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0:00Hello and welcome to Piece of Insight.
0:03In today's video, we're going to be
0:04taking a little bit of a deeper dive
0:06into how the market has changed over the
0:08last 6 months, what that means for the
0:10specific sealed product SPs and promo
0:12cards that we've been looking at, and
0:13what that might mean for the future of
0:15the One Piece TCG in the near term. But
0:18I also wanted to do something a little
0:19bit fun at the end of the video, so
0:20we're going to be looking at a bunch of
0:21really cool cards for under $20.
0:24Uh with that, as always, this is
0:25intended to be interesting and
0:27informative, but not financial advice.
0:29So, let's jump right in. So, before we
0:31jump deeper into the details, we got to
0:32take a look at how our indexes have
0:34changed over the last approximate month
0:37since we last did our update. So, just a
0:39refresher for those who haven't watched
0:40every one of these religiously, we have
0:42three different indexes. We have our SP
0:44500. This is our price index for SPs
0:48around $500 or more. Then we have our
0:50didn't open the wrapper, our Dow index
0:53of sealed product. And then finally, we
0:55have our Nica index, uh which are promo
0:58cards. So, over approximately the last
1:00month, SPs have shown a lot of strength.
1:02They're up around 18%
1:05uh across all of the SPs in the index.
1:07Meanwhile, booster boxes are telling a
1:09very different story. They have fallen 3
1:11and 1/2% uh over the last month. And
1:14then finally, we have promos that have
1:16increased by 2% over the last month. All
1:18of these are telling a little bit of a
1:19different story. Some of them are
1:21specific to the cards, and some of them
1:23I think are more related to macro trends
1:25across the One Piece TCG market, but
1:27we're going to dig into all that. So,
1:29we've been tracking these products over
1:30the last 6 months, starting in February
1:32up until today. So, let's talk about how
1:34the prices have changed over that period
1:35of time, starting with booster boxes.
1:38When we started, the most expensive
1:40booster boxes, of course, were the blue
1:41bottoms and the white bottoms. Uh I was
1:43not able to fit every single booster box
1:45that we look at on this list, so these
1:46are just the most expensive ones. Uh but
1:49one of the things we'll notice over that
1:50period of time is that while about half
1:53of the booster boxes are up, some of
1:55them significantly so, about half of the
1:57booster boxes are also down.
1:59Uh particularly the most expensive
2:01booster boxes being the blue bottoms and
2:03the white bottoms have fallen
2:04significantly from where they were back
2:06in February. So, you know, I think for
2:08the most part we've seen a period of
2:09consolidation uh for these boxes. They
2:12ran up quite a bit during the last bull
2:14run uh and so I think it is healthy to
2:17see consolidation as opposed to a crash.
2:19Although over the last month or so we
2:21have seen the prices start to fall a
2:23little bit more. It's really tough with
2:25these because you get some wildly
2:27different sales and relatively small
2:28differences in terms of like box
2:30quality, does it come with acrylic, all
2:32these sorts of things can make a pretty
2:34big difference in price. So, I tried to
2:36take what I thought were the most
2:37representative numbers. So, the biggest
2:38move that we've seen over the last 6
2:40months has actually been with EBO 2.
2:43I'll be honest, I'm obviously biased.
2:44I've been a big fan of this box for a
2:46really long time. This does not surprise
2:48me and makes a ton of sense to me. You
2:50know, as we have seen the prices climb
2:52for the Gear 2 Luffy Manga which I
2:55believe just hit like an all-time high
2:57in a PSA 10. We've obviously also seen
3:00the gold leaders go up a ton. You have
3:01the Luffy leader in that set that's very
3:03expensive. Plus this is by my
3:05calculations probably the second
3:06shortest printed set after EBO 1s. And
3:08I'll be honest that even at $845
3:11I still think it should be above EBO 1.
