After a discussion in another thread that turned surprisingly heated i wanted to see what E4 in bigger picture thinks, is this a pokemon card?
The discussion went already quite far so i hope it at least stays appropriate if it continues here, but i mainly just want to see plain numbers of what people think of the topic
I won’t do sleuthing for others views but it has to be a pokemon card. It’s a pokemon on a card.
Unless it’s a sticker then I can’t see what else it could be.
Is it a tcg? No it lacks the g part. But it’s the same as a Topps which was a collectible card.
I perfectly understand your point here, it’s a piece of paper with a Pokemon so it should be considered a Pokemon Card.
But honestly when referring to Pokemon cards I always think about the TCG cards and for me the first ones are the no-rarity, could be wrong but I cant think differently…
I would consider this as a Pokemon collectible 
It is a Pokémon trading card…but non tcg. eBay and PSA recently “failed” one of my sold graded Tomy scratch cards saying it didn’t qualify for the authenticity program because it wasn’t a trading card. I still do not understand what they meant (assuming because it wasn’t tcg). I only bring this up because it seems to be the same debate you are having.
I voted NO but I can’t prove my point in any reasonable way. I don’t have any better definitions either. So… I guess it’s really a pokemon card in the end.
It’s a Pokemon, and it’s a card. But it’s not a Pokemon card.
If it’s a pokemon, on cardstock, and is apart of the pokemon companys trademark, AND is not a sticker, pin etc, then and only then, can it be considered a card.
By definition, this is a card. It may not be the card you want, but it’s a card.
This is all I have to say btw, I won’t post anything else.
It’s certainly closer.
Yeah its undisputably a pokemon “card”. Alot of the stigma is probably because people dont consider it a tcg pokemon card. If the question was “Is this an official tcg card” then it would be no. The main takeaway is that the market is so caught up with the actual tcg that anything that doesnt meet the critieria to be considered a “card” isnt true for some, but theyre just grasping at straws.
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Is Professor Oak a pokemon or is this not a pokemon card? Is his new theory a pokemon? I’m confused.
Colloquially, no that’s not a Pokemon card. There’s a difference between a Pokemon card, and a Pokemon card.
If I had to identify a non-tcg card, like the one in the OP, I would say it’s a Pokemon card. But it’s not a Pokemon card.
I would say no, it’s not the first thing I think about when someone mentions pokemon cards. Stickers, Carddass, Topsun, prototypes, Creatures deck etc. are not as popular as the TCG so I find it ironic that I would not consider this a pokemon card:
Does it mean those “cards” are not valuable, cannot be enjoyed, or don’t deserve to be collected? Of course not, I would love to have them all. Do whatever floats your boat and be happy collecting 
The framing of the OP skews towards a literal interpretation. If you approached me and asked me to “think of a Pokemon card”, I would absolutely not be thinking of a Bandai item.
I think a way to frame the question that gets at what I was saying in the other thread is:
Are non-tcg cards more similar to the category of merchandise or more similar to the category of the Pokemon TCG?
I don’t think there is a correct answer but that’s the fun part.
To put it another way, consider a hobby store advertising “We sell Pokemon cards”. If I went in and they were only selling Bandai cards, I would personally feel deceived.
As a species collector I consider it a pokemon card for sure. I get the semantics of either argument but either way I need it
First are the Pikachu and Jigglypuff before no rarity
This is true but i think there wasn’t any obvious way to ask it without bias towards one option, i was thinking of different ways to wrap the question but decided to just go simple without too much explanation and with a card choice not too obvious like topps or the bandai carddass first sets but not the most niche one either. Probably won’t lead into data to prove any points but some quite good discussion over a topic that has little importance 
