Talking about favorite ex sets on the discord got me thinking about a poll for favorite ex era reverses. I tried grouping together the ones that are the same (from what I could tell). Also bonus poll at the bottom because I’m curious everyone’s opinions on ex deoxys in particular.
E reader reverses (Ruby/sapphire through TMTA)
Hidden Legends
FireRed LeafGreen
Team Rocket Returns
Deoxys
Emerald
Unseen Forces
Delta Species (Delta species through Power Keepers)
I was about to add an honorable, nostalgic mention to UF. The holo effect has a dreamy quality to it, when you don’t see the poke balls it reminds me of sparkly christmas paper and how old people decorate their homes during Advent and Christmas, purple followed by red with confetti stars everywhere.
The FRLG reverse has varied size for the energy symbols making it look closer to the varied cosmo pattern while hidden legends basically has them all the same size in rows. Thats what makes the FRLG reverse holo much stronger imo.
Overall Im surprised FRLG is winning, I did not expect it. I would’ve thought TRR, legend maker or delta species to be in first place and FRLG to be mid.
On an added note. Interestingly, TRR has similar holo pattern to FRLG but also the holofoil set symbol as well as gold name/hp for the rare reverses which FRLG doesn’t have but FRLG is like double the votes of TRR. Maybe people just really like holofoil pokeball.
Deoxys reverses were so bad, at the moment we opened boosters of them (I think it was at worlds 2005) they curled. Quality was bad, missing “reverse” print layers. Looking most times as psa 5 cards iso of a 9 or 10 as you would expect from pack fresh.
What I find interesting is how FRLG is the most popular RH pattern and HL is the least popular. The patterns are almost identical! I did vote for FRLG, though, because I prefer the smaller energy symbols. But I would’ve expected people to like the RHs from each set basically equally.
