Pokemon cards and their alternate artworks

Pikachu6319

Pikachu6319

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I've been thinking of starting a collection of Pokemon cards that have their alternate artworks, like the Yveltal EX in the XY set and the Yveltal EX promo, ex:

http://serebii.net/card/xy/079.shtml for XY set.

http://serebii.net/card/xypromos/008.shtml for promo card.

But I'm not entirely sure of everything that falls in this category, is there someone out there can help me compile a list of what falls under this?
 
Like how ninetails and drifblim have different BW promo reprints?
Or even like how machamp and dragonite have a different holo pattern in the 3 pack blisters?
I'm just a little unsure of your whole concept.
 
Yeah, like how Ninetales and Drifblim have different artworks between their apperance in set and their apperance as a promo. This would be what I'm looking for.

The Machamp or Dragonite with different holo patterns are still the same artwork. These aren't the ones I was referring too.
 
I'm not aware of any resource that has a list of cards with alternate artwork -- but Bulbapedia does list alternate art for individual cards. Your best bet is to choose a specific era of the TCG to begin, and check out the promos from that era (as many promos are variants) and/or individual card pages (starting with the era's first set). I'd start with promos first, though. Just for fun, I took a look at the DP promos, and DP1-DP23 are all reprints, and many cards after that are reprints, too -- you could have your hands quite full if you start too early.
 
CMP said:
I'm not aware of any resource that has a list of cards with alternate artwork -- but Bulbapedia does list alternate art for individual cards. Your best bet is to choose a specific era of the TCG to begin, and check out the promos from that era (as many promos are variants) and/or individual card pages (starting with the era's first set). I'd start with promos first, though. Just for fun, I took a look at the DP promos, and DP1-DP23 are all reprints, and many cards after that are reprints, too -- you could have your hands quite full if you start too early.
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I think a more efficient manner to do this would be to start with Bulbapedia's page for pokemon in TCG (e.g. Bulbasaur) and look in the "Card" and "English Expansion" columns (or Japanese if you're so inclined). For that given pokemon, look for entries which list multiple Expansions for a single Card. For each such entry (e.g. Bulbasaur Base Set), you will instantly be able to see which cards actually have reprints, as well as where those reprints can be found. Furthermore, if you go to the page for that card, you will typically be able to find every single artwork for that card (though some are omitted, especially on older or rarer cards). If the artwork is missing, you can at least look for it elsewhere (such as PB's scan section, which you can get to from the front page).

Once you have looked at all the cards for a given pokemon, seen all of the reprinted ones, and viewed the artworks (all of which can be done in just a minute or two), you can easily view the next pokemon's TCG page using the little menu bar at the top. Then, rinse and repeat.

Doing this you can systematically find nearly every single reprinted pokemon card in the game's history. Good luck!
 
Hmm, think I'd be working backwards on this. XY has a lot less to worry about than most sets, though in truth I don't recall many reprints stuff in the earlier days of the game, at least in the English version.
 
Admittedly, if you were starting from the beginning, Auride's method would be much more efficient. However, since you plan on working backwards, I'd suggest looking at the XY promos first (and not individual Pokémon), as I don't think there have been many (if any) reprints in any of the actual XY sets yet sans the standard FA variants (and if you consider it a set, the Kalos Starter Set had two different Furfrou). There's the different Vivillon patterns, too, but so far only the High Plains has been released in English.

I could be wrong about most of the XY stuff, though, as I haven't bought cards since the first few BW sets. Everything I know is from looking at scans.
 
XY has a few more. The Xerneas and Yveltal EX have promo variants, and the Xerneas and Yveltal that were in the theme decks were also promo 5 and 6 (I think). We'll also get a few more when the promo versions of Venusaur EX, Blastoise EX and Charizard EX (my money is on the stoke version) that will match with the former two being in XY as well and the last in Flashfire. For the moment I think I'll be holding off on the FA though, those can get rather expensive, especially when ran in conjunction with other aspects of collecting, like my all shiny (if possible) card dex.

One reason I will probably work backwards is it will be easier to get the cards from the more recent expansions than sets that were around a while ago.
 
Pikachu6319 said:
XY has a few more. The Xerneas and Yveltal EX have promo variants, and the Xerneas and Yveltal that were in the theme decks were also promo 5 and 6 (I think). We'll also get a few more when the promo versions of Venusaur EX, Blastoise EX and Charizard EX (my money is on the stoke version) that will match with the former two being in XY as well and the last in Flashfire. For the moment I think I'll be holding off on the FA though, those can get rather expensive, especially when ran in conjunction with other aspects of collecting, like my all shiny (if possible) card dex.

One reason I will probably work backwards is it will be easier to get the cards from the more recent expansions than sets that were around a while ago.
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I'm aware XY has a few more variants than those I listed, which is why I told you to check the XY promo list. I was only naming variants that weren't promos and are found in the sets themselves. Otherwise, I would've named over half the promo list!
 
What about the sets that have a reverse holo of the same Pokemon? Like a Charizard Holo and a Charizard Reverse holo for instance? The reverse holo should count right as well as reprinted sets like Base 2 set or 2nd editions as people I know called them 2nd editions anyway.:)
 
No, xxashxx, why would reverse holos count? Those cards feature the same artwork as their non-holo counterparts. I'm sure Pikachu6319 was referring to cards like the XY13 Promo Machamp and Furious Firsts 46 Machamp, which are the same cards but with different artwork.

I'm less certain regarding the reprinted cards, but I'd still say no if they don't have different artwork. Then again (per your example), cards in Base Set and Jungle which were reprinted in BS2 did receive updated holofoil treatment, but that's opening a whole new can of worms...especially since that would mean collecting all of the deck holo exclusives. It's really up to individual collectors to make that call, I guess.
 
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