Full Art Black Kyurem ex from “Paradise Dragona!”

The background reminds me of the full art Team Plasma Cards from the Black and White days.

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Wouldn't it be better to just use Chien-Pao ex to Knock it Out in a single hit? Your opponent won't have a chance to switch out and Knock Out your basic before you can Knock Out the Regidrago VSTAR, and you won't be running an extra basic which will only be relevant in a few matchups and will inevitably end up stuck in the active spot at the beginning of every few games (which would be made even more painful by it's high retreat cost).
Chien pao is just better.

This is bad chien pao
 
Someone wasn't around during the BW era, Full arts looked sick back then. They just put less effort into them later on and now people think they always sucked.
I'm not saying they never should've made them I'm saying why make them now? Especially with most alt arts looking as good as they do. I don't need 3 different prints of a card. Give me regular and a cool alt version.
 
They just aged poorly because fundamentally they are just CGI models on coloured backgrounds.

And now that TPC has been doing them for over a decade, it's bulk trash and is priced as such.

I don't think there's any other TCG that is as lazy as TPC honestly with these terrible CGI cards still taking up secret rare spots.
You also got to lump in the original ex era ex's in that if thats your main complaint which are worth thousands if the value is the metric of quality. Just because it is CGI doesn't mean its bad and not all of them are of same quality, look at the plasma ones posted earlier and the current modern ones. Definitely not the same quality even if they fundamentally is the same concept.
 
They just aged poorly because fundamentally they are just CGI models on coloured backgrounds.

And now that TPC has been doing them for over a decade, it's bulk trash and is priced as such.

I don't think there's any other TCG that is as lazy as TPC honestly with these terrible CGI cards still taking up secret rare spots.
Bushiroad's Weiss Schwarz card game just uses stock images and anime screen shots for most of its cards. YuGiOh basically doesn't even do alt arts, just alt foils for 99% of cards. Pokemon at least goes out of their way to put the model in a cool pose for these and they tend to be textured nicely.
 
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