Alph Lithograph - Why Textured?

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Hi all,

Just wanted to get some insight on this card from HG&SS (gasp! it’s not about Gyarados!). I opened a random Spanish pack today and pulled this Alph Lithograph:

I didn’t even know that this card existed and thought it was pretty cool. When I looked at it, however, I noticed it had a unique texture on it:

Anyone know why this is? At first I thought it was potentially an error but it seems that this was usually the case. I also read unofficial reports that apparently this card was only available in 1 and 3 boxes, is that true?

Thanks all!

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They are all textured. Assuming they wanted to do something different and make it stone or relic like.

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Why does water flow downhill? Haha :see_no_evil::speak_no_evil:

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Can confirm that all of them have that texture. I have all four Alpha Litograph versions in my collection.

As for your question about pull rate I’m not sure, although it could be. I think they were (non-Holo) Secret Rares in the four sets they came in, kinda like the non-Holo Secret Rares of XY Evolutions. Although being a Secret Rare doesn’t automatically mean a low pull rate tbh, since they were still pretty high for these non-Holo Secret Rares of the XY Evolution set or the Character Rares of the Cosmic Eclipse set to give two counterexamples.

Greetz,
Quuador

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Thanks all for the info. Thought it might be worth the discussion but seems like it isn’t as interesting as I had initially thought. XD Cool card though.

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Shame it’s not a gyarados post, fun thing is I can read that thing, it says “look at your rival’s hand!”. Damn latin powers flow thu me.