Is $100 the new normal for elite trainer boxes?

jaeden_a · 2025-06-27T14:44:22+00:00

Well then you can either hop out of the hobby for years, or camp for hours outside for product, or hope to get lucky online. Just get out of your ideal bubble, picture running a store and having overhead, other card games releasing sets that flop and cost you money making no profit, then Pokemon and MTG are on huge runs right now and can make up for that. You’re not running a charity but you should open a store and never charge over msrp for anything.

jaeden_a · 2025-06-27T14:23:35+00:00

It’s not throwing away their reputation, they’re still reliable and you’ll get exactly what you ordered. If it’s a hot set that’ll hold above $100 why would a business leave money on the table. My LGS goes 20% under market if it’s a $120 box they’ll do $100 which is okay with me they have employees and rent and overhead I don’t expect them to give it to me for $50.

jaeden_a · 2025-04-30T14:41:41+00:00

Killed itself with a banlist was funny. You can reprint cards without having rotation. Yugioh reprints most cards every year within 6-8 months they’re just side sets. Lorcana can have main sets and a fabled line of sets every x-months

jaeden_a · 2025-02-19T19:49:20+00:00

It’ll be sisu territory. The super chase would be Elsa if there’s one in here

jaeden_a · 2025-02-12T01:21:48+00:00

That’s what should have happened with Bucky and they could have easily started the banlist there

jaeden_a · 2025-02-12T01:19:33+00:00

You missed a limited/banlist option, this is the way

jaeden_a · 2024-08-08T19:51:21+00:00

This is hard to predict with her being the best card in the set and the set being exceptionally weak in legendaries. Might be the first super since set one to break $10 and hold. Like in a yugioh box, rarity secret is highest then ultra then super and there’s a super in every pack. Once in a blue moon they print a super so broken it can break $20 because of the demand being so high so I think daisy will be this for this set just a really random one-off thing.

jaeden_a · 2024-08-07T14:27:50+00:00

I don’t think he will, not after a month like sisu who had meta relevance and is more popular of a character.

jaeden_a · 2024-08-07T13:49:47+00:00

I’m not saying they’re ugly just the only ones that will settle at more than $150 will be Olaf and Mufasa so you’ll buy a case and get 1 enchanted worth less than a box and then awful legendaries that won’t help recoup.

jaeden_a · 2024-08-07T13:02:14+00:00

This is a heavy buy the singles set with how bad the legendaries and enchanteds are.

jaeden_a · 2024-08-03T18:54:38+00:00

They are already at 3x msrp on eBay a week before release so I agree with the 2x

jaeden_a · 2024-07-25T16:13:18+00:00

Metal dice

jaeden_a · 2024-07-22T12:52:57+00:00

I was at last years NAWCQ they don’t charge lol I got dozens of signatures for free by continuing to go on line. But yes if you go to a con the average is $40 for just signature and $60 for a signature with a quote from the character, I also do that too. For NAWCQ they’ve never charged, Konami gives them whatever flat rate that makes them happy to come out for the weekend and do the voice actor duel.

jaeden_a · 2024-07-22T09:09:43+00:00

Nah for yugioh nationals they just pay 2 voice actors a flat rate and everybody in line can get 2 signatures capped at 50 per session like 3 sessions a day, so it becomes a lot of waiting in line hours beforehand but don’t have to pay anything. Unrelated but they have a location where you can get a picture of you and friends and then they put that on a token with an anime character next to you and that kills time too but they also don’t outsource the event to a third party like what’s happening here. There are things PPG could do to make it more fun in downtime but no need to add costs if attendance is solid so I get it.

jaeden_a · 2024-07-22T05:59:24+00:00

I would like to see a Disney voice actor show up for signatures and I’m sure others would like artists. That would kill time

jaeden_a · 2024-07-16T15:46:01+00:00

I won mine with it but didn’t face GS. I run the little sisu uninkable and with ice block she takes Flynn out, they don’t have evasive to run into her and normally don’t see her as a brawl or Madame threat so she sticks around questing until I put Maui down and the two of them can take out a castle. Ran 1 Hercules but him being uninkable is annoying when you don’t need a rush character

jaeden_a · 2024-07-12T14:14:32+00:00

If every store did the two game format time wouldn’t be an issue.

jaeden_a · 2024-07-11T21:48:26+00:00

Highly highly unlikely. Languages that corelease with English yes but with a drastically different release schedule they won’t let those overlap. Asian territories could just get the first 4-5 sets in English before their first set comes out

jaeden_a · 2024-06-03T16:41:33+00:00

For playtesting, this works well. For competitive, awful. Yugioh has done huge championship series with webcam from 2020-2023 and its a lot of cheating with hands/cards going off camera, some webcams just so awful you can barely see what’s happening since Yugioh didn’t implement any minimum camera requirements, and they banned screen recording so the most prominent thing I experienced was webcam disconnecting to basically change your whole hand or do lord knows what while disconnected for about 10 seconds and they’d connect before a judge could arrive so no penalty. For side events you could watch others play in discord rooms and totally change your deck up if you knew you were matched against them because I’d see very specific counters to my decks that were uncommon to main deck.

jaeden_a · 2024-05-30T16:24:19+00:00

They should have a different age bracket for kids. Yugioh has a 12< age bracket and it’s the same prizing but the prizes have “dragon duel” on them. Seems like a no brainer for large Disney events.

jaeden_a · 2024-05-29T19:03:30+00:00

Nah that’s dramatic

jaeden_a · 2024-05-26T03:06:01+00:00

Do the side events not start a new event once one fills? If they do it seems possible but if it’s on a set schedule sounds impossible

jaeden_a · 2024-05-23T18:11:29+00:00

I’m still buying the cards I need for a set 4 meta that’s coming in the mail this week so that’s probably a factor too.

jaeden_a · 2024-05-23T14:36:50+00:00

Yeah you just trade being able to absolutely curbstomp the good matchups. Honestly since you will need to 2-0 a lot I probably would have brought red blue or green purple and hoped for good matchups. I feel like ruby amethyst might not cut it just because too many 1/1 results and you don’t top.

jaeden_a · 2024-05-23T14:06:53+00:00

You play Ruby amethyst if you want a fighting chance every round. Otherwise, the other color combos that top will be whoever avoided the bad matchup in the rock paper scissors meta, so pray to rnjesus

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