Pokémon TCG Players Have Hilariously Unhinged Ideas For What to Do With One Fan's 12K Energy Cards

Reddit user Icantenteraname has just a tiny bit more energy cards than they'll ever need. A picture they posted to Reddit shows many tall stacks containing a massive total of over 12,000 energy cards. The Redditor asks the community for help figuring out what to do with all these energy cards, and the TCG community does not disappoint in their suggestions.

Pokémon TCG Players Offer Many Absurd Ideas For The Huge Number Of Energy Cards

The Suggestions Range From Silly To Nefarious

The Pokémon TCG community has plenty of ideas about what to do with so many energy cards, and most of them are just plain silly. Reddit user Able_Heat_9310 offers up the obvious: "Store them on top of your desk in 43 piles." As this is what the original poster is already doing, others have some additional ideas.

Redditor bigbobbatea suggests making a deck with one Pokémon and all the energy cards. User Feeling-Estimate-267 expands on the idea, suggesting that the player can make a hilarious meme deck like this, made up of "just 1 Pokémon who scales with energy, then 59 energy in the deck, and maybe attach as many energy from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like' card." A few other comments have some very creative ideas to use up the cards. "Make one of these!" says Rare_Arugula_5663, with a picture of a pixel Pikachu made of energy cards.

Still others had some of the most unhinged and ridiculous ideas. "It’s a good fire starter," says CasualRedditor77, while rxkio_ writes, "Pickle them for when the war comes." User General-Philosophy40 has a particularly nefarious idea: "Store them in a bulk box throw some collectors Pokémon Charizards on top, add to a storage unit, have your cousin auction the stuff in the unit off." The original 1995 Charizard is the most valuable card on the market, with variants selling for as much as $580 USD according to TCG Player, so this would be a pretty terrible trap to fall into.

Our Take: The Best Suggestion Is To Give The Pokémon TCG Energy Cards Out

It's Either Wholesome Or Practical (Or Both)

My favorite suggestion is one of the only non-joke answers in the Reddit thread. Baybeeboo22 says the owner of all these energy cards can "leave some in your car to write people notes with and put them in their windshield wiper." The cards could be accompanied by a nice note, as Valiant_Darktanyan writes, like, “You looked a little tired, here’s some energy to keep going!” Or, as Baybeeboo22 adds, some not-so-nice notes like the classic, “You suck at parking”

I go to music festivals and I have actually seen people do this, and the recipients are always very grateful. Some people give them out based on "vibes," like finding the right people to give the right type of energy card to, depending on what they think feels "right" for them. It's always a hit, whether the people getting the card are Pokémon fans or not. Leaving a card with a note for a stranger to find is an adorable and wholesome way to spread some positivity and use up the huge stockpile of Pokémon Trading Card Game energy cards.

Source: Icantenteraname/Reddit, TCG Player, Able_Heat_9310/Reddit, bigbobbatea/Reddit, Feeling-Estimate-267/Reddit, Rare_Arugula_5663/Reddit, CasualRedditor77/Reddit, rxkio_/Reddit, General-Philosophy40/Reddit, Baybeeboo22/Reddit, Valiant_Darktanyan/Reddit