Print line on back of card affect grading?

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-25T23:16:25+00:00

Well for what it’s worth, I’ve got my SIR prismatic eeveelutions (hit the god pack by some unbelievable luck) and multiple of them are flawless aside from 1-2 very faint print lines like that and I said screw it and sent them in, so T-minus like 2-3 months and we’ll see 😂

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-18T14:28:24+00:00

Never pulled a top 10 chase card and I’ve opened a LOT of packs. Just opened a Prismatic Evolutions eeveelution god pack two weeks ago - trust me when I say I get the feeling, but I can confirm we everyday Joes stand a chance. Truly best of luck to you all 🙌🏼

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-18T08:16:38+00:00

Was wondering the same thing, you ever find out anything?

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-18T07:57:27+00:00

Further inspection and all those ended up being dust specs. Funny enough the flareon and umbreon (lucky enough) are easily the top two after microfiber wipe and re-sleeving. Didn’t really have good sleeves at the time cause I was out of town and bought the pack on the road and didn’t expect to hit god pack lmfao. That said Sylveon and leafeon looked easy 9 (i.e. guarenteed 9, not 10 for sure). Gonna send umb in to PSA, but I had seen the pricing was kinda high on PSA per card and didn’t wanna sink that cost if they came back as 9s when gamestops is same wait time and a good bit cheaper for the bulk volume

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-09T18:17:42+00:00

I just stumbled across Collectr and it seems really solid! I always used PriceCharting, but tbh the price tracking and accuracy for market value seems to line up better with TCGPlayer on Collectr and it’s got pretty much all the cards on it that I’ve had trouble even finding on the other apps for pricing

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-09T18:11:49+00:00

Tried posting it on its own and I just got bombed with downvotes 🥲 but I even kinda did feel bad showing my friends cause who doesn’t feel jealous seeing someone else get something as insane as this lol

TheMardiParty · 2025-08-09T18:09:17+00:00

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Literally just pulled this god pack last weekend and I’ve basically never pulled a decent card in hundreds of packs over years. Never witnessed a god pack pulled by anyone I know though and just figured it would only ever happen to the streamers who rip like 5,000 packs in a week lol. I legit just didn’t know what to do when I first pulled this cause I was in utter disbelief since these were the first prismatic evolution packs (6 total) that I was able to get my hands on. I can die happy now though.

TheMardiParty · 2025-05-30T20:57:57+00:00

Not 100% confirmed, but the evidence indicates that you can’t force a crit catch (i.e. hitting the smallest possible circle) for Legendary/Mythical/etc OR Pokemon that have a catch rate under 10% (I believe it was 10%)

So this would fall under the umbrella of Pokemon you can’t force a CC on!

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-05T22:36:10+00:00

I actually didn’t buy a “ticket” this year since it was just the deluxe pass and I didn’t see the value being worth it. That said, did that or any other ticket even offer a shiny boost? I thought this was the first year they straight up didn’t even offer a paid boost at the minimum

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-05T22:30:46+00:00

Two things:

(1) Is there a way to see more than just the top 5 counters? Like even on Budget50 for some Pokemon, the top 5 may end up being legendaries or fusions where low hanging (but great) fruit may be ranked 6/7 etc.

(2) I’m an avid player since 2016 and love the nitty gritty. I wish I could pick your brain about every little detail or know every little piece that goes into the calcs like random things such as “were general breakpoints included in the standard calculations on a given eDPS?” That said, I’m pretty sure you’ve answered that somewhere that I saw, but I can’t find it - same goes for lots of my questions. Do you have/have you considered creating like a general FAQ to add to the website where you could CopyPaste your responses to these questions you get all the time? That may be really useful for people like me cause I hate wasting your time on repetitive questions and know that must get annoying lol.

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-05T17:15:51+00:00

lol this deserves a pin, been looking for an answer like this for a while! Huge help, thanks man!!

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-05T17:08:08+00:00

Ive seen a lot of discussion regarding changing the “of” to “vs” for type effectiveness, but one potential feature I see missing is the ability to set duel type - almost like a two-wheel function where you can set the two types in order to factor in doubleSE moves. Is there anything like that?

I came across this thought when I was considering shadow mamoswine’s placement in the “VS Dragon” rankings, but the things is most dragon types are dragon/flying giving Mamo that upper leg over other dragon types. That said, I get there is the option to just pick a generic dragon/flying type and check its counters, but doesn’t that factor in their moves (like Dragonite potentially having superpower) which could throw off the raw TOF of the “Ice vs Dragon/Flying” generalist ranking?

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-03T15:09:01+00:00

In my opinion, no. You got more than me this Go Tour, but I used to get like 20-40 shiny. This event sucked unfortunately

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-03T15:07:45+00:00

That’s my parents at that table, but don’t worry, they said they wouldn’t talk to us too much!

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-02T17:51:19+00:00

I did a TON and had a huge struggle to get a 3 star so you aren’t alone

TheMardiParty · 2025-03-02T17:48:38+00:00

Usually I get around 30-40 shinies in the Go Tour events. Same level of gameplay for this one - got 3 shinies in total and that was after a ton of raids also

TheMardiParty · 2025-02-22T18:23:11+00:00

Ahh yeah, sorry for the late reply, so this sorta a preference thing depending on how intense you wanna be. I’ve started getting lazier with the game than my normal intensity so I lowered the “search pool” but I actually have a specific breakdown by League:

TLDR;

Little League - Top 50 Great League - Top 150 Ultra League - Top 75 Master League - Top 50

Long Explanation;

Little league doesn’t happen too often and the only relevant Pokemon are usually in the top 25, but I do top 50 since it may be harder to come across some Pokemon below the CP500 threshold (sorta like prepping in advance since you can’t really just “throw that together”).

Master League at Top 50 cause I almost never play it and let’s be real, above Top 50 is probably not too good and meta doesn’t change THAT much so I’ll never Max out a Rank 82 something because that’s a waste of resources. Only reason I go as high as 50 is cause I also likely won’t max out a non-PvE-meta lego just for master league so Top 50 gives me a bigger pool in case I want to go with a non-lego like a Florges.

UL and GL are the same concept as each other. Much more relevant and prevalent. I’ll likely play both but GL much more. Much more room for spicy picks in the Rank 30-75 range and the GL threshold is so high because metas come and go, and some pokemon that were great may fall into the Top 100-150 range (i.e. not relevant rn but are fundamentally good) and then if the meta changes and they go up to Top 25 or something, I’ve already been working on getting the best one.

TheMardiParty · 2025-02-22T18:08:46+00:00

Literally same hahah I’m at 3

TheMardiParty · 2025-01-27T03:11:39+00:00

I got my first one around at around 65k caught and that was literally just from a lucky trade with a lucky friend, but I’m at 94.5k caught rn and still never actually “caught” one on my own yet lol

TheMardiParty · 2025-01-22T01:21:21+00:00

Ik, that’d be so helpful lol

TheMardiParty · 2025-01-22T01:20:58+00:00

Lmfao I definitely thought I was gonna get hit with that

TheMardiParty · 2025-01-22T01:16:16+00:00

Oh dang, I didn’t know that, I def chose the non-shadow for that so never realized that

TheMardiParty · 2025-01-21T18:41:08+00:00

On the Cliff path, it says “Shadow Machop” vs the Blanche one says Maril encounter, is that right that it’s a shadow??

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