QotD: What style border looks best on a Pokemon card?

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Today’s Question:
QotD: What style border looks best on a Pokemon card?

Helpful Considerations: Yellow? Silver? Grey? Rainbow? Tag Team?

The red flare borders always looked amazing, much better than the hot pink acespecs now.

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Call me basic but I like the look of e readers, I know that it sounds lame but I enjoy that they have a function, on the back I would want to try the red borders from trainer a and b I think that it could look really good

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Might be basic: I’ve always preferred the gray borders that Japan uses instead of the yellow.

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Silver cosmos holofoil borders from EX-series are the best :heart_eyes:

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I’m torn between two options, original yellow borders used in english Base-LC or japanese silver borders that make gen 3 gold stars look so good.

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Regarding borders we will never be eating as good as in e-series era and hgss era, but i have to admit the rainbow coloured borders of stellar pokemon have been great to look at too

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I enjoy yellow borders on vintage cards out of nostalgia, but I think silver borders look better.

Rainbow is okay depending on the card. I really like them on Umbreon Ex and Alolan Exeggutor.

I really dislike Tag Team.

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HGSS modeled gold border. Top tier, best of both worlds. :sunglasses:

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Common, Uncommon, Holo cards - e-Series
RR cards - Pokémon V
FA Supporters - Scarlet & Violet
Special art cards - Scarlet & Violet

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Pale yellow ones, they really nailed it in ex-era foreign languages cards



Pretty evident in person when compared ! English is definitely too yellow.

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The OG English yellow borders have something special that no other generation could replicate. Eseries takes second place. At first I didn’t like the uneven borders and now I am two cards away from completing a binder.

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Wattsee OG

Yo Yo GIFs | Tenor

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No question

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For full art cards, I like the Japanese coloring best. That said, I also enjoy the gold borders we saw for some secret rares in XY

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What if Pokemon saw all of these border options and said, “you know what would be the best looking border to emulate going forward? The matte gray worlds deck promo cards that nobody wants!”

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They saw that TPCi language collectors had been clamouring for neutral grey/white that JP has had for 12 years straight and sought to unify the card design forever (under nendo)

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Think of the poor English collectors…
Poor us

Change is good

  • Yellow
  • Grey
0 voters


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Symbolic vote, borders look terrible on that Magikarp.

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