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Baxcalibur

Image: The Pokémon Company
Image: The Pokémon Company

A thing I’m really enjoying about the newer sets from the Pokémon TCG are these celebratory Illustration Rares of relatively banal Pokémon.

I really hope I’m not going to upset some secret Baxcalibur stan when I suggest that this latest is unlikely to be everyone’s favorite Pokémon. Baxcalibur is certainly a decent-looking dinosaur-like, but it’s hardly featuring on pencil and pillow cases. And yet, oh my goodness, look at this breathtaking piece from long-serving Pokémon artist, Tomokazu Komiya.

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This is just stunning, an almost cubist piece, with the mid-somersault Boxcalibur hard to pick out from the incredible array of colors. I want this poster-sized! I still don’t understand why The Pokémon Company doesn’t offer this as a service for all their full art cards.

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