The boxes can be weighed. The heaviest boxes on average will have a mini god pack at the bare minimum, you can weigh the packs also. Heavier packs will have double or triple hits. The one saving grace is that you absolutely cannot map the masterball chops or weigh these as it’s pointless since it can be the regular reverse holo or the masterball and it’s random. I’m gonna wait until the second print run comes around before I touch anything from this set. Prices will be at their lowest for cards and the risk will be lower
tbh I just went on ebay to buy singles - anything outside of the eeveelutions are already rock bottom prices. Kieran is like $20, Iron Crown is like $3, etc.
Mapping seems to be a more serious problem for Japanese sets. One piece is notorious for case mapping so I’m not surprised if it’s happening with Pokémon. Thought, to be fair I would be more worried about buying loose packs or individual boxes cuz you know some sellers will be weighting packs and boxes. Unless you trust a seller or in person see that they open a case, it could be risky.
@ hell yeah man! Anytime brotha, I’m submitting mine in a larger submission at the end of the year. I wanted to submit PSA but as they are all staying in personal collection I’m really digging the TAG slabs. Only have one grade through PSA which is paldean fates charizard sir 10 Carmine and raging bolt I can’t wait to see slabbed up!!
What’s your favorite card from terastral festival so far? Personally mine is the iron crown ex SAR, with either the kieran or iron valiant ex SAR coming in second
@@OpossumBudyou mention weighing out packs. Just saying you can weigh out the box without taking shrink but still really good video and very informative
Never buy Japanese loose packs, that's all there is. This was always the 'rule' because only reason someone would sell loose JP packs is because they are duds and leftovers. Due to guaranteed hits, regardless of set being mapped or not, as soon as you hit your SR technically you could stop opening rest of packs and there isn't much difference from the Terastal Festival in that regard. Only shady people will do that, and only shady people did that before. This is also issue with other TCGs because they usually have guaranteed hits and people would stop opening as soon as they'd get the big hit of the box. So, never buy Japanese loose packs - boxes are cheap enough and that's why this thing is being kind of a non-issue.
Its really concerning but at the moment im not that afraid as long as the prices even for singles are relatively low. I just hope I'll get some good pulls. Just give me Bloodmoon SAR and im happy 🙏🏻🙏🏻🍀
Hey bro,. appreciate the content as usual, Suspected weord stuff like this may happen, ordered my few boxes from pokemon store japan direct and third party shipping it to Singapore. Hopefully its not tampered with at source 😂
This is confirmed I have ripped 3 cases and all were mappable. Easily could've sold the rest as single packs. I'd highly recommend purchasing at least a booster box .
Weighed packs, weighed boxes, mapped packs, scanned packs, resealed packs. What's next? Ai generated packs?! Screw this bro, I'm just gonna buy the singles and call it a year! 🙄
There's just as much opportunity to get scammed there. But also for me there's just not enough variety or granularity or deals there. I pretty much stick to ebay but I'm trying to get into using one of those straight from Japan sites or something but if you only buy a couple boxes the shipping always seems to make it just as expensive as ebay free shipping listings.
i refuse to buy from amazon. even if they aren't ripping you off i swear stuff has bad juju. got tons of silver tempest stuff because i trusted on seller before i wised up. didn't get anything good. buy from other sellers and you get boxes already ripped open. read comments and people are complaining about boxes already open. not sure if its the sellers or people returning them and then people getting these because amazon or the seller never check
If I don’t see the box being opened then why buy a loose pack? I trust no one. You think a god pack doesn’t weigh more? (Edited, glad you understood what I was saying and that I wasn’t questioning you)
I was watching someone rip and ship a case. She was doing 5 pack bundles and they were going for $75-$85 average (stupid high). She was doing rounds of 10 orders so 50 packs then rip and ship. During the 3rd round she was getting tired and she was going to stop and pick up the next day. I told her that she should finish so so she isn’t accused of weighing packs. She started to get defensive cause she thought I was accusing her of weighing but I knew she opened the case and separated the boxes live. If you don’t stop then there is never a question of any tampering
The point is that you can open a fresh box and know without weighing, on stream. You know at LGS. It’s just stupid that mapping is still a thing in 2024 lmao
@AverageInternetCitizen you have to open multiple packs to find the ace spec first..then at that point it becomes useless like who cares.. these SAR's will become 5$ cards the hit rates are too easy.. people will be chasing MasterBalls instead
Atleast MB's arent mapped! woohoo! SAR pull rates are so high! you can buy the entire (Non-eeveelution) SAR set for the price of a couple boxes LOL. Stay away from loose packs folks!
