Hi guys,
I was watching Rattle’s video on how Pokémon cards are printed and noticed something interesting. There is a segment where an uncut sheet from the Guardians Rising set is shown:
What is interesting is that the sheet contains rainbow rares, gold cards and full art trainers - but no full art Pokémon. I am working on a project on card rarities and trying to figure out which cards were printed on which sheet, and this piece of “evidence” which points to one sheet being used for the secret rares and some full arts, and the other full arts being printed on another sheet is surprising.
I don’t collect modern English cards and don’t have any that I could look at right now, but is there maybe some way the cards are textured that would explain that? I noticed the full art Pokémon from the Sun & Moon era reflect the light in parallel lines in a way the other types of cards don’t.
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Yeah you’re probably right about the cards being on different sheets due to different holo patterns. You can see that the rainbow and the FA supporter reflect light similarly while the FA Pokémon reflects it in lines here. Also in the same video you can see a sheet for Full Art (& Gold) Pokémon:
For Sword and Shield this was changed and both FA Pokémon and supporters are now printed on the same sheet and reflect light the same way:
but is there maybe some way the cards are textured that would explain that
No, from my undersanding the holo foil should be independent of the texture. You can see that the rainbow and Full Art version of the same card have for the most part the same texture in the TCG Live:
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Thanks for the answer! So apparently the holofoil pattern explains it (I was using the word “texturing” rather losely to refer to the card stock, you are right texturing and foil pattern are not the same thing).
The first image in your reply appears to be from a Japanese sheet.
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It’s Japanese as in they likely got it as a sample from Japan, yes. But since there is no text on the cards, so they can be used as a reference I probably would call it neither Japanese nor English per se.
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