This set of course has some amazing Full Art cards. The Erika Full Art is probably also among my favorites of all Full Art Supporter cards.
As for the Rayquaza, I’d say it’s one of the better looking 5ban Graphics cards, of which I’m usually not a big fan. Both the pose and background make for a pretty cool card.
Incredible set, The Arita tag teams were what largely brought me back to the hobby so great that it has a bunch of reprints as well as some new ones. @quuador already posted them, but Reshi-zard, the legendary birds and the the art of Deoxys and Espeon being my faves.
Also had a bunch of stadium reprints, including reverses, which is of course excellent.
The Eevee GX may be my favourite card of the set though. Alternate full arts are the best and this variety is what i’m all for.
The Ooyama trainers are also great for similar reasons
I think this is one of the best modern sets and way more exciting than Hidden Fates to me personally.
I have two questions though:
Is there a list anywhere that shows which cards in the set are Japanese exclusive?
Do people (/the market) care about whether a card is from its original set or a reprint from Tag All Stars? Do you think that it will be relevant in the future if, for example, your Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX has the set symbol from SM12 or SM10b?
Another card I really like is the Reshiram & Charizard tag team. I really love the art style, although I’m not that big of a zard fan myself, I really love how zard was done in the art, and Reshiram is one of my favorite pokemon and seeing it on this beautiful card really ties it together for me! I appreciate how the art style brings both dragon like qualities of the pokemon into view, as well as how soft Reshiram also looks to match its soft sounding name.
I don’t think, art wise, any of the cards are bad, although the three birds almost make that list with the atrocious colors of the birds on the gold background. Overall, as a collector I think the set is one of the more enjoyable ones to look at, and is also much more of a sustaining hunt if you’re scratching it together. But I will say, it is very pricey for the more average collector, but I feel like that is fair compared to the stunning art we get in the set.
One of my favorite sets. Had an awesome time with breaks and pulls. Art quality is next level. Texture is godly. God packs are awesome idea. There is a gold Charizard. What more do you need (besides the obvious Chansey tag team).