Poll of the Day > It's crazy how Pokemon cards got to be so valuable

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Even after the failure of sports cards as collectibles, and to a lesser extent, non pre-release MTG cards.

I dont think sports cards have failed as collectibles?

What? Sports cards are still a thing. Target has walls of them and ebay has the crazy valuable ones

Il never forget my first pack of pokemon cards in 1998 i got a 1st edition charizard. Sold it to the buyer at shinders for i think 80 dollars store credit

magic cards are also still very valuable
what are you talking about

My Holo Zapdos and Dragonite aren't worth much though.

TheSlinja posted...

magic cards are also still very valuable
what are you talking about

From Revised onwards? Except for like, dual lands, nothing's worth over a hundred bucks as far as I know

Zareth posted...

From Revised onwards? Except for like, dual lands, nothing's worth over a hundred bucks as far as I know

well you dont know much then lmao

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/3/6/AAV-UvAAEvTg.jpg
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this is even from the most recent set, tons of cards past revised are worth over a hundred

Is that like a limited edition individually numbered card
Cause I know that they do those

no but yeah they do a ton of those now, I actually pulled one lol

FatalAccident posted...

I dont think sports cards have failed as collectibles?

In my estimation they have not. They are still hugely collectible, with The National card convention attracting thousands of visitors every year. Of course, not everything that was speculated on became worth more than a few bucks, but that goes for any collectible. And there are a lot of numbered stuff that even has no value, like something out of 50...they make stuff collectible like this so much now it does water it down some.

But if you open a box of Topps Triple Threads and get a 16 signature booklet, which you could sell for a few thousand minimum, you have struck gold.

MTG's value makes Pokemon look like a kid's game.

argonautweakend posted...

In my estimation they have not. They are still hugely collectible, with The National card convention attracting thousands of visitors every year. Of course, not everything that was speculated on became worth more than a few bucks, but that goes for any collectible. And there are a lot of numbered stuff that even has no value, like something out of 50...they make stuff collectible like this so much now it does water it down some.

But if you open a box of Topps Triple Threads and get a 16 signature booklet, which you could sell for a few thousand minimum, you have struck gold.

This is describing sports cards as investments. Sports (and other kinds of) cards have not come anywhere remotely close to failing as collectibles and are more collectible than they've ever been.

As investments its more difficult to describe since more people are doing it but the number of cards that hold significant long-term value has probably either not changed or declined. People are willing to drop like $30,000 on a 1/1 Luis Robert rookie card but who knows if anyone will give a shit about it even 10 years from now so it doesn't really make any sense as a real investment tool. As a job/gambling effort the market has never been better.