Prismatic Evolutions Isn't For Pokemon Fans

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prismatic Evolutions launched last Friday, and over the weekend all my social media feeds (minus the 12 hours when TikTok was offline) have been filled 🍨with videos of people acting like animals at department stores. Despite Pokemon’s announcement that more stock is coming soon, mobs lined up at Costco, Walmart, and Target, bum-rushed the TCG shelves, and assau♔lted each other over shiny cardboard.

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It’s heinous. I truly believe these people represent humanity at its worst, and if I thought they were fans, I’d be ashamed today to call myself one too. But I don’t think they’re actual fans of the game or the ‘mons at all. I think they’re all looking to make a quick buck on an over-hyped release, and they don’t care who they have ༒to punch to do it. Unfortunately, that seems to be exactly the kind of person this set was made for.

A Pokemon Set Made For Scalpers

Prismatic Evolutions has felt like a dark cloud slowly moving over the TCG hobby for months. The moment it was revealed we all knew it was going to lead to mayhem and destruction, all thanks to one card: Umbreon ex. The infamous Umbreon VMAX from 2021’s Evolving Skies, known as Moonbreon, defied all market logic when its price continued to rise month after month, year after year, and continues to, currently valued at an outrageous $1,400. Now Prismatic Evolutions has introduced a new, and by all accounts rarer Moonbreon, and all hell has broken loose.

This shou🦄🐈ld be an exciting set for Pokemon fans. The Eeveelutions were beloved by players and collectors well before Moonbreon became a financial phenomenon, and a special collection like Prismatic Evolutions should be a home run. But among my local Pokemon community, everyone is pretending like the set doesn’t exist.

Between getting priced out (my local store sold ETBs for $100) and a desire to avoid the mayhem surrounding the set, the community in my area has completely🃏 opted out of Prismatic Evolutions. It’s been a difficult thing to watch happen. The most dedicated, passionate, and enthusi🍃astic Pokemon fans have no interest in the most exciting Pokemon TCG set in years. How could this have happened?

An Endless Cycle

a Pack of Prismatic Evolution with Amarys and Terapagos ex coming out of the Pokemon TCG booster pack.

I’m not here to simply point fingers. As our own Joe Parlock points out in hi🃏s tirade🅘 against Prismatic Evolutions, this is a common occurrence for Pokemon, and many of us - even a lot of the real fans - are complicit in perpetuating this non🌸sense by giving into FOMO and overpaying for product from scalpers, thus validating all of their behavior.

He’s right when he says this is a cultural problem that’s specific to the Pokemon TCG, but at the same time, it’s pretty clear that Pokemon makes a lot of decisions that create an environment for scalpers to thrive. After so many situations just like this, it’s hard not to believe this is all happening because Pokꦚemon wants it to.

Everyone kne▨w Moonbreon 2 was going to be a disaster, and that includes Pokemon. The company made a card based on one of the most sought-after cards ever, then made it the rarest card in a hard-to-get special collection set. The set has atrocious pull rates, which only push the value of the card higher. There’s no excuse for the way people are acting, but when you create a card people are obviously going to overvalue this dramatically, you also have to take some responsibility for the way people act.

Prismatic Evolutions was made for the resellers. It was made for the Pokevestors and the get-rich-quick type that will be back in Target next week punching each other in the face over Stanley cups, Rae Dunn pottery, or Prime energy drinks. Prismatic Evolutions is for people who want to buy sealed product so they can sell it to people who want to sell sealed product to people who want to sell sealed product to people. They’re not the kind of people who are showing up to p💝lay cards at the LGS on a Tuesday night, though, I promise you that.

It certainly sells the narrative that Pokemon is as hot and in-demand as ever, but for the people who actually keep this game alive and thriving set after set after set, it’s one of the biggest🐎 failures in Pokemon history.