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hey guys, basically i have an original charizard which i got off a friend recently, i plan to get a full collection soon enough but one of my favourite cards; charizard is 'worn' especially on the rear of the card, i have looked all over google for methods of repair but i have had no luck (maybe because there are no ways to repair a pokemon card) but i was just wondering if any of you have had to repair some of your cards before, whether it be yu-gi-oh, baseball cards, magic the gathering etc.

You can't fix wear and tear on a playing card in a way that won't make it stand out from the others. You can get individual plastic sleeves to place cards in which will protect other cards going the same way when you play with them.

You can also get sleeves made of thicker plastic which are generally used for collection rather than play. Not much you can do about the damage already done but to put it in something to try to protect it from any more damage.

I have many paints from my warhammer hobby and at the risk of ruining the card i was thinking of painting the rear of the card to hopefully make it look better.

Get another one in better condition. The things are dirt cheap now.

Stapletotheface wrote:I have many paints from my warhammer hobby and at the risk of ruining the card i was thinking of painting the rear of the card to hopefully make it look better.

Don't do it. There's no way you can make it look like the original card did. Leave it as-is.

If you want to use it in a game, just throw your cards into sleeves. Your FLGS (that sells Magic) will have plenty of options for rather cheap.

"Get another one in better condition. The things are dirt cheap now."

i wouldnt say that, this card sold for near £14.00 the other day on ebay in slightly better condition.

Stapletotheface wrote:"Get another one in better condition. The things are dirt cheap now."

i wouldnt say that, this card sold for near £14.00 the other day on ebay in slightly better condition.

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/i.html?rt=nc&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=charizard&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m283#

4 of them very recently ended for right around $10, free shipping.

tbh i would still class £6.50ish quite expensive for a card.

You've never played Magic have you?

The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

Is this to sit in a folder, or are you worried about the card being marked for games?

If in a folder, I'd not worry too much, if you can get a better looking one eventually bonus, but if not, its not the end of the world. If you try to fix it, it'll look terrible.

If you are worried about games, you can get sleeves that are coloured in on one side, sometimes with fancy patterns. Just get some of them, mark out your deck in a funky way, protect the cards in general, and no worries.

However, get sleeves, lots of them, you'll always want to at least put Rares or higher in a sleeve for protection.


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Stapletotheface wrote:tbh i would still class £6.50ish quite expensive for a card.

I personally sold a Future Enterprise for £75, and that was back in 94ish, some of the rare cards go for insane money.

Auction going on right now.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Magic-Gathering-Black-Lotus-Beta-Power-9-Card-/140580621442?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item20bb420c82

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Actually as a player who's played all of the games you just listed I can tell you that Magic and Pokemon are both about the same. One is just aimed towards kids, but if you actually played the Pokemon TCG you'd realize that it involves just as much thinking as Magic does. The game isn't Risk at all. It stands heads and shoulders above Risk in fact. In many ways Pokemon is just Magic with a different cover on the packaging. There's a reason why both games have similar resource systems.

Red Comet wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Actually as a player who's played all of the games you just listed I can tell you that Magic and Pokemon are both about the same. One is just aimed towards kids, but if you actually played the Pokemon TCG you'd realize that it involves just as much thinking as Magic does. The game isn't Risk at all. It stands heads and shoulders above Risk in fact. In many ways Pokemon is just Magic with a different cover on the packaging. There's a reason why both games have similar resource systems.

The point Halo was making is that warhammer is like risk but more expensive for little reason, the same applies to magic and pokemon.

You don't create 'lands' in pokemon like you do in Magic, that and Magic has multiple ratings on their creatures compared to pokemon's one rating and total amount of HP. Not so much strategy with Pokemon as Magic, Magic has Elf decks that just create token after token after token and prevent the opponent from ever hitting your actual cards.

Also, its an analogy.

Magic is more advanced than Pokemon like Warhammer is more advanced than Risk.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

28, Just bought Black for my DS.. and bought a happy meal a few weeks ago so I could get a Mijumaru for my dashboard. For the most part Pokemon has a great setting and interesting creature designs, just because something is marketed to children that doesn't mean its not something for everyone. Just look at Warhammer.

