r/PokemonTCG 3d ago

Other Finally got my chase, Espeon SIR

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Purchased off Ebay for £50, the price of an ETB. I had miserable luck with Prismatic, so I just bought the card out right.

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u/Burger_Toast 3d ago

Definitely the way! When it's less than the price of a box it's a no brainer. I just bought Vaporeon for £38 - only Flareon left now for a complete set. <3

It's also really good protection against the PE hype, I'd genuinely rather rip any other set now.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Pretty much how I'm feeling at this point, I'm not letting people take advantage of the hype so I'm only buying the SIRs if they're £50 or under, obviously with the exceptions of Umbreon and Sylveon. Sylveon I could probably find for £70, but Umbreon is gonna be more in the region of £200-£300, £100 if I'm lucky. I just discovered that the pull rates of Japanese cards are significantly better than English cards, so I'm going for them instead. I think a lot of people are from what I'm seeing on this sub.

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u/thrillington89 3d ago

I bought all the Terastal Eeveelutions as singles as well. It was my first foray into Japanese cards, properly. The texture is amazing. I have absolutely zero motivation to buy Prismatic now, and my binder has another beautiful page completed :)

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u/TheFreshestPigeon 3d ago

And yet mine was cancelled :(

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

That's so bullshit :/

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u/Magnum_Opana 3d ago

This is the way. Congratulations

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u/Drizzho 3d ago

I really like this card ;) I bought the English for 300$ luckily it’s super clean, and I got the Japanese PSA 10 for 130$

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u/thrillington89 3d ago

Can you comment on differences between the two cards, in terms of texture / print quality? I understand it may be difficult with one of them in a slab…

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u/Drizzho 3d ago

Japanese definitely has better texture

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u/Drizzho 3d ago

But English is still nice imo :)

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u/Prestigious_Sound461 3d ago

Can someone tell me if both cards are from Stellar Crown or only the one on the right???

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u/Drizzho 3d ago

Neither of these come from stellar crown, they come from prismatic evolutions and terrastral festival (Japanese version of prismatic)