“I’ll Flare Strike for 230.“ “Full Blitz for 150.” These are two of the phrases you could hear as early as the first attack of the game in the Pokémon Trading Card Game’s current Standard Format. The current state of the game is a perfect example of what people in the gaming community call “power … Read more
The latest Pokémon TCG set Dream League was recently released in Japan and some of the art will blow you away. It’s so good we couldn’t help but share—it makes great phone wallpaper or keyboard backgrounds (Google keyboard is a great place to use the horizontally oriented art on iOS or Android). Many full art … Read more
We really loved the Detective Pikachu film and recently we were also lucky enough to be sent some of the accompanying TCG packs to open as well! Today we’ll be looking at the Detective Pikachu Case File, Mewtwo-GX Case File, Charizard-GX Case File and Greninja-GX Case File (links go to Amazon so you can see … Read more
Japan held a competition for new Pokémon card illustrations and the results did not disappoint! Out of over 5,000 drawings only eight were chosen. The grand prize went to Yū Nishida who drew an amazing picture of Gardevoir. Second place was awarded to Narumi Satō for her drawing of Eevee. The runner-ups offered tough competition—check … Read more
You may not recognize his name, but artist Tokiya Sakuba (often stylized as TOKIYA) is the illustrator behind over 70 Pokémon cards in the TCG. On his Twitter account he sometimes shares higher resolution art for the Pokémon cards he has designed or images from his latest freelance projects. Awhile ago he drew some Pokémon … Read more
One of the thrills of collecting Pokémon TCG cards is opening a booster pack and getting a rare holographic cards that shimmers under direct light. A new patent has been filed by Nintendo which seems to seek to replicate that effect digitally and which has already been used in Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun and … Read more