We all know about the popularity of Shining Pokemon, Crystal Pokemon and Gold Star cards, but as a newcomer, I don’t know if there are any other sets worth investing in once we enter the Diamond/Pearl era and beyond. The new Shinys from Hidden Fates seem to have potential, but it is too soon to say for sure.
Would you invest in anything post POP Series 5 and Power Keepers?
Call of Legends is NICE.
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Ah, you probably mean the legendaries? I agree. CL in general has amazing artwork
Secret Wonders is playa
I wouldn’t worry about investing if you are a newcomer. Buy what you like.
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Dark Explorers has become quite scarce. At least for the sealed product. The sealed pack prices are sometimes double what the rest of the BW era goes for. It could a set to look at.
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Just saying, Shuckles premier card in the tcg is in heartgold soulsilver. So that set is surely worth collecting and investing in.
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HGSS cards are pretty neat to collect. If looking at modern stuff, all the sets with the Shinys jump out for me personally
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HGSS is getting pretty pricy now. I picked up 2 reverse Pokémon Collector cards last week for $15 each. 
BW Full Arts and Secret Rares in PSA 10 are fun.
Combines great art, rarity and value pretty well. Some cards like Full Art Regigigas are POP 2.
I think sealed Dragons Exalted boxes are decent pickups as well. Gen 5 is underrated.
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Watch Smpratte’s videos. Make your decision from there.
I don’t want to hear the damn word investment anymore… lol Welcome to E4 btw 
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“Investing” or collecting…¿
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Or flipping
Thanks 
Oh, is that word overused?
Well, I probably should have worded it better. I wouldn’t ask such a question if it was just about collecting. After all, you can collect anything you personally like.
But some cards like the Crystal Pokemon seem to be good investments because they are relatively rare and high in demand. I was just wondering if similar neat ‘sets’ of cards exist after the Ex era (‘sets’ in quotation marks because it’s not a booster set but simply a thematic set of cards within a set). The shinys from CL were a good mention.
Btw, I don’t know if the Gold Star cards are a good investment anymore. By this point they are so damn expensive that you’d have to spend a huge amount of money to get them in PSA10 (I prefer having them in PSA10), and I don’t know if the price will increase that much more over the next decade. It’s not the base set Charizard, and I think there is a limit to how much people are willing to pay for a card that’s not one of the holy grails of the game. Even if we assume the price will rise, if I really had all Gold Stars in PSA 10, and the price for a complete PSA 10 Gold Star set would be 75k in 20 years, would anybody really pay that much?
I’m not even sure if collecting those sets (Crystal/Gold Star/Shining) for investment purposes is the right approach at all. If we are just speaking about a purchase for investing, not collecting (i.e. buying with the intent to resell in 10 or 20 years for a higher price), wouldn’t it make more sense to buy a few copies of the most popular card of a thematic set rather than buying the thematic set? For example, instead of buying all the Shining Pokemon in PSA10 to have a complete collection to resell later, you would buy as many PSA10 Shining Charizards as possible for the same prize. For some reason I could imagine that selling the most popular card later on (even multiple times) is easier than selling the entire Shining set.
The main issue is supply and demand. Newer sets are being printed to demand and so stuff like the Shining Charizard was all hype and it’s a newer/bigger set. From what I’ve seen, your better off collecting some Japanese sets as they are not printed like English. Also, you have to look at the desirable/playable cards of any new set comes out and flip it asap. There is no long term investment on almost anything new. We have seen a trend and once the hype and set settles, it goes down significantly. Mostly anything Charizard is generally desirable to the Pokemon community (ie Shining Charizard, Charizard/Reshiram, Staff Charizard from XY) having higher numbers in the beginning. I am not saying no other cards are, but… You can also look at the Japanese promos, they are doing it right, they are collectible and have a lower print, such as the Munch cards.
Scott says: rarer, minter, better.
Collect what you like, if it goes up, great, if not, you still have cards you love.
When i decided to collect PSA i went for a complete Crystal set in PSA10 (English - completed) Japanese (still missing Charizard and Kingdra).
I love those kind of cards, in my opinion, Crystal Charizard is one of the most gorgeous cards in the hobby. Some of the crystals decayed a ton in price, and ended up being affordable. Charizard went from like $5K to like $2K but its not slowly raising once again and i think last sales were around $3K once again (for PSA10) -
A raw copy of Zard NM would go for around 700-800 at this time.
In the end, pick the cards you like! 
Thanks for all of your answers!
Yeah, Crystal set is on my watchlist, but damn, everything is still so damn expensive 
Just wondering, why do you collect the set both in Japanese and English?
Mostly due to crystals being my favorite cards over all; and my goal was both english and JP. 1st. Ed sets completed. Japanese Crystals are beauty, the holo pattern is way different.
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