Aye I can dig that Cyporiean, I'm 37, have Soul Silver (not got Black or White yet) and play the CCG with my boys.

If the game is fun, its fun no matter the setting, and I've always found the game to be a great quick pick up and play TCG.

I also have cards going all the way back to basic, and although I mostly play, I have a monsterous folder with over one hundred 9 pocket sleeve holders packed with cards.

I also have Magic, Lot5r, Babylon5, Jyhad/VETS, Harry Potter, Ophidian, Star Trek, LotBS, Rage and a couple of others, and I've found them all fun to play in their own way.

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Pokemon has plenty of depth

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Pokemon has plenty of depth

Pokemon was designed by a person with Autism.

Soladrin wrote:You've never played Magic have you?

Basically this.
Magic the Gathering was by far my most expensive hobby to date.

halonachos wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Pokemon has plenty of depth

Pokemon was designed by a person with Autism.

That's a bit of a stretch. It was designed by incredibly shrewd Japanese game designers who knew how to make all the kids all around the world go out and buy their stuff. I think they were quite subtle in their release schedules, power creep in the card games, game structure in their video games and marketing. Lawd amighty if GW were competent like the people who run the Pokemon franchise, we'd all be screwed.

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

Says the guy on a forum for grown men playing with toy soldiers.

halonachos wrote:You don't create 'lands' in pokemon like you do in Magic, that and Magic has multiple ratings on their creatures compared to pokemon's one rating and total amount of HP. Not so much strategy with Pokemon as Magic, Magic has Elf decks that just create token after token after token and prevent the opponent from ever hitting your actual cards.

Also, its an analogy.

Magic is more advanced than Pokemon like Warhammer is more advanced than Risk.

I don't see how that make's Magic more advanced than Pokemon. Just because you can do that in Magic it doesn't make Magic a better game. It just makes it different in what it does. Magic is not more advanced than pokemon and I wouldn't say that Pokemon is more advanced than Magic. Both are completely different in how they play and what they do. Pokemon has a lot of strategy to it just like Magic does, but they go about strategy in 2 very different ways.

halonachos wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Pokemon has plenty of depth

Pokemon was designed by a person with Autism.

If that were true, so what?

Do you have a problem with people on the autistic spectrum?

Nope, its just an interesting fact. Do you have to be so defensive?

halonachos wrote:Nope, its just an interesting fact. Do you have to be so defensive?

Because it was totally irrelevant to the line of conversation and appeared to be derogatory.

Stapletotheface wrote:"Get another one in better condition. The things are dirt cheap now."

i wouldnt say that, this card sold for near £14.00 the other day on ebay in slightly better condition.

I still couldn't understand why charizard from the base set was so popular, or valuble. But, I'm sure you can get one at a FLGS for cheap, a lot of FLGS are backstocked with pokemon these days.


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corpsesarefun wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Stapletotheface wrote:

SoloFalcon1138 wrote:The best way to salvage a Pokemon card is to get rid of it and the rest of them. Unless you're 9 years old, does anyone even bother with Pokemon anymore?

thats your opinion, i am 17 and yep i do still have pokemon cards but only for collecting, not playing the game...

+Why are those magic cards going for unbelievable ammonnts of money.

Magic is to Pokemon like Warhammer is to Risk.

Pokemon has plenty of depth

Pokemon was designed by a person with Autism.

If that were true, so what?

Do you have a problem with people on the autistic spectrum?

I don't, I think satoshi tajiri is a genius.


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Asherian Command wrote:

Soladrin wrote:You've never played Magic have you?

Basically this.
Magic the Gathering was by far my most expensive hobby to date.

Only if you're playing competitive, the metagame for magic is generally expensive. Standard is the most expensive format, because older sets cycle out, and a new set cylces in. Legacy is expensive because the cards that make legacy are expensive, like force of will and the original A/B/U dual lands. Also, people feel the need(in america at least) to pay more for foreign cards(I should know, I made a killing off my russian ravnica cards).

On that note, yugioh is becoming cheaper, but gameplay is rather dull. Pokemon is a simple game, with simple rules. all in all, tcgs are just as expensive as tabletop wargames.

The base set is no longer in production and Charizard was the rarest of the rares. If you have a base 1st edition charizard in mint condition you could make more than a little bit of cash.