I love collecting Charizard, I'm guilty of that and I'm sure you and everyone here knows that but even I can agree it's gotten to a ridiculous point, and it really boils down to one thing: Oversaturation. While normally I don't care as much anymore because I have other, better hobbies and the first 6 generations of the TCG to enjoy anyways, I do want to mention again what I've been saying about the modern TCG. It's 100% Scalpers and TCG stores artificially inflating the price of this card and it's the worst example of it I've ever seen. That's like if they sold the Megas from flashfire for hundreds each even though they were just as easy to get as any other card in the set.

It's not that hard to pull comparatively, it's not a secret rare, there's not an astronomically low chance of getting it like say, the Shiny one from HF. Charizard VMAX's price is another dumpster fire, and I have no idea why it's so much money.

I want those alternate art Tag Teams a LOT more than I want anything in this set besides the one card.Ĭlick to expand.I couldn't ever bring myself to spend hundreds on a single of a stupid rainbow card, so I just don't bother. It especially disappoints me as a special set because Tag All Stars, like you said exists. It puts me in a weird rut where it's like, sure I want this but I'm not going to waste my time and money on a set I don't care about otherwise. It's not like Hidden Fates where at least there was a lot of stuff to want out of it, it's just another boring SwSh set that happens to have a chase card.

I'm probably not going to deal with it unless they print enough of this set to go and easily pick it up (hint, they won't). I don't care about its themes, being 'relive your epic journey through Galar and all these characters you love!' because I sure don't care about anything from that game, and so I'm just kind of in a rut with it. And while I'd like to own the Shiny one at least, I think it's a nice looking card and I want it as a Zard collector, I have no desire to get anything Champion's Path otherwise, because I don't care about this messily-thrown together set. The rainbow rares are dumb and shouldn't have ever existed, though. It also makes me wonder why this practice is still enabled? Are the Charizard fans even happy having to spend hundreds of dollars on one card every few months? How are they not saturated with super and ultra rare Charizard cards after 20? And the fanatics and/or scalpers have created a fantasia moment at this point where even cards that are not that rare and definitely not playable like Darkness Ablaze Charizard VMAX are selling for $100 for what reason?Ĭlick to expand.I don't have a problem with most of the Charizards existing, visually I enjoy a lot of the ones that have recently come out. This one is particularly egregious because a) there are two of them and b) the rest of the set is god awful, scraped together from random Japanese filler when they could have just as easily given us the rest of the Tag All Stars cards as a distraction. Do they have no faith in their products to sell anymore? This is the fifth set in the last year and a half, within the last eight expansions in general, to rely on a super shiny Charizard to keep the rest of the set afloat. That said, the Charizard mania is really beginning to frustrate me.

With everything going on in the world today, it feels pretty tone deaf of me to come on here and nerd rage about a collectible card game.

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