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{C} → Call for Family
Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon card named Nidoran Male or Nidoran Female and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward. (You can’t use this attack if your Bench is full.)
{G} → Scratch : 10
illus. Midori Harada
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Shiny Shinx
Interesting artwork. The inside of some ancient temple?
Aalacer
The same goes for Nidorina from Skyridge too. Pretty interesting ilustrations they had xD
Shiny Shinx
It feels like artwork back in the Neo/E-series/ex-series had a lot more thought put into it, as many of those sets had some sort of underlying story, rather than today, where sets like Flashfire and Phantom Forces are defined by the fact that most of their cards exist just to buff a specific type.
Aalacer
Yes, I think the same way. Still nowadays are cards like chikorita/fennekin and Shellder/Solosis but that… That is good, but there are only a few ones like those. I dont catch why they decided to make 3d ilustrations for almost everything…
Adam Capriola
The artwork has definitely gotten less detailed. At some point a majority of the artists switched to digital mediums and (in my opinion) the results look cheap and sterile. There’s not as much charm to the art as there used to be. It was probably a decision made for costs/efficiency.
Shiny Shinx
There are still some really good artists (kawayoo and TOKIYA, particularly), and really the only thing I don’t like is how pretty much every card is illustrated by 5ban Graphics, and there’s just not a lot of variety.
puffball
Dont forget sui.
Sam
kawayoo, TOKIYA, sui, 5ban Graphics, Kanako Eo, Naoki Saito, and Shin Nagasawa in my opinion are the best artists for the TCG.
Blob Takeshi
Who even IS this “5Ban” guy?
2yb
I am astonishingly late to the party here, but the location of this card is the Ancient Ruins stadium from the same set. Nidoran is perched on the windowsill looking in. The position of the statues and the vine climbing the window frame are identical.
Adam Capriola
I’m revisiting the artwork in this set (thanks to your comment, 2yb) and I’m all these years later picking up on the themes going on, centered around the set’s Stadiums. To point out a smattering of the cards:
There’s also a megalith (which may correspond with Mystery Zone): Cleffa, Kadabra, Mystery Plate Beta
Have other sets been like this? Details zooming straight over my head. An artwork tagger would be useful to tie all these cards together…
John Orgel
This got covered in this really good YouTube video along with a bunch of lore you might be interest in.
https://youtu.be/0XOosJq8QaY?si=VzobJLkpOFMnjJFW
Adam Capriola
Wow, stellar video. Thanks for sharing, John—I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Soren Olsen
Nice art.