When the Cards Tell a Story... | Gnoggin | Pokémon TCG

[@Gnoggin]

Sign up for Otis with the link withotis.app.link/e/Lockstins and get $20 free when you fund your account. :) ...I didn't cover EVERY set of cards with good worldbuilding or story telling of course, so what are some of your favorites that I missed?

[@Embiidisass72]

Yoooooooooooo. Lockstin

[@AceAyasaki]

I have the charizard, Emboar and plusle story cards completed

[@U-Flame]

The Magma and Aqua sets were lit yo

[@antonissa8345]

You should talk about how different Pokémon age

[@Steamtostay]

Surprised you didn't at least mention the shared artwork cards, i.e. skarmory, lugia and ho-oh from neo revelations?

[@thatchillasian8924]

X and Y: *a story of worlds colliding* Sword and Shield: *BERRIES*

[@christineyong6072]

I know right

[@smb-c3po]

I missed out on that XY Evolution set and don't know where my Charizard tin is.

[@smb-c3po]

@Felbinger Grant What about the Sun Moon cards?

[@kingg3122]

I had the omanite card where there’s a jungle growing a city

[@sorbet_shark7332]

GIBST MEHG BERRIS

[@darkninjafirefox]

To quote the climax of Pokemon x/y: "why are you crying?" "Pokemon."

[@Skiig]

420 likes!

[@acasualquagsire8192]

I don't get it explain please?

[@PriffyViole]

@@acasualquagsire8192 It's from the confrontation with the main villain, but out of context.

[@brunofromont9812]

Do you know the episode and minute? would really help, couldn't find the clip on youtube...

[@darkninjafirefox]

@@brunofromont9812 it's from a meme from the games X and Y. Callum asks, "why are you crying? " lysandre says "pokemon"

[@l.n.b245]

Finally someone talked about the card art

[@katieb9428]

This is exactly why I collect the cards

[@l.n.b245]

@@katieb9428 ik some of them are FANTASTIC

[@excadrillo99]

Why care about the art when you can buy and scalp the cards to make money? :P

[@shockanova]

I remember candyevie talked about them a long time ago

[@Kostyurik]

CandyEvie talked about the same topic like five... maybe six times

[@J.Blazer]

Lockstin sounded like he was gonna break out the red string again

[@godmaster1000]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ-3oaasbrWBp9E here you go

[@smb-c3po]

And is basically a JoshJepson clone.

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@smb-c3po Are *all* your comments about this JonaJeff guy?

[@DigitalVDisk]

Card art story has always been the best part for me, finally someone recognises it

[@ScorchyScorch]

My favorite is the one with the Tepig line. Its so cute watching the family grow up with their favorite mon

[@7CRabs]

I have these too, I love them as well!

[@aw-tismo1676]

I appreciate that you can't find a single happy cubone art out there. As it should be.

[@luigiboi4244]

There should be an alternate Cubone where they are happy.

[@Ghostype318]

The saddest one is from my favorite artist, where its crying because it saw a cloud that looks like its mothers head

[@ThatmfJuli4n]

Damn what did cub one do to you

[@aw-tismo1676]

@@ThatmfJuli4n It was born.

[@stuffjuststuff6067]

@@aw-tismo1676 ok chill

[@kittykat5090]

wasn't aware Pokemon cards could have a mini story with them, aww

[@plfaproductions]

Is a common trend in card games, yogioh did before pokemon but it is uncertain who exactly started

[@JujuInFlames]

Magic the gathering does it all the time actually, it’s pretty cool

[@rescuerex7031]

@@JujuInFlames I mean MTG writes entire Novels about their lore lol, MTG Lore is like a big part of MTG, Yugioh has like some interesecting stuff, but only like the Duel Terminals have like huge worlds explored

[@forsaken_muffin6767]

“The cards tell a story”

[@JT5555]

the cards. the cards. the cards will tell: the past,the present and the future as well.

