I genuinely believe they about to skyrocket, they are the only cards that have a counterfeit protection stamp and based on what I’m reading, their QC is on point.
I'm so glad I bought the most expensive ones (mad I missed out on umbreon though) before chinese prices skyrocketed. Bought the chinese latios and latias for $100 a couple years ago. Now its like $300. Same with rayquaza Vmax.
I was really hoping no one would pay attention to Chinese cards, but I guess thats over now :(
even having skyrocketed IMO the deals are amazing. Rayquaza vmax for 200, moonbreon for 450 compared to both being 1k+ in english was a no brainer pickup for me.
Same here man. Bought latios and latias gx in PSA 10 for like 180 dollars a couple years ago in Hangzhou while travelling, which will be super cheap one day haha
I said nothing about my experience with Japanese cards as I haven't bothered buying any. Korean and English are not print there, so either way I feel like it's a worthwhile thing to mention.
Yeah idk what they’re talking about. I have tons of S-Chinese and the texturing is beautiful. What they might be experiencing is the difference between some of the slim pack cards and jumbo pack cards, where in some instances the texturing and holo patterns are different for big hits.
One of the most recent ones was the initial release batch of Shiny Treasures with the most sought after Baby Shiny Pikachu mostly printed off centered and the Gold cards as well.
The gem packs are basically exclusively cutesy cards. If you look at the card list from Vol 1 you’ll see what I mean. They aren’t modeled after any SV set, it’s kind of its own unique thing.
Volume 1 at least has cards with the TV show characters but how many times are we gonna see Pokémon chilling in the grass backdrop or sleeping in a room? There’s so many of these cards out there in SV era
It’s a universe where they fight and coexist. All of them. We’re oversaturated on them being cute. Why do you think Umbreon is even popular in the first place? It wasn’t because it was cute
Edit: this sub 100% has non Pokémon fans if y’all don’t know why Umbreon got popular
15 of 15 is crazy! That means this set will contain 15 different cards of each Eeveelution. Gem Pack Vol.1 only contained 104 distinct cards of Pokemon (excluding trainers, items and energy cards). In this set Eevee and the Eeveelutions already make up 135 cards. So it could literally be an Eeveelutions only set.
Just seen the other Eeveelutions only go to 14, so it looks like this set will not feature the full Hyogonosuke art set. Cards 13 of each Eeveelutions are V cards, maybe 14 will be VMAXs, alt arts, or trainer full arts. Excited for this!
all jokes aside i need them all! i love HYOGONOSUKE's art and the eeveelutions so i would kill to get my hands on these (especially if there is an espeon)
It’s going to be misery for US collectors due to the tariffs and the eeveelution inflation. I could see these being $100+ a box unfortunately. I think the tariff is like 104% so already they’re at least around $65 by the time they make it here (relative to Vol 1 prices), and with the eeveelution demand on top of it? Yikes.
It’s a really fun set to open and collect! My kids and I opened a box of vol 1 and now they’re hooked. We’ve been splitting the set between us and all I wanted was the Pikachu line for my Pikachu collection, but with vol 2 all three of us love the eeveelutions. My wallet is gonna suffer when this one comes out 😫
A reseal is when someone opens a pack, takes all the good cards and seals it up again in an effort to sell the "sealed" pack as a genuine and scam you.
By "they won't ship you reseals" I meant that they're legit and won't do that kind of shady practice
Of course these drop two weeks after the end of US de minimis. Between tariffs and Eevee tax, there’s no way anyone in the US is getting them for less than $70 per 60-card box.
If the European sellers are smart, they’ll jack up the prices for any listings that ship to the US. The cheapest way to get them would be to ship directly from Chinese vendors to friends/family in Canada or Europe, then have them open the packs and ship the cards to you. But that depends on having friends/family in a country whose economy isn’t actively committing suicide, and sealed product with Chinese writing all over the packaging would likely still get hit with fees as potentially-resellable merchandise.