3:13EBO 1, yeah, it's a little bit more
3:15scarce but there's not really much in
3:17the boxes. This has scarcity and it has
3:19actual value inside the box. For me at a
3:22minimum this should be the fourth most
3:23expensive box of all of these. This box
3:25had dipped to around $440 as recently as
3:282 months ago. So, this is a massive
3:31massive run-up. As a general rule, I do
3:33assume that when something has
3:34dramatically increased in price we
3:36should be careful because we don't know
3:38whether the market is actually going to
3:39accept that new price. So, even though I
3:41do see long-term fundamental value in
3:43this box and it is my favorite of the
3:45boxes
3:46uh I would be careful. So, it's really
3:48up to your risk tolerance whether or or
3:50that makes sense for you. Other boxes
3:52that have moved quite a bit here, EBO1
3:54continues to rise as well, which again,
3:56I'm a little bit surprised by. You know,
3:58one of the trends that I think we're
4:00going to see across all of these
4:01different items is that scarcity seems
4:04to be playing a huge role. And one of
4:06the biggest losers that we've seen over
4:07the last 6 months has been OP13
4:10precisely for this reason. We just got a
4:11reprint. It was already probably the
4:13largest supply of set that we've ever
4:15had even before the reprint. And so now
4:18we've seen prices go from around $600
4:20all the way down to $400. I'll be
4:22honest, I do think that $400 is still
4:24pretty cheap for OP13 given the value
4:27that some of the cards in the boxes are
4:29going for, but I also think that that's
4:31a demonstration that when there is a lot
4:32of supply available, that makes people
4:35feel a little bit nervous about the
4:36prices and so the prices may have a
4:38little bit harder of a time moving up. I
4:40do think that OP13 is going to get back
4:41to where it was. I just think it's going
4:42to take a little bit of a while to get
4:44there. Another big mover has been OP11.
4:47I think one of the other trends that
4:48we've seen in sealed is sets that have
4:50huge chase cards
4:52that haven't gotten a massive reprint
4:54are also being pulled up as well. We see
4:56this with OP05, you know, PRBO1,
4:58although it's fallen behind EBO1 a
5:00little bit is also up a bit as well as
5:03OP09. Like these sets that have these
5:04big chase cards continue to do well.
5:07Part of that is probably that people are
5:08ripping them so they become a little bit
5:09more scarce, but part of it is also that
5:11I think people want to own the boxes
5:13that have the best cards in them. You
5:15know, it's hard to know exactly how much
5:16of that is genuine versus hype, but that
5:19is a trend that we're seeing. Another
5:20thing I wanted to look at is how the
5:21boxes have changed in their positioning
5:24over the 6 months relative to one
5:25another. So what I did was I took the
5:28rank order of price of the booster boxes
5:316 months ago and then I compared them to
5:33where the booster boxes sit now in terms
5:36of rank order of price. So if we take
5:38the assumption that the market moves as
5:39a whole, things generally go up or
5:41things generally go down, looking at how
5:43things change in position relative to
5:45one another can help to tell us where
5:47certain boxes are seeing strength and
5:49where certain boxes are seeing weakness
5:51and what that might tell us about the
5:52market as a whole. So first, obviously,
5:54EBO2 has gone up five spots from where
5:57it was six months ago. You know, that's
6:00not a surprise given what we just talked
6:01about and how much the price has gone
6:02up. OP13 as well is up three spots
6:05relative from where it was six months
6:07ago. An interesting one here that has
6:09gone up is OP02.
6:12I find this pretty surprising because
6:13most of the other vintage Heracross
6:15stuff has actually been falling. OP03 is
6:18down four spots. OP04 is down three
6:21spots. It may just be that OP02 was like
6:23just a tiny bit undervalued compared to
6:26the other ones
6:27six months ago, but I thought that was a
6:29little bit interesting. It was
6:30interesting to me that over the last six
6:32months the top three boxes have remained
6:34the top three boxes. I think we're
6:36starting to see some like consolidation
6:37and consensus that those are probably
6:39the three best sets
6:41that people want to collect to different
6:43degrees. I think once we get below that
6:45and we get into like the PRB01, EBO1,
6:48and EBO2 tier, I think there's maybe a
6:50little bit of discussion of which are
6:52better than the others, but I think
6:53clearly OP01 has its place in history
6:56and then OP05 is probably the best
6:58anniversary set that we've gotten and so
7:00those remain the top three for a reason.