[@macewindu5195]

@@JT5555 lol that’s what I was going to say

[@mattwo7]

Let's see, the tower, the tower, the tower aaaaaannnnnnnd whe- j/k, it's the tower again. You are _brilliantly_ unlucky!

[@Zero_de_Nova]

If you like Cardsartwork telling a Story i think you shoud look in the Yugioh Cards. Some exempels: The Worm Lore / The Apoquill / World Challace

[@steakmaster4897]

*laughs in war of the spark*

[@waterking74]

Sword and shield next trading card story arc: *calm before the storm*

[@Florceleste28]

I admit the XY stories are really cool and the little details in the arts are awesome. But the SunMoon part was streching it too much, it's just names that sound cool and thematically appropriate.

[@mattwo7]

0:24 "It's not gambling, it's surprise loot."

[@mattwo7]

4:44 You can clearly see the meowth got inked.

[@ddddangerous7125]

This is my favorite part of the yugioh card art. Nearly all of them include a reference to some other card, and then there's the huge duel terminal, world legacy, and ecclesia storylines

[@Psyga315]

I find it funny that Gnoggin is right about the "reboot" theory from long ago, just in a different format.

[@Ghostype318]

There's actually another new story one, thought it was cool! Its smeargle running through the woods leaving its trail, then many pokemon like eldegoss and some others im forgetting are seen in the same place with the original trail in the scene

[@tedtective]

The XYZ portal sets are soo deep and seem scary I got goosebumps from watching it.

[@ObrigadaJim]

yeaaah and recognizing some of the cards from my collection and realizing what they meant finbnaly blows my mind... wtf i neevr saw that word colifing thing on them!!

[@tedtective]

@@ObrigadaJim yea , I had the empoleon and some steam seige ones and e.t.c never thought of them more than that 😅

[@lolface_9363]

My brain autocorrected XYZ to the summoning mechanic of Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@tedtective]

@@lolface_9363 ohh

[@aninternetuser4676]

Same I got goosebumps

[@ShayTheValiant]

Fun fact: the Poké Ball on the back of the cards is wrong. The button is supposed to be connected to the red half of the ball, not the white half. The early Japanese cards used to have this problem, but they were eventually fixed. Now you can't unsee it.

[@yusheitslv100]

Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic: The Gathering do the same thing. It's why I still love them.

[@theunholymemecrusader1677]

Yugioh has some of the best storylines to be a good anime in my opinion especially the duel terminal stuff and the world chalice cards dogmatika group fits as one as well

[@Slyfoxminis]

I’ve never been so early Gah that charmander series is adorable

[@musicalsystem927]

Same here, and I agree.

[@wordyballoons]

I love it when the card art has this kind of depth to it. I've seen a lot of trading card games but none of them have cards that tell a continuing story the same way some of these Pokemon TCG cards do (except for maybe the flavour text in the Duel Masters cards).

[@BrenTenkage]

actually a lot of yugioh cards do tell a story in their art, look up the goblin of greed story which is the most famous of them

[@bdf1006]

@@BrenTenkage Yugioh does have a lot of stories in their cards however I don't think the Goblin of Greed is even top ten in popularity. The most common stories covered which are also some of the best are - World Legacy, Legendary Six Samurai and the story of Gagagigo

[@xrosethegreat9048]

I suggest diving into magic the gathering for card art storys then, I saw a bunch when i played for a bit.

[@thunderstudiosyt6197]

We need a part 2. This is EPIC STORYTELLING!

[@anyathepanther7977]

"Than the world errupted with Pink! " My worst nightmare! 😨

[@turtlesquirrels8854]

I love it when cards have stories. Good vid idea!

[@U-Flame]

I loved the ORAS Team Magma and Aqua set for how much it established the rivalries and inner workings of their lives. The way they perform recon, sabotage, attack, defend, rescue. Its silly like when Team Magma laughs as their Arons happily eat away at Team Aqua's ship, it's serious like when Camerupt is transporting an injured Magma grunt away from an explosive battlefield. It immerses their dynamic more than any other depiction and I love it.

