I really really really like the Sylveon ex SIR
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For me the Sylveon, Umbreon, and Leafeon ex cards are better than the VMAX alt counterparts (Sylveon and Leafeon V are better than the exs though). For all the other eeveelutions the V or VMAX are superior art pieces.
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people have actually found the sources for the tcg backgrounds, and also for many old videogames that used stock images. So yeah, kind of neat. They are japanese stock image CDs from back in the day. I watched some video on it years ago. Which is really neat I think.
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While it was not uncommon, and some of them have been known for years, I agree. It’s cool to know the process behind it, and I also want to add, that this was just how it was done.
My dad was a drafter for Hewlett Packard in the 80s and early 90s and that’s just what was done. Whether putting together presentations or manuals, there were books with stock images that then referred to CDs which stored the images. (cuz floppies held about 2 MB of data at best. 
). Then later, they’d have “clip art” installed once graphics programs came along. This process was limiting compared to what we have today, and those things were products of the times. They’re not worth less because of it.
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Agree, slabs are ugly as hell and make it way harder to make your collection look nice together.
Also Japanese/Chinese cards are so much better than English. I will not buy any Special Illustration Rares in English knowing that they will look considerably worse than they could. It actually bums me out that this is the case.
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I think the Umbreon, Vaporeon, Espeon, and Leafeon are all incredible. I also like the others but could see someone disliking them.
HG/SS are the games most affected by nostalgia blindness. I see them consistently placed near or at the top of people’s favorites lists, and I don’t understand why.
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I mean, sure it’s not a great reimagination of the original. But it’s like when you have leftover pizza, it’s still pizza. HG/SS is still probably in the top 10% of all DS games made
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mega ex full arts >>
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Heart Gold and Soul Silver are still the best looking Pokemon games in my opinion.
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Outside of Rayquaza gold star, I think Rayquaza is pretty mid all around both as a Pokémon and other rayquaza tcg Art. What makes a giant serpent with t-Rex arms so appealing?
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There are no Celebi cards with artwork great enough. I’m a number one Celebi fan, and I don’t own any because of that.
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Just so i understand, Celebi is your favourite Pokemon but you dont like any Celebi card art?
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Well, I can’t say I don’t like them, but I’m disappointed with all of them, so I don’t want to get any because I know I’ll just end up feeling even more disappointed 
What is your ideal non-tcg Celebi artwork if any?
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I’ve already posted it in another thread few months ago, but it would be something more magical, more mystical :
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I get this feeling.
Sometimes Pokémon designs translate differently into cards.
I never cared about Weedle or lanturn until I saw their card arts.
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The vast majority would not care about centering if PSA (or another grading company if another was the top one instead of PSA) did not account for it.
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I didn’t even know centering was a thing as a kid. Print lines neither.
Being an innocent collector as a kid is forever gone. Kids now trade based on tcgplayer values instead of what they enjoy
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Yeah, i really like celebi too, there’s a few celebi arts I like (neo, unseen forces, celebi v alt) but most of them are just really similar to each other, and they’re all quite expensive too which makes it difficult to want to collect all of them. And there’s no celebi card that makes me go WOW
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