7:03Okay, so enough of booster boxes. Let's
7:05talk about the SPs. So we did the same
7:08thing here. We looked at the SP prices
7:09from six months ago and we compared them
7:11to today to see how they've changed. So
7:14our big winners, we have the EBO3 Robin,
7:17the EBO3 Boa. EBO3 in general has done
7:20really, really well. The only reason the
7:21Nami hasn't increased as much as cuz the
7:23Nami was by far the most expensive
7:26when the set first came out. You know,
7:28this has been a good six-month period
7:29for Boa in general. She's been a little
7:31bit up and down, but right now she's
7:32back on the upswing. The OP04 Boa has
7:35also been one of the biggest winners
7:37over the past six months increasing
7:38$410, which is like almost 50% over the
7:426-month period. You know, I'm a big
7:44believer that that's an iconic SP and so
7:47I'm not surprised that it has gone up in
7:49price, but you know, again, a lot of
7:51these gains have been within like the
7:52last month. So I would be a little bit
7:54careful there. Same thing with Gum-Gum
7:56Giant. Gum-Gum Giant has increased a ton
7:59over the last 6 months. You know,
8:01obviously there's some playability
8:02relevance there. It is an event manga,
8:04but for those who don't know in PRB02
8:07event mangas were treated SPs. That's
8:08why I characterize it here. You know, I
8:10think people are starting to realize how
8:11good of a set PRB02 is, so I'm not
8:14surprised to see it rise there as well.
8:16Although it has gotten a little bit
8:18ahead of the other event mangas and SPs
8:20in that set, which I think are really
8:21really good. So although I do really
8:23like it, this is one that I would maybe
8:25be a little bit careful with. It does
8:27seem just like a little bit expensive to
8:28me
8:29compared to the other ones. And then the
8:31other good story here and as a
8:32percentage is actually the biggest
8:34change is the Luffy PRB02. You know,
8:36that one was only $350 6 months ago,
8:39which I think was like pretty
8:40ridiculously underpriced for a very long
8:43time. It went up to around $450
8:47and then up to $500 and then up to $600
8:50and now like in the last couple weeks
8:51it's now up to $750.
8:54I don't know how high it's going to
8:55climb. I'm of a mind that it's like one
8:56of the best SPs that there are, so I'm
8:59happy to see it like moving into the
9:00territory with the other like really
9:02highly valued SPs.
9:04But again, it's gone up a lot over a
9:06relatively short period of time, so I
9:08wouldn't get too crazy with that one. In
9:10terms of things that have gone down,
9:12there haven't been any like crazy
9:14losers, but the biggest loser has
9:15definitely been the Ace Wanted poster.
9:17And this is another one that doesn't
9:18really surprise me. I think the real
9:19issue here is just that like there is a
9:22huge population of these and like how
9:24many people really care about an error
9:26card, right? And I think that like a lot
9:28of its initial price was probably hype
9:30and people thinking that it was going to
9:31be super sought after in the future and
9:33sort of underestimating how common it
9:35was as a card. And I think we're
9:37starting to see a correction there. I
9:38still think it's a little bit expensive
9:39at this price, but I think we're getting
9:41into a much more reasonable territory.
9:43Uh other cards that have fallen a little
9:44bit, you know, the Boa from OP14. Again,
9:47I don't really have a great explanation
9:48for this other than there's like a lot
9:49of other better Boas out there. The
9:51Luffy wanted poster from OP09 has also
9:54fallen quite a bit. This one I am
9:56surprised about. Now, when I did the
9:58analysis of the populations for these, I
10:00did realize that this is a higher
10:02population SP than I would have guessed.
10:05Uh because the split between the wanted
10:08posters and the mosaic SPs in OP09 means
10:10that the wanted posters are less rare
10:13than the mosaic ones. So, it does make
10:15sense that this one is like a little bit
10:16less expensive than some SPs that are
10:18both top tier and also rarer, but I am
10:21surprised that while most things have
10:23gone up, this has continued to fall over
10:24that period. I think it's the type of
10:26thing that if you're really a One Piece
10:27fan, that you would really want to have
10:29in your collection. That one does feel a
10:30little undervalued to me even if it is a
10:32relatively high population. And then
10:34there are the cards that really haven't
10:35moved that much, uh which I think is
10:37pretty interesting. So, the OP14 Zoro,
10:40like when it first came out, it was like
10:41$950, and then it boomed up to like
10:44$1,500, and then it fell down to $750,
10:47and now it's climbed back up to end at
10:49exactly $950, right? And I think it's a
10:52great story of the volatility that is
10:55the One Piece market and how like hype
10:58trains can really, really pull things
11:00along. I think there's pretty general
11:02consensus that this is like one of the
11:04best SPs of all time, uh that the art is
11:07absolutely iconic. Um but, I think that
11:10like we saw a massive amount of hype and
11:12FOMO driving the prices all the way up,
11:15and then when the reality of the
11:16population hit as people finished
11:18opening all those cards, the price fell
11:21down quite a bit, and people moved on to
11:24other exciting things. And then
11:26naturally, the price has slowly
11:27increased over time uh as people saw it
11:30as being relatively inexpensive compared
11:33to what it was and then buying it back
11:34up to its price where it originally was.
