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

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Pokémon cards are cool, I especially like the ones that are connected to one another through their art. And in this video, I just gush about those.
Chapters:
00:00 I Love Pokémon Card Art
01:33 Charmander growing up into a Charizard
03:20 Generational Emboar / Generational Tepig
04:06 Chespin and Snorlax Cards
04:28 Meowth and Inkay Cards
05:01 Tomokazu Komiya with Hypno and Clefiary Cards
05:39 Trubbish, Phione, and Empoleon Cards
06:33 Pokemon TCG Worldbuilding
07:30 Pokemon Tag Team
08:00 The Fighting Stadium
08:19 Pokemon Breakthough, Breakpoint and Fates Collide
10:40 Pokemon XY Steam Siege
11:47 Pokemon Sun and Moon TCG
12:58 Pokemon Sword and Shield TCG
13:13 This Video was brought to you by Otis!
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Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out!

[@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?

[@ilyaslockedin]

Yoooooooooooo. Lockstin

[@aceayasaki5685]

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

[@sorasong9708]

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

[@sorasong9708]

@Felbinger Grant What about the Sun Moon cards?

[@kingdragon3122]

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

[@wooper2186]

I don’t understand the tcg game that much but I love the card art

[@shockanova]

I remember candyevie talked about them a long time ago

[@J.Blazer]

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

[@godmaster1000]

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

[@sorasong9708]

And is basically a JoshJepson clone.

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@sorasong9708 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!

[@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*

[@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

[@waterking74]

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

[@mattwo7]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@mattwo7]

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

[@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

[@Psyga315]

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

[@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.

[@anyathepanther7977]

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

[@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.

[@Slyfoxminis]

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

[@musicalsystem927]

Same here, and I agree.

[@thunderstudiosyt6197]

We need a part 2. This is EPIC STORYTELLING!

[@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.

[@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

[@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".

[@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!

[@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.

[@peytio]

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

[@turtlesquirrels8854]

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

[@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

[@emeraldjayent2403]

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

[@AwolMike666]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@2020klb]

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

[@jjs-wacky-quest]

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

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@9Destra]

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

[@Aluran]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@dany_fg]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@jacobspencer04]

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

[@pokewhy3146]

6:30 the natus one is so cute😩😢❤️

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@GustavoFernandesKing]

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

[@SatsujinSakana]

Always love stories told via cards. It's interesting how they can tell so much with little to no words. Personal favourite is one in Yu-Gi-Oh! Which is Risebell The Summoner's line of cards.

[@dillon3207]

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

[@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.

[@brickmastere5535]

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

[@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 😁

[@d.mitchell7809]

Oh my gosh, i never noticed these. I have a lot of the cards mentioned in this video too, the only one i really found out about when I was younger was Meowth and Inkay... This is why i love this channel, thank you!

[@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.

[@forgerofsouls9126]

Been awhile since I last heard you talk about Pokemon being connected to alchemy, glad to see you bring it up here!

[@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

[@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.

[@ARJAY_NO]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@junkuribo5150]

I should have known he'd tie this into alchemy somehow

[@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

[@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

[@michanowak7060]

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

[@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.

[@perfectlycookedtepig2382]

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

[@alexanderboyd4026]

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

[@filipfilip1507]

True

[@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)

[@KyunaCookies]

My favourite referential art is in one of the HGSS sets, in the art all the Pokémon all have type flags in the backgrounds, I think it's really cool haha

[@Gr-nr5rp]

13:41 venasaur: am I a joke to you

[@certifiedclown1]

I had to rewatch most of the video because I kept getting g distracted by your background lights! They’re very hypnotizing!

[@Kyoko_Tsukino]

I love the clay, crayon, and yarn art cards

[@whyrwehere]

Same

[@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

[@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".

[@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.

[@justopher8487]

I’d say my favorite Pokémon card artist is Naoki Saito, he’s also done a lot of the official art for the Let’s Go games, and did the art for Dragalia Lost, as well as a lot of really good fan art for other franchises (he’s a big fan of Demom Slayer)

[@Blaze4ification]

i got the trubbish and tepig cards, I love the Trubbish series cards the most because they're Pokemon that have no relation to each other, they're not in the same evolutionary line either.

[@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!

[@kannaredpanda]

These cards have always been my favorite, I collect cards solely because of the art of them, they are absolutely incredible.

[@gabriellockwood2780]

The BREAK expansions show off Black City//White Forest, but in the XY expansion...

[@diddytacos1359]

My personal favorite card with a backstory is the axew card in x and y breakthrough even if I don't quite understand it(either axew likes your fruit or is offended by your selection of berries)

[@TKmeh]

Finally, a video telling me which cards I should be on the lookout for without thinking of their monetary value! Now to raid and recount my cards! Also thanks, I really love the TCG aspect of pokemon ever since my dad had a card shop back before the first movie even. My dad's been collecting cards for a long time, and I've kinda taken over on the pokemon side so these videos are a diamond in the rough for me. Great vid as always!

[@mousealchemist]

Also if you read back of any pack you get there is more lore added with each expansion. So in a way the TCG is its own time/ universe outside of the anime and video game worlds. One of my favorite x and y set was steam siege especially using the talonflame and Volcanian EX deck and then through XY era I played a Gardy EX which was a tanky deck ..also I kept pulling Gardy EX (it stalked me in card form lol).

[@vanikirby]

Wow! Its cool to know all the stories behind these cards.some that even i didnt know off

[@skolped-7781]

I never realized the pink stuff on the bisharp card at 11:08 were portals and thought it was one of those iconic cherry threes

[@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

[@d4c_reznor470]

Even cooler was the Pokemon interacting in snowy landscapes set up in Plasma Freeze and Chilling Reign

[@DeaceasedDisaster222]

My Pokemon card folder is organised (very roughly coz i got bored halfway through coz i have so many cards lol) into artists. My Yuka Morii ones are all at the front coz I think she’s probably my favourite artist followed by Asako Ito who does the crochet pokemon, then a whole bunch of other artists I really like, such as Tika Matsuno.