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Charizard (Expedition EX 39)
Charizard — 100 HP — [R]
Stage 2 — Evolves from Charmeleon
[C] Tail Smash: 40
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.
[R][R][C] Flamethrower: 60
Discard 1 [R] Energy card attached to Charizard.
weakness: [W]×2
resistance:
retreat: 2
Illus. Atsuko Nishida
Expedition — 39/165 — Rare
MarxForever
Make it a Basic, take about 20 damage off of each attack, hastily throw on a Gold and Silver concept sketch, and you have yourself a Vs card.
DMNBT
Hey, that’s not fair!….Some of the illustrations were quite good (like Karen’s Pokemon ones)! As for everything else….uh…well…
MarxForever
Well, Like I told Feyblade, I didn’t mean the artwork itself. :)
I did think it was interesting the way they assigned each Gym Leader/Member of the Elite four their own artist, and some of them were quite good. Like Pryce’s and Karen’s (the Umbreon in particular). Even Lance’s “Where The Wild Things Are” style wasn’t completely without it’s charm. And Burno had Yuka Morii’s sculptures, which I’ve always had a special fundness for. The problem was if you didn’t care for a particular artist’s work, then that Leader’s entire roster were all kind of “meh” visually…
Probably would’ve been better if they had just let everyone do a little bit of everything, per usual.
feyblade
VS.’s art quality was really mixed, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre to the outright disturbing, in the case of everything Kimiya Masago touched. http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/8/89/BlaineMagcargoVS71.jpg
DMNBT
Blaine’s Typhlosion art wasn’t that bad, but yeah, what the hell is going on with Magcargo? It looks either like it’s being roasted alive, or it wants to devour your soul…
HEZ
Hey Adam, can we get the VS sets on here sometime please? Kimiya Masago is amazing, I with they’d hired him more. Check out his Houndoom from Skyridge or Mewtwo from Expedition, bloody terrifying:
https://pkmncards.com/wp-content/uploads/mewtwo-expedition-ex-56-312×429.jpg
Adam Capriola
Maybe. I’m trying to limit things to English cards to keep organization easier on myself. I don’t want to end up uploading every non-English Japanese set.
Btw here’s a search for Kimiya Masago: https://pkmncards.com/?s=a%3Akimiya-masago&display=scan&sort=date
MarxForever
He’s like the South Park of TCG artists, either his stuff is amazing or just awful. There is no middle ground.
MarxForever
Heh, I just traded one of these away not too long ago.
Sure Masago has a very detailed, dynamic coloring style, but what is with his poses?
They’re only two things this Mewtwo could possibly being thinking at this moment.
1. HUUUGABOOGABOOGA!!!
2. It is time, my children, that I must die for your sins.
MarxForever
Oh, when I said hastily “thrown on concept sketch” I mostly referring to the card design itself.
In the original Gym sets, they had high qaulity original art for the leaders and even set them to cgi renderings of their badges. Vs was content with that coin thing.
The artwork of the Charizard itself is alright. Nothing great, but the tcg as given us far worse.
Blob Takeshi
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b70c56014d54ae96600ca02c2ce1c3b47c6729a66d0444672efb0aaaea444c26.jpg
You mean this?
MarxForever
Me and my friends affectionately refer to this one as “Where the Wild Things Are” Charizard.
Blob Takeshi
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b70c56014d54ae96600ca02c2ce1c3b47c6729a66d0444672efb0aaaea444c26.jpg
Blob Takeshi
Is it sniffing rocks?
Mister Wu
Not many people knew that at the time, but this is drawn by the designer of Charizard herself – it’s Atsuko Nishida who designed Charizard (and well, the rest of its evolutionary family too)!
Surprisingly, this is so far the only known drawing of Charizard from her for the TCG.