11:37So, you know, again, the demand is going
11:39to change as we get new cards over time
11:41as attention moves somewhere else. So,
11:43this is part of the reason not to FOMO.
11:45In terms of other cards that have gone
11:46down or haven't really moved that much,
11:48you know, we have the Nami from OP09, we
11:50have the Zoro from OP09, we also have
11:52the Nami from OP05. What do those things
11:54have in common? Well, they're all from
11:56anniversary sets which are relatively
11:57high population, particularly the Nami
11:59from OP05 I think is like one of the
12:01largest if not the largest population of
12:03SPs, so I think that could be uh hurting
12:06its growth potential a little bit there.
12:09The 09 ones were like the first SPs to
12:11be really expensive, so I think seeing
12:13some consolidation there makes a ton of
12:14sense. So, I think the big takeaways
12:16here are to understand that when people
12:19recognize these are really, really good,
12:21there's going to be a lot of hype. And
12:22then we test what the actual scarcity
12:24is. And I think what we saw with EB03 is
12:27that we had the hype and then like not
12:29many cards came in to backfill because
12:31there actually are pretty scarce. And
12:33then we saw the price continue to go up
12:34from there because there wasn't much to
12:36come in and undercut the prices as they
12:38currently existed. Whereas I think some
12:40of these more common sets, we see a lot
12:42of hype and then we see backfill come in
12:44and that causes the price to go down.
12:47And so like over a long enough timeline,
12:49we are going to see like a normalization
12:51of supply and demand. So, in terms of
12:53how these SPs have changed, of course
12:55you have the PRB02 Luffy which is up six
12:58spots, that's the biggest mover having
13:00doubled in price over a 6-month period.
13:02This obviously doesn't surprise me. I
13:04think the more people that see it in
13:05person, the more they grow to appreciate
13:07it. We also have Gum-Gum Giant that's
13:08moved up four spots. The Boa EB03 has
13:11moved from third place into first place,
13:13which I do find a little bit surprising.
13:15I assumed that it was going to stay in
13:17third place given the character's
13:19popularity relative to Nami and Robin.
13:21The Boa from OP04 has moved up, which I
13:24think makes a ton of sense uh how iconic
13:26I view that. In in terms of the ones
13:28that are falling, the OP14 Zoro falling
13:31two spots I found to be a little bit
13:33surprising given how iconic I think that
13:35one is. You know, the OP09 Nami falling
13:38two spots doesn't shock me because we
13:39got the EB03 Nami uh that's above it, so
13:43that made some sense to me there. Again,
13:45the Luffy wanted poster falling three
13:47spots
13:48continues to surprise me. Um but, you
13:51know, it is what it is. The Boa from
13:53OP14 fell three spots, and then the Ace
13:55from OP13
13:57fell four spots as well. So, what are
13:59the big takeaways from this? Well, the
14:01first is that some people are clearly
14:02taking profits, particularly in booster
14:04boxes. While I don't cover it in the
14:06market indexes, uh it has been clear
14:09that certain segments of the slab market
14:12have also been decreasing in price,
14:14particularly the lower-end cards. There
14:15are certainly still some like grails and
14:17super high-end cards that are running,
14:18but I think a lot of cards that have
14:20been overhyped are starting to correct a
14:22little bit on the slab side. We're also
14:24starting to see some corrections in
14:25booster boxes. This doesn't surprise me
14:27very much. When we talked about our
14:28video trying to predict what was going
14:30to happen over the next 6 months, I said
14:32that I thought that some people were
14:33going to start to take profits going
14:34into OP17 partly as a way to save money
14:36so that they can then spend on OP17, um
14:40but also that depending on how OP17 is
14:42perceived will help to determine how
14:44long people think this bull run is going
14:45to go, right? So far at least, the
14:47demand for OP17 seems a little bit
14:49muted. Not everyone is happy with the
14:51card reveals. We may still get a couple
14:53epic cards. We may still get a god pack.
14:56You know, we're not really sure that
14:57we're done with all of the cards yet, so
14:59that could affect the perception. Uh but
15:01for now at least, I think it's led to a
15:02little bit of market cooling in the
15:04short term.
