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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
@@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
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.
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
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
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!!
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
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.
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.
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 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
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!
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".
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.
@@dezert956 Define, "Still a thing," because while the game Yu-Gi-Oh is still getting new cards, it has become an unfun NIGHTMARE to try and play it competitively.
@@ProjectSudoku Yeah Yugioh has it rough. From what I understand, y’all don’t have a draft format OR a multiplayer format. Those are the the main things that keep MTG alive…
@@ProjectSudoku Oh no, I'm talking about Fire Emblem Cipher. I always loved Yu Gi Oh cards as a kid, but my mom threw my collection away so I started collecting other tcg.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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)
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)
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.
i remember having that charizard card and some kid on the bus offered a scolipede, saying it was better, and 9yr me believed him. i am still pissed to this day
I have a lucario card with garchomp and giratina in the background and I have a question wasn’t there a tag team card with the garchomp and giratina And the charmeleon
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
Okay, okay, gnoggin. I love you, your my favorite poketuber, your one of the best you tubers. But I’m kinda getting tired of the constant filler videos. I would love some more kaskade region or moves explained, or just some of the videos you’ve promised. I’m not angry, this isn’t a hate comment. Just constructive criticism to the constant wave of, Pokémon cards, or cresselia, or things like that. Sorry if this is kinda hurtful, just putting out an opinion
Those are a bit beefier of videos typically thus take longer to put out thus he’ll upload other stuff in the meantime. His channel isn’t just “fan region, moves, and types”..he also does theory videos and explain videos (of which he’s been doing longer, mind you, than the “promised videos” you want so much)! Just wait and enjoy the new stuff coming in, it’s in no way exactly filler of which the stuff you want is more so filler than the stuff you claim is!
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...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?
Yoooooooooooo. Lockstin
I have the charizard, Emboar and plusle story cards completed
The Magma and Aqua sets were lit yo
You should talk about how different Pokémon age
Surprised you didn't at least mention the shared artwork cards, i.e. skarmory, lugia and ho-oh from neo revelations?
X and Y: *a story of worlds colliding*
Sword and Shield: *BERRIES*
I know right
I missed out on that XY Evolution set and don't know where my Charizard tin is.
@Felbinger Grant What about the Sun Moon cards?
I had the omanite card where there’s a jungle growing a city
GIBST MEHG BERRIS
Sword and shield next trading card story arc: *calm before the storm*
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
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
Lockstin slowly travelled back to 2016 and snapped out of it
Breakthrough and the others: Exist
The TVA: ah Sh#t, here we go again
My favorite plusle and minun cards are the ones that have an endless amount of both mons dancing
I like the part when he talks about Pokémon art
I absolutely love cards like this. Wanna make a deck out of story based cards
The art is the best part.
Finally someone talked about the card art
This is exactly why I collect the cards
@@katieb9428 ik some of them are FANTASTIC
Why care about the art when you can buy and scalp the cards to make money? :P
I remember candyevie talked about them a long time ago
CandyEvie talked about the same topic like five... maybe six times
Lockstin sounded like he was gonna break out the red string again
th-cam.com/video/_nTpsv9PNqo/w-d-xo.html here you go
And is basically a JoshJepson clone.
@@smb-c3po Are *all* your comments about this JonaJeff guy?
To quote the climax of Pokemon x/y:
"why are you crying?"
"Pokemon."
420 likes!
I don't get it explain please?
@@acasualquagsire8192 It's from the confrontation with the main villain, but out of context.
Do you know the episode and minute? would really help, couldn't find the clip on youtube...
@@brunofromont9812 it's from a meme from the games X and Y. Callum asks, "why are you crying? " lysandre says "pokemon"
Card art story has always been the best part for me, finally someone recognises it
“The cards tell a story”
the cards. the cards. the cards will tell: the past,the present and the future as well.
@@JT5555 lol that’s what I was going to say
Let's see, the tower, the tower, the tower aaaaaannnnnnnd whe- j/k, it's the tower again.
You are _brilliantly_ unlucky!
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
*laughs in war of the spark*
I appreciate that you can't find a single happy cubone art out there.
As it should be.
There should be an alternate Cubone where they are happy.
The saddest one is from my favorite artist, where its crying because it saw a cloud that looks like its mothers head
Damn what did cub one do to you
@@ThatmfJuli4n It was born.
@@aw-tismo1676 ok chill
My favorite is the one with the Tepig line. Its so cute watching the family grow up with their favorite mon
I have these too, I love them as well!
wasn't aware Pokemon cards could have a mini story with them, aww
Is a common trend in card games, yogioh did before pokemon but it is uncertain who exactly started
Magic the gathering does it all the time actually, it’s pretty cool
@@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
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.
I’ve never been so early
Gah that charmander series is adorable
Same here, and I agree.
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
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
4:44 You can clearly see the meowth got inked.
Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic: The Gathering do the same thing.
It's why I still love them.
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
0:24 "It's not gambling, it's surprise loot."
The XYZ portal sets are soo deep and seem scary I got goosebumps from watching it.
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!!
@@ObrigadaJim yea , I had the empoleon and some steam seige ones and e.t.c never thought of them more than that 😅
My brain autocorrected XYZ to the summoning mechanic of Yu-Gi-Oh!
@@lolface_9363 ohh
Same I got goosebumps
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
I love it when cards have stories. Good vid idea!
I find it funny that Gnoggin is right about the "reboot" theory from long ago, just in a different format.
