I wasn’t readying to bargain much Pokémon cards this week. Then I saw that Scarlet & Violet – Surging Sparks Booster Bundle was someway inactive successful banal connected Amazon for $45.02 pursuing its monolithic Pokémon TCG restock. The restock has travel astatine a large time, with the Amazon Spring Sale successful afloat swing, determination are plentifulness of blistery sets to prime up portion banal lasts. Suddenly, my willpower crumbled similar a 60 HP Basic tackling a 390-damage Hydreigon ex.
My favorite? This Surging Sparks acceptable is chaos successful the champion way. You’ve got pursuit cards that merit to beryllium slabbed, similar the $432 Pikachu ex Special Illustration Rare. That’s not a typo. The small electrical rodent is putting successful enactment arsenic some a collectible and a monster successful battle. Topaz Bolt deletes astir thing from the board, and Resolute Heart makes it annoyingly hard to sound out.
Then there’s the Latias ex and Latios combo, pulling a full-on romance movie infinitesimal with matching connected artwork. Latias is the rarer and, apparently, the much costly duplicate astatine implicit $200. I conjecture large sibling vigor costs more. Meanwhile, Milotic ex is retired present channeling its interior supermodel with airy and shadiness drama, and someway besides counters Tera Pokémon similar it moonlights arsenic a meta card.
My idiosyncratic favorite? Ceruledge. It’s giving neon fever dreams, and I mean that arsenic a compliment. This is the archetypal clip its paper has really been valuable, and I deliberation illustrator Rond deserves a lasting ovation. Or astatine slightest a coffee. Ceruledge isn’t adjacent a top-tier Pokémon competitively, but with this art, I don’t care.
If you're a collector, the worth imaginable is real. If you're a player, immoderate of these cards slap connected the battlefield. And if you conscionable similar shiny things and the thrill of gambling $45 connected cardboard, invited to the club. I already cracked 1 container and I’m convincing myself I “need” different for science.
The bundle includes six booster packs, truthful you’re not guaranteed immoderate dense hitters, but astatine the complaint radical are snapping these up, I wouldn't hold excessively long. Pikachu isn’t going to propulsion itself.
Christian Wait is simply a contributing freelancer for IGN covering everything collectable and deals. Christian has implicit 7 years of acquisition successful the Gaming and Tech manufacture with bylines astatine Mashable and Pocket-Tactics. Christian besides makes hand-painted collectibles for Saber Miniatures. Christian is besides the writer of "Pokemon Ultimate Unofficial Gaming Guide by GamesWarrior". Find Christian connected X @ChrisReggieWait.
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Mar 26, 2025 11:29 am