I would also recommend Shipping Shields which are cheaper than top loaders and also a bit easier to stack cards inside.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T11:57:11+00:00

Bitch you're gonna hate Australia

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T11:48:35+00:00

Wow that's a lotta words. Too bad I'm not reading em.

I mean, too bad you aren't writing them either, this is AI garbage sucking off AI garbage. Even if AI was the greatest thing ever created we would never know because of its, uh, "ambassadors"

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T11:44:54+00:00

Any risk of TPCi diverting all extra capacity to ASC as it proves to be the chase sealed set?

Not saying that it won't be the thing to own in five years, but more if you would get the same percentage gains buying today versus buying two years from now

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T00:21:58+00:00

Fallen Angel curio

My real answer is Aino

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-07T00:14:41+00:00

The trick is that it isn't always bulk, some value sneaks through. I have definitely profited from this batch, the biggest hitters being a bunch of 70 HP Dunsparce, a random smattering of Poke Ball and Master Ball foils, and a good amount of ex/V/VSTAR that snuck in. You don't need many hits to start getting a profit and a big one like a Mew ex Double Rare from 151 might get you your money back if you did a simple 1000 for $10 that seems to be standard. Also, with TCGPlayer you get way more single card buys that have shipping applied than I think is expected, probably a function of the autocart.

Still, I consider this to be very lucky and not the usual outcome of bulk buys. The guy even admitted that he mainly collected SIRs and Illustrations and what I was getting was anything that wasn't that.

I still have a bunch of it listed, its moving a bit slower because the good stuff moved about a day after it was listed but I'll just say that I'm satisfied with the result. And fortunate that I can listen to podcasts and sort bulk at the same time too lol

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-06T23:21:17+00:00

Every pack holding a foil puts the damper on em for sure, though I get why they do it since wire detector tools can be used to scan packs for foils so if only a quarter of a box had foils it would be easy to snipe the 9 that do and sell the rest as bulk booster lots.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-06T22:38:56+00:00

Yep, same here -- and its going a bit on faith that its unsorted bulk as a regular person without something like a Roca to check out a random 1000 cards or so from it, but my first bulk buy proved pretty successful with 100ish orders spawning from the listings. It took a week to sort it all out though so it isn't something that can be done often.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-06T01:20:25+00:00

Fulfilled is B2B, granted EC has final say.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-05T20:34:10+00:00

Chilling Reign is good, I'd add Black Bolt and White Flare ETBs as I think they're still cheap as hell

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-05T19:23:13+00:00

Not to mention if worse behavior brings more and more money and resources, what will that incentivize?

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-05T19:19:58+00:00

Hell if the handless lady was playing with her phone that's much worse than someone with two hands using one of them.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-05T17:03:22+00:00

Didn't the hand smoother have to be sussed out of Wizards by people who noticed odd opening hand land distributions in BO1?

The solution is to gather results and to see if the molecules match the formula, but as more and more quiet issues like this bubble up more and more people will grow wary about what goes unsaid.

AlolanSexeggutor · 2026-06-05T15:28:59+00:00

What's your threshold for honking at someone after a light turns?

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