[@giboit.]

Yugi-oh cards also makes stories with the cards (monster, magic and traps). Some of them are even interconnected with other stories. A good example of this would be Gagagigo, Warrior lady of the wasteland and Marauding Captain (monster cards). All them have their own stories. Maybe you could make a video about those as well.

[@cesarflamenco9484]

My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh story is the Warrior of Zera one and the interconnected Duel Terminal archetypes.

[@ubercow6611]

I know you're from Oregon, but the "Azoth" and "It's all coming together" stuff again is making me think you spend too much time there

[@BNotInc]

7:27 The way he just said “…And Breloom was here at some point too.” in a deep, cool voice was hilarious for some reason.

[@peytio]

I was legit talking about the charmander evolving with his trainer cards to my friends over discord two days ago. So good

[@emeraldjayent2403]

Not only is someone talking about the Emboar line cards, but it happens to be you! Awesome.

[@elisewalters7822]

Aw yeah Saya Tsuruta is my favorite TCG artist too! She has a Twitter where she posts her art frequently and all the other cool work she does for Pokemon like Pokemon Cafe graphics and the Japanese manhole covers, very fun to follow!

[@slimeplayz164]

There's also a team aqua's grimmer and muk card from the double crisis set that tells a tragic story of two magma grunts hiding from a grimmer then the grimmer evolving into a muk and devouring them it gets kinda dark, I think it also doubles as a reference to "the thing".

[@2020klb]

I’m the kind of person who always collected to cards for the art. Glad to see a video like this :)

[@mattwo7]

Yugioh cards do this sometimes too. One of my favorites has to be the cards depicting the oddly meta story of how Sangan wound up on the banlist or rather a jail in the "Forbidden Realms". It starts with Tour Bus From the Underworld but later gets off at a platform the bus stops at and mistakes Tour Bus To Forbidden Realms for his bus, which Tardy Orc winds up missing because it's never been on the banlist, then on Shared Ride, Graceful Charity tries to comfort Sangan, then in Mistaken Arrest, everyone on the bus is arrested because there was a Pot of Greed on the bus, then in Mistaken Accusation, Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest (who was banned and unbanned at the exact same times as Sangan for similar reasons due to her similar effect) and Sangan is _really_ upset. Sadly that's where the story ends, nothing further about them getting off the banlist.

[@fromyusu]

This, plus the art, are the only reason I still buy the cards.

[@cintronproductions9430]

My favorite cards that tell a story are the Natu and Bouffalant cards. In the Natu card, we see two poor Natus freezing to death in a snowstorm, and Bouffalant can be seen walking towards them in the background. Then, in Bouffalant's card, the Bouffalant is happily walking along while keeping the Natus safe and warm in its afro. That is just so adorable and heartwarming. 😍 I also like the Tepig, Pignite and Emboar cards that show Tepig growing up with its family.

[@marcusferro7588]

I’ve never realized there were stories in the cards, that’s so cool for the people making the cards to have some fun doing so

[@AwolMike666]

The TCG is said to take place primarily in a region called Holon.

[@peppermint_8]

4:30 when I was in 3rd grade, my friend and I found those meowth and inkay cards, and we were super proud that we noticed the story!

[@pokewhy3146]

6:30 the natus one is so cute😩😢❤️

[@Awesome_Dawson_Films_Official]

There was the Cosmog lime in Celebrations (2021) where as Cosmog, Lillie was comforting Nebby, Cosmoem has Lillie sleeping with Nebby, and Solgaleo/Lunala have Lillie waving to Nebby.

[@pebblefattree6404]

Every time i click one of your videos, there is a chance that i will have flashbacks to "It all comes together", and i'm all for it

[@lost9240]

I thought I was just over observant! Glad someone touched on this ( by the way your an awesome youtuber and I love your fakemon series )!