15:05You know, I actually think that a lot of
15:06these price corrections represent
15:07maturity. What you really don't want to
15:09see in a market is where like things get
15:11bought up through extreme hype, and then
15:14they fall down really fast because that
15:16means that like there's a very small
15:18active group of people who are willing
15:19to spend a lot of money, but then
15:21underneath that there isn't really very
15:23much. I think the fact that we're seeing
15:25prices correct very, very slowly after
15:29they've been bought up shows that there
15:30is a lot of consistent demand for One
15:33Piece, um which I think is really,
15:34really good and I think it's a strong
15:36signal for the future. I think scarcity
15:38is pushing prices higher right now. As
15:41I've said, you know, as we saw a lot of
15:43changes in demand over a 6-month period,
15:45the one thing that seemed to carry
15:47through is that the scarcer products
15:49seem to maintain their prices or
15:51increase their prices better over the
15:526-month period than the prices that had
15:54larger supply. As the market matures and
15:58we get a better understanding of what
15:59supply is, those scarcer things tend to
16:02create their own demand and be more
16:04demanded than the things that are less
16:05scarce. I also expect promos and SPs to
16:08correct. Now, a lot of people are not
16:09going to want to hear this, especially
16:10after I just did a video where I talked
16:12about SPs and I questioned whether or
16:14not SPs are undervalued. I think whether
16:17SPs are undervalued compared to mangas
16:19is still an important question. But I
16:21also have to acknowledge that the way
16:23the market tends to work is that it
16:26moves in waves. And so, now that we've
16:28seen booster boxes start to correct, I
16:31do think at some point we will see these
16:33promos and the SPs, which have continued
16:35to move up, start to correct as well.
16:38You know, how hard is that going to hit
16:40them? It's really, really hard to say.
16:42So, you know, I think that if we do see
16:44a correction there, I think there could
16:45be good buying opportunities for a lot
16:47of these SPs. Some of the promos I do
16:49think are still way too expensive, um
16:51but we'll see what happens there. I do
16:53expect to see a price correction across
16:55the board over the next few months, but
16:57I think SPs and promos in particular,
16:59because they have just run up so much in
17:01such a short period of time. And then
17:03the final thing I want to say is make
17:04sure you're not overpaying for OP-17.
17:07Obviously, we know it's an anniversary
17:08set. We know it's going to be good. We
17:11still don't know what the biggest chases
17:12are going to be yet, and some of the
17:13cards that we've seen so far are really
17:15cool. I just saw that it finally hit
17:17like pre-sale prices on TCGPlayer.
17:19As a word of caution, don't give those
17:21people your money. Like you're giving
17:22them an interest-free loan. If the
17:24prices go up a ton, they'll probably
17:25just cancel your order anyway. So, it's
17:27not like you're locking in a great price
17:29now. I will also say too, you know, what
17:31we have seen from OP13 is that prices
17:35spiked up to like $600 relatively
17:37shortly after release once like all the
17:39initial supply was eaten up.
17:41But then as they reprinted, we now see
17:43that they're like $400 a box, right? It
17:46will be interesting once we get all the
17:48cards from OP17 to compare it to OP13
17:51for which is a better set. But like
17:54I would be using $400 as a benchmark. If
17:56we think the set is better than OP13,
17:58okay, maybe it's worth more than $400.
18:00If we think it's worse than OP13, maybe
18:02it should be worth less than $400,
18:04right? I would expect as a minimum to
18:06see the same population we had for OP13,
18:08but we could also see a bigger
18:09population, right? So, let's not get
18:11crazy with these prices before we have
18:14much more information that we need to
18:16understand like how this actually fits
18:18among the other sets. Okay, so as I was
18:20preparing to find some cool cards under
18:22$20, I'll be honest, I came up with like
18:2460 and which were like way more than I
18:26could reasonably go through in a video.
18:28So, I'm going to try to touch on some
18:30areas where there are some really really
18:31cool cards to be found, but I definitely
18:33encourage you to dig around, you know,
18:35in the under $20 range cuz there still
18:37is so much cool stuff to be had uh even
18:39though most of the time we focus on the
18:41expensive things. So, the first category
18:43I want to talk about are the
18:44illustration boxes. Obviously, most
18:46people know like the Boa and the Nami,
18:48those are the most expensive, but you
18:50know, there's also this Yamato uh Peach
18:52Momoko. For those who don't know, Peach
18:54Momoko did the first two illustration
18:56boxes. So, there were four that that are
18:58very similar art style. There's this
18:59one, there's the Black Maria, there's
19:00the Nami and the Boa. Um I think this
19:02one is like really iconic looking, you
19:04know, at $17. All these cards we're
19:06going to talk about are relatively high
19:08population, right? So, I wouldn't go
19:09crazy on them, but if you were looking
19:10to spend like $100 on the six set, like
19:12getting all four of those cards
19:14together, I think would be really,
19:15really cool.
