Volkner’s Philosophy is a Trainer Card that works in a similar manner as the Birch and Bianca Trainer Cards but differs in the sense that it also allows the player to discard a card from his/her hand. It is the perfect card to play after the player has finished a big turn and needs to draw useful cards to setup upcoming pl
Since most pokemon from the GX or EX series have a retreat cost of at least 2-3 energies, Mega Sharpedo EX can easily deal 20-30 damage to the opponent’s benched pokémon and weaken them enough to be finished using the card’s Torpedo Drive ability, when they come into active p
These cards allow a player to recover cards from the discard pile, draw them, or even look through their decks for specific cards that the Trainer Card allows. All-in-all, they are extremely powerful, and, therefore, players are limited to using them only once every turn. However, there are many supporters to choose from, and thereby, ranking the most powerful can prove to be quite tough. Nevertheless, some Trainer Cards rank superior to others and can be considered the most powerful in the PTCG unive
The attack is perfect for players who are using a non-GX deck, as this ability known as Foul Play, allows the player to use any of the attacks that the defending pokemon has, which includes GX attacks. Furthermore, the player only forfeits a single Prize Card to use Zoroark BREAK, making it hugely effective and economi
Pidgeotto is a Pokémon most veterans of the franchise will be familiar with. Many beginning teams in the Gen I games chose between the Pidgey and Spearow lines as their primary flying types. The original art of this card evokes an almost savannah-esque scenery with the haziness of the morning light and the implication of grasslands stretching far into the background. The artist takes the liberty of adding more to the mainstay of the river, showing the movement of currents with additional swirls, as well as adding a bit more to the riverbank in the foreground with extra grass and extending the tree l
For this particular Clefairy card, it would be beneficial to check out SumiPaints’s TikTok page: @sumipaints to watch in detail how they constructed this fantastical scene. For example, the vast majority of the spectral flowers are themselves, products of the art
Similar to Scott, but more useful, Steven allows the player to search his/her deck and select a supporter as well as a Basic Energy Card and put the same in his/her hand. While many decks don’t rely much on Stadium cards, all decks rely on Energy Cards and supporters, thereby making Steven more useful than Sc
It is difficult to imagine Plusle without an accompanying Minun or vice versa, so the original image of the dynamic duo frolicking through the woods of Hoenn is a great one. But SumiPaints’s faithful fulfillment of the details transforms the image from great to splendid. Everything from the extra sunbeams being placed due to the original shaded detail on Plusle to the sense of movement given to us by the painted grass, meant to highlight that the pair is moving at a brisk pace. The skill of an artist is found in many facets and attention to detail is certainly one of t
While some purists may gawk at the idea of slandering an original card’s art by trying to paint over and around it, the results for those that are truly great speak for themselves. Each of the cards on this list is always painted with their original pokémon and backgrounds serving as the “canvas” so to speak. SumiPaints builds off of their original imagery, giving us the impression that they have peeled back the layer of stats and rules in order to reveal a larger picture that has always existed beneath the surface. This Vulpix is captured just outside of a forest in what appears to be a blossoming meadow. Possibly, Veridian Forest of Gen I fa
The Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) has been experiencing a rather sudden resurgence in popularity over the course of the last year or so. Between the existing popularity of the beloved franchise, and the arrival of new nostalgia-inducing expansions, Pokemon cards have quickly become some of the toughest-to-find it
Junk Arm is a Trainer Card that is allowed in play only in the Legacy formats of PTCG, but it’s a shame since this card is immensely powerful and does not weaken the player’s gameplay in any man
Feraligatr is a 120 HP stage 2 pokémon that belongs to the Neo Genesis expansion and boasts of astoundingly powerful abilities such as Downpour and Riptide, which are kind of complementary to each other. While Downpour allows the player to discard one water energy card from the deck, as many times as they like during their turn, before they attack, Riptide complements it by dealing 10 plus 10 damage multiplied by the number of water energy cards that the player has in the discard p
It is an extremely powerful attack-minded Pokémon card and has found great usage in decks like the Team Plasma, and combining it with an item card such as Hypnotoxic Laser and a Stadium Card like Virbank City Gym, Kyurem has the ability to knock out any EX pokémon having 180 HP with a single attack. Furthermore, it is a non-EX card, meaning that, once it is knocked out, only one prize card will be given up by the pla
