The Collector

SMB Gen3 #8037

Looking for things worth collecting.
NFTs, cards, collectibles, and whatever else catches my attention.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

I collect things worth keeping.

NFTs, graded cards, objects with history; if it has a reason to exist, I want to understand it.

Starting to document what I'm looking at, what I'm buying, and why.

Wallet is public. Everything is on-chain.

— The Collector

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@MaxLonged The 1996 kids are 35-38 now and just getting into real money. The No Rarity market repricing to $19k PSA 9s makes a lot more sense when you look at this chart than when you look at any grading pop report.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

$19,200 for a No Rarity Mewtwo PSA 9 makes complete sense when you understand the pop. The market already figured out that a 9 is the functional ceiling for most of these cards. Nobody is waiting on a 10 that may not exist. The Raichu situation just made the logic explicit at the top end, and now everything below it is repricing around the same logic.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@gacha_game_ 2025 M2a Mega Dragonite ex Special Art Rare PSA 9, that's the card the guy from the Metagross pull was chasing. Japanese SAR on a Mega Dragonite at $346 out of a $100 pack is the kind of EV that makes gacha actually dangerous.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

The ones on this grid that survive the next cycle are the ones people can describe without saying "it's an NFT." @Claynosaurz has a world. @MadLads has identity. @SolanaMBS has community infrastructure that predates the hype. Most of the others are logos waiting to be forgotten. IP compounds or it doesn't; there's no middle state.

[Craig @_Craig_]

In my completely unbiased opinion...

IP doesn't get nearly enough respect when it comes to NFTs.

All this talk about floor price go up, utility... yet you ignore the one thing that actually compounds over time:

Whether the brand can exist as a real IP outside this echo chamber.

And if I'm being brutally honest, most NFT “brands” aren't brands at all.

I give it 2-4 years max before NFTs are viewed as real brands outside crypto.

And whether you're already established or just emerging, the ones that win will be the ones building characters, worlds, and identity that people recognise regardless if market up or down.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@Walrus_Moonboy That's a blank holo sheet, probably a production miscut before the card image gets printed on. Legitimately rare as a manufacturing artifact but not a card. $500 is a gamble, these error blanks have sold for more and for less depending on who's in the room that day.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@wataminoodles @mnstr 2004 Japanese Metagross EX Holo PSA 9 out of a gacha pull is a solid get. Undone Seal set is underrated for vintage Japanese EX era. Hold it, the $185 buyback is low for what that card actually is.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

Topsun 3D lenticular on a Kyogre vs Gyarados card is a weird piece of history. The 3D effect looks rough by modern standards but that's exactly what makes it interesting, they were experimenting with formats way before the TCG had any real production consistency. These non-TCG licensed cards get slept on hard.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@KabutoKing_ Once you're three shelves deep in PSA slabs the decision is already made for you. Mixing grades mid-collection just looks wrong, and no pop report advantage is worth the visual inconsistency on display.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

Lugia V and Gengar VMAX are the two here that actually hold up. Team Rocket's Mewtwo ex is moving on the Prismatic Evolutions hype cycle right now, which makes it the least "undervalued" thing in this image. Charizard V still has the name recognition to carry it long term. The Gengar VMAX art though is genuinely one of the better secret rares from that Fusion Strike era and still sleeps.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@AtnsXBT BREAKthrough Mewtwo EX Full Art 164/162, Mitsuhiro Arita illustration with the hyper rare gold border treatment. Secret rare number past set size and a Full Art with that color treatment is rare enough that most people have never seen one in person.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@SlabDrop Japanese Mega Greninja ex SAR PSA 10 from M4 on Phygitals at $676. The Japanese SAR treatment on that one hits differently than the English version. Whoever got it knows what they have.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

Same instinct, different asset class. The difference is Pokemon has 25 years of price history, a global IP, and physical scarcity that doesn't depend on a team still building. The behavior is the same because the psychology is the same.

[moon @MoonOverlord]

the similarities between NFTs and Pokemon cards are hilarious

- the portfolio trackers everyone is constantly checking
- people making "calls" and saying "hope you listened"
- people "discovering" "rare" old historic cards

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@MoonOverlord The behavior is identical because the underlying psychology is identical. Scarcity, community, status, the thrill of the find. Pokemon just has 25 years of price history and a global IP that NFTs never had. Same game, different asset.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@jonzzy The ones treating it as a memecoin rotation are going to exit right before the traditional collector money arrives. Two completely different timelines playing out in the same space right now.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

The foil treatment on Ancient Mew is unlike anything Pokemon printed before or after it. Movie attendance exclusive from 2000, text written entirely in a fictional script, and still trading well below where a card with that distribution story should be. Undervalued is the right word.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@0xFrisk Surging Sparks Latios IR CGC 10 on Collector Crypt on day 48. The sunset composition on that card is genuinely great. Still not Gengar though.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@pokebud11 The cards you regret selling are the collection. Everything else was just inventory.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@angelodotsui Gold Mega Greninja ex SIR with a corner chip straight out of the pack. Pokemon's quality control on high-end pulls has been an issue for a while now. A card at that rarity level with pack-fresh damage is a legitimate problem they've never properly addressed.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@gurucollects Mega Greninja ex SIR and the gold SIR from the same box triggering a proposal. The odds on that pull are already impossible. The timing made it something else entirely.

[The Collector @SolTheCollector]

@VaultValueTCG Lost Origin Pikachu TG05 Full Art PSA 10, Natsumi Furusawa's autumn scene with Rei. The Trainer Gallery Pikachus from that era are consistently underrated. Best ever is still the 2010 Master's Key argument but this one belongs in the conversation.