Pokémon Cards: Gambling for the Whole Family! - RadicalSoda

[@coolmanoscar2030]

It’s so wholesome, even little timmy can try and get the 20 grand chaizard and then spiral into a deep depression when he he doesn’t get the attention he needs

[@Pudcup]

He spent 20 grand trying to get the card AND STILL DIDN'T GET IT.

[@ThePontusAndersson]

"Get a Pokemon binder is the sexiest way to get a girlfriend" "Robs friend gave it to him" Confirmed that in real life Rob gets mistaken for a girl

[@fododeldude5450]

He said "her"

[@ThePontusAndersson]

@@fododeldude5450 Last time I checked girls can like girls

[@solidskullz5736]

I may not collect them like I used too. But I still have a TON of these things. My secret rares, McDonald’s, and Burger King Diamond and Pearl cards are some of my most prized

[@SakuraAvalon]

I kinda dropped off the game in Elementary when they banned it. So, all I have left is my Ancient Mew.

[@lunalesombras1150]

There's actually a search system in Tabletop Simulator. Right click on the deck, and there should be an option with a magnifying glass. That's your search, not a zoom function.

[@LMAO_And_Forever]

Glad to see RadicalSoda’s filming with his best friend again, Shrek 2 for PS2 Also I just realized if Robert sold his entire collection, he’d probably receive more money in one eBay auction, than like 7 years of KZbin and that’s kinda sad :(

[@veggsbacon1891]

4:50 I laughed harder that I should have. 🤣🤣

[@altandemei2644]

It came right out of nowhere and it was even better for it

[@Goremize]

Same here, that joke hits hard :)

[@zoebrando5651]

Lol same

[@anotherjojo1853]

Its really nice to see more videos like these popping up surrounding the ptcg, little retrospectives, nice memories. As someone whose been playing this game on a competative level for a long, long time now, I just feel so happy when I get to watch people gush about this game I love so much without it completly shifting to 'collectability' and 'monitary value'. Love the format, by the way, feels a bit homey and... cozier, I suppose?

[@loverVloser]

When I was younger, I would only keep the cute Pokémon cards, I got rid of some really good ones and I still regret it 😭

[@hi-i-am-atan]

wowza, an honest to god lass irl

[@piranhalettuce]

You didn't think Charizard was cute? how could you?

[@Kspice9000]

@@piranhalettuce I'd fuck Charizard. Everybody would fuck Charizard.

[@OakBlu]

Homestuck

[@loverVloser]

@@piranhalettuce I thought it was cute, but my standards of cute was Deerling and the like

[@haydenwillmott4687]

"It's easier to collect the cards you want in real life rather than online, that can't be right" I feel this is the case with DnD books too

[@mageofchaos]

Yeah, like how you can easily order a copy of the monsters manual on eBay or Amazon or whatever but it'll never give you the same feel as going into your local game store and picking up a copy, maybe stop by and check on some games, it's loads of fun

[@557deadpool]

@@mageofchaos cap

[@narxmagee727]

I still remember my first card. A shiny Mudkip ('shiny' in this case is referring to the card, not the Pokemon). I thought it was so cool and it sent me into a mini phase of getting as many cards as I could. I'm not collecting now and I stopped a long time ago but those were some good times, seeing the different kinds of Pokemon, playing the actual game -incorrectly- with friends and siblings and just admiring some of the great art to come out of this cardboard.

[@Schnort]

Fat Pikachu was my firs one...

[@castform7]

I never learned how to actually play the game. Me and my sister would just use what we learned from the games. We each got 6 random cards, used no energies, and just hit each other's Pokemon with attacking moves, ignoring the moves relating to shuffling our decks and whatnot.

[@purelyorange8428]

Damn, I really appreciate the amount of new uploads were getting so quickly, you're spoiling us!

[@Voxrar]

I got into collecting them just for the art. Even got a special binder for the oversized cards. Some pokemon I hate in the games, I LOVE in the tcg. The art makes them look so much better on the cards.

[@pochiluis0570]

5:34 this made me laugh way more than it should XD

[@Tomotasauce]

So I just started watching your channel, and omg the skits, the enthusiasm, the comedy😂 Loving your content!

