I highlight it here because a) I’m a huge Gardevoir fan, and b) it’s interesting to see what’s usually a Stage 2 monster (well, Gardevoir is, but this Future form has no evolutionary chain as yet) getting a Basic ex card, and such a powerful one. That’s because there’s to be an Iron Valiant ex collection box later in November, which will come with an alternative version created by the same artist, and an oversized card of the same. Not because it’s receiving special art, because so far we just don’t know-this card is part of the unreleased Japanese Future Flash set, meaning we’re in the very unusual situation of seeing the English-language version at the same time. Iron Valiant ex Image: The Pokémon Company / KotakuĪnother Future card that’s going to get a bunch of focus is Iron Valiant ex. Still though, check out that 260 HP, the card drawing ability, and it’s ridiculously powerful 50x attack based on how many Energy cards you discard from your hand. It should be billowing outside a used car lot. It’s literally a stack of 1,000 coins, and it looks so stupid. Gholdengo’s one of the more confusing pocket monsters, given it’s so incredibly hard to evolve from the miniscule Gimmighoul, requiring the gathering of 999 Gimmighoul Coins. But it’s also a completely bizarre thing and worth noting has made it into the TCG. It’s a cheese string with a bank balance. OK, no, I agree, this is a horrible card. Gholdengo ex Image: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku What a joy to have this 68-year-old contributing Pokémon art now. He was animation director on 1988’s Akira and 1981’s TV series Golden Warrior Gold Lightan. This is only Takeshi’s third card for the TCG, following on a couple of basics in Obsidian Flames and 151, but this is no noob-he’s an anime director and artist, working since 1977. Iron Moth is the Future form of Volcarona, and is an intrinsically cool design.īut this art from Takeshi Nakamura takes an already neat monster to a whole other place, that spectacular galactic backdrop recreating the conflation of science fiction and volcanic geography so perfectly. And it’s another astonishingly beautiful card. Then in the other temporal direction, we have Iron Moth. Iron Moth Illustration Rare Image: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku It’s also notable that Brute Bonnet packs a mighty-for-a-Basic-card 120 punch every other turn. Presumably we’ll also be seeing a bunch of Trainer cards that are specific to having Ancient or Future cards in play. It’s also our first look at how the “Ancient” cards will be marked, with the bizarrely clumsy logo top-right. This year has seen his incredible trio of Ghastly/Haunter/Gengar in 151, and that full-art Baxcailbur in Paldea Evolved. Long-time TCG illustrator Tomokazu Komiya is on a whole other level in 2023. It’s hard to imagine the Ancient form of Amoonguss being anyone’s favorite new pokémon in the current era, but it’s not hard to imagine this becoming a favorite card. Brute Bonnet Illustration Rare Image: The Pokémon Company / Kotaku Let us know which cards you think are going to be your chases. So, we’ve picked out our favorites from everything we know so far, using art from both English and Japanese cards, to whet your appetite. The latter twin set is still in the process of being revealed, but we’ve already seen a significant number of stunning full-art cards that’ll be arriving on our shores in less than a month. It’s this that will finally see the game’s biggest twist, those time-shifted monsters, entering the card game.Īs is fairly common, this set is a combination of cards translated from two other Japanese collections, this time September’s Raging Surf, and October’s dual-release, Ancient Roar and Future Flash. And yet, with all this going on, next month sees yet another mainline set, Paradox Rift. Having released three main sets in the new Scarlet & Violet era, we’re now in the midst of the large fuss surrounding the celebratory special Gen I set, Pokémon 151, and only moments away from the extra-special (entirely sold out) set, Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic. Things are very busy just now in the TCG.
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