HerpTheDerp
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This seems to me to be the best possible financial decision, though....
I think it's outrageous that so-called 'serious' players expect to use chase cards at big events and then have them retain a decent resale value post-tournament. The reason you bought the card was to use it at the event. After that's over, the value's been expended. Why not tin it to scrape out the 'casual' $$?
While the statement you said about the release of tins is an opportunity is correct, I have to disagree about the quoted statement. Every other TCG game I have actively played does not adhere to this. Mainly MTG . They try very hard not interfere at all with secondary market sales, and if they do (VERY RARELY I might add) it is in a manner that still retains the rarity of the cards. They understand that being a game there is still the collection aspect to it. Pokemon understands this. Hence the re-release of cards in alternate rarer forms (think Archeops/Gardevoir/Pokemon Collector/Emboar/Hydreigon/Zoroark etc...). But when you make a card as powerful and rare as the aforementioned EX's SIGNIFICANTLY easier to obtain, it starts to throw the collectible standpoint out the window. Most people who bought the said cards were looking at the game as a long-term hobby and not to just win the next premier event. They were very good investments as the EX's are gong to be in the format for a long while and the 3 they are tinning are very powerful, versatile cards, and are surely going to be in the top tiers for their lives in Modified formats. It would have been one thing if the cards were not as rare (1-2/6 per BOX) and then tinned them. But they are rare cards that take multiple boxes to obtain AND they are some of the most powerful cards in the game so it is reasonable to think they would be so expensive, premier events notwithstanding, So in short, it is not "outrageous" as you said, to think that these cards would retain their value after main events. The shock is not that they are devaluing, that is to be expected for NUMEROUS reasons. The shock is that a $60 card, that is NECESSARY to win premier events, turns into a $10 card in a matter of a few months. That is not common or expected in the game of Pokemon (that is the crap Yu-Gi-Oh! does) so frustration is to be expected, and understood.
And to stay on-topic: I think the Mewtwo art looks great, The Rayquaza art is on par with the other arts. The only one I think is lacking is the Darkrai. But we can;t see the full card yet so maybe it wont be as bad as it seems. I think the Full Art version of Darkrai should have been the normal art, and the normal be the Full Art. Same goes for Mewtwo.