I never really understood whatnot. Why would anyone want to pay someone else to open a pack for them. I could see the allure on sets that are old or hard to get but find but still.
Personally, I've used whatnot for extremely fast auctions on singles. I literally spent 50$ one night on whatnot, and I purchased nearly 40 cards. All Illustration rares, promos etc. But I agree with you. Pack opening is weird. BUT. Sometimes you can pay to have a pack opened that costs a crazy amount, for a fraction of the price because the seller is farming viewers, and if they are smart, using their pack openings for youtube videos. So they are getting paid. Even if you spent a fraction of the sealed packs listing price
I used whatnot once Saturday night. I tried mapping a hit out of terastal festival and got one for $25 (it was 3 packs for $25). I watched my buddy buy 5 lots for $25 each over a 2-3 hour span and he hit 5 SARs so it’s definitely mappable. Pretty sure I got lucky but he actually knew what he was doing just from watching the stream
Wait what about weighing packs being useless because of code cards and reverse holos with modern American sets? I would guess any god pack sets in Japanese would be weighed just because you can’t hide that weight but your making it seem like every set is useless in singles because of weight. I get the terrestrial problem, but how does that apply to American modern sets? I’m just curious because I was told differently for years by very trust worthy vendors about the corrections pokemon has made to combat this problem.
I’m gonna wait for ppl to move over to English that’s when prices will drop and I can buy the singles I want. Even the sun umbreon is currently affordable
Fucking hell... Can't trust anyone in this damn hobby to be honest. Love this set (wish there were also ARs in it), but that's quite a massive problem if it's truly mapped. What even IS the solution to this? Buy Singles I guess
Why is it so hard to go to a Walmart or target to buy untainted packs? I don’t feel bad for anyone that gets ripped off, no matter what you’re into there are people that will take advantage of you. Use your common sense and you will be fine, you don’t need to be smart at all to stay away from scams in Pokemon 😂
@@OpossumBud That is very true, I just wait until my local target or GameStop gets new supply, I’ve never missed out on a set. I went to visit family across the country in Washington state and found sparks in the first Walmart I went to, sometimes you get lucky, haven’t looked locally yet. It can be annoying but if you enjoy collecting just be patient and persistent.
I looked up videos of the new set this morning and the majority of them were stupidtubers screaming about how you can map these boxes. Way to take the fun out of it, guys.
I agree, and I'm grateful I trust the sellers I buy from. It's just depressing that the majority of the UA-cam presence is focused on this instead of something more positive about the set. 😑
@@OpossumBud I'm jaded AF I grew up in Bushwick, I've seen people completely screw over and ruin other people's lives literally for $1 🤷🤷 Everybody has a dark side, some people are just really good at hiding it Look at the recent thing from hawk tuna girl America's sweetheart screwing her fans ..... Not in the way they want her to screw them 😂🤣🤣
Buy from PokeNe = problem solved
I hope so! I buy from him!
Indeed 😎
Facts
The Pokémon investment guru guy? Never heard much about his selling, just seen those old videos of him with the vault of cards
@@kylerfisher5254he's actually a solid dude.
What’s up Taking Advantage Of Clueless Buyer Virgin Gang, hope you’re all doing alright I’m feeling magnificent today!
What’s up homie 😂
LMAO PLS😭🖐🏽
I agree any set with “god/demi” packs are probably weighable.
Oh for sure man you know that’s the bigger issue 👀
@ trusted sellers are key!
apprently...all the other stuff can be mapped too =.=, the SR, Pokeball, Masterball
Buy from trustworthy people. But good info I suppose Collect Pokémon 👍🏽
I got guaranteed hits by ordering singles 👌 enjoy your vids man 👍
Best way to do it.
You can buy 4-5 low-tier hits for the price of what an ETB will go for.
The boxes can be weighed. The heaviest boxes on average will have a mini god pack at the bare minimum, you can weigh the packs also. Heavier packs will have double or triple hits. The one saving grace is that you absolutely cannot map the masterball chops or weigh these as it’s pointless since it can be the regular reverse holo or the masterball and it’s random. I’m gonna wait until the second print run comes around before I touch anything from this set. Prices will be at their lowest for cards and the risk will be lower
tbh I just went on ebay to buy singles - anything outside of the eeveelutions are already rock bottom prices. Kieran is like $20, Iron Crown is like $3, etc.
