#bella sara tcg

[howrsememequeen]

Bella Sara Card Dump Pt. 1

Starting with the holofoils!

My cards do look a little rough, but it's not like I plan on selling these anyways!

Top Left: Apollo, Ancient Lights Series, 2007, Holofoil Rare

Top Right: Skinfaxe, Northern Lights Series, 2007, Holofoil Rare

Middle Left: Murtie, Baby Bella Series, 2008, Holofoil Rare

Middle Right: Jewel, Native Lights Series, 2008, Holofoil Rare

Bottom Left: Jewel, First Series, 2006, Holofoil Rare

Bottom Right: Fiona, Second Series, 2007, Holofoil Rare

[bluecocoaart]

Do you remember Bella Sara?

[radioactivetoad]

Bella Sara Trading Card - Ancient Lights Series

[visionoasis]

I’m so sad.

I mixed up the names of two of the horses. So when I asked for Pelagos I was thinking of this:

Not…

Clearly only one of these is named Pelagos. It’s not the seller’s fault. I’m just dumb. But it’s not a dupe. So.

[horsefigureoftheday]

Bella Sara has the best collector community because the majority of the community got together and made a price guide to keep prices fixed so everyone can enjoy collecting. And newcomers are strongly discouraged from buying from sellers who don't follow the price guide. Collectors unionizing to fix prices my beloved<3

[rcris123]

After almost 3 years I've resurrected the IP!!!

[i-rate-horse-games]

rating bella sara for ds and pc (2008)

the DS and PC versions are similar enough that it would be odd to rate them separately, but different enough that it matters which one you play.

Bella Sara is a game in which you ride horses through three different scenic locations to collect bella sara cards and horseshoes. collecting certain cards can unlock other horses from the franchise to ride, and horseshoes can be spent in the shop. after riding for a while, your horse will be tired, and you have to spend some time taking care of them before you can go out again. there's a noticeboard with activities for you to do, which usually involve riding around the 3 locations (meadow, beach, and forest) collecting things as fast as possible.

both games have an impressively diverse character selector for 2008!

on the pc version, you can even adjust the skin tone lighter or darker for each character, with this being as dark as you can go.

in the DS version, it asks you for your birthday, and on that day you get one item from the shop for free! (no, it's not my birthday, i lied) the shop also sells bella sara cards, as well as clothes and tack and a sponge for washing your horse. it had one of those roman soldier hats with the feather plume in 3 colors, so that's the one i wore out. seemed like there's tons of options@

in the PC version, the shop just sells English, Western, Fairy, and Princess matching rider and tack sets, plus treats.

the DS version also has a whole show jumping arena, where you can win at least one trophy. this straight up does not exist on the PC version, because there you win your trophies by running jumping courses that are in the three areas instead.

in the DS version, your horse goes back to its stall in the stable when it's tired, and you can do chores like mucking out the stall and picking rocks out of the hooves. you're also payed a few horseshoes for doing your chores. in the PC version, your horse goes out to the paddock, and you don't get any money for taking care of your horse because that's just what a Responsible Rider does. there's no hoof pick.

here's where the biggest difference is.

in the DS version, you get a minimap, and the area is a network of rigid trails with the Fog of War surrounding you. the music for this place i personally found kinda creepy, but people on youtube said it was super nostalgic to them. there's a few jumps in there. it shows you where the cards are and you get to sprint after them before they vanish. it's a test of finding the quickest route to different areas. the lower half gets unlocked as you progress through the game.

in the PC version, you don't get a minimap, and you can go off road to your heart's content. however, the only direction to where you're trying to go is a floating 3D arrow that points directly towards something, ignoring the locations of bridges and impassible rivers and ledges that are deemed too steep to ride down. there are also tons of invisible walls unexpectedly far away from trees, and if you run into something, your horse needs to take a few seconds to reverse. this means that if you're doing a timed mission, the first try will just be figuring out the route. the worlds are also covered with magical gates that can each only be unlocked by a specific horse, but once they're unlocked, they're unlocked. so sometimes you ride in on ya girl Fiona the Fire Horse but then you find out your quest is behind a gate for Thunder the Lightning Horse. there's still cards and horseshoes everywhere to grab. you can even get from area to area through gates, without having to back out to the main menu, which is when your horse says it's tired and goes to rest. the PC music is more normal bella sara instrumental magical music with occasional vocals.

the DS version also gives you codes to use on their website lol rest in peace

the most exciting part of both games is collecting cards! whenever you come back from an adventure, you get to see what cards you found on screen, and there's so many to collect! you can go through your collection, and on DS you can trade your extras to someone else with the game. you already own the game so they don't make it hard to get the cards, it's just fun! the foil cards are animated! it looks better in the game but i made a gif :)

there's enough things to do that it doesn't feel like you can run out, and combined with card collecting and the horsecare chores and unlockable areas and horses, there's definitely enough Game here for someone to spend a lot of time playing it and having a great time.

i'm rating these games 3.5 stars out of 5!