[@Chesburger]

I'm so glad that there are mentions of the breakthrough, breakpoint and dates collides cards I thought I was the only person that noticed sometimes

[@destroyerkitty9434]

Tomokazu Komiya is my personal favorite pokémon artist. He draws them so goofy and off-model. Because of his carefree art style, it allows the pokemon to be more expressive and experimental. It’s so fun to look at.

[@Aluran]

This is the episode I have been waiting for especially since ygo cards do the same I love the stories

[@9Destra]

Do a contest where you analyze a couple of viewer-made fakemons and go over their origins

[@thecardboardboxl3922]

Since there was a Yugioh reference at the very end, I think it’s worth mentioning that Yugioh has some fairly decent card storylines of its own. Duel Terminal, Atlantean/Fire King/Mermail, Unlucky Goblin, Different Dimension, S-Force, Warrior Dai Grepher, Goblin of Greed, Dark Ruler, Skull Servant, Visas Starfrost, World Legacy, and my personal favorite; Dogmatika/Abyss are all pretty good. And plenty of archetypes tell stories all by themselves.

[@Witch202]

5:11 bruh I got the hypno exactly today on Friday 8 November and getting the clefairy on a few days! Also the charizard connected cards is another reason I love pokemon generations cards edit: 7:50 is the three pillar men from jojo's bizarre adventure

[@tielmaster7879]

I love how Scarlett and Violet have really embraced the story cards with illustration rares. Gardevoir, plusle and minun, the crocodile fire starter I always forget the name of lol, just to name a few.

[@tobysinbad]

My favourites as a kid were these gen 2 cards of Ho-oh, Lugia and Scarmory(?!) flying over the Burnt Tower, the legendary dogs were running out, and Espeon and Umbreon were just chilling in the moonlight

[@ARJAY_NO]

That "World Collision" would be a cool premise for a pokemon game. A great reason for the protagonist to start their journey

[@dalatuy104]

I reckon it would be AWESOME if we got a series that could portray these stories in these cards. I'd be keen to watch that 😁

[@Illumisepoolist]

I have an idea for a story, Mudkip: A young girl plays with her Mudkip at the Beach. Marshtomp: The girl becomes a teenager and meets a boy at school. Swampert: The girl becomes an adult and marries the boy at a wedding.

[@9thgendev]

That Charizard story by Akira is one of my favorites, despite having so many full art cards and even a couple rainbows, I’m just really mad cause I don’t have the charmeleon

[@Taliofgaming69]

Damn Pokemon TCG lore is crazy

[@GustavoFernandesKing]

Lockstin: It all comes together Me: *flashbacks* Also me: *searching for that music video he did because it's a bop*

[@JaculaDudek]

cards that tell a story - well these stories are cool, not as extensive like in YuGiOh cards, where some stories span over 10-15 cards but i still like it.

[@shadowmarauder6033]

This is why I love to collect pokemon cards, the story they tell is very interesting. The story told through breakpoint, breakthrough, and fates collide would probably make for an awesome tv show, even if ash had to be involved.

[@altermann1991]

Man I love these kind of things. Back when I played magic, I often tried to piece together the narrative behind the different cards (though this was mostly done through the flavor text). One card game that does this kind of thing really well is the online ccg Legends of Runeterra. Like there is a card that depicts an old adventurer trying to warn the people in a tavern about something, but in the card of the tavernkeeper you can see that they don't take him seriously and just find it amusing. However then you also have all kinds of cards where the old adventurer meets different monsters in the wilderness, showing us why he is so afraid of the things that lurk outside. And a lot of cards do this, where we see how the different characters interact with each other (and that is not even going into the flavortexts or voice over which further add to this).

[@HavikLaosBoi69]

The Steam Siege portion of the video is the most attention the set has ever been given. That should say a lot about that set.

[@dany_fg]

01:26 got a reverse holo Pikachu like that and it's so nice to look at it

[@chxknfries36]

2:52 Lockstin said that if a charmander’s tail flame it would die, I’ve seen a video saying that once a charmander dies it’s tail flame is put out, which is why charizard has been underwater multiple times without its tail going out in the anime

[@destroyerkitty9434]

Card art is an underrated concept. I could just go through online card sites and look at the art for hours, because the way each artwork represents a given pokémon is unique and fascinating.