The palafin is a chase for sure! Gives me one punch man vibes 🔥🥊
It’s so good
Mapping seems to be a more serious problem for Japanese sets. One piece is notorious for case mapping so I’m not surprised if it’s happening with Pokémon. Thought, to be fair I would be more worried about buying loose packs or individual boxes cuz you know some sellers will be weighting packs and boxes. Unless you trust a seller or in person see that they open a case, it could be risky.
I enjoy that you change your tree up every video or so. good little easter eggs i be looking for throughout the video. what grade is your carmine!!!!!
9 but it’s clean as hell and centered well. Appreciate it homie 🙏🏽
@ hell yeah man! Anytime brotha, I’m submitting mine in a larger submission at the end of the year. I wanted to submit PSA but as they are all staying in personal collection I’m really digging the TAG slabs. Only have one grade through PSA which is paldean fates charizard sir 10
Carmine and raging bolt I can’t wait to see slabbed up!!
I made it in an OB video!!! And I didn’t even have to steal anything!
Bruh those ogerpons look amazing especially the gold card one. Gonna try and do a full ogerpon Sar page
Rip to all the people buying on whatnot
For real for real
Huuuuuuge RIP to my fallen brothers and sisters on whatnot
Tho I got a box off whatnot recently from whatnot themselves and pulled the pika sir on my birthday! It's at PSA now
So what it is, is some boxes with trainer sar hits will now also have a pokemon sar. I assume since some trainers are garbage
What’s your favorite card from terastral festival so far? Personally mine is the iron crown ex SAR, with either the kieran or iron valiant ex SAR coming in second
Palafin
You can also weigh out god boxes. 186.55 grams has a demi god pack
I mention this
@@OpossumBudyou mention weighing out packs. Just saying you can weigh out the box without taking shrink but still really good video and very informative
@ fair
My luck is so bad I wouldn’t get a god pack if the big man upstairs came down and handed me one himself 😭
Never seen that Skyla shirt before. super dope! For anyone curious, it's on Pokemon center :)
I love how cheap most of the SARs are
Ooooh no way! 😆 you would think this would’ve stopped by now!
Never buy Japanese loose packs, that's all there is. This was always the 'rule' because only reason someone would sell loose JP packs is because they are duds and leftovers. Due to guaranteed hits, regardless of set being mapped or not, as soon as you hit your SR technically you could stop opening rest of packs and there isn't much difference from the Terastal Festival in that regard. Only shady people will do that, and only shady people did that before.
This is also issue with other TCGs because they usually have guaranteed hits and people would stop opening as soon as they'd get the big hit of the box.
So, never buy Japanese loose packs - boxes are cheap enough and that's why this thing is being kind of a non-issue.
Reminds me when Max did a SM map video.
I mention that in this video 👀
I can’t wait to get my shipment! They cooked with the whole set imo.
I agree. A ton of chases.
Good luck on the pulls homie 👍🏽
@@OpossumBudthank you 🙏🏾
Damn I love me some controversy.🎉
Its really concerning but at the moment im not that afraid as long as the prices even for singles are relatively low. I just hope I'll get some good pulls. Just give me Bloodmoon SAR and im happy 🙏🏻🙏🏻🍀
Hey bro,. appreciate the content as usual, Suspected weord stuff like this may happen, ordered my few boxes from pokemon store japan direct and third party shipping it to Singapore. Hopefully its not tampered with at source 😂
Ya. Just gotta buy by the box. Even that's sketch if the seller sucks.
Where you at MaxMoeFoe? Maybe Santa will bring him back?
Keep up the good work Opposum! Cheers
I miss him everyday
This is confirmed I have ripped 3 cases and all were mappable. Easily could've sold the rest as single packs. I'd highly recommend purchasing at least a booster box .
Such a small box of packs that people might as well save up a few bucks and just buy a sealed box. Seems like the safest method.
From a trusted seller
Weighed packs, weighed boxes, mapped packs, scanned packs, resealed packs. What's next? Ai generated packs?! Screw this bro, I'm just gonna buy the singles and call it a year! 🙄
Next is 3D printed packs
Don't forget the VR PACKS!!! Next it will be AR packs, then we're really finished
It's not generous. It's cardboard until some heavy hands impact the price of just a couple of cards.
