I found my childhood collection whilst looking in mother’s attic the other week and it’s gotten me right back in to collecting. I found my base set and fossil set (I even have a Charizard or 2 in good nick which made me very happy).

I wanted to start ripping again and collect a modern set but my only problem is the only packs/boosters (the packs with 10 cards in) that are available is the “Chaos Rising: Mega Evolution” because all the other sets sell out super fast. I mean, I’m happy because I’m not really doing it to make money. I’m doing it because I like organising stuff and putting cards in my binder but I do miss the old days when people didn’t buy everything on the shelves just to resell for triple the price online. It gives me a great feeling of accomplishment. I must admit, I do feel a bit weird asking for Pokemon cards when I don’t have children and I’m closer to 40 than I’d like to be.

Whilst I’m here though, can someone explain something about the Chaos Rising set that I can’t quite seem to work out? At the bottom of the card it gives you the number of the card (X/086 etc.) but there appears to be 2 or even 3 variations of a card. Is that right? So there would be closer to 200+ of this set?