literally, listening to this podcast is like sitting in a card shop talking to a bunch of collectors. Its so fun just listening :)

Thanks for the shout out guys, I appreciate it. As far as my 2019 Acuna run goes, I don’t have the platinum 1 of 1, that’s the only one I’m missing. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen it come up for sale, but if it ever does, you know I’ll make a run at it.👍

Great conversation. 1st time subscriber. Looking forward to more.

I always thought a grail card was subjective based on the collector. For years, mine was the Vince Carter Sgt. Carter mem/auto from 2000 Fleer Force, I eventually bought it for $200 last year. That card was the product hit, it was advertised on the box and in Beckett, and I ripped two boxes around 2002 looking for it.. Fleer Force was an awesome product but I never hit it. Ive been collecting ever since, but never had the disposable income to pony up to get the card until last year, and i got it! I still think of it as a grail, but see y'all's point. But, if a low income card collector is looking at a grail, their viewpoint is gonna be way different than a collector who goes to the National and has all the connections.

I agree on the black parallels for RC, especially since I got the JRod in a PSA Gem slab. Enjoy the content fellows.

I think a grail card has to be either a very rare card that is hard to find and obtain or a card that is priced beyond your ability to purchase it at the time. The hunt and the struggle to obtain that card gives the grail term meaning. I think I would trust PSA, SGC, BGS, CSG, and HGA to be able to authenticate any card, so if the card is a 1/1, you should be be able to price it wherever you want as you have the only one in existence. With that said, I would have most likely used PSA to grade it for authenticity, protection for the card, and the most highly recognized grading company for a card with that price point. Rookie cards are going to retain the most value for a card, but I think second and third year cards with a story to them are overlooked and one I would prefer to keep in my PC.

Grail is based on the person's budget 1st and foremost. Thereafter the rest is subjective. So many labels. 20 years ago we never labeled things. Now it's Gen z, x, y blah blah blah everything in this world has a label, have fun and go after whatever it is you have for a grail and share it with others to enjoy.

I’m not saying who to grade it from but I’ve cracked 3HGA nines and sent to PSA and I got back 2 PSA tens and one PSA nine so Hga do some pretty good grades

I have a Lamelo Ball Downtown. It's the best card in my collection and the card I never want to sell. That card is my grail. I Also have a Mark Williams gold Prizm that is pretty close to a grail card of mine lol.

The best content on KZfaq IMO.

A holy Grail to me a card isn’t always about the money it’s about you really really wanted it like when I was a kid I wanted the 89 upper deck Ken Griffey Junior I never ever got it because it cost too much money. My dad would never buy it for me, but when I got older I definitely bought it and to me it was one of my holy Grail cards that shouldn’t have to have a money thing on $500 or $5000 because to some collectors $500 is a lot of money to others $5000 is nothing that’s drop in the bucket But to many people it’s different

My grail card would be a PSA 9 1984 Fleer Update Kirby Puckett XRC. I have no idea what that would cost, but more than I can spend on a single card.

As a Pirates fan the 55 Clemente would be my grail card. By no means rare but a little out of my budget right now. Going to try and buy a PSA or SGC graded card of Clemente every year that he played (55-72). The 55 rookie will have to be the final card I buy though and that will hopefully complete my baseball card collection ……. For now lol

Personal grails are relative based on budget and interests. I wanted a nice Trout auto forever, and I finally bought a nice gold /25 Topps 87 design auto this year. It was about $500. For my budget, it was a personal grail. For others it would be a cheap card, and for still others it may be something they couldn't afford .

I enjoyed the poscast guys, great work! I noticed Spotify is a little behind schedule with YT, is it always going to release later or will it catchup eventually? Thanks!

Homeboy should have sent that Corbin Carroll to Luis Molina to get that surface cleaned up first.

My grail is a Walter Payton RC. He was my hero as a kid and I had a 4.5 back then. I always wanted a better example. I now have a PSA 9. It's worth app. $4000. I've had some Kobes that were worth more, but the Payton is my grail. If I had a Mantle, Payton would still be the ONE

A holy Grail has nothing to do with value. If it's a card you really want and go hunting for it's a Grail.

I just pulled a CC rc rainbow foil and purple foil /799 yesterday out of the bin at the grocery store(2 packs back to back) and now thinking of buying a powerball ticket lol. This has been the best pull out of modern since I pulled a 2019 Vlad jr no number behind a Vlad sr SP back in 2019! Why would anyone go with HGA in this case of the 1/1 wtf?

Not even gonna lie. HGA is getting my cards. Havent had a single issue with them, plus the slabs look AMAZING. No minimum orders, not thousands of dollars, I have zero complaints with HGA.

It’s 1/1 you either want it or you don’t! If you want slabbed then put into a one touch and put a piece of carpenter tape on top

I’m thinking there are different ways of looking at Grails. Everyone has their own personal grail and another example would be ‘52 Mantle, ‘86 Jordan, can’t we all agree those are grails to everyone 😊

You don't think it's worth it to grade a 1/1? Even for the protection?

my grail is a bernie williams bowman tiffany rookie card PSA10 . card is maybe worth 100 dollars, which doesn't matter to me, as i was a huge fan of Bernie and honestly the yankees wouldnt have won those world series without him. he is completely underrated and should have been considered into the hall of fame. some may think im crazy, but thats what is great about this hobby... second..people put waaaayyyyyyyy too much emphasis into grading card companies. all of them do a few things, authenticate, and grade the cards condition. it should NOT matter which company they choose. people are insane to pay 10 times the actual card value just cause it says PSA. its getting stupid.

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Someone give Phil a cheeseburger

Philmington if you only collect a scrub their best cards are worth less than $500. Their flawless 1/1 go for less than $500.

Philmington totally disregarded the very real option that someone close to HGA pulled that card.

100% a $500 card can be a grail card. Anyone who disagrees is a mook.

I collected Greg Maddux, so I guess there's no such thing as a "Grail Card" for me!

If the card is in that bad of shape I'd trying to get a replacement card from Topps

It would not be a mistake if that new grading company was TAG. All other grading companies use primarily human bias. I will take TAG patented tech grading vs human grading any day for grail and all non grail. Ty!

For real collectors there is no holy Grail. Collector mentality never stops. They just move on to the next collection. A collector/hoarder is never satisfied. Itch never stops.

I spent $500 on the Josh Dobbs 1/1 Donruss Optic Super fractor auto. Thats 100% a grail. Cant even be argued.

PSA PSA up charges you for one and then don't even give you an accurate grade it's almost like common sense now that they are doing that. I'm glad he stayed away from PSA there really not that good of a grading company, its just what the people want

Imo the Corbin Carroll is worth more in a hga 9 slab than raw. Also, to say that a hga 9 would grade about a psa 6 is a gross exaggeration. *I own one hga slab (purchased already slabbed) and am not a big fan of hga.

2nd year flagship gold fan here.

Hga? Nope!

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Too many times it was said -- this card being graded with HGA would be a hard sell ... TOTALLY FALSE !!!....a 1/1 is never a hard sell no matter if it's raw or graded with whomever...I personally feel there's no need to grade a card at all, especially a 1/1...grading corrupted the hobby & that's facts

Nobody wants a pink 1/1

Grading with psa they would charge you thousands what a joke psa sucks

Thank you for pointing out just asking the question is elitist. A $5 card could have considered grail to someone.