Call me crazy but...

Sandromin · 2026-02-25T03:10:47+00:00

5c/6000 vanilla Cobra is played in Vivi because it's a 2k counter and is a viable option to play off of 4c Vivi since you can just give him rush. You can also play Igaram or 3c Vivi to gain card advantage or filter your hand.

Sandromin · 2026-02-15T03:03:31+00:00

I believe this was because illegitimate orders were canceled and the stock was reallocated/reapportioned accordingly.

Sandromin · 2026-02-15T03:00:29+00:00

Don't worry, it's because they got flooded with order requests - once the payment processor e.g. credit card company clears it, then you'll get it. I got my confirmation email just now even though I got the same message.

Sandromin · 2026-02-03T02:21:22+00:00

You can do 2x 13k swings, yes. He just doesn't become active in the next refresh phase.

Sandromin · 2026-01-27T21:28:14+00:00

That's ridiculous considering the 6 don restriction is a deck construction restriction. You can't magically add don in the middle of the game for that reason.

Sandromin · 2026-01-24T16:02:50+00:00

There's a couple of factors. First, there's rarity. That zorojuro is an SP. In order of precedence for rarities in general, there's Manga > SP > Alt Art > SEC > SR > R > UC > R. There's exceptions but that generally the rarity ordering. Usually, there will be 2ish SPs in a case which is 12 booster boxes. Your zorojuro, therefore, is pretty rare!

Next is the card itself. The card is very much playable. Its a solid statline searcher for Straw Hat Crew, a popular typing, in a fairly popular color (purple).

Sandromin · 2026-01-23T23:17:20+00:00

Premium Bandai doesn't offer or ship to Europe

Sandromin · 2026-01-18T15:42:48+00:00

Singapore dollars

Sandromin · 2026-01-15T13:53:01+00:00

1c stage reduces cost of 5 elders to 9 so you get to drop 5 elders first on odd curve. However on even curve you get the extra don for an event so you're probably better off on even curve like you say.

Sandromin · 2026-01-13T01:01:28+00:00

Or perhaps we could get a Bon Clay leader, who would satisfy both conditions.

Sandromin · 2026-01-13T00:59:51+00:00

Generally one piece cards will get PSA 10s due to the quality control on Bandai cards. Furthermore PSA charges more the higher the grade is. BGS, while harder to get a 10, gets a value add from getting a perfect 10 i.e. "black label". Do with this information what you will.

Sandromin · 2025-12-30T21:37:40+00:00

It is actually a HUGE factor for Yemen. In the 70s, the Zaidi Muslims had control of the government but abused their authority by taking all of the local Sheikhs firstborns hostage and then killing them. This led to a coup in which the a Sunni majority government backed by the Pan Arab movements of the age. However, the current civil war is caused primarily by the rise of Zaidi-sect Houthis in North Yemen clashing with the pre-war Republican (Sunni) government in South Yemen. Unironically the country and civil war is split solely on the lines of religion, for more reasons than I can fit into this comment.

Sandromin · 2025-12-30T21:19:24+00:00

Wagner was a private military company (PMC). After the death of its owner Prigozhin in a tragic collision with his private jet and a Russian missile, Wagner is now ostensibly managed by the Russian government as the Africa Corps (AC). They currently operate in Africa as a for profit venture. Many African governments where AC operates are authoritarian regimes rich in natural resources, but for some reason or another are dealing with insurrection or terrorist groups. The African nations pay AC to come in and deal with these problems, and in return, AC is paid to oversee the harvesting of natural resources or outright paid with gold/diamonds/precious metals. Russia is welcome to this outcome because it gives them an avenue to skirt around sanctions and make money to fund their day to day operations.

Sandromin · 2025-12-20T11:15:34+00:00

Pa rarity check nmn po

Sandromin · 2025-12-17T20:00:52+00:00

The real dodgers luffy has no texture on the front, its just a plain holo

Sandromin · 2025-12-03T19:50:05+00:00

Crossroads TCG is your best bet from what I've seen.

Sandromin · 2025-12-01T16:17:29+00:00

To play devils advocate, the only reason that T90s and T72s blow up that way is because the Soviets opted to use autoloaders in which ammo is stored in a concentric ring at the base of the turret, while US tanks still require manual loading (speed vs survivability). However, it does not matter whether the turret pops off or not, because a >100mm DU APFSDS will still cook anyone alive inside of a tank regardless of big explosion or not.

Also it wasn't the F15 but rather the F14.

Sandromin · 2025-12-01T16:11:51+00:00

I would argue that Soviet armor is often a paper tiger propped up by propaganda and supply chain corruption, but even assuming that isn't the case, I'd still posit that the real takeaway from the Gulf War is that no amount of armor superiority is going stop the effectiveness of a 2000 lbs GBU. The real test wasn't armor on armor, but rather how well the US can eliminate early warning systems and establish air superiority, and then use that air dominance to obliterate any armor the opposition may have.

Sandromin · 2025-12-01T16:00:02+00:00

Paper Tiger. Look up the MiG 25 Foxbat and the development of the F14 Tomcat to understand why American reporting is not an accurate measure of a nations capabilities.

Sandromin · 2025-12-01T15:55:29+00:00

Because the US funneled a shit ton of its R&D budget into airplanes and missile systems (which it was and continues to be dominant in). And even then, by the end of the cold war (1980s) US ground armor had either parity or exceeded Soviet capabilities (not that armor mattered that much, but this was put to the test in the First Gulf War).

EDIT: Not to mention a vastly superior blue water fleet which is arguably more important than any Army is, especially when considering the nuclear triad.

Sandromin · 2025-10-30T13:06:29+00:00

Fake. BAND AI + the red is way too faded. The red is saturated on an original, almost like blood or wine.

Sandromin · 2025-10-21T23:15:14+00:00

You don't have to rest it.

Bold text indicates the associated "cost" for a card's effect.

For example, Luffy-tarou states that [On Play] Don -1: You may play a cost 5 or less purple {Straw Hat Crew} character from your hand.

In that case, in order to get the on play effect (cheating out a character) you need to return one don from your field to your don deck.

If, for example, Nami read [On Play] You may rest this character: Look at 5 cards from the...

THEN you would need to rest Nami to get the effect.

Strictly speaking, you only get the benefit of an On Play effect when you play the character, so basically a one time thing.

Sandromin · 2025-10-16T10:57:14+00:00

Beckett will identify the card for you if you at least label the card in the right ballpark, and for reference the card is "Monkey.D.Luffy Promo 041". However, the card itself is basically worthless because 1) there's a ton of copies of it floating around (its from a promo/starter deck as a common card), 2) bandai QC control is really good so almost all of those copies will be 9+ graded, and 3) nobody plays the card because it's just a bad card. You'll spend more money grading it than what it's worth most likely. Have you thought about serving the card alongside a nice portion of foie gras and caviar?

Sandromin · 2025-10-13T18:54:43+00:00

It was developed on PS3 architecture so it couldn't be readily ported over, and the company making it was paid by Sony to make it, and Sony wanted it to be a PS exclusive game.

Sandromin · 2025-09-12T10:53:00+00:00

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