@@palkys. compared to other sets it’s very generous.
I got 5 boxes! Really want Espeon, Glaceon or Umbreon
Toss one my way, Virgin Brother 🤙😂
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
😎🙏🏽
You’re the best bud
Thanks homie 🙏🏽
Buy all 151 product. #Stonks
Dumb
Why does no one buy from Amazon, man?
@@Grrreeeeeeeeeeeew bad experiences with sealed product previously
There's just as much opportunity to get scammed there. But also for me there's just not enough variety or granularity or deals there. I pretty much stick to ebay but I'm trying to get into using one of those straight from Japan sites or something but if you only buy a couple boxes the shipping always seems to make it just as expensive as ebay free shipping listings.
@@OpossumBud That's a fallacy
@@NSA-admin Amazon is gold standard
i refuse to buy from amazon. even if they aren't ripping you off i swear stuff has bad juju. got tons of silver tempest stuff because i trusted on seller before i wised up. didn't get anything good. buy from other sellers and you get boxes already ripped open. read comments and people are complaining about boxes already open. not sure if its the sellers or people returning them and then people getting these because amazon or the seller never check
If I don’t see the box being opened then why buy a loose pack? I trust no one. You think a god pack doesn’t weigh more? (Edited, glad you understood what I was saying and that I wasn’t questioning you)
I said this in the video. We’re on the same thought process homie👍🏽
I was watching someone rip and ship a case. She was doing 5 pack bundles and they were going for $75-$85 average (stupid high). She was doing rounds of 10 orders so 50 packs then rip and ship. During the 3rd round she was getting tired and she was going to stop and pick up the next day.
I told her that she should finish so so she isn’t accused of weighing packs.
She started to get defensive cause she thought I was accusing her of weighing but I knew she opened the case and separated the boxes live.
If you don’t stop then there is never a question of any tampering
this is a nothing burger... like did we all forget you can weigh packs???? my god people are so dumb
The point is that you can open a fresh box and know without weighing, on stream. You know at LGS. It’s just stupid that mapping is still a thing in 2024 lmao
@AverageInternetCitizen you have to open multiple packs to find the ace spec first..then at that point it becomes useless like who cares.. these SAR's will become 5$ cards the hit rates are too easy.. people will be chasing MasterBalls instead
TELL ME ABOUT IT. So fucking tired of all these post and vidoes like this matters or is new? Absolutely wild.
My chases:
Palafin
Roaring Moon
Sylveon
In 3 months you’ll be able to get all three for 15$
Great choices
@@Deeperdetecting perfect! I’ll open about 5 boxes w the kid then buy the ones I want
@@DoteyMagotey secret rares are easy in Japanese boxes now so it’ll be easy and fun… 🤩
I will never buy loose Japanese packs of any set. It’s just too risky.
God packs are cool but until you made a pact with god your sins will be forever punished …
Sounds scary
Amen!
@@OpossumBudMaybe, but true
How do we know where to buy from?!
eBay loser. Fucking Google is your finger tips and you're here asking retarded ass questions in a some UA-cam comment.
Amazon
Any normal shop that sells sealed boxes. Japanese sets are meant to be sold in sealed boxes, not loose packs.
Loose packs are the concern
200%
The Feraligatr master ball rare is pretty awesome.
Atleast MB's arent mapped! woohoo! SAR pull rates are so high! you can buy the entire (Non-eeveelution) SAR set for the price of a couple boxes LOL. Stay away from loose packs folks!
Loose packs will get you got I swear by that
What's not mappable? The Opposum TP Art Packs. Certified bangers in each one.
I just bought that palafin earlier today for like 18 bucks after shipping and all I dont have enough luck to put it myself lol 😅😅
Thanks goodness Blake Martinez can’t sell on Whatnot for this set
Just use grandmas medicine money to buy a sealed box
Hey Mr.Bud how’s it going 🔥🔥
I’m doing well homie hope you’re doing good too!
Hot take: No one should be taking advice from a hypocrite. 🧐
Hey cool fallout hat bro 🤙
I never really understood whatnot. Why would anyone want to pay someone else to open a pack for them. I could see the allure on sets that are old or hard to get but find but still.
Personally, I've used whatnot for extremely fast auctions on singles. I literally spent 50$ one night on whatnot, and I purchased nearly 40 cards. All Illustration rares, promos etc.
