The Great “Pokemon Hidden In Card Art” Thread

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@Quuador

I make Pokémon-specific lists for collectors pretty often, and sometimes they request to include cards featuring the specific Pokémon in the artwork. I usually go over this list first, and then also look over my own collection sometimes:

@Quuador

I’ve looked through the following sets:

• Pokémon Rumble- Pokémon art contest cards
• Southern Island set
• Lucky Stadiums
• Blaine’s Quiz cards
• Tropical Present Jumbos- Radiant Collection part of the XY Generations set- Pokémon Pal City- Pokémon Fan Club
• Tropical Tidal Wave and Tropical Wind and Tropical Beach and Champions Festival
• Switch
• Japanese Jumbos
• Vending Series 3 Deck List cards
• My own collection
• etc.
  …

These cards above have loads of other Pokémon in their artworks in particular (@shizzlemetimbers Blaine’s Quiz cards are also in this list ).

Even then you’d sometimes still have to search on some artworks. Especially in the Jumbo cards, or cards with 15+ Pokémon in them like the illustration contest ones. Here two examples:

Another thing that comes to mind for this thread are some cards I’ve included in my National Index collection.

To give some examples: did you know that male Magikarps have yellow whiskers and female Magikarps have white whiskers? That means the Base Set artwork is a female Magikarp. Likewise, the Vending Machine series Dodrio is a male (black necks), whereas all other Dodrio artworks are females (beige necks):

Some more examples:

Arbok has three different patterns available on TCG artworks:

Some artworks of Magneton (like the Fossil Magneton) has one of the Magnemites upside down:

And I could give loads and loads of other examples:

• Gym Heroes & Gym Challenge Charmanders both have a horn on their back (this one I learned from @smpratte Scott’s binder video)
• Mantine’s fish isn’t a mini Remoraid in some artworks
• Some Exeggcute artworks are missing the sixth egg
• The Magnemite artworks sometimes have the blue/red magnets reversed in comparison to other artworks
• The Team Rocket Ekans has stripes around its body, instead of only its belly
• etc. etc.

Please take a look at my National Index collection for all these kind of variations!! And if you know any missing, let me know.

Greetz,
Quuador

Imagine that Gourgeist in full art form. Missed opportunity