QotD: How little of a Pokemon needs to be visible for you to still consider it as that Pokemon’s card?

[lyleberr]

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QotD: How little of a Pokemon needs to be visible for you to still consider it as that Pokemon’s card?

Helpful Considerations: Paldean wooper? Hisuanian Sneasel?

[ascendedbidoof]

We have cards that don’t feature Pokemon at all

[c0ll3ct0r]

Nothing, I guess. Maybe something.

[smpratte]

Both certified pokemon cards!

[rabby250]

Two dots and a curve.

[citriina]

A Piplup’s a Piplup, no matter how small

[DarthEevee]

I swear it was 50/50 this or the scyther card

[citriina]

To be fair, the question did ask “Pokémon” so I assumed the trainers wouldn’t count, haha.

She’s just so tiny, I love her

[lyleberr]

All Qotd are up for user interpretation and there are no wrong answers. I’ll assume people are pokemon in the pokemon world for this question.

[KabutopsMaster]

A leg and a point of a scythe

[dromanyte]

@lyleberr

QotD: How little of a Pokemon needs to be visible for you to still consider it as that Pokemon’s card?

They’re enjoying their lifes …

Coincidentally, today @WailordEnthusiast let me know about a Helix Fossil cameo in a Durant card … (I had no idea of the cameo … so, thanks for letting me know!!! ) … I suppose it counts as well …

[Caterqu]

To me its just the name of the card that grants a Pokemon ownership over said card

[Kijamon]

These are what I consider raichu cameo cards

[WailordEnthusiast]

For me this Drednaw is a Wailord cameo card:

Nessa, similar to other Galar Gym leaders has the logo of her main sponsor on her uniform. The logo happens to depict a stylized Wailord.

In the drednaw card Nessa is in the background and only has a few green pixel dots on her but with the background info it is clear that these are supposed to show wailord logos

[biirdbots]

The bar is very low for what I consider a cameo lol

[cryingatnight]

Here’s two fun ones for torchic- see if you can spot the torchic!

[azulryu]

This is a Gyarados card:

[biirdbots]

I couldn’t for my life figure out what that was but wow, yeah, that is Gyarados

[Quuador]

This talk about cameos reminds me of this post.

Just an FYI to all you Ledyba; Butterfree; Magikarp; Slowking; and Venonat cameo collectors out there.

@pichufan

I decided to overlay the Southern Islands artwork over some of the cards to see if I was missing anything obscure. Turns out I was, but you’d probably have to be an incredibly hardcore collector to even care about these…

Along with Dodrio and Weepinbell, Ledyba’s foot and Butterfree’s wing make a very small appearance on the Jigglypuff card:

On Lapras the Dratini is there in plain view, but part of Magikarp’s fin appears as a tiny white dot in the top left corner:

I had thought Exeggutor and Vileplume were the only two cards in the set which didn’t feature other Pokémon, but uh…

The tip of one of the prongs on Slowking’s crown appears in the bottom right corner of Exeggutor:

Finally - and this one is probably a bit harder to see, I had to add a different filter as the holofoil complicated things - there’s a tiny purple dot next to the top left corner which touches the evolution box on Vileplume, that’s part of Venonat:

I can’t imagine anyone ever thinking “OMG I need to add one of these to my Venonat collection!!!” but hey, technically it’s there.

Doesn’t get much more hidden than this I don’t think!

On one hand I think these are a bit too extreme to include as cameos. On the other hand, if a similar cameo of a Seviper pixel existed, I would have collected it for sure, haha.

Greetz,
Quuador

[joponnes]

Apparently this turned out to be a species cameo apprearance thread and i’m going with the flow, at least kinda since this isn’t a card but anyway a cameo that belongs in my slime army