Team Rocket Strikes Fan: Pokémon-less TCG Pocket Cards Remind Everyone To Appreciate The Background Art

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cards have some striking Pokémon artwork, but removing the mon reveals the equally beautiful art underneath. The mobile game digitizes several existing cards and creates many completely unique entries into the TCG. Many fans agree that the cards look stunning in their new digital home, with Pokémon literally popping out of the cards. The new and old artwork both have one main thing in common, background art that sets the whole card's setting, style, and tone.

Pokéfan Bryantlicious on Reddit shared what they call "," cards that have had the Pokémon erased from the image. The Redditor jokes that the creatures are either not getting paid enough to continue to pose for their pictures, or "" Bryantlicious shares several cards with the Pokémon expertly removed from the scene, leaving no trace that they'd ever been there.

Separating the Pokémon from its setting makes it clearer how much thought goes into background illustrations. The cards show various settings in several art mediums, like a brightly illustrated field of flowers by a river (Psyduck), a desolate post-apocalyptic junkyard with plants starting to grow between the debris (Magnemite), a bare tree branch (Pidgey), a sparkling wave (Staryu), and a few others. The result is somewhat eerie and unsettling, but also incredibly beautiful.

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The background art without the Pokémon makes it easy to see how important the setting is to each card's atmosphere, whether it's colorful and whimsical or dark and gloomy (and everything in between). Many comments note how much more they appreciate the background now that they've seen it in isolation."" says Redditor Elitia_MM. ""

Some of the cards look especially striking without the Pokémon in the foreground, like the Metapod card, which is simply a photograph of a tree. The Magnemite card's background is particularly noteworthy for its bleak