#swsh full card art

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SWSH Crown Zenith 4 card art set illustrated by the talented AKIRA EGAWA 👏🏼👏🏼

[skippygiraffee]

Hi, I'm the Raileon anon from a while back. Thank you for answering my ask! I loved reading your thoughts, and I hope you don't mind if I ask you for some more. You mentioned Leon and Raihan were both fascinating characters to you separately as well, and I wanted to ask why you felt Raihan was fascinating? I have my own reasons ofc, but I'd be delighted to hear yours as well.

I absolutely never mind, thank you for the ask!! (even if it takes me a while to answer things sldjfksjf). genuinely I love talking about these characters, all the SWSH characters (and SuMo) really, and talking about Raihan is top tier for me. under the cut because it's both long and I have included images from the manga as little Raihan treats :3

in regards to Raihan, what a character, yeah? when I got this ask I immediately went into chat with @beammeupbroadway and we had the following exchange (she's the Furby icon, I'm the first message):

and to elaborate a little, we're all introduced to Raihan in the framing of him being Leon's rival, and we're not really reintroduced to him until midway through the game. so for a while we're left with this impression that Raihan is the hotheaded rival to Leon, setting them up with the same sort of framing as like Hop vs Bede (which is more a rivalry than with the player I argue) or even Red vs Blue (certainly with the Charizard and the color imagery at play with both Raihan and Leon's designs). Raihan is, at his core, a peek at what someone looks like when they grow up in the shadow of someone else.

it's stated in game he has different interests, hobbies, a career, but he's still Leon's rival Raihan. where his job as a Gym Leader and his work with the Hammerlocke Vault serve the narrative purpose of bringing the player closer to Leon and closer to solving the mystery of the Darkest Day, rather than things that allow us a better view of Raihan. not to discredit those moments, because they absolutely do allow us as to see more of Raihan, but I guess I want to argue that the game just uses them as a jumping off point to get to Leon. even Raihan's accomplishments as a Gym Leader and battler are framed within the context of him being so good he could be Champion of another region, but he can't beat Leon. from a world building and audience perspective I think it's interesting to see, but man, picturing that as how he's painted in Galar, in universe? where all of these insanely amazing accomplishments are pushed aside to market himself as Leon's rival I think genuinely ruined his self image, his self esteem, and the way he views anything he does. Raihan's social media presence got started because of Leon, even if he sometimes takes random pictures of sand storms, and the only thing removed from Leon is his love of fashion and history, but we don't even get to see a lot of that as the audience/player of the game because it's not relevant to the story in most cases, and definitely isn't relevant to Leon. this was definitely a little rambly, but at least right here I just think that like Raihan being literally overshadowed by Leon makes him fascinating to rotate around like a rotisserie chicken, because you take one whiff of that guy and you can tell he was spiced up with self loathing and angst strong enough to turn the average character into a straight up villain

ties to Leon aside, the little things about Raihan I adore ARE those little hobbies he has. fashion, history, social media all are super interesting, and ignoring the Gym Trainer battle with WEATHER EFFECTS INSIDE THE TAPESTRY VAULT aside it's clear he is a trusted expert on the matter. Sonia goes to him, even if it's a way to get the player closer to Leon Raihan is the one who grants access to the vault, and anyone who loves tapestries is immediately boosted in my books

his characterization in the manga is really cool, and I adore manga Raihan a lot. it's actually when I really fell in love with his character because he's given a lot of really neat moments, where he's kind of this key player in having everything come together. also he was a trouble maker when he was younger!!! which I think is a logical reaction to being pitted against the literal undefeated Champion for so long. but, allow me to picture that below:

I also love him spraying himself in the face with a potion after being poisoned by Eternatus in the manga. like yeah he's confused, but literally no other character is brought up, only Raihan which is funny to me

also him and Piers are just buddies!! which is neat, especially since in the post game of the base SWSH titles they're shown not to really have interacted that much

he's also super polite to Melony (my beloved Mummy Melony scene), and he's overall pretty fleshed out, with being both serious and goofy, while having this odd tension with Leon when it comes to serious moments

like it shows a lot of complicated things brewing under the surface for him, even in the manga, and I love how it keeps his characterization in tact, while expanding on it in a way that feels natural

I think in short, there's an argument to be made that Raihan could have been left as this one dimensional rival to Leon whose only purpose to push the player along their journey. a road block as a Gym Leader, a helper as the keeper of the vault, but nothing more. and yet he's a pretty fleshed out character, who has other stuff going for him. he could be so many things, and yet he's Raihan, the dragon guy who loves fashion, is a bit silly, but also takes things as serious as they need to be taken. who had a bit of a rebellious streak when he was younger, to the point Rose knows about it in depth. where, in game, he can flip from smiling like :3 to hunching over in the stadium yelling out moves. he's cool, like undeniably, but also not, and I love that skdjfklsfd. I think Raihan is a testament to the subtle ways the Pokemon writers can dish out characterization without explicitly writing things in, and I love him for it

[deardiantha]

🦢 Collection Item: All Diantha Cards PSA 10

₊˚⊹ ᰔ Diantha Full Art JP | Diantha Full Art Eng Gardevoir SWSH 12 Silver Tempest | Diantha Forbidden Light JP

✖ no doubles ✖ canon x canon ♥︎ asks

[emisdetermined]

For anyone who doesn't know me irl, I'm a massive falinks fan. They've been my favourite pokemon since the release of SWSH and have been my partner pokemon in titles since then. I've been working on collecting all of the TCG cards outside of the games, starting with the english versions.

