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@SportsCardInv @Collect @CanonCollects 🤩🤩🤩

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Magic: The Gathering is moving to the farm. 🐔 Wizards just announced Secret Lair × Stardew Valley - “Superdrop of the Moonlight Jellies.”

Three drops, headlined by a brand-new “Stardew Valley” land card illustrated by ConcernedApe himself - and it’s Commander, Legacy & Vintage legal. The rest are Stardew-skinned Magic cards (yes, even Swords to Plowshares), with ConcernedApe’s pixel art across the “Welcome to Stardew Valley” drop.

📅 Drops July 27, 9AM PT on MagicSecretLair.

Limited print runs, and we all know how Secret Lair resale goes. Blink and you’re paying triple. 💸

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You’ve planted the seeds, now all you have to do is wait. The Superdrop of the Moonlight Jellies is coming to the valley on July 27.

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@TheCatziilla $100 for all of this is actually insane.
The CIB Zeldas alone are worth a fortune...
absolute dream haul!🤩

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An 11-year-old just caught lightning in a bottle ⚽ - he pulled a unique 1/1 Lamine Yamal card, the only one on the planet.

Days later, he sold it for $80,000 at Fanatics Fest in the US. 😎

Some kids get a bike for their birthday. This one pulled a down payment. 💸

🎥 canoncollectibles

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😳😂🤣🤣🤣

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Bandai made One Piece cards so clean they belong in a museum - and you can’t buy a single one in a store. 🎳

The ONE PIECE Card Game × ROUND1 promo set: 10 original alt-arts of the Straw Hats, each doing a Round1 activity (bowling, billiards, arcade). No textures - and they STILL look unreal.

The catch? Promo-only. In Japan you order off the collab menu to get one; in the US it’s the first 9,000 reservations. Campaign just kicked off (Jul 18–Oct 17), so supply is thin.
Which is exactly why the secondary market is already unhinged - Luffy’s pushing $900+ raw and sealed pack lots are listed at $1,800+. Blink and it’s gone. 💀

[Andy Collectz @AndyCollectz]

Reminder: OPTCG x Round1 Promo Packs Phase 2 entries open in less than 1 hour!

When: 10am PT / 1pm ET ⌚️
https://t.co/wDctwPu89V

No direct link yet. Good luck everyone!

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@Bren_Sensei @BigBowlOChili Now you’ve got me wanting to crack my sealed s12a boxes just to check there’s not a stack of napkins inside 🤣🤣🤣

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A guy dropped ~$10,000 on a case of Japanese Vstar Universe boxes because the price was “too good to pass up.” 📦

Plot twist you already saw coming: he cracked them open and the pulls were... not it. Reweighed, resealed, gutted - pick your poison. His “deal of a lifetime” was a gut punch.

He went back to his proxy for a refund. Best case? They cover shipping and fees. The $10K? Gone. 💀

Reminder: Vstar Universe is one of the most scammed sets on Earth (it’s the Moonbreon set - of course it is). If the price looks unreal, it is. Buy sealed from people you trust, not the cheapest listing on the board.

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More 30th Anniversary leaks.

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@Bren_Sensei @BigBowlOChili For the record, I’ve got two sealed Vstar Universe boxes I’ve honestly never opened 😅 so much for “fake fan.”🙁

AR9 god pack is the chase, no argument - but the story was about resealed product, not the set.

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@MediaGiraffes Huge pull, congrats! 🤩
Just got mine back from grading, the artwork looks even crazier in a slab. 🏴‍☠️

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@BigBowlOChili You’re right on the set Moonbreon’s Evolving Skies (Eevee Heroes in JP), my bad 😵‍💫

Point still stands though: cheap sealed JP = scam bait. 🤑

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@Walrus_Moonboy Cry, delete my social media, and pretend I never knew what Pokémon was."😭😭😭

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Someone read that PSA and BGS slabs are "waterproof"... so he took his entire collection into the shower to test the theory. 🚿🧠

Bad news, king: slabs are NOT waterproof. They'll survive a stray splash, maybe. A full shower? You're gambling with grades.

The kicker? That's roughly $60K - $100K of cardboard getting rinsed like a bunch of dishes. 💀

There's no "after" video. Probably for the best. 🙏

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@ONEPIECE_tcg_EN Bandai cooked hard with these designs. 🤩
The secondary market prices for these are going to be insane. 🤑

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@framexin The classic 'selling shovels during a gold rush' playbook.
GTA 6 is going to be the biggest entertainment launch in history, and servicing the creators is where the real money is.

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⭐ Okay I'll say it: OP17 might be my most-wanted set since OP13. 🔥

This OP17-079 Luffy leader from every angle is criminal - the texture, the holo, all of it. 4th anniversary is about to cook.

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[4th Anniversary]
Hey One Piece Pirates!

More information about the 4th Anniversary will be revealed during the special program dropping on YouTube July 11 at 18:00 (CEST) / 9:00 (PDT)!

We still have plenty of exciting initiatives and surprises in store, so stay tuned and look forward to what's coming next!
Be sure to watch it here⇩
https://t.co/0oN51loydR

#ONEPIECE
#onepiececardgame

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@cipgerx Tech makes it pretty, but storyboards make it work. Storytelling and pacing will always be the real moat.

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@Rossst_03 Trying to describe a stormy ocean with a formula designed for a kiddie pool-the ultimate illusion of control.

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@Serenade808 ⭐ Every single time 😂 “Japan exclusive” really just means “on eBay by Friday at 3x”

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Bandai just announced a One Piece card so exclusive you’re not allowed to buy it. 🎰

Meet the Premium Card Collection - One Piece Day 2026: a Luffy card + a One Piece Day DON!! card mounted on a display stand, dropping in Japan on Aug 22, 2026.

The catch? It’s lottery-only. No shelves, no preorders - you enter Bandai’s official raffle and pray. Winning just earns you the right to pay retail. 🙏

If last year’s One Piece Day set is any hint, the aftermarket is about to get spicy. Lottery-locked + Japan-exclusive = scalper catnip. 🐟💸

[Andy Collectz @AndyCollectz]

English OPTCG Booster Box Market Update 📊

Current Market/Listings:
TCGP https://t.co/Y0YDAsWiok
eBay https://t.co/Hq6Vfms8jj

We'll soon have 22 different booster boxes #ad

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@OldTownJB This is a proper Zoro shrine 😤 ⚔️

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@jga1122 Only Japan at the moment, unfortunately.🙁
If they ever made an English version I’d grab it in a heartbeat.🤑