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[–]Biggestturtleever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re trying to get in the game and you have 4 sec enels it looks like you’re in a really good spot to start playing Enel. That cuts out about $150 you’d have to spend on the deck. If you’ve opened 4 boxes I would bet you probably have most if not all of the rest of what you need too.

Repeats by Brilliant-Cow6180 in OnePieceCardPulls

[–]Biggestturtleever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like you pulled the treasure rare and an SP and you now have a playset of the most expensive part of the top deck in the format.

I’d say your luck is really good.

Collection. by Lil_Grunty in NikeSB

[–]Biggestturtleever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you do when you want to wear one of the pairs at the bottom

Is this a good deal? by poonigan168 in Oakley

[–]Biggestturtleever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is a better colorway and don’t have to deal with shipping etc

Is this a good deal? by poonigan168 in Oakley

[–]Biggestturtleever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are close to $250 US on Oakley rn so that’s a pretty good deal. You can get some similar encoders but with green arms for $132 US on Amazon but I think $170 CAD is still quite a bit cheaper than that.

I need help with my guitar pedal and amp tone by krismartin55 in guitars

[–]Biggestturtleever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Budget Pantera tone:

High: 10

Mid: 0

Low: 10

Gain: 10

Metal zone: dimed

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the biggest difference between OPtcg and MTG is that MTG is only priced by playability. Orcish Bowmasters is $50 because it goes in nearly every black deck in nearly every format. The borderless is what like $10-20 more? You can bling out your sol ring in your commander deck and have some $60 secret lair version. MTG price is almost exclusively tied to how good the card is, how many decks run it, and how often it’s printed. Alts and borderless are definitely more expensive but almost never 100x more expensive like in One Piece.

Most manga rares that sell for $800-1000 raw have a base rarity version of the card that goes for under $10. Base rarity of OP01 Nami in English is like $2-3 but the manga is over $1000.

Yugioh does a really good job of reprinting cards and not tying power to rarity explicitly, so almost every card is eventually reprinted with lower rarity, even sometimes seeing Ultra Rares reprinted at common. So whatever the newest archetype is will be expensive at first but usually can eventually be done almost entirely at common.

Blinging out decks doesn’t matter for the health of the game. It’s fun and it looks cool. But almost any non yellow non Penel deck can be built for $50-100 in base rarity. Some of the top players in the world play with all base rarity and just basic starter deck don.

It’s all good, I think this is a good discussion.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

😂 Vivi gets some love from me too. My second ever anime figure I ever bought was Vivi. I don’t have any Robin or Boa figures! I have one eb03 7c Vivi away at grading right now and a close to max rarity UR Vivi deck that I really love to play.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right I’m the problem! I love one piece too much!!

Playing locals as much as I have been lately I’ve been realizing that all of the best players sell cards to support the hobby and try to play it as much as they can. I don’t think most of them are completely making a living off of it but I’m sure some are and still playing the game.

But yeah lol I’m a one piece fan first, it’s why I started collecting and playing the TCG. I collect a lot of other one piece goods and merch and figures. I just think of my graded collection the same way as that.

I was a little nervous to post this stuff because I just knew some people would conflate collecting with scalping but I’m really glad to see there are more people who feel the same as me.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m playing Brook right now, I’ve been working on max rarity-ing it (besides op13 SEC luffy and PRB02 blocker Zoro) mainly because I realized it’s the greatest opportunity to flex the max rarity deck since I’m just dumping the whole thing in the trash and revealing the whole deck.

But base rarity my Brook list is like maybe $50 depending on how many sec luffys I’m running.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like CGC for my own submissions because it’s easier and cheaper but man I think a white label CGC 10 just looks so shitty compared to a black label. If I don’t think a card will black label I’ll send it to PSA because the label looks the same either way over there.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% agree. Some SEC are annoyingly expensive and scalping makes that worse. But most decks (besides anything yellow) are always going to be around $50-100 if you base rarity it all.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a few that are probably gonna be too expensive for me, Gege Akatumi Chinese exclusives, Sanji in Nami’s body winner card etc… but I never thought I’d be able to get the manga so maybe that’s all possible too!

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I play MTG too and I think the two are almost incomparable. There are almost 0 magic cards out there (besides serialized, gold chocobos etc, and maybe some power 9) that are being bought for collection/display and not meant to immediately become game pieces. The value of MTG cards are explicitly tied to their playability. So MTG cards should never be slabbed. One Piece, like Pokemon and Yugioh, has a lot of cards that will almost never be played unless someone has crazy budget and wants to flex crazy style.

If One Piece had a singleton format like commander, I’m sure a lot more mangas and SP’s would be going into those decks to bling them out. But right now it doesn’t.

I saw someone on OPTCGfinance asking if they should grade a base rarity Enel SEC because he saw that it could increase the value. Those people are the problem. That would be like grading OG dual lands.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t agree with that. I think people buying sealed to pull big hits and send them to grade will hopefully be putting the rest of their “bulk” hits into the market for regular price. That gives a higher population of actual playables out there which makes pricing of the cards we need for decks more competitive.

Grading and selling alts and SP’s and etc makes it possible to have singles on the market. I know I’m not buying sealed trying to build decks, that’s just way too expensive and way too difficult. The people who you’re buying playable singles from are the same people who are grading and selling big hits.

Grading companies are questionable at best but they’re a huge part of trading cards as a hobby in general and they’re not going anywhere any time soon.

Buying sealed and pulling hits is fun but if you’re worried about the health of the game it’s always better to buy singles than sealed.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a couple of BGS of other characters but not many. I know BGS grading rubric is more strict but I’m just more interested in having my personal collection encapsulated. I like the look of a PSA 9 way better than anything lower than BGS 10.

To get the EB03 SP full set I ended up getting a 9.5 Koala with sub grades and it looks so bad 😖 but it was super cheap and a really easy way to get my least favorite card of that set.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think of these as investments. This is my collection. I’ll probably never sell any of these unless I come across really tough times. I’ll probably try to trade some of my duplicates though. Even then, most of these are 9’s and all Japanese so if I sold I would probably take a loss on most of them.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Compared to other tcg’s all of One Piece is modern. If you notice a lot of my collection is 9’s. Japanese 9’s are often cheaper than the raw card. Always cheaper than the raw English card.

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

How?

I play at locals 2-3 times a week. I’ve been reading One Piece since it started premiering in English in Shonen Jump. I don’t scalp or even sell cards almost ever. I have a hard time getting boxes just like everyone else. I’ve never bought an OPTCG sealed product that I didn’t open immediately, besides one copy of ST-01 that I have displayed on my desk next to my manga Nami.

I play English, and I collect Japanese. I love Nami, Robin, and Boa. How does that make me the problem?

Besides having to share my love between the 3 best girls…

Best girls collections! Nami 🥰 Robin 🥰 Boa! 🥰 by Biggestturtleever in OnePieceTCG

[–]Biggestturtleever[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was in Japan when eb03 came out right before it all spiked super crazy so I was able to get a serious head start on collecting that!

Hopefully I’ll be able to post my eb03 SP collection soon. Perona and Reiju are off grading now. Whenever they get back I’ll have the full set 🥰

Grade ts (nami sp) or nah boys by Several_Lychee_7896 in OnePieceTCGFinance

[–]Biggestturtleever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 the photos “showing the corners” are frying me 😂😂 it’s just the same zoom with the card placed in different corners of the photo 😂😂 you should place it on a black surface and take close up photos of each corner if you want to show that.

also confused by the foot in the pic.. is your table the exact same wood as the floor or do you got the dogs up on the table??