Key Takeaways
- Tetsuo Hara illustrates new Palafin ex card for Pokemon TCG.
- Eeveelutions cards included in the subset; Western release in January with new prints.
Pokemon TCG has unveiled a new illustration of the Palafin ex card made by iconic manga artist Tetsuo Hara. The Pokemon TCG card is part of the Terastal Festival ex subset that will be released in Japan on December 6, introducing more than 180 cards for fans to collect.
One of the highlights of the Terastal Festival ex is the new Eevee and Eeveelutions cards in illustrations depicting the Pokemon in their Terastallized forms. Players in the West won’t be left empty-handed, as Eevee’s newest Pokemon TCG cards will be released in January next year when the Prismatic Evolutions expansion hits the shelves. The rest of the subset is mostly made up of new prints of cards released in 2023 and 2024, including reprints of the coveted ex cards. And to add to the hype for the arrival of Terastal Festival ex, Pokemon TCG has unveiled a stunning new card.
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Pokemon TCG card Palafin ex has been given a new illustration by Tetsuo Hara, the illustrator of the renowned manga Fist of the North Star, and its prequel, Fist of the Blue Sky. With an artwork filled with bright colors, the artist depicts the Gen 9 Pokemon throwing a series of punches. This is a classic reference to the barrage of punches used by Kenshiro, the protagonist of Fist of the North Star, to defeat his opponents.
Fist of the North Star Artist Creates New Pokemon TCG Card Illustration
Palafin has four Pokemon TCG cards released so far, including an ex card introduced in May this year with the release of the Twilight Masquerade expansion, the sixth of the Scarlet and Violet era, which introduced 226 new cards in English. The Palafin ex card has two illustrations from the expansion made by PLANETA Mochizuki, one of which is an ultra-rare print. The same artist is responsible for the artwork for the SVP Black Star Promos series, with Tetsuo Hara’s artwork being the card’s fourth illustration.
With the release of the Gen 9 games, Pokemon TCG fans saw the arrival of the Paldea region through a series of related releases. The first was the self-titled expansion, released in March last year with 258 cards. The most recent is the Surging Sparks expansion, which arrived in November with 252 cards. One of the set’s highlights is the introduction of new Tera Pokemon cards and ACE SPEC, a powerful new card type first introduced in 2012 with the Boundaries Crossed set.
Pokemon TCG
Pokemon TCG (Trading Card Game) is a collectible and strategy based card game based on Nintendo’s Pokemon franchise. Two players face off against one another, battling one Pokemon at a time and attempting to knock them out to claim one of six prize cards. The cards have also become highly collectible with some in particular selling for thousands of dollars.
- Original Release Date
- October 20, 1996