Freshly pulled. My 2nd one, but I can't get over how good the card looks. Art is great and texturing/holo etching is the best thing to happen to rarity in 20+ years, fight me
>>51791972Love Smeargle, happy it's getting some kind of 'full art'. Also love the Bibarel from Pokemon Go with smeargle photobombing
>>51793186I agree with pretty much your entire post, there are few cards where the cgi actually looks good, because as you said most of the time the pokemon is lazily done. The Giratina V from LO comes to mind as one of the highlights of CGI cards in recent memory. Rainbows are also unnecessary, but i'd be lying if I said I don't enjoy pulling them. I'd rather get a rainbow than a non holo rare or even holo rare or something
>>51793913I personally just keep them all upright in ETB and card boxes. They've only been like that for a few years, but I don't see any kind of damage or warping. Besides heavy duty cases like one touches or screw downs, I wonder if toploaders are the best way to protect your cards
>>51796352Congrats, anon that Serena looks so good. Wish I could have gone to a prerelease
>>51797499That's how I feel about Shining Charizard. I have the rest of the Shinings, but Charizard is currently at a price that i'll never be willing to pay
>>51797771I'm the same way about completing the ES set, i've ripped so much that I want to say i'm maybe 80% done the entire set, but do I really want to track down the other 20% as singles? Because i'm pretty much done with ripping ES
