{"id":293776,"date":"2024-07-25T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/?p=293776"},"modified":"2024-07-25T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:36:55","slug":"pokemon-tcg-friends-in-alola-far-outshines-its-counterpart-cards-sm-p-promotional-cards-401-sm-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/07\/25\/pokemon-tcg-friends-in-alola-far-outshines-its-counterpart-cards-sm-p-promotional-cards-401-sm-p\/","title":{"rendered":"[Pok\u00e9mon TCG] Friends in Alola Far Outshines Its Counterpart Cards (SM-P Promotional Cards 401\/SM-P)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/25122142\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-1-6.webp\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon TCG Friends in Alola\" class=\"wp-image-293795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/25122142\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-1-6.webp 1024w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/25122142\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-1-6-300x205.webp 300w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/25122142\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-1-6-768x524.webp 768w, https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/25122142\/Pokemon-Daily-Feat-IMG-Template-1-6-282x192.webp 282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While many Pok\u00e9mon TCG cards similar to Friends in Alola have been printed over the years, this seventh-generation iteration of a &#8220;stock&#8221; card occupies a unique slot among them all. That&#8217;s because of the exclusivity behind this promotional Supporter card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way to obtain the Friends in Alola card when it was first released was to order the Limited Collection Master Battle Set from a Pok\u00e9mon Center or the Pok\u00e9mon Center Online starting from 16 August 2019. Those who did so received the card along with the Battle Set in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to featuring a Full Art illustration, the card also features five characters who play major roles in the Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon video games: Gladion, Hau, Lillie, Mallow, and Lana. Of the five, it&#8217;s almost certainly Lillie who&#8217;s the main driver of this card&#8217;s value. This is because in addition to the usual &#8220;female character boost&#8221;, Lillie has been featured on some of the most expensive and coveted cards in the history of the Pok\u00e9mon TCG such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/03\/05\/pokemon-tcg-lillies-full-force-brings-z-crystal-energy-dream-league-sm11b-068-049\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lillie&#8217;s Full Force card from Dream League [SM11b]<\/a> as well as the iconic promotional Extra Battle Day Lillie card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, the illustration itself, while not explicitly taken from the video games, could absolutely be something from the canonical material. It has exactly the vibe that one would expect from a card with all five of these characters on it\u2014especially in a post-credits segment of the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was never an English version of this card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone seeking a Friends in Alola (SM-P Promotional Cards 401\/SM-P) card will have to fork out a huge amount of money\u2014a card sells for 380,000 JPY (~US$2,494)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other TCG-related news, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/2024\/07\/25\/pokemon-tcg-eevee-goes-green-poncho-wearing-eevee-sm-p-promotional-cards-142-sm-p\/?slide=right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poncho-wearing Eevee card from the SM-P Promotional Cards<\/a>. Alternatively, you can also head over to the SNKRDUNK App via the banner below and find the top trending and latest single cards and boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/snkrdunkappen.page.link\/G4g7_PokemonTCG?slide=modal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/snkrdunk.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/15110337\/TCG.webp\" alt=\"TCG on the SNKRDUNK App\" class=\"wp-image-151767\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While many Pok\u00e9mon TCG cards similar to Friends in Alola have been printed over the years, this seventh-generation iteration of a &#8220;stock&#8221; card occupies a unique slot among them all. That&#8217;s because of the exclusivity behind this promotional Supporter card. The only way to obtain the Friends in Alola card when it was first released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":293795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,18,19,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brands","category-collectibles","category-latest-news","category-releases","category-tcg"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293853,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293776\/revisions\/293853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snkrdunk.com\/en\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}