QotD: You get to help with the 31st anniversary set, what classic design gimmick would you pair with what pokemon?

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QotD: You get to help with the 31st anniversary set, what classic design gimmick would you pair with what pokemon?

Helpful considerations: BREAK Gholdengo? Crystal Zygarde? Starmie prime? Giratina Legend?

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Plusle and Minun tag team gx ez

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Mega Victreebel ex because I’m starting to feel that’s the only way I’m going to get one.

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Dragapult, Garchomp, Dragonite, etc gold star. Money machine goes Brrrrrrrr

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My gimmick would be printing to demand gasp

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I’d like an ereader metagross then I can rest easy

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Elder shinys

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Shining Terapagos
Mega Rayquaza Gold Star
Espeon and Umbreon Tag Team GX
Light Yveltal
Dark Xerneas
Scizor Delta Species
Erika’s Dragonite
Crystal Metagross

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Lugia and Ho-Oh would like a word.

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They would be too powerful. Demand would be too high, people would be too happy

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Blaine’s Pombon

Dark Kabutops

Light Drapion

Browt Gold Star

Gecqua Delta Species (psychic or dark, whichever one it wouldn’t be classified as normally in the tcg)

Glimmora C

Coalossal Prime

Team Plasma’s Lucario (this is a gimmick right?)

Buzzswole BREAK

Cradily and Armaldo tag team (biggest cope on this list)

Shining Wishcash

Tried to balance things i would actually want to see with stuff that would be both novel and plausible. however its not 100% shillmons like Zeraora so its still highly implausible

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The tag team is a cool idea. I had to look up what a pombon was :joy:

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An oldschool Shedinja ex would be nice :face_holding_back_tears:

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More than anything, I would love to see some kind of appearance of the gen 9 starters before the games came out. I have a ton of nostalgia for the early introductions that Gamefreak did in gens 2 - 4

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gold star raichu :>

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Dark raichu is pretty close

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dark pokemon but its just their silhouette in the style of “who’s that pokemon” segments

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Wall of text ahead!

This would be my, here is a brawl inducing, internet breaking 31st anniversary set.

Winds and Waves:

Overframe cards -

Gequa line, Pombon line, Browt line - (there is no border) in their natural habitats that connect forming one big 7.5 x 3.5 art (per each evolution line, not all 9 Pokemon). Art covers the whole card. You pull all 3 together out of one pack if you hit. Textured and holo.

Legend -

Wind and Waves Main Box Legendaries - 2 sideways connecting cards with texture, both come together in one pack. By Akria Egawa, without all the unnecessary extra lines.

Across Generations

Each gen 1-10 gets a subset featuring less popular mons. Gen 10 gets a brand new style of alt art. Different gimmick(s) per gen:

Gen 1 - CSR with Anime characters!

I wanna be the very best subset:

Mega Blastoise and Gary Oak CSR

Fearow and Sam Oak CSR

Poliwrath and James CSR

Butterfree and Ash - CSR

Gen 2- Pokemon in Rumble chibi style, all drawn (not cgi) alt arts

Cute Power subset:

Wooper VMAX

Jumpluff VSTAR

Granbull GX Rainbow

Smoochum, Magby, Elekid Tag Team GX

Gen 3 - Lenticular cards done in a pixel art style

Pixel Worlds:

Spinda - forest, sapling to full trees/forest

Swellow - Rain and Sunshine

Seviper - Day and Night

Zangoose - on beach, high and receding tide

Examples by itswreckingart on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/itswreckingart?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==)

gen 4 - Pokekyun X Delta species X Ex era reverse holo patterns

Full arts, holo, and foil stamps, little gemstones, but no texture. Baby Love written somewhere in the artwork

Baby Love subset:

Mime Jr. Dragon Type - Deoxys ex reverse holo pattern

Happiny Dark Type - TRR reverse holo pattern

Chingling Fairy Type - Unseen forces reverse holo pattern

Bonsley Fire Type - EX Emerald reverse holo pattern

gen 5 - Gold Stars (textured half arts) holo

Shining Stars subset:

Liligant

Garbador

Swanna

Maractus

Gen 6 - Shining cards (Gen 2 style half arts) textured half arts with glitter holo everywhere except the art. Shadow foil on the art like the originals had

Shining Shadows subset:

Tyrantum

Avalugg

Diggersby

Clawitzer

Gen 7 - BREAK cards (sideways and gold pokemon in motion/attacking but Pokemon are smaller in size than original BREAK cards, not cgi and has texture and a complete background but bg has no color and is just linework)

World Breakers subset:

Togedemaru

Brionne

Minior

Trumbeak

Gen 8 - mythical collection full art style by classic artists

Good Beginnings subset:

Kubfu - Arita

Dracozolt - Nishida

Spectrier - Kusube

Regidrago - Sugimori

Gen 9 - Crystal cards, textured, have e-reader holo borders, curved e-reader art box, but art box is 50% longer.

Sparkling Finish:

Baxcalibur

Brambleghast

Iron Jugulis

Slither Wing

Gen 10 - Mass Outbreak Cards:

Textured and holo regular (half art) card that also has a bunch of the Pokemon all over the card.

The art in the box is different compared to the normal card. Tiny images of the specific mon are all over the card outside of the artbox. Sleeping on top of the text, one hanging off of a letter or the artbox, a bigger one with the head at 45° popping up from the right corner etc. Each will be in a different style, with the that Pokemon “popping up” in different places. Basic Pokemon only. One shiny variant will be somewhere on the card too.

Moon/Rock Bunny Pokemon teased by character below - anime style

Pseudo-Legendary basic mon - chibi style

Regional bird basic mon - watercolor style

Seed Pokemon (if real) - abstract style

Classic Collection

31 cards - all textured.

No stamp in art area, instead a set symbol of the pika head etched on the bottom right of the border. Shimmer/glitter borders that are the same color as the typing for half art (the shimmer glitter is what “makes up” the border. All full arts have no border, art/bg extends all the way.

Gen 1

(Red’s) Pikachu VMAX alt

Pikachu in Space Art Academy

Van Gogh Pikachu

Masaki Gengar

Corocoro Mew

Shining Gyarados

Mega Charizard X SAR

Gen 2

Umbreon VMAX alt

Lugia Legend (pull both together)

Espeon Prime

Rocket’s Scizor ex

Crystal Celebi

Gen 3

Rayquaza Gold Star

Gardevoir Sylveon GX tag team alt

Milotic ex SAR

Gen 4

ADP Alt art

Silver Dialga

Shinx Sh card

Leafeon VSTAR alt

Gen 5

Victini BWR

Zoroark 102 next destinies

Reshiram XY74

Gen 6

Gourgeist Art Academy

Sylveon Tera SAR SC exclusive

Yveltal ex Gold card (the one with Xerneas)

Gen 7

Munch Mimikyu

Lillie Extra Battle Day full art

Gen 8

Rapid Strike Urshifu VMAX alt

Galarian Moltres V alt

Hisuian Zorua - Pocket art

Gen 9

Maushold ex SAR SC Exclusive

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