After looking at ex dragon packs i thought i couldn’t be topped but damn, so many good ones and very different ones! Ex dragon might still take the cake for me but ended up voting a lot more than i originally thought
Emerald and Delta Species are easily my two favourites, but I can see the appeal in EX Dragon. Mainly I just prefer art sets which have a unique style or artwork.
Ruby Sapphire and Sandstorm are objectively the worst I think, just stock looking art dropped in the centre of some benign pattern
I don’t know much about the jpn sets so I’ll leave that poll to you or someone else if you’d like to make it. @koala has all the images nicely formatted so it’s pretty easy to make!
Dragon and Emerald easily. I will also probably be an extreme minority in liking R/S and Sandstorm - the design may be super basic but it harked back to WOTC and the holofoil boosters themselves look amazing imo.
FRLG also gets my vote but the rest look very CG (not sure if they actually ARE in every case) so that’s a no from me.
Has to be Dragon, followed closely by Emerald. Fire red and Leaf Green are great, but that Pikachu totally throws it off for me, something about its face is so goofy.
Honestly, I all the pack art from Deoxys-Power Keepers is incredibly cool to me.
Power Keepers might be a weak set imo, but I think it has some of the coolest packs from this era.
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The fact that Dragon doesn’t have Shedinja on the pack art dispite it being the best card in the set is a tragedy I will never fully accept (thats me comforting myself)
I think they leaned a bit too heavy into the CGI after dragon. i am surprised to see TRR up there in 2nd, its agreat set but those pack arts look super wonky. Good species choices on the pack though
I bought way more Deoxys packs than I was comfortable with as a kid because of the booster artwork. Something about the overkill CGI, the clean look and intense set logo just works. They were and still are insanely appealing.
As a set I’d put those, Dragon and Hidden Legends in my top 3, in some undetermined order.