ILLUSTRATION CONTEST 2024 Column A Conversation with Two Pokmon TCG Official Illustrators Akira Egawa and Narumi Sato We invited Pokmon TCG Official Illustrators Akira Egawa and Narumi Sato to chat, hoping they could provide some valuable hints for all those who plan on applying to the Pokmon Trading Card Game Illustration Contest 2022
You had to find a way to buff damage high enough to kill in two to three hits (Blackblade Reforged was a huge pickup back in the day!), you had to find Protection and Haste for your Commander as it was definitely going to be removed 3 or more times in a game, and you had to do this with comparatively limited access to card draw and ramp, at least compared to today, and at least if you werent playing Rafiq or someone else with green and blue
Lions Eye Diamond Forcing the player to discard their hand was a great attempt by the design team to balance Lion's Eye Diamond, but they still missed the mark
What set is Gandalf, Friend of the Shire Card from
Similar to Silvally-GX [Cosmic Eclipse], Bibarels Ability allows you to draw cards until you have five cards in your hand
The real path to victory lies in her ETB effect which allows us to manipulate our land count and their utility effects to win the game