My Kingdom for a Flerken: The Beautiful, Expensive Pain of Collecting Goose the Cat

Hey! Pull up a chair, don’t mind the stacks of top loaders on the floor. I was just reorganizing my personal collection binder, and honestly, we need to have a serious chat about the absolute queen of the Marvel Universe. 

No, not Captain Marvel. I’m talking about **Goose**. 

Yes, the orange tabby who is actually a terrifying, pocket-dimension-harboring Flerken. I have this running obsession—okay, fine, a borderline unhealthy fixation—with collecting her. Forbes even did an article on her!

There is just something so deeply satisfying about holding a card where one side is this adorable, innocent little kitty, and the other side is literally **unleashing Lovecraftian tentacles** to swallow bad guys whole. It is the ultimate vibe. 

But here’s my toxic trait as a collector: I am constantly screaming into the void, begging for her to be included in more sets. Like, why isn't there a dedicated insert set yet? Where is my gorgeous, textured acetate card of her coughing up the Tesseract? I need the Marvel card designers to wake up and realize she is the moment.

And then, two seconds later, I remember the state of my bank account and think... *actually, please don’t.*

Because let's be real. If they started dropping low-numbered parallels or gorgeous gold-etched Goose cards in every set, I would be financially ruined. My wallet would just disintegrate. I would be living in a house made of empty booster boxes—which, ironically, Goose would probably love to sleep in, but it wouldn't be great for me.

It’s this constant, beautiful struggle of the chase. You want your favorite, weirdly niche character to get the spotlight, but you also want to be able to afford groceries next week. 

For now, I’ll just keep hunting down the weird inserts that *do* exist, tucking them safely into their sleeves, and giggling every time I flip past a cat who could casually devour a whole squad of Kree soldiers. 

What about you? Who is that one character in your PC that makes your bank account sweat the second they get announced on a new checklist?