Yeah I thought of that as well, but the problem is that the cards I bought from stores (even the mainstream ones) were of bad quality; the moves were misspelled, some cards had the name of the pokemon wrong... it got to a point that I got sick of it. Now, I've completely lost interest in TCG, so don't know how the present cards might be. But it might just be a local thing, I stay in B'lore... so you never know, maybe the cards that you buy from your locality might be of good quality 