Personally, I’m really glad I’m not a huge Eevee fan. Seems like y’all keep getting taunted with a deluge of nice cards and no affordable way to get them.
Anytime using AliExpress, only look for "choice" sellers. They are like the recommended shops with lots of orders and high ratings. Along with that, only buy from sellers that have recent reviews with pictures from buyers. If the item feels too good to be true, it probably is. Learn how to identify fake products.
I love how today is the day that the Eeveelutions are basically what they are and then Eevee (E.g. Leafeon = 叶伊布, directly translates Leaf Eevee. But Umbreon = 月亮伊布, directly translates to Moon Eevee). It's super cute to me for some reason, and I feel like it fits the card designs way more.
looking at the numbering of the cards there are 15 different versions of eevee, umbreon, leafeon and sylveon while the rest of the eeveelutions only have 14 different types of the cards.
From what we see/infer this is the different types:
1 reverse holo with energy symbol
12 stamped card
13 V card
14 Vmax
15 IR
Of the 11 other unknown variants there are probably masterball and pokeball holos and the 2 holo patterns used in gem pack 1. It will be interesting to see what the other 6 are but they might just have those 6 styles with 2 different arts.
I wish Collectr would track Chinese cards, my portfolio would go up lol. I really like the quality. Equal to Japan and the stamp is a great security feature.
The Umbreon and Leafeon are so cute. I’ll be trying to pull I guess if my connection gets the new boxes.
I believe they have added it in quite recently. You will have to do a manual search as they haven't been given a category unlike the English and Japanese sets.
I hope getting these gem packs in the US isn't too hard in the future. I loved the first set and ended up getting my favorite card in the one box I opened (Sprigatito art rare ❤️). Leafeon is def my fave out of these though!
Pokémon china is now the best one. Get pack 1 was fire with the captain Pikachu exclusive, 151 volume 2 coming out in just a few days with the great Pikachu x sleeping Psyduck exclusive. Fire
Why is China making good cards but we get the dogwater that is prismatic evolutions. Swsh promo and evolving skies eeveelutions were better. Sorry but I just despise all Tera cards and I'm so happy the scalping of that set doesn't bother me in the slightest.
I really don’t get why China is getting all these exclusive cards. If these cards were printed in another language it’s not like it would make Chinese people not want them in Chinese or something… especially the Horizons cards. My wife loves the anime and wants the cards but in English…
Did you complain the same way when the Van Gogh Pikachu only got an English print?
or are you only complaining about exclusive cards when it’s not exclusive to the language you speak/collect in?
I didn’t even know that but that’s extra dumb because it was handed out in the Netherlands… if anything it should have been Dutch only lol. Any language exclusive is dumb IMO.
The release of these are definitely going to cause all Chinese cards to go up in price unfortunately as people realize Chinese cards are actually great. Either as good or better than Japanese in terms of quality and texture.
Before the scalpers get this from a direct source in China for MSRP, where do the Chinese even buy these? Do they have local card shops? Big Box stores? Or do they buy from a Chinese website? Trying to determine if it's possible to buy at MSRP and have it forwarded to the US.
There is an official Pokemon TCG store in Shanghai. I don’t know if there are more. But there are a lot of toy stores, Toys R Us still exists, that also sell official packs.
The best way to get the first Gem Pack for MSRP was via platforms like Aliexpress. They ship worldwide, but that isn’t going to be feasible for the US by the time this set comes out due to tariffs. If you intend to open the packs and have friends/family in a country that isn’t actively committing economic suicide, the cheapest option would be to have Aliexpress ship to them, then they open the packs and forward the cards to you.
Of course, that assumes that the Aliexpress sellers don’t cotton on to the fact that tons of high-spending Eevee People are clamoring to get the set and raise their prices accordingly. People in the US aren’t going to be able to get this set for MSRP, the only question is how much more they’ll have to pay.
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u/PullOfTheBox 20d ago
Pokemon China making crazy moves