"Than the world errupted with Pink! "
My worst nightmare! 😨
We need a part 2. This is EPIC STORYTELLING!
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.
I was legit talking about the charmander evolving with his trainer cards to my friends over discord two days ago. So good
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.
My favorite Yu-Gi-Oh story is the Warrior of Zera one and the interconnected Duel Terminal archetypes.
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).
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
@@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
I suggest diving into magic the gathering for card art storys then, I saw a bunch when i played for a bit.
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!
Not only is someone talking about the Emboar line cards, but it happens to be you! Awesome.
This, plus the art, are the only reason I still buy the cards.
The TCG is said to take place primarily in a region called Holon.
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".
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 )!
This is the episode I have been waiting for especially since ygo cards do the same I love the stories
I’m the kind of person who always collected to cards for the art. Glad to see a video like this :)
Do a contest where you analyze a couple of viewer-made fakemons and go over their origins
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.
Just saying, Yu-Gi-Oh cards have been doing this since the beginning.
Magic the Gathering too. Pretty much every card game does this actually lol
At least your guys favorite tcg is still a thing T-T
@@dezert956 Define, "Still a thing," because while the game Yu-Gi-Oh is still getting new cards, it has become an unfun NIGHTMARE to try and play it competitively.
@@ProjectSudoku Yeah Yugioh has it rough. From what I understand, y’all don’t have a draft format OR a multiplayer format. Those are the the main things that keep MTG alive…
@@ProjectSudoku Oh no, I'm talking about Fire Emblem Cipher. I always loved Yu Gi Oh cards as a kid, but my mom threw my collection away so I started collecting other tcg.
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.
When the tcg has a better storyline than the gen 8 games
True
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
I should have known he'd tie this into alchemy somehow
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
I love the clay, crayon, and yarn art cards
Same
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
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.
I actually Have both the Meowth and inkay cards and I put the next to each other in my pokemon card binder
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.
Lockstin: It all comes together
Me: *flashbacks*
Also me: *searching for that music video he did because it's a bop*
MAKE CARDS FOR THE KASKADE REGION
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.
i had so many of these card sets and never put the pieces together
Pokémon: *exists*
Lockstin: THE UNIVERSE IS BEING RESET! AZOTH! THE MULTIVERSE! ALCHEMYYYYYYYYYY!
Jk, love your videos, keep it up 😉
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
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.
Is it just me or that Charizard trainer kinda looks like a guy with a muscular counterpart who loves balls of fire and SMITING?
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.
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)
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)
Ya know, as much as you like Alchemy Lockstin, I wonder if you would ever cover the game Haunting Ground.
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)
The BREAK expansions show off Black City//White Forest, but in the XY expansion...
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.
i remember having that charizard card and some kid on the bus offered a scolipede, saying it was better, and 9yr me believed him. i am still pissed to this day
I have a lucario card with garchomp and giratina in the background and I have a question wasn’t there a tag team card with the garchomp and giratina
And the charmeleon
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
Just realized, but pokemon can evolve by age and they can not, if you remember when ash got treeko, there was an “old treeko” there
I have that full Charmander series and even though I have rainbow rare cards, the Charmander series is still my favorite card I have
A card, A CARD! My kingdom for a card.
1:27 I actually have that yveltal card right there! I absolutely love that card too, such great artwork!
I do too it’s a cool card
And now the same with yugioh cards. Have fun researching for years. Lol.
This is why I loved XY glad someone mentioned it.
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.
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!
Good lord, that last bit about Sun and Moon gave me MEGA flashbacks
Karen: pokemon teach children to be heartless
Me:
I have at least 3 of all the celebration arena cards
Edit: I also think there might be a beartic one too
Awesome a new TCG video (does anyone even know how to play it?)
I do!
@@Jormyyy I bow to you
@@Jormyyy Me too!
What about the battle styles alternate art tyranitar v there is a pignite in it that might be the genartion tepig
I too always loved the clay pokemon cards. yuka morii's style is truly amazing to look at.
Ok all I want is a Cubone card with the cubone reuniting with its mother
Please do a video with JoshJepson already, you look and sound so much alike.
I always loved the art that took place in N's Castle.
Okay, okay, gnoggin. I love you, your my favorite poketuber, your one of the best you tubers. But I’m kinda getting tired of the constant filler videos. I would love some more kaskade region or moves explained, or just some of the videos you’ve promised. I’m not angry, this isn’t a hate comment. Just constructive criticism to the constant wave of, Pokémon cards, or cresselia, or things like that. Sorry if this is kinda hurtful, just putting out an opinion
Those are a bit beefier of videos typically thus take longer to put out thus he’ll upload other stuff in the meantime. His channel isn’t just “fan region, moves, and types”..he also does theory videos and explain videos (of which he’s been doing longer, mind you, than the “promised videos” you want so much)!
Just wait and enjoy the new stuff coming in, it’s in no way exactly filler of which the stuff you want is more so filler than the stuff you claim is!
The wholesome pokemon stories honestly makes me wish pokemon were real, I really want to have an eevee as a pet.
3:55 Pokemon live MUCH longer than their trainers I think.
Ahh I see a copy of my 1995 ex lugia for $110,000
01:26
got a reverse holo Pikachu like that and it's so nice to look at it
Funny story combustion blast um is HORRIBLE
At 1:47 I used to own that charizard but I lost it and I’m so sad
Bro I'm about to cry with the family card😭😭