Went out to a couple local game shops today and got 2 cards that I'd been missing. (Fusion Strike 155 & Astral Radiance TG7) I'd been looking for the full art card with Bea for over a year now.

I'm so close to having all the basic versions 🥹 Just 2 more to go!

[charmcoindied]

last tcg post before i do work for reals i'm glad that with the last few swsh sets + going into sv era tpc started focusing more on illustration quality and like. Making full art cards feel special more than just a different color scheme or whatever. getting rid of rainbow cards is like one of the best decisions they made in terms of collecting honestly. i know a lot of people focus on wotc era collecting because of nostalgia and i rly have a soft spot for ex and dp era cards because of the same reasons but i think the only cards i will actually like... Actively search out are modern full arts because they're just so fun to look at

[aquastars]

Water

None

Water/Electric

Grass/Dark (too many weaknesses)

Lillie

Trace

Nessa!!

Cheren

Kahili

Shauntal

Mina's trial in UsUm

Kiawe's trial

Team Skull

Team Plasma

Metagross

Literally any that just change the hue slightly so it's barely noticeable

Greninja, Galarian Ponyta, Dhelmise

Klink, Foongus, Alomomola

Sun & Moon (Sword & Shield is close tbh)

Black & White

Necrozma

Landorus/Tornadus/Thundorus

Vs Penny for trainer battle, Vs Gym Leader from SwSh for gym battle, and Vs Ultra Necrozma for legendary battle

Primarina, Lycanroc (Dusk Form), Vikavolt, Alolan Ninetales, Lurantis, Kommo-o

Galarian Ponyta (really love how it starts off as pure Psychic due to the lore of unicorns)

Klink & Klang (Klinklang is okay but it did not need 2 pre-evolutions)

Gen 7

Gen 5

Eevee or Wooloo

Watchog

Ninetales

Emboar

Gallade

Sawk/Throh

Greninja

Alomomola

Altaria

Braviary

Fomantis

Chesnaught

Clodsire

Trubbish

Vikavolt

Electrode

Swampert

Seismitoad

Lycanroc (Dusk Form)

None

Snom

Vanillite

Vivillon

Whirlipede

Goomy

Druddigon

Dhelmise

Lampent

Overqwil

Liepard

Galarian Ponyta

Gothita/Gothorita/Gothitelle

Hisuian Goodra

Klink/Klang

Ribombee

Scream Tail

Pokemon Heroes/The Power of Us

Either the Victini movies (they didn't need to make 2) or the Genesect movie (doesn't even follow Mega Evolution rules)

Twilight Wings and Generations

Can I just put the entire gen 5 anime minus the Meloetta arc with Dawn?

Nessa's full art card from Vivid Voltage

The stupidly overpriced Charizard card

Idk any but @TweetFrmPkmn on twitter is really funny

The little Wooloo guy I have :) (I also like the $400 life-sized Mareep)

I really like the pokeball models they've been doing. Just waiting for the Dive Ball

Vulpix

Lechonk (nothing against the pokemon, it just got annoying after a while)

Drednaw or Xurkitree

Vaporeon

It is impossible for me to dislike an eeveelution

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[saileisie]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Pokemon TCG Cards Bulk Lot 100 Fire Common Rare Holo Reverse Charizard V Energy.

[blueviridianoak]

i’m so sad they got rid of set symbols in the tcg

i picked up one of the paldea collection boxes and i was so sad to see the promos for the starters actually had the “SVP EN” marking like the japanese cards :( also the yellow border being gone makes me sad but not as much as the set symbols. i guess the borders are easier for me to adjust to since the full art trainers basically have a grey border (silver but that’s a technicality)

not to mention the holofoil for this set is so boring!! i loved the linear holofoil the SWSH sets had!! it reminds me of the SM holofoil which i didnt like either bc it felt bland and lifeless. even tho i’m a cosmo holofoil stan i love the linear ones so the wavy SM one and the plan holofoil for SV are just so boring to me :((((

[eros-cestlavie]

harold....

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG SWSH Promo (2020) Pikachu illustration by Hideki Ishikawa (removed card text)

[radiantjirachi]

puppies! 🗡️🐕🛡️🦮

[eyrri]

Leon n Charz :)

[billyboymiki]

Sonia in the Pokémon TCG!! 🧡

Illus. Naoki Saito

[pumpkinspicedoodles]

The good luck continues!!

[jadeazora]

My boy! Colress full-art guaranteed? I know he's in his B2W2 attire there, but I'd love to see his SMUSUM outfit in a card one day. (Maybe some art depicting him sending Ghetsis screaming home during the RR arc?)

Anyway, the Lost Abyss set has been officially revealed and will release Jul15 in Japan. There was also a SwSh VStar Special set mentioned, releasing Aug5.

Details.