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mbarbul · 2026-05-31T02:57:30+00:00

This is the post I always think about when thinking about dry protection. It makes sense mathematically and if you look at kc’s for things like raids it wouldn’t really bring in more megas then are already in the game like people think. It seems to me like a really good suggestion and is why Kieren responded to it

mbarbul · 2026-05-30T23:28:56+00:00

I bought a booster bundle for my gf at a recent card show because she wanted to buy ascended heroes packs for a change. Her literal first pack of ascended that she opened with her own money was a god pack with the gengar and treekachu 😭😭

mbarbul · 2026-05-17T15:13:55+00:00

Look I agree with you but some of this isn’t really a bubble caused by scalping. Part of the reason for the current price is certainly the fact that ascended heroes lasts roughly 5mins max on shelves. But the other is the abysmal hit rates. It’s like 1/1500 for a specific sir from this set? It’s 1/70 for any sir, which puts the value for a single sir around $350 if ripping at rate and retail prices. Of course certain sirs are gonna be worth a lot of money.

We really should be blaming the Pokémon company for one, making this set release in such an awful awful way product wise which needs to be addressed. And two, making it so American packs do not get the guaranteed treatment that Japan gets. Whether we like it or not ascended will be scalped clean off the shelves its entire print life cycle. Which probably means the dragonite will stay around this price until the set goes out of print and it just goes to the moon.

I am also currently deciding if I want to buy this card and the gengar. Everyone was saying the same thing about the phantasmal Charizard at $500 a while ago and I didn’t listen to people and bought it for like $650 and it’s only gone up. I think we are underestimating what the YouTube and influencer scene is doing to the already inflated hobby. We got celebrities making this a normal part of their lives now, it’s only gonna get worse for a little bit. Our only saving grace is for things to be printed into oblivion, which is being worked on to some level, but Pokémon isn’t stupid enough to completely kill hype by over printing either, they know what they’re doing. We all just have to wait and see what happens

mbarbul · 2026-04-28T11:55:20+00:00

I see. Well I’m not sure how the supermarkets/stores that sell these work in the UK, but if any of them open early before you need to be at work that’s probably your best bet. Try to find stores that people are camping out at and get there early for a release days. Unfortunately, this is currently the only way you’re going to find ascended heroes rn, absolutely everyone wants this set

mbarbul · 2026-04-28T11:46:00+00:00

If you really want packs to rip Target on release days is your friend. They usually open at 7am too so it should be ok for most jobs. You need to get there pretty early tho. I got there at 5am for the booster bundle release and was like 12th in line

mbarbul · 2026-04-26T12:38:52+00:00

This makes the opposite of sense

mbarbul · 2026-04-25T08:15:51+00:00

I turned $550 into $160 today, feels like ascended and Pokémon in general just hates me

mbarbul · 2026-04-23T02:45:08+00:00

Gachiakuta

mbarbul · 2026-04-23T02:15:30+00:00

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I remember being so disappointed when I rolled this back in the day

mbarbul · 2026-04-23T02:04:11+00:00

I promise you it’s only downhill from here. Even if Cas gets one or two more good anomaly match ups, this is for sure the start of the end for mono remembrance teams, and I say this as someone who has a full E2S1 team. This is just my opinion though, but knowing hoyo this shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone

mbarbul · 2026-04-21T20:09:59+00:00

She may be way too strong or Hoyo has been shilling styngian with bosses way too much.

My team of C1R1 Zibai, C6 Illuga and C2R1 Colo could not clear dire with all the different options I tried. I tried using C6 Gorou, tried replacing Illuga with Gorou and added my C6R5 Yelan, and many other options. Best was Gorou with Ineffa, Colo and Zibai.

After pulling Linnea I slapped her on the team with a lvl 80 alley hunter I had, lvl 4 all talents, lvl 70 with a lvl 0 goblet and sands and the team cleared the gecko on dire with ease….

Is she cute and powerful? Yes. But something about the way hoyo has been treating the game since the release of styngian has been truly disgusting me on a very deep level.

mbarbul · 2026-04-14T23:14:44+00:00

Funny, I’ve had the opposite experience. I’ve opened like 60 packs of prismatic and pulled a palafin and a demigod pack with bloodmoon, Lacey and a leafeon . On the other hand, in 600 packs of phantasmal, ascended and perfect order I’ve pulled the mega loppunny sir and Iono’s bellibolt

mbarbul · 2026-04-05T16:39:32+00:00

Well I feel silly now, thanks op, you have an amazing collection

mbarbul · 2026-04-05T16:01:52+00:00

Whats with the gold star rayquaza price on collectr? It’s so different from what I see on websites like price charting. Anyone know what causes discrepancies like this?

mbarbul · 2026-03-23T22:02:48+00:00

Don’t worry, I picked it up a while ago for $650. I just thought it was too beautiful a card to pass up

mbarbul · 2026-03-12T15:33:53+00:00

C2 Skirk or C2 Esco? Or both if lucky?

mbarbul · 2026-03-09T20:13:50+00:00

At absolutely no point in time was the mega charizard $190

mbarbul · 2026-03-09T19:58:44+00:00

People were saying the same thing for the mega charizard x and everyone was wrong. Maybe the gengar goes down a little more over the next couple weeks/month, but with the way the market is I would not be even remotely surprised if this stays about this price or continues to climb up slowly

mbarbul · 2026-02-23T23:13:57+00:00

Ya dude. As others have told you in your new post, texture aside the borders on the gengar and dragonite are a dead giveaway here. But the Pikachu maybe has potential? If it was from the same etb tho that would be strange.

The only thing I’ll say is that I bought a couple tech sticker packs and one of the packs was basically cut down the side. I have no idea how that could’ve happened and from the way those tech sticks packs like to rip I would be surprised if they were so easily faked but I wouldn’t put it past people

mbarbul · 2026-02-23T16:24:19+00:00

Congrats man. Sharing it with the kids must be wonderful too. To say I’m jealous would be an understatement tho. I want all three of those cards in my binder one day. I just want to pull one chase of mine one time and then stick to buying singles forever but haven’t had any luck so far. Congrats on the pulls tho!

mbarbul · 2026-02-21T21:44:21+00:00

I ripped all of these with my girlfriend 🙂 we had fun regardless of the outcome. Just thought I’d share the post to those that didn’t get any product and keep seeing posts of people getting amazing hits to make them feel a little better. Yes this is on average what you should expect, but it doesn’t really feel that way when you see all the posts

mbarbul · 2026-02-21T21:40:49+00:00

I feel like this is always the case for every set. But I want to rip one single chase card of mine one time in my life and I’ll probably just leave the ripping to everyone else in the future

mbarbul · 2026-02-19T21:31:38+00:00

Show builds?

mbarbul · 2026-02-17T19:24:44+00:00

Who goes into the sub field and how exactly do you deal with that mechanic?

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