But I agree with you. Pack opening is weird. BUT. Sometimes you can pay to have a pack opened that costs a crazy amount, for a fraction of the price because the seller is farming viewers, and if they are smart, using their pack openings for youtube videos. So they are getting paid. Even if you spent a fraction of the sealed packs listing price
Dude I was seeing people pay 10-13 dollars a pack last night on whatnot. I was so confused by it.
I used whatnot once Saturday night. I tried mapping a hit out of terastal festival and got one for $25 (it was 3 packs for $25). I watched my buddy buy 5 lots for $25 each over a 2-3 hour span and he hit 5 SARs so it’s definitely mappable. Pretty sure I got lucky but he actually knew what he was doing just from watching the stream
I want that vaporeon. It's my chase.
Hope you pull it 👍🏽
Well put opossum
Wait what about weighing packs being useless because of code cards and reverse holos with modern American sets? I would guess any god pack sets in Japanese would be weighed just because you can’t hide that weight but your making it seem like every set is useless in singles because of weight. I get the terrestrial problem, but how does that apply to American modern sets? I’m just curious because I was told differently for years by very trust worthy vendors about the corrections pokemon has made to combat this problem.
Remember ct scanner was sending it all to zero lol😂
Wait there's other cards besides eeveelutions? 🤯
The eevees are the weaker cards of the set tbh
I’m gonna wait for ppl to move over to English that’s when prices will drop and I can buy the singles I want. Even the sun umbreon is currently affordable
Yes I’m gonna be trading a case of ETB for a case of terrestral festival or 2 depending on price matching for trade
Preach
Hi, Card Dad! Sorry its been awhile, hope youve been well 😎
Fucking hell... Can't trust anyone in this damn hobby to be honest. Love this set (wish there were also ARs in it), but that's quite a massive problem if it's truly mapped. What even IS the solution to this? Buy Singles I guess
Why is it so hard to go to a Walmart or target to buy untainted packs? I don’t feel bad for anyone that gets ripped off, no matter what you’re into there are people that will take advantage of you. Use your common sense and you will be fine, you don’t need to be smart at all to stay away from scams in Pokemon 😂
not always easy to tell especially if you're new though 🤷🏽♀️
@ Learn, just like every other situation we go through in life 😂
Ain’t always easy depending on where you are. Online helps but I haven’t seen surging sparks PERIOD anywhere around me. At all.
@@OpossumBud That is very true, I just wait until my local target or GameStop gets new supply, I’ve never missed out on a set. I went to visit family across the country in Washington state and found sparks in the first Walmart I went to, sometimes you get lucky, haven’t looked locally yet. It can be annoying but if you enjoy collecting just be patient and persistent.
testy festy
I looked up videos of the new set this morning and the majority of them were stupidtubers screaming about how you can map these boxes. Way to take the fun out of it, guys.
Trusted sellers you ain’t got nothing to worry about. Weighing is a far bigger concern
I agree, and I'm grateful I trust the sellers I buy from. It's just depressing that the majority of the UA-cam presence is focused on this instead of something more positive about the set. 😑
@@OpossumBud Knew my seller didn’t weigh when I got 2 sr’s from 1 box of super electric breaker, and the pikachu in another😅
2$ a pack
20$ a box
Or im not buying that shit
Do you man but retail is $45-50 USD. May you find your price point 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud sir, that’s too expensive. I may have to fire somebody for this … sir
Mine was very rare because I pulled 2 god packs from one case
Congrats 👍🏽
Panic!! This is nothing new for Japanese lol. I never buy loose packs unless im actually at a store in Japan..
I’m so glad I’m skipping this set 😂😂
Ogre clown 😂
Juice boxes incoming into your parcels you idiots 😂😂😂
First
First 🏅
Virgin man
this set sucks if you ask me. all the art looks like crap AI artwork.
dont worry, nobody is asking you
The art is done by some of the biggest manga authors in Japan. You are just not smart enough to
Unfortunately Noone is trustable
That's the problem,
this hobby attracts the worst and it corrupts the best
🤷🤷🤷
Some people are IMO. But that’s what it is end of the day, people’s opinions.
@@OpossumBud I'm jaded AF
I grew up in Bushwick, I've seen people completely screw over and ruin other people's lives literally for $1 🤷🤷
Everybody has a dark side, some people are just really good at hiding it
Look at the recent thing from hawk tuna girl
America's sweetheart screwing her fans ..... Not in the way they want her to screw them 😂🤣🤣