19:16But, the illustration boxes in general,
19:18I think have some really good art, and I
19:20think at their prices, um even though
19:22they're relatively high population, can
19:24still be really good value. You know,
19:25there's this Egghead Luffy, uh the
19:27market price on this one is around $9.
19:30It has gone up a bunch, but it's still a
19:32really cool-looking card. It's a Luffy
19:33card. You know, if this was a regular
19:35alt art, what would it be? 25, 30, 40
19:38dollars? And instead it's $10, right?
19:41Like I'm not trying to talk about any of
19:43these things from an investment
19:44perspective, but if you like it, like I
19:46think it's a pretty cheap way to get a
19:47really cool card. Some other cards I
19:49like from the illustration box set, I
19:50think this Law is absolutely sick for
19:52like $5. The texture uh and the foiling
19:56on some of the illustration boxes can be
19:57a little bit hit or miss, but this one
19:59is absolutely spectacular. We also have
20:01the Zoro again for around $5. The Zoro
20:05and the Luffy deliberately go together,
20:07um which I think looks really, really
20:08cool.
20:09And then you also have the Ace here at
20:11around $3. Uh the Ace also goes with the
20:14Sabo, so you have the two flame flame
20:16fruits together, which looks really,
20:17really cool together. There's this
20:19Perona uh
20:21for a dollar, right? The cheapest Perona
20:23alt art is probably like four bucks, and
20:26then most of the other ones are like,
20:27you know, more than $10. So, for a
20:29dollar, I feel like it's hard to go
20:30wrong if you like it. This Corazon is
20:33also like a really, really awesome piece
20:36of art in my opinion. You know, this one
20:38again is less than the dollar. And then
20:41the cheapest of the illustration boxes
20:42is actually the Sabo um for 50 cents.
20:46So, I just think these are really,
20:47really fun promo cards if you're looking
20:49for something cheap to pick up. Another
20:51category of cards that I think are
20:52really cool for their price, you know,
20:54obviously we talked about the mangas
20:56versus the SPs, and there was a lot of
20:57conversation about like original Oda art
20:59being like the best thing that you can
21:01have like in the game. Here we have
21:04something a little bit different. We
21:05have original sketches from the anime. I
21:08think this one in particular is really
21:10iconic of Luffy. And so I think that
21:12these will stand the test of time a
21:14little bit just because they are so
21:15different and so unique. There's also
21:17this one
21:18that has all of the Straw Hats. They're
21:20still pretty cheap. They kind of remind
21:22me of like if you follow Pokémon, the
21:24amazing rares, right? Which were like
21:26cool-looking cards, but like they
21:28weren't super rare, so nobody really
21:29paid attention to them. And then as the
21:31game grew, people found them more
21:33desirable and now they're worth, not a
21:34fortune, but they're worth a little bit
21:36more. The next category where I want to
21:38talk about are the best selection cards.
21:40There's like a ton of really, really
21:42awesome cards in these sets that are
21:44still really cheap. Obviously, the main
21:46characters have gotten more expensive. I
21:48wanted to point out this Makino. Props
21:50to our friends from Argentina for
21:51pointing out that we should be checking
21:53out Makino cards cuz sometimes they have
21:55other characters in the background. This
21:57one has little Luffy and you can also
21:59see Shanks's arm as well. And so it's
22:01like a cute reminder
22:02of how Luffy came to be, Luffy and
22:04Shanks's relationship and all that for a
22:07really, really affordable package. So
22:08again, thanks to them for pointing that
22:10out about actually the Makino first
22:11anniversary Japanese card, which you can
22:13really see them clearly, but I also
22:15checked and found it on this card as
22:16well. Another card from these types of
22:19sets. This isn't the best collection,
22:21but this is the Bandai Card Games Fest.