[@buttercupirl]

Thank you for talking about Pokemon card art like this. Lately it's felt like the only thing people care about is the value of a card, so it means a lot to see someone that sees them like I do.

[@tritonis54]

When I was a kid, I drew maps of the Team Magma and Team Aqua based on the locations and doorway visible on the art of the sets.

[@BrenTenkage]

I love cards that tell a story, look into the Yugioh Cards with their stories, plenty of hilarious ones like the Goblin of Greed or the Misadventures of King of the Skull Servants and his family

[@Heroism4499]

two of my favorite Yugioh archetypes is 6 Samurai and Buster Blader. Six Sam tells the story of multiple generations of samurai and ninja fighting against the Shogun, Shien, and there is a story shown in a series of cards depicting a botched assassination attempt where the Legendary Six fail to assassinate Shien and his counselor and leading to an all out attack between Shien and one of the Samurais, culminating in an Evenly Matched duel. almost all of the Buster Blader cards are about the titular Buster Blader (a Dragon Slaying Swordsman) raising a baby dragon he rescued through the years and needing to slay his adopted child once it grows to powerful and destructive as an adult.

[@alexanderboyd4026]

When the tcg has a better storyline than the gen 8 games

[@filipfilip1507]

True

[@crilledgheese4584]

The wholesome pokemon stories honestly makes me wish pokemon were real, I really want to have an eevee as a pet.

[@erict.miyahira6241]

Yugioh has been doing these kind of story-telling too with multiple archetypes, if you are curious search for "Duel Terminal", "World Legacy" and the latest one is "Dogmatika".

[@LittleParade_]

I used to ADORE story telling cards when I was younger! The very first time I spotted two cards that were clearly related, it felt like I had found the secret to the universe!

[@filipfilip1507]

What cards were they

[@Zyquux]

Legends of Runeterra also likes having storylines with it's cards. The most well-known is Cithria's journey, but there's a few others such as Chip's Targon tour.

[@seisner6655]

As a Magic the Gathering player, its really funny to me because every single set and expansion has a narrative line that's a part of the same big multiverse and storyline. So its strange that Pokémon also does that, but in the background instead of explicitly.

[@deet917]

Pokémon cards are a more acceptable loot box for me because even if you didn’t get the card you wanted…you still got a physical card to hold onto or trade/sell back to others. Can’t do that with the digital ones so you’re just left dropping dollar after dollar for a cosmetic you’re not going to be able to use once you quit the game. I knew Yu-Gi-Oh cards did the story telling aspect even with full series sets but never knew Pokémon had their own version as well. These were great to see, thank you for the video!

[@brickmastere5535]

Good lord, that last bit about Sun and Moon gave me MEGA flashbacks

[@vangarang3667]

My personal fav card art story. It starts with the mewtube card from Shining Fates, then mew busting mewtwo out of the tube in Unified Minds and finally an alt art promo card of mewtwo regretting being freed by mew.

[@luigiboi4244]

As a kid growing up collecting around the time of XY, I always thought the art was… odd. Looking back now, (and watching this video) I really love the stories they tell.

[@michanowak7060]

9:00 I cannot stop seeing Chikorita with red-painted lips...

[@Gr-nr5rp]

13:41 venasaur: am I a joke to you

[@sleepyespurr2922]

The "Battle Styles era" of the Sword & Shield TCG feels like another Golden Age of artwork from artists new and old. I still can't believe that Creatures got folks like Kinu Nishimura and Kiyotaka Oshiyama to illustrate Pokemon cards.

