Fuecoco, Crocalor & Skeledirge Cards

Due out March 10 in Japan, Triple Beat is to be the second set of Scarlet & Violet cards released in Pokémon’s home turf, and likely to be the basis for our June release, Paldea Evolved. Which means we’re hopeful we’ll be seeing this Fuecoco triple-set this summer, along with the just-revealed other two starters’ equivalents (read on for those).

What’s so lovely about this trio of cards is that they’re just so silly. We start with the impossibly cute depiction of Fuecoco riding in the shopping cart at the store, munching on a berry that surely hasn’t been paid for. Then when it’s a Crocalor, things have clearly gone far awry with these shopping trips. It’s causing chaos in the berry aisle, and to my eye, staring guiltily right at the security camera. Then by that gorgeous full-art Skeledirge, things seem to have calmed back down again, as the enormous fire-breathing crocodile carries its trainer’s shopping home for it on its back.