Electric single
Placeholder · graded & priced at launch
Welcome in, trainer ⚡
Pokémon cards from first light to last grail.
Pokecards is a brand-new UK home for collectors — bright-eyed singles by day, grail hunts after dark. The shop opens soon; the binder is already filling up.
A new shop, run the way collectors wish shops were run.
Pokecards starts where every collection starts — with someone who never stopped opening packs. We're building a small, honest online shop for Pokémon cards: singles you can trust, sealed you can verify, and prices that don't need a decoder ring.
No store yet, no warehouse of promises — just the first drop being sleeved, photographed and priced right now.
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Every card checked in daylight Condition graded honestly, photographed front and back — the actual card you receive.
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No tricks in the listing If it's played, we say played. If it's a reprint, we say reprint. Gengar keeps the mischief to the artwork.
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Sleeved, toploaded, tracked Cards travel like grails, whatever they cost. UK postage, careful packaging.
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Collector-run, small on purpose Questions answered by the person who sleeved your card, not a ticket queue.
A peek inside the first binder.
The opening drop, being sleeved as we speak.
Sample pocket page — real stock is photographed and priced at launch. Follow @hellopokecards for pull-by-pull previews.
Ghost single
Placeholder · graded & priced at launch
Water single
Placeholder · graded & priced at launch
Face-down until launch day
Face-down until launch day
Face-down until launch day
Reserved for launch-day sealed
Reserved for a grail
Reserved for your want-list
What we'll stock
⚡ By daylight
The Spark side of the shop
For the joy of collecting — the cards you buy because they make the binder glow.
- Affordable singles & binder-fillers, honestly graded
- Modern sealed — booster packs, tins & ETBs
- Starter bundles for new trainers (and returning ones)
- Pikachu, obviously. Always Pikachu.
👻 After dark
The Shadow side of the shop
For the hunters — the cards you check the postie's van for.
- Chase cards, alt arts & illustration rares
- Vintage & WOTC-era pieces as we source them
- Japanese promos & imports, clearly labelled
- And Gengar. The shop has a favourite; we won't pretend otherwise.
Don't get tricked. The 60-second real-or-fake check.
Fake Pokémon cards are everywhere — car boots, marketplaces, even "bargain" bundles. Before you buy from anyone (including us), run this quick check. Tap each step as you go.
Your check so far
Gengar approves of your suspicion. Start checking.
This guide covers the common fakes. When in doubt, ask us — we'd rather talk you out of a bad buy than into one.
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Hold the card up to a bright light. A real card has a thin black (or dark) layer sandwiched in the middle, so barely any light passes through. Fakes glow like a lampshade.
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Real cards feel firm with a subtle matte finish; modern holos have an embossed texture you can feel. Fakes are usually too glossy, too flimsy, or oddly plasticky.
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Blurry fonts, wrong energy symbols, misspelled attack names, or an HP printed as "80HP" instead of "HP 80" style — printing errors are the fastest giveaway on fakes.
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The back should show the correct deep blue with a crisp Poké Ball swirl. Fakes are often too light, too purple, or washed out — compare against any card you know is real.
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A £200 card for £25 isn't a bargain, it's a warning. Check recent sold prices before you believe a deal — real grails very rarely go cheap.
Night notes — the Pokecards journal.
Honest writing about collecting: what's worth it, what isn't, and what we're learning building this shop in the open.
Building Pokecards in the open — week one
Why we're starting small, what the first drop will look like, and the boring-but-important bits: sleeves, scales and spreadsheets.
How we grade condition (and why "pack fresh" isn't a grade)
Our plain-English condition ladder, from binder-worthy to well-loved — with photos of what each one actually means.
Spark or Shadow? A starter guide to collecting what you love
Chase value or chase joy? The honest answer is both — here's how to split a small budget without regrets.
The story starts on Instagram.
Pack pulls, binder pages, launch news and the occasional Gengar sighting — all posted first at
@hellopokecardsLive grid tiles connect here once the shop launches — for now, these are a taste of what we post.