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Today’s Question: QotD: Best IR rarity card made so far?
Helpful Considerations: No spoilers, post your choice!
An extraordinarily difficult question. I’ll start. Can’t wait to see some beautiful IR artwork in this thread!
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It’s unfortunate we are running out of time to witness Kyogre IR, would’ve looked so nice especially with connected artwork.
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the Crobat being SIR makes it 10x better under good lighting, with the sparkly pattern on the eyes etc.
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This Poliwhirl is too good. I really enjoy the IRs that involve water
Shoutout to Dragonair and Marill
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June 13, 2025, 5:03pm
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Genuinely love this card art even though its rarity isnt the same.
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Regular AR/IR:
SAR/SIR:
Honorable mentions:
AR: Dragonair from 151 and Ninetales from Ruler of the Black Flame.
But to be completely fair, there are really a lot of very good AR/SAR cards.
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Great question with many superb responses already!
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Hard to pick just a single card. The Poliwhirl mentioned by @ascendedbidoof and Groudon mentioned by @Taigataipan are among my favorites.
This Gardevoir also comes to mind. All three beautiful artworks with a lot of details.
I also really like these story-telling evolution lines:
Greetz,
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This one just hits different for me!
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As tends to be the case with such a cultured group, my favs have already been picked, so here are two I think deserve more love.
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Lots of good ones! I can’t decide, so here are my top 3 in no order. But even so, there are many others I love.
I chose these 3 because(while they were very inexepensive) I couldn’t help buying tons of each of these.
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I love Kuroimoris artwork. His(?) shiny Gardevoir is my only PSA card. But Articuno is very close.
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Not the most popular Pokemon, but I love these ones!
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Has been this since it got released, even though i have to say it got a bit more weird aura after it got hit by the modern hype. Doesn’t take anything away from it but just adds a bit of weirdness
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This artwork reminds me of a (very) short story written by Lovecraft: Nyarlathotep.
It made me start a special collection I might post in the future.
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