You might appreciate the original topps trading card set in that case. The backgrounds were related to their typing and there was a gimmick where certain cards were cut in a way to have a serrated edge, like with dragonite or aerodactyl.
Good luck lol, have you seen the absolute state of the DS Pokemon market in 2026?
That's the cheapest I've seen them being sold at in years, holy shit.
If that's the cheapest then I don't want to know the most expensive.
What's wrong with just finding an old game shark or action replay and just forcing one to spawn in.
I think Gen 6 and 7 games might be protected from the exorbitant prices GBA and DS games are seeing thanks in part due to it being really easy to install CFW to a 3DS, the only issue is that the prices for 3DSs are rising too.
At an event I went to last year right after PRE dropped there were vendors trying to sell staples like poffin and vessel for $5 each knowing full well that it was an easy pull in that set. They knew that vendors were taking advantage of the FOMO and wanted to put an end to it.
I've seen some prerelease pulls for Ass Heroes and the Pokepad seems to be pretty low given how pretty much 99% of decks will be running 4 of it.
I sold my own old copy of HeartGold with full box, papers, and PokeWalker on Ebay last year for $400, and it sold so quickly (like less than 30 minutes after putting it up) that I think I ripped myself off a little. Emerald can go for a lot too. I sold my old Emerald with the full original packaging included for like $650 within a week of putting it up.
Emerald prices keep going up which is kinda surprising since a lot of stuff peaked during Covid and has dropped since.
it’s not as bad as the psyduck and golduck promos where they just completely axed it for an unplayable drifloon and drifblim promo, which allowed for scalpoids and collectorfags to try to hold it above players heads by asking $10-$15 USD. I don’t even go to gamestop anymore and haven’t got a good while now, being around all of those funko pops is just an awful experience and they’re never going to move them so you can see them collecting dust.
I don't have action replay lol.
Oh I just looked at the prices and they're about as high as a typical Pokemon DS cart. Forget what I just said about getting one. Lol
Then appearance-wise they would all have the same 4 colors, and with so many pokemon, that would get stale. Outside of a few exceptions (not including dual types), the majority of pokemon are colored to the type they represent.