[@oneish7454]

The whole channel is a hidden gem.

[@cheeseonyomama]

@@oneish7454 I discovered this channel from his Sonic reviews and immediately subscribed

[@Schnort]

Radical makes fantastic content! It's all so rewatcheable, too

[@Shantae1188]

Collecting Pokémon Cards is fun. Doesn’t matter if you play the game or not, it is nice to do when you are with others whether you are streaming it or just simply hanging out with your mother. Diamond and Pearl is where I started

[@briankelly130]

9:38 ...But he has a new hat. I want it. I want it. I want it.

[@isetmfriendsofire]

The good thing about tcg is that you and your friends can just print out a bunch of cards and play with whatever you want.

[@kurtisharen]

If you're genuinely curious about the Dark Pokemon cards, they came from an old Team Rocket themed expansion. The main theme to the expansion was sort-of "cheating" and changing a couple rules to give yourself an advantage. So, instead of being limited to a 30 card deck, the expansion's ruleset allowed you 60 cards. Further, a Dark Pokemon was considered a different creature than the normal counterpart. So, while you were limited to 3 copies of a single Pokemon in the normal ruleset, the expansion allowed you to have 3 Charizard and 3 Dark Charizard cards in the same deck, as an example. The catch was, that particular feature went both ways. If you had a Dark Persian and it said it evolved from a Dark Meowth, you were not allowed to evolve it from a regular Meowth. (Note that I'm just picking Pokemon at random for this example. I don't recall if there was a legit Dark Meowth card specifically.) Honestly, while it was pretty cool at the time as a kid, I'm pretty sure when looking back that it was the first time they had to stall for time between actual game generation releases. That way, they could continue to release expansions and new cards, while there weren't yet any actual new Pokemon to base those cards around.

[@lxi..]

3:24 I swear to Christ I fucking gasped

[@yserareborn]

I still have my Dark Charizard card. Love the personality on display throughout the card. Just such a smug asshole in the art and his first move is "Nail Flick". The guy can barely be arsed to try. Then on the other hand the second move is "Continuous Fireball" where he just spray-and-prays fire all over the field and your flipping coins to see if the dude lands anything. Absolute legend.

[@domajackthesheepoid3948]

Pokémon Cards were NFT's before NFS's were a meme.

[@557deadpool]

No they aren't

[@alyx9191]

7:47 i swear if he gets cancelled for that i will eat my shoe. it’s just harmless joke lol.

[@GerbilO]

I feel like we've been blessed that we've gotten so many of videos so fast from you. Love the content! Look forward to it my guy

[@anasevi9456]

Everytime Radical talks about Decks: Me _"I need an Adult"_

[@FlameTechKnight]

I used to get cards ALL the time when I was like 8. My fellow 3rd graders would get together and just pitch 2 cards against eachother and use our strongest moves until we got through our whole decks. By the time I got a really good card, which was a Solgaleo EX I think, all my friends had grown out of it, so I couldn't obliterate my friends with my new peice of shiny cardboard. I was also NOT excpecting Rob to have THAT MANY MACHOPS.

[@akamag6787]

mr soda how on earth do you keep consistently uploading high quality content, bravo good sir

[@neetenshi]

Thank you, RadicalSoda's friend, for giving him a binder full of Pokémon cards for him to rant about.

[@Geck0GC]

Thank you RadicalSoda's female friend who bought him a binder.

[@a-b0t633]

My brother got me started when he gave me a sandwich bag of his extra cards for my 10th birthday. He stopped collecting shortly after that but I didn't. I have a massive collection now. My Charizard cards alone are worth about 10k now. I don't even care about the franchise but I'm addicted to the hobby.

[@thetoondevil]

What I find weird, I noticed I haven't evolved much with the card game. Back then I only got them cause I liked the cards but never bothered to learn to play. Now! I know how the game works, but I refuse to play it. But I've grown an admiration for the art work. And kinda would collect them simply for that alone.

[@KumaChrisVT]

The card he asked "What is this?" was a Moltres. Most likely Blaine's Moltres to be exact.

