All 96 “Triumphant Light” Cards Revealed for “Pokemon TCG Pocket!”

[Frost]

Don't forget scalpers. They leave us with nothing. I can't even find the scam products anymore.

Yeah, scalpers got their eyes back on the TCG hardcore in November because Pocket launched and brought another surge of people interested in the TCG. The same thing happened when Go launched in 2016.

That's why I only said "partially." Scalpers are another part, and TPCi's inability to solve any of these issues is another.

 

[World Render]

ID LOVE TO HAVE THESE PHYSICALLY! Even the less rare cards would have been excellent to cut up and make shadowboxes out of! Canyou IMAGINE how sick this houndoom art could look if the card was layered?

 

[Frost]

That Houndoom is recycled art, but uh... please don't cut up Aquapolis cards.

 

[Charmaster:)]

The houndoom art not being real... This game is so frustrating.

And the sad part is that Pocket isn't even the only example of beautiful card artwork we'll never get! The cards from Illustrator Magazine, the Breath of the Wild Illustration Rares, most of the original cards from Pokémon: The Path to the Peak (No Bellossom ex? Sad JustInBasil sounds)... and I'm sure many of us wish different illustrations had won the various illustration contests (I mean, how was that Toxtricity ex better than Bidoof ex or the Feraligatr ex with the wave effects?).

Speaking of illustration contests, Flygon needed a win more than any other available Pokémon since nearly every illustration it’s ever had has been either low-stylization with black outlines or CGI (And even I can’t defend CGI artwork when it gets used for BOTH of a Pokémon’s bulk cards during an era of unprecedented stylistic variety).

 

[Charmaster:)]

ID LOVE TO HAVE THESE PHYSICALLY! Even the less rare cards would have been excellent to cut up and make shadowboxes out of! Canyou IMAGINE how sick this houndoom art could look if the card was layered?View attachment 20490

There’s a real card with that artwork! It has a holo rare variant, too, which is kind of like being layered as it makes the Pokémon seem to pop out of the backdrop.

That Houndoom is recycled art, but uh... please don't cut up Aquapolis cards.

“That will be $16 for a heavily played non-holo or somewhere in the region of $200 to $300 for a holo rare.”

 

[bunnelbyfeetsniffer]

With all due respect, do the majority of readers actually want every single bit of Pocket news on their front page? I'm pretty sure most physical TCG players got bored of this glorified NFT game after 2 weeks, and the target audience doesn't come here.

i’m the target audience, with the current state of live i’m having much more fun with pocket. just scroll past lol

 

[Nintenfreak]

Where is the TCG's baby Origin Forme Palkia and Dialga

 

[Elliot Gale]

Pocket is honestly spreading the love around like crazy. Tons of Pokémon are getting their first-ever rulebox variants, and others are showing up in types that the paper TCG hasn't used on them for several years.

 

[bakugames]

I don't get the hate for pocket. I think the idea of "pocket is partially to blame for the scalper issue" is missing the forest for a patch of grass: tpci has had a keg ready to explode when it comes to this issue, and anything would light a fire. If pocket didn't exist, it's very likely something else would have excited people back in the tcg and we'd have the same issues as we're having right now. It wouldn't even take much, the tcg was already in many people's radars when it comes to selling and scalping cards

 

[Frost]

Well Pocket got 10 million downloads in a week, so naturally it played a role and I don't blame Pocket for what's going on fully, as I've already said. But it was certainly the inciting incident.

TPCi is more to blame than Pocket, scalpers, or any other factor, and I've said that multiple times. A smarter company would have realized Go, which has jack all to do with the TCG, caused a massive spike of interest to the TCG 8 years ago, so you'd think a hot new app actually ABOUT the TCG would make them realize, hey, maybe this will get a bunch of new people interested in the physical TCG again. If anything, they seem bewildered that the physical TCG has been booming since Pocket dropped in October.

Similarly they had Vivid Voltage, Evolving Skies and 151 to look at in terms of recent past sets and realize their current sets might have been desirable even without the Pocket factor. But nah, they seem caught off guard again and make promises to print more on social media while bots have made everything Prismatic and even Journey Together sell out instantly.

Meanwhile, Pocket continues to get tons and tons of exclusive artwork, set to rot in digital only form, probably forever, or if we're lucky we'll get a physical set in like 5 years that offers barely a fraction of everything they've already pumped out in the last 4 months. It's probably cheaper and easier for them to just focus on digital art and not need to worry about printing and selling product, so good for them.