Since most pokemon from the GX or EX series have a retreat cost of at least 2-3 energies, Mega Sharpedo EX can easily deal 20-30 damage to the opponent’s benched pokémon and weaken them enough to be finished using the card’s Torpedo Drive ability, when they come into active p These cards allow a player to recover cards from the discard pile, draw them, or even look through their decks for specific cards that the Trainer Card allows. All-in-all, they are extremely powerful, and, therefore, players are limited to using them only once every turn. However, there are many supporters to choose from, and thereby, ranking the most powerful can prove to be quite tough. Nevertheless, some Trainer Cards rank superior to others and can be considered the most powerful in the PTCG unive
The attack is perfect for players who are using a non-GX deck, as this ability known as Foul Play, allows the player to use any of the attacks that the defending pokemon has, which includes GX attacks. Furthermore, the player only forfeits a single Prize Card to use Zoroark BREAK, making it hugely effective and economi
Pidgeotto is a Pokémon most veterans of the franchise will be familiar with. Many beginning teams in the Gen I games chose between the Pidgey and Spearow lines as their primary flying types. The original art of this card evokes an almost savannah-esque scenery with the haziness of the morning light and the implication of grasslands stretching far into the background. The artist takes the liberty of adding more to the mainstay of the river, showing the movement of currents with additional swirls, as well as adding a bit more to the riverbank in the foreground with extra grass and extending the tree l
For this particular Clefairy card, it would be beneficial to check out SumiPaints’s TikTok page: @sumipaints to watch in detail how they constructed this fantastical scene. For example, the vast majority of the spectral flowers are themselves, products of the art
Similar to Scott, but more useful, Steven allows the player to search his/her deck and select a supporter as well as a Basic Energy Card and put the same in his/her hand. While many decks don’t rely much on Stadium cards, all decks rely on Energy Cards and supporters, thereby making Steven more useful than Sc
It is difficult to imagine Plusle without an accompanying Minun or vice versa, so the original image of the dynamic duo frolicking through the woods of Hoenn is a great one. But SumiPaints’s faithful fulfillment of the details transforms the image from great to splendid. Everything from the extra sunbeams being placed due to the original shaded detail on Plusle to the sense of movement given to us by the painted grass, meant to highlight that the pair is moving at a brisk pace. The skill of an artist is found in many facets and attention to detail is certainly one of t
While some purists may gawk at the idea of slandering an original card’s art by trying to paint over and around it, the results for those that are truly great speak for themselves. Each of the cards on this list is always painted with their original pokémon and backgrounds serving as the “canvas” so to speak. SumiPaints builds off of their original imagery, giving us the impression that they have peeled back the layer of stats and rules in order to reveal a larger picture that has always existed beneath the surface. This Vulpix is captured just outside of a forest in what appears to be a blossoming meadow. Possibly, Veridian Forest of Gen I fa
The Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) has been experiencing a rather sudden resurgence in popularity over the course of the last year or so. Between the existing popularity of the beloved franchise, and the arrival of new nostalgia-inducing expansions, Pokemon cards have quickly become some of the toughest-to-find it
Junk Arm is a Trainer Card that is allowed in play only in the Legacy formats of PTCG, but it’s a shame since this card is immensely powerful and does not weaken the player’s gameplay in any man
Feraligatr is a 120 HP stage 2 pokémon that belongs to the Neo Genesis expansion and boasts of astoundingly powerful abilities such as Downpour and Riptide, which are kind of complementary to each other. While Downpour allows the player to discard one water energy card from the deck, as many times as they like during their turn, before they attack, Riptide complements it by dealing 10 plus 10 damage multiplied by the number of water energy cards that the player has in the discard p
It is an extremely powerful attack-minded Pokémon card and has found great usage in decks like the Team Plasma, and combining it with an item card such as Hypnotoxic Laser and a Stadium Card like Virbank City Gym, Kyurem has the ability to knock out any EX pokémon having 180 HP with a single attack. Furthermore, it is a non-EX card, meaning that, once it is knocked out, only one prize card will be given up by the pla