Hello everyone. As the title says I am trying to identify every unique Japanese old ex card artwork. In elaboration, I am trying to find all of the ex Ruby&Sapphire era ex card artworks that were not printed in English. So far I have identified 11 12 of these cards and I come to you to see if there are any that I am missing. Please let me know in the comments if I am missing any and I will add them to the list. Thank you
Here is a list of the cards that I have found so far:
The gift box Latias/Latios are honestly on par with the EX Dragon ones, IMO. Such beautiful cards.
As an unrelated aside, the non-holo Deoxys ex is stupidly difficult to find in NM condition for whatever reason. I’ve been actively searching for one for like 6 months now and I’ve had zero luck. By comparison, the Jirachi, Exploud, both Rayquazas, and Latias/Latios were insanely easy to find (and they weren’t).
Eh, perhaps money-no-object wasn’t the best descriptor…basically I was judging on raw availability in mint condition and not price, obviously someone could argue a Mew ex at 4k in a 10 or whatever it is now is way harder to obtain than anything else on the list solely due to price. I still think that outside of just tossing money at a graded 10 it’s a difficult card to find.
It’s interesting to me that the play promos seem so much easier to find than the gift box exs. I would’ve expected it to be the other way around, but finding the gift box exs is just insanely difficult for whatever reason. Were the gift box print runs just really low and/or were the play promo print runs really high (for the lower points value cards)?
Nice work on the list. One cool thing to note is that the Lucario ex (both of them) are gen 4 Pokemon on the gen 3 card layout (ex). There are some other PCG-P era cards with Manaphy and other gen 4, but Lucario is the only one that has an ex (and two of them at that) to my knowledge. Pretty cool. I think the only other time this happened was Southern Islands?
I’ve been trying as well. Besides the heavily played ones, I assume partly it is due to how they are stored in the tin. Not quite as bad as English tin promos but this isn’t exactly ideal packaging to protect corners from knocking into the side of tin.
