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A talentedPokemonfan is impressing the internet with their stunning wood carvings of classic TCG cards. The long-runningPokemon Trading Cardgame remains a major part of the franchise, with new card designs being released and quickly snatched up by dedicated collectors and casual collectors alike on a regular basis. The older cards from the original Generation 1 era are especially popular among hardcorePokemonfans, so much so that The Pokemon Company recently brought back these retro designs in thePokemon Trading Card Game Classicpremium collector’s setearlier this year.
Pokemonfans have also enjoyed creating inspired artwork of their favorite creatures and cards almost as much as they do playing thePokemoncard game - and have often used the cards themselves as the basis of these pieces. Examples include stunning 3D custom cards of fan-favorite Pokemonlike Gengar, colored pencil drawings of “near mint” Charmander cards, and even stunning collages of cards that form inspiredartwork of Eevee and its Dark-type evolution Umbreon.
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A Reddit user and wood carver by the handle of JoeySmall took things in a decidedly retro direction for theirPokemon TCGart project: a set of laser-engraved renditions of classic cards that they showed off on various subreddits like r/pokemon earlier this week. JoeySmall has made four cards in total, consisting of Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard, and Mewtwo fromthePokemon Red and Bluegeneration. They all capture the artwork and description text of the original cards with a surprising amount of detail, and JoeySmall is even selling them to order on Etsy.
This wood-carved tribute to some of the originalPokemon TCGcards comes not too long after the announcement of a new set highlighting the 150 Pokemon ofRed and Blue’s Kanto region - including thefirst new card of Kadabrato be released after magician Uri Geller granted The Pokemon Company permission to do so in 2020. As for the four Pokemon featured in JoeySmall’s carvings, they have all been recurring mainstays in thePokemoncard game and other related media for decades, with Charizard, in particular, having no less than 46 different variants.
In the meantime, JoeySmall’s woodenPokemon TCGcarvings capture the designs of the old Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, and Mewtwo cards with a striking amount of detail - down to the fully readable text describing each card’s special attacks and abilities. Only time will tell if JoeySmall will do carvings of the other 150 Pokemon in the original wave, but these four are an impressive tribute to the oldPokemoncards that helped kick off the franchise.
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