Misty’s Water Command · Hidden Fates (HIF) #63

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   Warnock 2022

   (10 months ago)

   There have been *fourteen* unique artworks featuring Misty on Supporter cards (or Supporter-equivalents, pre-2002): https://pkmncards.com/?s=type%3Atrainer+misty

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     AmbassadorWarnock 2022

     (1 month ago)

     This comment is overlooking *at least* Gym Badge (XY 204), and the JP-only Misty’s Treatment¹. I’m not proposing this is the correct, final tally either, because I’m not sure it’s as simple as plunking Misty (or カス) into a TCG search engine and copy-pasting the results – for example, Gym Badge would never would’ve shown up with this approach.

     ¹ https://pcg-search.com/card/1st/1stp073.php || https://archive.is/hQTBt

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   Ambassador

   (1 month ago)

   Following my comment on Brock’s Training, this card is essentially the counterpart to that card for its coexisting Misty-centric preconstructed theme deck¹, and so the Pokémon listed off here are the ones that were included in that deck. However, unlike Brock’s nostalgia-fuelled fanservice, the artwork of cards in Misty’s 2019 theme deck don’t appear to have any overt references to the artwork of cards in her 1998 theme deck, and functionally, there’s not *nearly* enough coin-flipping going on here to make it feel like a real successor to the original deck.

   I might be wrong, so feel free to double-check my workings;
   · The Pokémon cards which were included in the theme deck are as follows; TEU Psyduck, BUS Horsea, CIN Staryu, HIF Starmie GX, DRM Magikarp, DRM Gyarados, and TEU Lapras.
   · Trainer cards of interest include this card, HIF Misty’s Determination, and Misty’s Cerulean City Gym. I think it’s possible that the artwork of this card is a less overt nod to the (original, Japan exclusive) artwork of Misty’s Tears, but that’s about it.

   ¹ https://www.pokemon-card.com/products/sm/smk.html

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