[@Schnort]

Oh wow! Are you doing weekly uploads?? This is insane!!

[@babblekat3957]

My mom used to work at a book store or something like that and would play the Pokemon card game with kids that stopped by. She ended up collecting a bunch of cards in case they ended up becoming valuable, so now we have several boxes of old Pokemon cards that I have a lot of good memories of

[@BenSpace]

Thank you Ms. RadicalSoda’s friend for the cool Charizard cards, amongst many others.

[@MarcymooNG]

I like that FUNKe reference mr. Radical

[@Hollow_Tim]

0:21 I like RadicalSoda but damn he really still did the "I didn't see you there" intro in 2022...

[@rainyame7441]

That ending reminded me I need to use the bathroom, thanks.

[@danielkaye9693]

I loved these cards as a kid. Never got rid of any. To this day I’ll pick up a pack every now and then

[@centuremorrals]

Now returning to the New Zealand extreme sport headed by one RadicalSoda, "How many cans of whoopass can I open in a single bit?!" Join us next time when he insults literally everybody at the same time, and die laughing about it! Seriously, the lack of give a fuck you're starting to show in your humor is amazing.

[@Kriakye2435]

Holy crap it is the Radical soda man! Glad to see another vid, ty!!!

[@Coolio_Ash]

"I can't get canceled I got white privilege" LMAO

[@shinyocelot04archive]

9:11 Funnily enough the current client does this. You get a bunch of tournament level decks right off the bat to play with and experiment. And there's incentive to buy accessories with in game currency.

[@Chris_Tootoo]

As a MTG and Yugioh kind of guy it’s nice to see other peoples interests, I’ve never really got into the Pokémon TCG but I saw merits of it but wasn’t able to get into because of my money going to other things.

[@zoruasnivy]

I was one of the only people among my friends that actually knew how to play. The game is fun but definitely better if you get a couple of theme decks and booster packs and just experiment from there with some friends, powercreep be damned.

[@BunnyRain946]

Thank you Radical Soda’s friend. Your generosity means a lot.

[@HavonaDagenheart]

Me with my Dark Ariados card very appreciate this vid that talks about my young me’s crippling Pokémon card collection

[@Mattsuki]

Thanks Radical's friend for the binder 🙏

[@CHRIS-X]

I laughed harder than I should’ve at the end there

[@SakuraAvalon]

I remember as a kid, that Machamp was worthless. No one wanted to trade for it, since anyone could get the Starter Deck. Now a PSA 10 is worth a 1000 dollars. Nothing beats rose tinted glasses, and people trying to cash in on other peoples needs to relive their childhoods vicariously through old toys and cards.

[@Jonloo1]

hey RadicalSoda's friend thanks for giving him a fun collection of pretty pictures of pikamon

[@Souvlaki96]

That gassy twerking at the end made me laugh more than it should have lmao 😂

[@BlackKyurem5]

Something tells me RadicalSoda would definitely be into Vanguard or Force of Will for their pretty pictures

[@katzuma7641]

I feel like I’m always on a sugar rush watching a radical soda vid

[@kirstiataylor1266]

I'm so glad I found your channel, man. You? You are painfully funny and I LOVE IT.

[@Naterkix]

The two Pokémon TCG games on the Game Boy Color are really rad and I've always been super-bummed they never did anything else like them. The second on in particular (which has a really good fan translation since it was, say it with me, "Japan only") has fights with specific rules where you have to use specific cards or the weakness rule is removed so you can't just rely on type advantage, among numerous others. That was pretty early on though so, much like the mainline games, there'd be so many cards for a new game it'd be impossible to include every one.

[@Diiby]

where was the intro i am in tears

[@shoestringVA]

Daddy-cal soda, please! You’re spoiling us!

[@kitchensink6812]

Hey that poppy in the thumbnail is pretty cool, I'm liking the design, could we maybe see it on some merch in the future?

[@sleepyespurr2922]

Not all the V cards are 3D artworks. You get some cards that are 2D. V Cards drawn by Akira Egawa for example look amazing. Some of her VMax cards like Blaziken, Umbreon, and Chandelure better illustrate Dynamax than most of the others. There are good 3D cards, like Lugia GX from Lost Thunder, and the Charizard GX Promo. I think it depends on the composition.

