Positive Energy 9: Fairy

After a brief hiatus, we are back with your favorite fairy type pokemon card! To keep myself accountable, favorite dragon type will be posted week of 2/16, and favorite colorless will be posted week of 3/2 :slight_smile:

There’s a lot of different kinds of energy in the collecting space today: positive, negative, upset, excited, water, you name it.

Going with that theme, I will post an energy type, and you post your favorite card of that energy type. Feel free to include why you enjoy the card! The post with the most likes after an appropriate amount of time will win bragging rights and the wonderful bobbrob designed badge:

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Limit your entries to one card per post, and three posts per person max. Please write out the card and set name in text in addition to the image posted for posterity in case images break.

Next up are fairy types (RIP)!

Previous threads for reference:

https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-1-fire/57382
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-2-grass/57600
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-3-water/58056
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-4-lightning/58222
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-5-psychic/58335
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-6-fighting-ground-rock/58497
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-7-dark/58691
https://www.elitefourum.com/t/positive-energy-8-metal/59453

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Example:

Clefable Unbroken Bonds

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Togekiss Roaring Skies

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I confess, not many artworks that I like considering the limited choice, especially on the cheaper side. Still, I find this dedenne from Forbidden Light very cute.

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My vote goes to Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX - Unbroken Bonds

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This was harder than expected, with how few Fairy-Type cards there are, but my favorite is this Ralts:

But some others I like a lot are these:

Greetz,
Quuador

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No art contest for me with Fairy. There can only be one. :crossed_swords:

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I miss Fairy type; the pink accentuates the Pokemon so well.

I love the Komiya Clefairy, but this is my favorite:

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It’s got to be Clefairy for me as well. The sparkles of the Evolutions holo make it even more over the top.

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Shiny looking, DBZ energy blasting, TOKIYA masterpiece

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Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX from Tag All Stars.

If you can’t find Berry/Poke Ball you’re looking for from the picture it probably doesn’t exist. :smiley:

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I love this artwork by Shibuzoh. I think it’s beautiful. The gorgeous flowers, this hints of purple in the water and the beautiful rainbow off in the distance :rainbow:

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Fun fact, there are 183 fairy type cards per Bulbapedia if anyone wanted a to do a cool theme binder

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I still think that adding the Fairy type was a bad decision, and I am still really happy with the removal of the Fairy type in the TCG. Many Pokémon were unneeded forced into the typing to fit a narrative of them being magical, sweet, maybe even girly.

Clefairy, even while fairy is in the name, should never been a Fairy type!

But really… this artwork is S-tier

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Red/Blue Dex entry for Clefairy:

Its magical and cute appeal has many admirers. It is rare and found only in certain areas.

And for Clefable:

A timid fairy POKéMON that is rarely seen. It will run and hide the moment it senses people.

They weren’t forced into anything

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I am more pointing at why the whole Typing had to be added in the first place. A very late patch to create more coverage against the ever growing Dragon type? Clefairy in the Evolution print with the pink background just really rubs me win every wrong way possible.

There is a whole list of Pokémon that I question why they became Fairy types overnight.

Balance against Dark and Dragon and an advantage for Steel.

There weren’t many Pokemon that changed type and they are pretty canonically fairy (Clef line, Toge line, etc) so I don’t understand the issue.

What makes much less sense is having something like Xerneas as a Psychic.

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