★★★✬☆

now i know you guys are probably dying to know how to play these in 2024 and it's actually pretty easy! for the DS game, download a DS game emulator. the one i found is DeSmuME and it worked perfect & was really easy to use. then you go to a reputable game archive for the game's rom and open that file up with the emulator. EZ peasy takes less than 5 minutes. for the PC game, look here & read the comments to figure out how to get it to work. i got it to work by clicking the setup.exe thing in the game, then following the comment's directions on copying and pasting the game.exe thing into your pc's newly created codemasters folder & running it from there instead of ur virtually mounted cd-rom disk. sounds scary but it worked for me so i vouch for it. happy gaming!

[rcrisdraws]

I know not a lot of horse artist people follow me here, but I've got the most followers here soooo. I was wondering if people would be interested in making horse art for a horse card series a'la Bella Sara and if so, what would you be looking for in compensation? Would people be interested in making their own horses or be given/choose from a pool of concepts and ideas.

The horse card series I'm working on has lore and is meant to be sold publicly.

[elbdot]

do you play any tcgs?

Aaaah no, I only like collecting cards, but I don't know the rules to a SINGLE TCG! I have a few Pokemon cards I got gifted by friends and then also a HUGE collection of Bella Sara cards, which was more for trading than playing with anyway.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER BELLA SARA??? IF ANYONE DOES, PLEASE TELL ME WHICH ONE WAS YOUR FAVORITE HORSE, I GO FIRST:

NANNA and GREY from the first Bella GOLD series

And then I also really loved Inupiat and Aleut from Native Lights And then also 50 other horses as well, I have WAY too many favs...

[manda-kat]

My trading card of the day:

Amia from the Bella Sara 'treasures' series.

This is one of my newest cards! I recently got it along with the rest of the series as well as the cards from 'Bella's Ball' and 'Royalty'.

Since Amia is so new to me and I got so many cards at once, I haven't really have the chance to get to know her on a personal level yet. However, her treasure, the Binding Stone, is said to help with just that, so I'll just promise to be her friend forever and she'll take care of the rest!

Amia is a cool character because she actually gets an entire book devoted to her. However, in the book her design is defferent than the card and she loses her awesome green hue. The book is called 'Amia and the Ice Gems', which I think is cool because if you'll remember from yesterday's card- the Ice Gems are Merrydancer's treasure. I wonder if Merrydancer makes an appearance in the book.

Her parents are Jewel and Rodin and her brother is Valor. Thankfully, the entire family is included in the treasures set, so I can put them together.

There. One big happy family.

It was cool to find out who Jewel's family is, since she was one of my favorite horses as a kid. If I had known Amia was her daughter, I would have fallen in love with the card immediately.

The art for this card was created by Mark Beirbaum, who I discovered (after some internet digging) briefly worked as a storyboard artist for Disney, working on Darkwing Duck and Goof Troop. Very cool!

Stuff I love about this card is Amia's cute bird friend and how epic the line 'Your heart is my heart' is. Heck yeah- friendship is as deep and profound as romance! I roll my eyes at some of the quotes for these, but this one is genuinely very good! Simple and easy to understand, but also poetic! Plus, the power of friendship is always a win.

[jasper-pagan-witch]

do you think you could use TCG’s to help with deity work? not like in a yu-gi-oh monster summoning kind of way but more like ‘i got [deity]’s vibes from this [tcg card] & i asked if i could use it in working with them and they said yeah so now i can summon/call on [deity] with [tcg card]’

i’ll defs be bookmarking your TCG masterpost

-TCG anon

Hey again TCG anon!

In some series, some deities (or other Legendary Creatures) are 1-to-1s with what I call "historical" deities (those being deities not from a form of pop culture - such as the Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Roman pantheons).

An example is that Kefnet from MTG is a literal 1-to-1 with Tehuti (or Thoth, as he's more often called), so I feel comfortable using cards associated in some way with Kefnet for Tehuti.

Another example is Bella Sara cards. Those are often literally named for deities. I have a foil Athena one on my altar to my patron because it was the only foil I ever pulled and it's been there ever since.

Gods, does anyone even remember Bella Sara? It had a whole website and everything...

But to answer your question directly, yes, I do think people can use trading cards in deity work! And likely working with other entities as well.

~Jasper

[howrsememequeen]

Bella Sara tin, tcg binder, and even a Fiona plush ❤️

[horsecards]

Danish Silver

September 2005 Silver bordered cards 45 common cards Released In: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Languages: English

[visionoasis]

Happiness is finding Bella Sara’s Inupiat for $1.99. I’m gonna crrrrry!

He is so BEAUTIFUL. Look at my BOY. Ugh. I love him!

[howrsememequeen]

Found! A Bella Sara card binder!!

No cards in it for now but that's about to be fixed since I know exactly where the tin is

[howrsememequeen]

Bella Sara Card Dump Pt. 2

The DuplicatesTM

Well, not all of them. Most of the duplicates were placed back in the tin. I'm talking about "technically a duplicate but it's in a different set" cards.

Top Left: Jewel, Ancient Lights Series, 2007, Rare

Top Right: Fiona, Native Lights Series, 2007, Rare

Middle Left: Colour, Northern Lights/Second Series, 2007, Common

Middle Right: Bosi, Second Series/Northern Lights, 2007, Common

Bottom Left: Jonathan, First Series/Second Series, 2006-2007, Common

Bottom Right: Walter, Second Series/Northern Lights, 2007, Common