22:23I think the Sanji looks absolutely
22:25awesome. I've talked about it before. It
22:27used to be like three bucks, now it's
22:28like five to seven dollars. Again, I
22:32just feel like for less than $10, this
22:33is like one of the coolest cards you can
22:34own. Another card that I also like from
22:36that folder is the Jinbe. Obviously, I
22:38really enjoy Jinbe and this is like such
22:40a good Jinbe face. I make this face
22:43frankly all the time, especially at my
22:44children.
22:46I also think that the artistic style is
22:47really, really fun. So again, for like
22:49four bucks, I absolutely adore this
22:51card. Another card I wanted to talk
22:53about is the Luffy and Ace starter deck
22:56EX leader card. This card is like six
22:59bucks because this set just came out.
23:01Obviously, everybody's chasing the alt
23:02art version, which is over $100. But,
23:05I'll be honest, I got fortunate enough
23:06to pull the alt art version, and my kid
23:08only pulled the regular one, and we put
23:10them side by side, and like they both
23:12basically look as good. They They look
23:14different, but they both look awesome.
23:15And so, I feel like for six bucks, you
23:17have Luffy and you have Ace on the same
23:19card, you know, the tag team cards in
23:21Pokémon do super super well. I think
23:24these cards that put multiple characters
23:26on a card to better capture a moment in
23:28time are really really iconic. And so,
23:30like I just think it's a really
23:31desirable card and only six bucks. And I
23:33wouldn't be surprised if this one gets
23:34more expensive as the ST10 become a lot
23:36harder to get. Another promo card that I
23:38like is the I Know You're Strong.
23:41Something this has in common with the
23:42previous card is I'm running both of
23:44them in my deck since I'm playing Luffy
23:46and Ace. But, this card, I feel like if
23:49this was an event manga, would be a very
23:51expensive card, but because it came from
23:54the dash packs for OP13, and because
23:56there's a lot of them, there's a massive
23:58population of these cards, so you know,
24:00they're not as rare as the event mangas.
24:02But, I do think the art on this is super
24:03super fun, plus it's a good card. For
24:05only eight bucks, I feel like if you're
24:07looking at some of these event mangas
24:08and thinking, "Man, that's so expensive.
24:10How could I afford that?" Like this is a
24:11great alternative to that. Also, digging
24:13a little bit deep here, sometimes
24:15there's some really fun art that exists
24:17in the starter decks even on like the
24:19commons or the uncommons. And so, this
24:22Chopper was an example. Again, like I
24:24don't think this is going to be an
24:25expensive card at any point in the
24:26future. For $2, I thought it was a fun
24:29binder card. Um I actually have this
24:31starter deck, but I completely forgot
24:33about this card, so I might need to go
24:34pull it out at some point. And then the
24:36last card for today that I wanted to
24:37talk about was this O-Nami pirate foil.
24:40For those who didn't have the pleasure
24:41of opening PRB-01 and PRB-02, they had
24:44like special foiled versions of regular
24:46cards. PRB-01 had the Jolly Roger foil,
24:49and then PRB-02 had a different foil for
24:51every individual card, which was really
24:53really sick. If there is like art that
24:56you like in some of the commons and
24:58uncommons and rares and stuff that they
25:00may have gotten special treatment in
25:01those sets. I definitely encourage you
25:03to take a look because some of them look
25:04really, really cool. And this is one of
25:06the Namis that I thought stood out in
25:07terms of like it's a cool-looking card
25:09normally, but then you add the foil and
25:11that makes it kind of special. You know,
25:13again, for less than a dollar, I just
25:14think it's a fun binder card. So, that's
25:16all I have for today. As always, I hope
25:18you found this helpful. If you found
25:20that you agreed or disagreed with any of
25:21this, you know, I'd be interested in
25:22hearing your insights in the comments.
25:24As always, I love engaging with you all
25:25on this. I learn a ton and it's super,
25:28super enjoyable. If you haven't already,
25:30you know, we'd appreciate if you'd
25:31subscribe. If you are looking to pick up
25:33any of these cards or anything else, you
25:34know, we have our TCGPlayer affiliate
25:36link. We're also an eBay affiliate. I'll
25:38be putting some of these cards up on my
25:40eBay storefront as well just so that
25:42people can find them. Again, no pressure
25:44to buy, but if you do, we'll get a small
25:45commission, which is really helpful. I
25:46mostly just want to have them in one
25:48place
25:49so that they're easy to find. So, with
25:51that, as always, I appreciate your time
25:53and I will see you in the next one.

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