The Amateur Collector here with a wonderful opening.
I give you the huge, jam packed and fun Sylveon Collection box! It comes with multiple promo cards (9 of them!! All based on the Eeveelutions), a figurine (the only XY TCG figure to make it to Europe), a sneak preview Fairy Energy card (obviously no longer a big deal haha) and four different booster packs (Next Destinies, Dragons Exalted and two Legendary Treasures)!
Here is the large box. It cost me £15.95 and was bought from Chaos Cards.
As usual click here to check the video or scroll down to see the contents and pulls I got.
WARNING: about half of the video is blurry. My camera got damaged and so sadly half the footage turned out blurry (it does get fixed half way through though)
Anyways, lets start off with the promo cards. There's a lot of them and I'll be taking a look at them individually, so expect loads of pictures!
Lets start off with the mon that starts off this line; Eevee!
This one is a reprint with new artwork of the Plasma Freeze Eevee.
What's interesting to note is that there is no specific artist credited with the artwork for the Eeveelotuion promo cards (except Sylveon). The credits simply go to the Nintendo Art Team.
Here is Vaporeon. All the cards (again, except for Sylveon) have a background motif to go with their typing or attribute. I will admit though, I don't know how the flower/ribbons link to Vaporeon! (unless they're lily pads?)
The artwork is very simple for these cards (except of course, you've guessed it, for Sylveon).
They have a kind of paper cut-out look to them. I quite like it.
I love that Flareon is just lying down waiting for someone to come rub its belly.
A very natural look.
I find that the background patterns remind me a lot of Christmas or Birthday gift wrapping with the repetitive pattern, glittering and shapes chosen.
I find the motif of moons and stars in the background suit Umbreon very well.
In fact this is probably one of the most apt background for the Eeveelutions out of all the cards.
The 'paper cut-out' look suits Leafeon's leafy appearance very well. Its tail looks very flat, which is how I've always imagined it to look.
All the evolved Eeveelutions' cards are reprints of Dark Explorers cards, except for... well you know already.
Everyone has a favourite Eeveelotuion, but they decided to focus on one in particular to be the titular star of the box.
The Sylveon box was coming out just before the new series (and Gen) of cards were going to be released. This is why the box had a Fairy Energy (a new type introduced in both the video games and TCG) and a Sylveon promo even though this particular promo was not originally part of the other Eeveevolution set of promotional cards.
This card is in fact an XY promotional card, whereas all the others in the box are BW cards.
Whereas the others have the Nintendo Art Team as illustrators for them, this one has 5ban Graphics, continuing the boring trend of having 5ban Graphics do all the Gen VI artwork (this is something I've ranted about many times already).
It is none the less a nice card, but does stick out (in a bad way IMO) to the others a bit too much and really does not look as nice as them.
Something Sylveon related that I really did look forward to in this box however was this fantastic figure!
The E.U has banned the import of TCG merchandise with figures in them due to hazardous parts, so sadly many new boxes have Jumbo cards as replacement. But for some reason or another this one did get the A-OK (and boy am I glad it did!). It looks so cute, beautifully sculpted and well painted. Unlike the Black & White TCG figures it does not come with a bottle-cap base sadly, but does have a cool looking tree stump instead.
And look! It goes well with the cherry blossom deco that's in my sister's room.
Now on to my booster pack pulls, FINALLY (haha):
Dragons Exalted continued the trend of giving me bad pulls with Roserade.
The Reuniclus was not welcomed either, it was also a repeat!
Thankfully Legendary Treasures can come with both a rare and a holo, so I still managed to get some good pulls. One in the form of this Landorus holographic rare and the other in the form of an...
... Ultra rare Mewtwo-EX!!
What a great pull. This is a reprint of a previous card, however it still goes for about £10-15 on ebay it seems, being easily one of the more expensive ultra rare cards you can pull from Legendary Treasures. Plus it looks cool.
Wow, what a long post and opening! I thoroughly enjoyed this unboxing, despite the terrible video quality (again, sorry!).
I'd have to say the figure, the BW Eeveelution promos and Mewtwo-EX were my favourite parts (so many favourites!). The Sylveon promo did not get me as excited, but it's still great to get for my collection.
Thanks a lot for reading guys! Or watching if you happened to check out the video (seriously you must have had some patience to do that!).
Check in again on Wednesday for another Pokémon TCG Opening Adventure!
Bye!
