In most cases, the most popular Pokémon TCG cards featuring human characters are typically 1) those of female characters and 2) those of a character from the video games. Well, in this case while the first point applies, the second doesn’t—yet this Ciphermaniac’s Codebreaking card has nevertheless ended up as one of the most desired […]
The release of Cyber Judge [SV5M] saw the Future Paradox forms of all three Swords of Justice make their Pokémon TCG debuts—and all in the form of Pokémon-ex at that. One of them is this Iron Leaves ex card that comes in the rarity of Special Art Rare (SAR). This card’s Full Art illustration depicts […]
Item cards used for gusting have been staples of the Pokémon TCG metagame ever since the first generation. Like its predecessors, the Prime Catcher card from Cyber Judge [SV5M] has fit seamlessly into countless tournament decks and is capable of swinging the trajectory of the game as soon as it’s played. Since Prime Catcher is […]
The release of the 500 Years in the Future [OP-07] set earlier this year unleashed significant effects on the metagame of the ONE PIECE Card Game. One deck which received a significant boost was the Black Lucci deck. Its previous iteration was most notably used by Chilean player Vicente Carrizo in the October 2023 LATAM […]
The cards which are to be awarded as prizes following upcoming ONE PIECE Card Game tournaments in Japan have now been revealed. These tournaments are the 8 Pack Battle and the Championship 2024 Wave 1 Side Event. Winners of 8 Pack Battle tournaments, held in various locations across Japan, will receive a Parallel Art version […]
Media Create, a Japanese company that tracks and analyzes data across Japan’s TCG industry, recently published a report ranking the 15 TCG franchises that accumulated the most revenue in Japan during the fiscal year of April 2023 to March 2024. The top 15 franchises amassed a cumulative revenue of more than 276 billion JPY (~US$1.77 […]
The next Deck Build Pack of the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG is slated for release on 24 August 2024. Crossover Breakers will be the 14th booster pack in this series, following Valiant Smashers which was launched in August 2023. Containing three different themes, this Deck Build Pack is intended to allow the buyer to construct a deck […]
At first glance, the overwhelming success of Pokémon Card 151 [SV2a] might seem to be an instance in which Creatures Inc. captured “lightning in a bottle”. However, in reality, years of planning went into making this remarkable Pokémon TCG set a reality. The Gen 8 Era Our story begins back in 2019, when the eighth […]
Rayquaza’s Shiny form is one of the most iconic Shiny Pokémon of all time. Mostly black instead of its usual green, the Shiny version of the Pokémon Emerald video game’s box Legendary’s alternate color palette accentuates its sheer might in a way its ordinary one never could. Thus, when the Shiny-themed Pokémon TCG set GX […]
Contemporary artist Yu Nagaba’s collaboration with Creatures Inc. yielded a total of 10 Pokémon TCG cards that today have become among the most desired by collectors. Those familiar with Nagaba’s artwork will not be surprised in the slightest to find that each of those cards’ illustrations are in his inimitable line art. The 10 cards […]
