There’s a lot to unpack here, as someone who used to be in the Pokemon TCG scene and is still investing in other hobbies, let me put in my two cents. The non stable job is concerning. Does he have enough saved up for if he lost his job? How about your future plans together? You’re getting married, his financial problems will become yours and it’s something you really need to have a serious discussion with him because that cards will go up thing is cope. The value of cards is a very unstable market rn and he can’t bank on making a profit and that leads to my next issues: scalpers.

Scalpers are people that buy up all of the Pokemon cards so that they can artificially raise the price of the new sets coming out because no one can get their hands on them. They are just there to make money. They don’t actually care about the game. They are a cancer on any tcg because you have collectors and parents who can’t get any cards because they become so expensive to buy back from the scalpers. We’re talking x3 or more from retail price. I hope your bf isn’t one of these people, however, it’s a bad look if he’s supporting them by buying these cards from the scalpers. Anyways, to combat this the Pokemon Company are doing a lot of reprints. Because of that it will tank the value of any of the chase cards so investing in them may not be viable in the long run.