 

[Moymon]

The houndoom art not being real... This game is so frustrating.

If it was real you bet that shit be $1500 secondary market.

 

[Fields.]

I think there has yet to be a single Art Rare that's disappointed. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SLAPS. The Leafeon has so much personality. The Houndoom is spooky and cool. The Garchomp vs Arceus is literally goated. Pulling even one Art Rare as a F2P enjoyer always makes my day.

I love Pokemon TCG Pocket

tbh every single art rare is disappointing because none of them will ever get printed

 

[Quuador]

I think there has yet to be a single Art Rare that's disappointed. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SLAPS. The Leafeon has so much personality. The Houndoom is spooky and cool. The Garchomp vs Arceus is literally goated.

Completely agree with this. Those artworks are amazing.

I love Pokemon TCG Pocket

I however have the complete opposite reaction regarding this. As long as we're not getting any of these amazing artworks as physical cards, I hate Pokémon TCG Pocket..

I don't get the hate for pocket. I think the idea of "pocket is partially to blame for the scalper issue" is missing the forest for a patch of grass: tpci has had a keg ready to explode when it comes to this issue, and anything would light a fire. If pocket didn't exist, it's very likely something else would have excited people back in the tcg and we'd have the same issues as we're having right now. It wouldn't even take much, the tcg was already in many people's radars when it comes to selling and scalping cards

Apart from your first sentence, I completely agree. If Pokémon Pocket wasn't a thing, we would still have scalpers nonetheless. TPC(i) is mostly to blame for the scalpers, for not printing in demand.
But back to your first sentence: my personal hate for Pocket mostly comes from the fact that we don't get all these amazing artworks on physical cards. If all Pokémon Pocket artworks were recycled from the TCG, I would be completely fine with the game. It still wouldn't really appeal to me, but then I could understand its hype. But currently it's, imho, a waste of all the amazing Japanese illustrators. Especially for the Pokémon that have amazing Full Arts in Pokémon Pocket, but lack any physical FA cards for collectors.

I also wouldn't mind if all these artworks were FIRST released on Pokémon Pocket, and we'll get them as physical cards eventually. Even if we'd have to wait a year, I'd be fine with patiently waiting. But not having them at all just sucks, plain and simple. And the more unique amazing artworks are being added the Pocket, the worse it is.

 

[bakugames]

my personal hate for Pocket mostly comes from the fact that we don't get all these amazing artworks on physical cards. If all Pokémon Pocket artworks were recycled from the TCG, I would be completely fine with the game. It still wouldn't really appeal to me, but then I could understand its hype. But currently it's, imho, a waste of all the amazing Japanese illustrators.

these cards only exist because pocket exists, they are not being taken away from the main tcg. theres no "this houndoom full art would have been in the main tcg if pocket didnt steal it", its "this houndoom full art would ever only exist if pocket was made and the illustrator was hired for it, otherwise they would simply not draw it". unless you want bigger tcg sets, these cards had nowhere else to go haha

 

[Bishlarp]

VERY clever of them to print glaceon ex and Irida when water was already insanely strong and had tons of support, but when they had an opportunity to give the dragon type its, like, 4th line....they made Garchomp Fighting instead. VERRRRYYYYYYY smart. They've got their greatest minds on this game, for sure!!!

 

[Bishlarp]

I just couldn't get into this. As a freemium game, its frustrating. If you pay, your money is just going into a sink hole. And Im not impressed with the actual gameplay. Most of my favorite mons are still missing as well so there is that. Good for people who do enjoy it but I just can't do freemium or mobile games

I am of the opinion that EVERY single mobile f2p game would be better off if they....weren't free. If you go to the Premium section of the google play store almost every single game there is not only markedly more beloved and high-quality (Minecraft, Dead Cells, FNAF, Terraria) but more often than not most of them don't HAVE to rely on microtransactions and gambling because you inherently have to spend money to get the game in the first place. Pocket should've been 10 dollars and the only microtransactions should have been for bundles, not gold.

 

[LOTTEN]

With all due respect, do the majority of readers actually want every single bit of Pocket news on their front page? I'm pretty sure most physical TCG players got bored of this glorified NFT game after 2 weeks, and the target audience doesn't come here.

you don't have to click through to read articles you aren't interested in. tcg pocket sucks, but it very obviously has an audience, even here.