[@iroquoispliskin4450]

I’m glad that you’re uploading quite often, I’m really enjoying these new videos so far!

[@jacktheprince5524]

Bro, it's wild that I used to play the Pokemon TCG when I was younger. I found my love for most fighting types (and oshawott)

[@PurpleTwirler]

4:52 Ah, so that's why ProJared is still around

[@557deadpool]

No Projared is still around because the accusations were bullshit and he proved it

[@gameboi20]

I got punched in the dick for a slowpoke and a crabbrawler

[@Electricdynamite]

Spoink is my favorite Pokémon, so I love to see some representation of my little man.

[@atheropen_1994]

Dont you just love collecting hundreds of cardboard rectangles without having a single clue about how to play the attached game

[@EX-Flashkick]

I appreciate the consistent uploads!!!

[@ilyassmoubtassim7549]

It's been years of being radical But I'm still waiting for my Soda

[@Mattsuki]

Man I love your editing 😍

[@thefanofeverything5039]

I can’t thank you enough for making new videos. Always love your stuff you are hilarious.

[@FauntheTaxon]

Bro, I am so drunk rn and I'm having such a great time

[@pizzanopastano9159]

It’s so weird how much more I care about the Pokémon games than the Pokémon cards! Like, for example, I have at least 15 Pokémon games in my possession, in which I played most of them, while I’ve only bought a total of ONE, SINGULAR pack of Pokémon cards, back when Gen 6 was the newest Gen! So yeah, I feel the reason I was never interested in them was because I never had any friends that played with Pokémon cards! So yeah! God, this explanation was too long! LMAO

[@EmikaSandra]

I've always collected the cards for the artwork. The only reason I still buy them is for nostalgic reasons, but it really is difficult to do that when new packs are either impossible to find or worth about $10 in the store and older cards are so expensive you could purchase a 20-story mansion with the money you used to buy them.

[@557deadpool]

Bruh you can literally go to most game stores and buy packs at retail price.......

[@horchata96]

0:42 Striaton City 😊 2:05 Driftveil City 😎

[@BigBird64]

Thank you, RadicalSoda's friend, for giving him the binder. It looks pretty cool.

[@TOrlando478]

Literally the only reason I collected pokemon cards was to show like a batch of them off to my friends and that didn't even last that long

[@jahronsamuels9453]

1:01 excuse you, we open Yu-Gi-Oh boosters my man like real men. In fact we used to open our Yu-Gi-Oh boosters right next to the actual real men opening their magic boosters

[@thewittywhygaming6487]

"I can't get canceled, I have white privilege." I have no clue how to respond to that. O.O

[@doodle-oh]

cozy vibes

[@InktheImpassive]

I played a lot of these with my classmates at school with simplified rules or maybe even not within the rules and we just made it up. Its just pick six cards from your collection and then Duke it out with subtracting numbers, winners are usually those who goes first with the coin flip.

[@joenuss7654]

I can tell he’s going insane 😂😂😂

[@demongamer_IX]

Wow I did not expect radical to look into Pokémon cards.

[@jjpemfr8882]

You know I've never been the cards type of kid but I loved seeing others' collections 🍷🗿 It was such fun seeing their happiness turn into despair when they lose almost all of the cards to a old guy who won against them in a card battle

[@MrSkysenGames]

Nice to see your sanity return after so much Sonic Colors.

[@Magicdfox]

you can also use cockatrice and import the cards. it’s meant for magic but it kind of works for the pokemon tcg as well

[@ProfesorWillem]

Trading card games, the original loot boxes, at least these are physical and you can sell them for money

[@MapleLunii]

BRO I fuckin had the lil ash thing on the front of that book at 3:46, it was made of like plastic-y rubber and was a lil bendy and my DOG ATE IT'S FACE OFF. And the fingers on the arm without the pokeball.

[@aurnknight2813]

god i love the into scenes, despite all my searching over the years I've never found it. does anyone know what the music and quote is from?

