Pokémon Cards Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Buy

Pokemon is still the only media franchise that is consistently able to give me high blood pressure. Usually it's because of the games but this time it's because of the cards. Yeah i know this isn't like a groundbreaking take or anything but scalpers SUCK and the whole 30th anniversary situation was just a boiling point for me, so I wanted to rant about it. Even if this topic is a couple weeks old at this point. Because I really miss when the cards would just...be there in stores, and you could just walk in and pick them up like NORMAL. So anyways thank you for watching my incredibly unoriginal take on the state of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Next video will be back to video games i promise SOURCES & CREDITS Official set and products https://tcg.pokemon.com/en-us/expansi... Product availability — Pokémon Support https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/... Pull-rate research — PokeBeach https://www.pokebeach.com/2026/09/30t... French investigation — Patxi Berhouet / Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/artic... Nintendo investor Q&A https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/202... MUSIC Pokémon Diamond and Pearl soundtrack — Nintendo / GAME FREAK / The Pokémon Company; official Pokémon upload    • Pokémon Diamond ➕ Pokémon Pearl 🎧 Original...   Pokémon Trading Card Game (Game Boy) soundtrack — Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK; RareOsts upload    • Pokemon Trading Card Game (Full Soundtrack)   Title Screen — Fortune Street — Nintendo / Square Enix; Bailey Spectre upload    • Title Screen - Fortune Street   Wii Shop Channel — Nintendo; Winry Rockbell upload    • Wii Shop Channel Music   Puzzles — Professor Layton and the Curious Village — LEVEL-5; gloriasanber upload    • Puzzles - Professor Layton And The Curious...   Two, Three, Four — BlockParty (1.0 Instrumentals) — Aycee Kay & Bandon VISUAL & SOUND CREDITS Original collection/unboxing footage: Andrew Krivsky. Pokémon art and product imagery: The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, GAME FREAK and credited card artists. Additional footage is credited on screen. Full photo, article and effect source links are in the source-credit comments accompanying this video. Fire recording: AntumDeluge (CC0), OpenGameArt. Fire imagery: Ruben Velazquez/Mixkit and Oleg Gamulinskii/Pexels. Jail bars: GREEN SCREEN ANIMATION; closing effect: BEATS BY TALENT. Censor beep: Hono Nokotai. FIN: Reel Flix. #Pokemon #PokemonTCG #AndrewsGarbage