[@LosJoshh]

Can we get a revisit to this, I absolutely love the worlds combine deck and art work. It’s so cool and encourages you to follow the story, figure out what’s happening

[@MicoDossun]

My favorite story is the original Delta species series of card art where a lot of the cards communicate this delta region and scientific facility. It’s not even just a small set of a few linked Pokémon it’s an entire wave of cards that all hint at greater world building of the region. Shame the later waves dropped that. Maybe I’m nostalgic but I actually really like the style of the gen 1 cg cards. As an art style they stick out and feel like they have personality

[@WhoDman]

1:27 I actually have that yveltal card right there! I absolutely love that card too, such great artwork!

[@rocklobstah8824]

I do too it’s a cool card

[@QAQISH650]

Card art is so undervalued. People all over the world pay to go to art museums when they can pay a few bucks to hold art of the number 1 media franchise in the world.

[@jacobspencer04]

I'm Glad someone acknowledged the detail put into specific cards. Thank you.

[@jcman-lp6lg]

team rockets meowth has become so popular and known for walking on 2 legs that they either forgot that only team rocket's meowth can walk on 2 legs.

[@BetaBroadcastingNet]

I. love. Pokémon story cards! I would call myself the ultimate collector of them as I have every one listed in this video- (and still on the hunt) however there are some that actually aren’t mentioned in this video. For instance, at 4:10 there is actually a third card to complete the story. Chespin brings the berries he collected back to a party with his friends pancham and dedenne in the forest! Something else interesting is that there is two cards of shuckle having a berry juice party, perhaps the same shuckle? There’s also TONS of cards all taking place in the same park across not only multiple sets but every artist. Every. Single. Card. Was done by a different artist. This shows they all came together for one big collaboration. Some of these cards are in rebel clash, some shining fates. Battle styles, evolving skies, chilling reign , etc. It’s really cool seeing Pokémon come together and bring us not just playing cards but something with such depth and thought out into them

[@Spartan3457]

I love the stories in the art! My favorite is that Inkay and Meowth pair. But it just really draws me into the cards themselves and makes me appreciate them far more. I really like that they started to do it again with Battle Styles. For example the Pignite and Tyranitar.

[@mattwo7]

8:31 The Delta pokemon had their own full lore and extended marketing involving the Holon Region, same with Southern Islands. Then TPC took over the card game and that sort of thing never happened again.

[@halowing101]

The newest set has a really cute one with the Polchaigiest and Sinistchai full arts - it has a boy finding the prevo in a storehouse, and then the evo spending time with the boy - now an old man - in the same storehouse

[@perfectlycookedtepig2382]

3:21 I'm glad other Tepig are able to get a great future!

[@SuperTyrannt]

Yugioh has some instances of this like with Gagagigo's corruption and redemption or Buster Blader and the dragon whelp. I always loved that they did that so it's great to know Pokemon has it too.

[@BonAppePete]

Personally, my favorite story art card is from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl with the piplup, prinplup, and empoleon card: Piplup goes through a maple leaf forest as an orphan down a river, than in the prinplup card they make it to the ocean and you can still see the forest and maple leaves, and the in the empoleon card they’re swimming in the ocean with a maple leaf on the surface of the water

[@NitroIndigo]

I had no idea that the TCG had lore until a few years ago, when Bird Keeper Toby(?) made a video about how regional variants are like the Delta Species.

[@the_godbodor7026]

I never knew about the story set of the Trubbish, Phione, and Empoleon and I honestly love it (mainly cause I have a heavy bias for Trubbish, love the dude)

[@mrgar4446]

I was only really aware of the Swablu and Charmeleon one because I had them, I had no idea about an entire story written throughout tons of cards

[@mastermarkus5307]

Since this video, there's a Ralts-to-Gardevoir (ex) generational-art 3-card set as part of Scarlet & Violet that follows a couple, particularly focused on the interactions with the woman, as they move into a new house, have a baby, and enjoy their hobbies (in this case, knitting) when presumably retired. I love the full-art (illustration rare) cards, but they're especially cute when they show interaction between the featured Pokémon and people or other Pokémon.

[@solarprogeny6736]

Charmander's don't actually die when their flame is put out. It's just an old-fashioned observation that the flame dies when the pokémon dies, because it is fueled by internal organs. The causation is the other way around