[@shardinhand1243]

id like to see the ability to equip pokemon with stat boosting armor and weapons, like mew twos armor that he imedeatly dropped and never replaced that armor looked so cool too man! imagine the posibilities, it would let people keep using theyre favorite pokemon even if they arint naturaly the best for the meta, and besides the practical boosts equipment for pokemon, would allso give costomization like full costumes, hats, ribbons, and dresses for gardivior... or armor and a sword and shield.... why has no-one at nintendo thought of this?!

[@mcmoozack]

"LGBTCorviknight" is a joke I didn't know I needed.

[@adammbartecki]

Another banger Rob! Keep ‘em coming!

[@mamodokod]

After learning Japanese the last 150 days straight, I used to thing that "engrish" stuff was stereotypical but it's pretty legit.

[@lordbaconweeb]

Thank you Radical Soda Friend!

[@senoka4638]

I remember my first booster was the original back in 98'. I actually pulled a holo Blastoise. He was my favorite starter too. One of my fondest memories.

[@senhorkorracha]

4:51 topical, I like it

[@shinjisdonewithyourbs8378]

Thanks to Rad's friend! Also not me wondering what RadicalSoda thinks of the upcoming pokemon game..

[@noizsv]

4:48 i wonder how that feels

[@archithrough]

Thanks radical's friend

[@IgnatiusBlaze4]

My favorite cards were the delta species and stars, love my electric Feraligatr, Charizard, and psychic type Sceptile, water latios, fire latias, my electric EX Rayquaza, fire steel Mewtwo, just fun to give Pokemon types that aren't usually there's. Meanwhile stars were the shiny cards back before shiny was a term used by the company, I still got my regice star hidden away nicely in a binder. Also for that reason I started teaching my Charizard thunder punch, as a kid I had it in my headcanon that my Charizard had a 3rd electric type so it became immune to it and could juice its thunder punch up... little did I know this would pay off years later in XY, especially since my Firered Charizard had the perfect nature to be a Charizard X, like fate, going from generation to generation, game to game, then to become a true dragon and he's perfect for it... now megas don't exist. Funny thing is I finally got out of the game a few years ago, right during gen 7... then a certain someone by the last name of Paul had to have it rise in popularity again, I'm like fricken Kyle from South Park I'm either to late on the popularity train, too soon, or... both in this case. I collected every starter, Eevee, fossil, bird, and legendary up to that point, almost every Unown.

[@th3bear01]

Delta species was really cool, I still have the Latios and Latias (used to have the Mewtwo when I was younger but I made a big mistake by wagering it for another card from my older brother who was cheating) I wonder if the new crystal mechanic will work like them

[@IgnatiusBlaze4]

@@th3bear01 Yeah probably, what it seems like on paper, mixing that with the idea of the crystal onix... sadly the crystal onix itself can't exist though. I got a few other delta species too those just ones I remember off top of my head. I'm sorry to hear that, I too have been robbed of cards, 1 I still remember to this day, I actually won but the person said no I didn't, it didn't count, and not only did they not give me the card, they then took one of mine. People that don't play fair are jerks, people that steal selfish scum more often than not. Did karma come back swinging after that? lol

[@th3bear01]

@@IgnatiusBlaze4 Sadly the story of that card just gets even worse from there. Me and my younger brother tried to get it back by doing another game, I used a Kyogre ex as an anti and my younger brother put up a Groudon ex. (back when ex was new and was not in all caps) He was using a deck that was built around multiple Deoxys forms, and the way he was cheating by restoring Deoxys hp every time he changed form. ( Me and my younger brother were around 7 years old at the time so we just believed whatever he said) Of course we lost that game, and he got both of the ex cards, and a small bit later he stopped playing pokemon and traded all of his cards for yugioh cards along with the mewtwo and the Kyogre and Groudon. Though a few years later I was at a small local yugioh tournament with my older brother and the guy that he traded the cards with was there, sadly he no longer had most of the cards, the only one of importance left was the Kyogre. I don't care much about yugioh,( was only really there because my brother really wanted me to get into it) and I got the Kyogre back by trading a bunch of yugioh cards for it.

[@mattdoesntknowwhattodowith5760]

Thank you rads friend