Does giving unfamiliar Pokémon good cards interest you to collect them?

I’ve voted no, but mostly because I already went down that path once and try to focus my collections a bit more these days.

When gen 7 was released, and I was watching the anime, I liked Mimikyu quite a bit and decided to start collecting it. Since it was a new Pokémon, I could just keep up with new releases to collect it. But after a while I noticed I didn’t look nearly enough at that collection compared to some of my other sub-collections, and with the Teams Up set, there were also 82 cards in total for three of my sub-collections, which were also almost all FAs, so it became to expensive with that single set. At the point, I decided to stop collecting Mimikyu.

I also still have multiple collection goals in the pipe-line to perhaps start/continue one day (e.g. continuing my National Index collection for the SwSh+SV era; a connected artwork collection similar to Joponnes’; a Ditto, Haunter, Alakazam, and/or Sudowoodo collection; etc. etc.), so seeing nice art on a new Pokémon doesn’t really affect me in wanting to start another sub-collection.

In the past I’ve collected way too much at once. And although that’s still the case today, the huge difference is that in the past all sub-collections were W.I.P. at the same time, whereas now I’ve completed most of those sub-collections and primarily focus on new releases.

Greetz,
Quuador

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