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{P}{P} → Dark Wave : 20
All Pokémon Powers stop working until the end of your opponent’s next turn.
{P}{P}{P} → Shadow Bind : 40
The Defending Pokémon can’t retreat during your opponent’s next turn.
illus. Ken Sugimori · LV.42
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100000Volts
I had always wanted this card and finally got one in 2014 (in Japanese) when I found out it was included in the Sabrina’s Japanese gym theme deck. It was exclusive to the deck but the infamous Wizards decided to remove it and included in the main set instead.
100000Volts
You have to like the evil look of this Gengar. The color of this Gengar should’ve been the official color rather than the purple/pink to make it more malevolent. Was this card ever worth played?
Foon-Gus Fring
IDK if it was ever played, but the “Shadow Bind” attack has become quite popular! It re-appeared in Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 5, and Gen 8.
100000Volts
Halloween is approaching let’s find the scariest looking cards, here’s one!
Foon-Gus Fring
TG09 Spiritomb (Lost Origin) is also very scary…
Tatu chín đai
Here’s another: LOR #076 Hisuian Zoroark.
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Like Sabrina’s Gastly (G2 #96), this card has an identifiable use of Sozaijiten stock images. It’s been flipped horizontally, but the moon behind Gengar would be the same photo of moon seen here; https://archive.ph/5Xisy This would put Sabrina’s Haunter (G2 #55) under suspicion for also using a Sozaijiten image, but I haven’t had a chance to try and match it up yet.
Tatu chín đai
Cool find. Here’s others that probably have stock art backgrounds. I wonder if they’re from the same source?
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The use of Sozaijiten stock are seems to peter out during the Neo era. They start using CGI backgrounds for Sugimori artwork (which I would imagine was done by Creatures/CR CG gangs, but could just as easily have been pulled from somewhere else) during late Classic/early Neo, and then seem to kind of stick with that for a while? You are right in that Generation 4 Sugimori art seems to switch back to a stock photography collection, but I don’t think which collection has been identified. (And I think anyone figuring out it was Sozaijiten was pure chance. I’ll link to Pokémon Aaah as I did on the Gastly card I mentioned; https://www.pokemonaaah.net/research/tcgbackground/ )
Twylis
Also a very good example of how badly Wizards was distorting the illustrations.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vpQAAOSwWplfSmix/s-l1600.jpg