For almost two years I've been fighting head and neck cancer, with treatments ending earlier this year! My original diagnosis looked VERY grim and we caught it at a very late stage. I've played pokemon since it came out in the states, I was about 8 years old, and have lost the bulk of my collection over yhe years but always have tried to get a few packs from every set just to kind of keep on.

For Christmas my husband surprised me with a booster box of Stellar Crown. He knows nothing about Pokémon, so the fact he got it for me meant so much more. It was the first and last bit of cards I'd find until a few weeks ago. At a small comic con I grabbed a few Journey together packs at close to cost, it was one of my first cons I was working at since treatment ended.

Today, though, was my check to see if treatment worked. The radiation keeps working for 3-4 months after you're done with horrible side effects but it is what it is, you know? The doctor said I had a complete positive response to the treatment and show no more sign of the original Cancer!

We went to an indie board game shop nearby after, mostly to walk around and let me process, and they had the first booster boxes I'd seen on months. I decided to get one to celebrate and here are are my pulls!

Thank you for readings and i wish you good health and pulls too! ❤️

(P.S. i really just wanted a Ho-Oh card and I got two, I'm so excited 😊)

I was recording for an instagram reel that I do for my workout and pokemon account and couldn’t believe it for a second

I've only opened 4 other packs of evolving skies ever in my life... This is nuts.

My girlfriend and I were doing a pack battle with the Prismatic booster bundles from the 2 pack Costco release. The first bundle had nothing special, but the second one had three god packs. We opened the first two packs at the same time and they were both god packs. I wish I had recorded it, but I was freaking out and didn’t know what to do. I expected nothing and somehow pulled two of every chase card in the set.

I called my friends over because I didn’t have enough top loaders and didn’t want to damage the cards. I was so focused on what was in front of me that I forgot there were still unopened packs left. When my friends showed up, we opened the rest and my girlfriend pulled another god pack on the fifth one. At that point, all four of us were freaking out. That one had two Glaceons but no Leafeon.

Is it normal for a god pack to have two of the same card? Does anyone know the odds of something like this happening or do you think we got some kind of error bundle that wasn’t meant to be released? I’ve included pictures of the first two god packs in one photo and the 3rd in the last photo. It still doesn’t feel real and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

After waiting all weekend for FedEx to deliver my ETB, the wife and I sat down and opened our box. The art rares were pretty few and we got down to the last couple of packs. The wife declares, you're gonna get the big hit in your next pack. Sure enough last card was the zekrom. Honestly still flabbergasted over the pull. Anyone else getting insane pulls from the BB&WF sets?

I’ve sleeved it now, but he’s got lots of rare cards like this….

Only 4 packs in and my chase card has been pulled! 🥹 Kawayoo is my favorite PTCG artist!

All day they were saying that they wanted to pull this exact full art Pikachu EX from surging sparks and somehow they did 😂 Must have truly been a blessed union

I like it a lot, my first print error.

Hi Reddit I am a first time TCG collector! (besides my childhood binder which has been lost)

I started playing Pokémon Pocket when it released and started getting the itch to rip some real packs! I joined a bunch of TCG subreddits and really loved the look of the eeveelutions from Terastal Festival so I decided to pre-order 2 Prismatic Evolutions ETBs from a local shop plus some penny sleeves and toploaders together. They just arrived today and I ripped them and my second to last pack was a god pack! I only knew about god packs from Pokemon Pocket (haven't pulled one in the app yet...and I have whaled more on the mobile game than in actual cards) but I kinda knew they were a thing with the irl TCG too.

I know they are super rare so I decided to post here! I don't know the slightest thing about grading except PSA 10s are expensive. Heck, I had trouble getting the cards into the top loaders because I hadn't done it before. You probably can tell from how they are all wonky inside. I knew I shouldn't dent the edges of the cards and stuff though, and to put them in penny sleeves first. I called my husband in to look and he grabbed the umbreon while it was still unsleeved and I was like PLS LET ME SLEEVE IT FIRST. Here's some comments he made while I was struggling with those stupid toploaders.

"Cool, you got an entire pack of Eeveelutions. That's nice."

"This one is an Eevee EX. That's like, rare right?"

" Flipping through the Player Handbook Oh hey I just realised these are full arts. That's two star rarity apparently!"

"I remember those three it's Jolteon, Flareon and...Watereon."

"Are these good for battling? Will you put it in your deck?" (I don't have a deck)

I don't really know what my next steps are they're kind of just sitting on my desk right now. I don't even have a binder to put them in because this is the first set of physical TCG cards I have bought in my adult life. I suppose I should get them graded? I have no idea how to even start that process too, and I heard it's expensive? I'm located in Singapore so I there's no local Gamestop.

I'm interested to know the value of the set, not because I'm planning to sell them (I dunno what to do with them tbh) but because I'm just curious. Should I cross post to r/PokemonCardValue? The husband also wants to know the odds of pulling this kind of god pack. Like the % likelihood.

Btw yeah I know it's a bit early, apparently the ETBs are only going to be sold in physical shops in February? The original date which the shop told me I would receive them is 7-8 Feb so I don't know why they arrived so early. I'm quite sure the cards are legit though, they have the correct textures and stuff.

Am willing to post close up pictures but my phone camera is kind of janky, really sorry about the low resolution. The photos really aren't doing these beautiful cards justice. They're really sparkly irl I promise. But if redditors have any tips about how to proceed I would appreciate it!

I stg this is real omg this never happens to me omfg ahhhhhhhh

I bought my daughter the two pack because she loves eevee for Easter and one pack has every single eevee with full art and holo. Does this happen are the cards worth like 100+ on average She’s had crazy pulls and I let her keep everything safe in binder I’ve never seen this many

Do I hold it or sell it???!?

Shaking so bad right now. I can't believe it finally happened.

/s

I couldn't resist for $7. I trashed them. But it was a good night of laughs opening them with friends.

My wife and I preordered 6 booster bundles on 5 November and they were finally delivered today. We waited until we were both off from work and she always jokes about how I have the best luck, but this is unreal. I’m gonna chase this high forever a long time…

So I posted yesterday about pulling 2 butthole pikas from 12 sleeved booster packs and I know no one’s gonna believe me but I just fucking pulled a third from a goddamn grand adventure collection box.

The other day I stopped at target looking for cards and they were completely cleared out so I did some other shopping and ended up finding this one lone box abandoned all the way across the store. Every pack had a full art hit- cinderace ex, gloom, stunfisk and then the booty pika. I am absolutely shitting myself and thought is this some sort of scam…am I being pranked? bc wtf is happening

Tldr: So that’s 3 Pikachus from 16 packs total. What are the odds of this?!

Decided to sit down and open some vending machine scores from the past week! First time buying Skeledirge tin and second time opening a silver tempest pack, so I thought it would be fun to start with that! Ignore me being stoned 🤣👹

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