The Vintage Dark Pokémon Cards
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2023
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The Team Rocket set of Pokémon Trading Card Game was the fourth set. The main gimmick of this set was the addition of the "Dark" Pokémon, Pokémon that were raised by Team Rocket as they went down a less than ideal path. Let's take a look at every Dark Pokémon from the Team Rocket set as well as a few promos and the ones from Pokemon Trading Card Game 2.
Intro, Background, Pallet Town Remix by Joshua C. Griffin.
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You missed the joke on Dark Kadabra's artwork. 'Spoon bending' is usually understood to be an exhibition of psychic power but this one is literally just snapping a spoon in half with its bare hands.
Literally how Uri Geller does it. He then hides it and then slowly extends it while rubbing it. 😂
"I don't need no psychic powers to bend spoons" - Dark Kadabra
maybe that's why uri got offended 🤣🥄
MIND CRUSH
“Dark Pokémon? Like Umbreon?”
“No, Dark Pokémon like Gyrados.”
“Oh… so Mega Gyrados?”
“No, normal Gyrados.”
“…I’m confused.”
"you can't be confused, I didn't flatter you"
I like to called them "Evil pokemon" or "Stray pokemon"
They're basically the precursor to Shadow Pokemon
It's like Dark....but not "Dark" Dark. Just, Dark.
They are called “Bad Pokemon” in Japanese, and I think it’s meant to imply that the Pokemon misbehaved or is like a juvenile delinquent
I still have 17 unopened rocket booster packs, 9 of them are first edition. I had no idea I never opened these as a kid, or maybe my parents lost some presents but they found them the other week when moving
thats bad ass. you should keep those and not open them for really really long time.
Damn that is an insane find
@@LordJudgement1818 They could sell one right now and get a weeks pay from it.
Whaaat, no way. You could probably buy a car with those
for sale? 👀👀
11:34 “Risking the sanity of your own Pokémon” is the greatest thing I’ve heard someone say pertaining to a Pokémon being confused.
TCG artwork has always been a great way to show nice sides of Pokémon that may be impossible to showcase otherwise
This video reminded me of such
I knew right away that I wanted Dark Slowbro to be on the cover for that reason.
So the short version of why dark raichu delayed the english release of Team Rocket:
This was an original card designed by the americans at WotC, and they fought tooth and nail to get it approved, and nintendo took so long to finally approve it that the set printing was disrupted.
This is the first crack in the licensing deal that eventually led to the switch of production to Pokemon Company in 2003.
So Dark Raichu really does have some black clouds surrounding it...
I really like that Dark Dragonair and Dark Dragonite have powers that play off each other. Dragonair lets you setup with evo chains, then Dragonite lets you immediately play the base form and get started building your combo.
This was my main deck in tcg2. D. Dragonair + nite lets you set up your entire deck for free. Throw in a couple of D. Clefables for damage reduction too
These Dark dragons are a case where I think they surpass the originals for that reason
If you are building a vintage dark deck. It’s best to play your dragons with some powerful stage 3 dark pokemon cards like Dark Blastoise and Dark Venusaur. Both are much easier to bring out if you have some dragons on your bench.
Those cards actually helped me win my first ever card tournament.
I gotta say, this set has some of my favorite artwork in the entire TCG. Mitsuhiro Arita especially was absolutely on fire here.
Of course, a lot of these cards found their way into my decks at the time. In particular, Dark Muk could tear through unprepared opponents, and Rocket Slowpoke (which let you get back trainer cards) alongside Dark Slowbro were an amazing way to recycle cards. I have a lot of nostalgia for this set xD
I agree, some of the artwork is fantastic here. Dark Golduck was the one that impressed me the most after really looking at them
@@Paraspectre Absolutely. If I could get a poster-sized version of the Dark Golduck illustration framed on my wall, I would
i was so proud of having a dark raichu back as a kid, even so the card was in a bad shape. I though it was so rare because of it's number 83/82 and were a print error. Nice to finally know some background about that.
I would've absolutely thought it was a printing error too. I don't think I ever had it.
I love the more gimmicky cards from the early days of the game. Sure, most dark Pokemon were pretty bad, but I thought they were cool as a kid, and the concept of Pokemon that have low HP, but stronger attacks is a good idea. I know they were introduced a bit later on, but seeing a video on the Light Pokemon at some point would be nice.
I certainly thought about doing the Light Pokemon in the future. And also the rest of the Dark ones. A part two, if you will
When I was younger I traded my normal cyndequil for a delta cyndequil that was a psychic type.
This is funny knowing that Hisuan Typhlosion is ghost/psychic now might’ve predicted that
@@MustacheDLuffyHisuan Typhlosion is fire/ghost
@@redkun5yeah but the card is psychic type
They should have done dark basics in addition to the evo cards they did. Most of them didn't see any play because the non dark versions from base/jungle/fossil were better. After all why would you play dark blastoise when base blastoise's rain dance is a format defining pokemon power?
This video made my day. Not only because it is quality content, but because I got to see awesome nostalgic artwork that I haven't thought of in 20 years.
Same, I loved these cards as a child
Haha well I'm glad I could help you reconnect!
If I recall the story behind Dark Raichu correctly on why it single handedly caused a massive delay to the rocket set was a mix of the contract WotC had with Nintendo and with the speed of communication at the time. WotC was only allowed to print and distribute the translated cards Nintendo allowed out west, so it was a big deal for them when the WotC execs thought up the Dark Raichu card and appealed to make it, this would be the first pokemon card they'd be allowed to make. Getting permission for this was going to be much slower than it would be if done today. In the 90's, the modes for this communication required a bilingual secretary on both fronts to transcribe and explain the thoughts of both parties, and then they needed to send out a letter with this info to the other company, or an email which would be similarly slow due to the state the tech was at during this time period. They probably delayed the set initially to hear back on their proposal, only to delay the set further because they would have to finalize the design of the card, do some balance checks, and set up another print slot exclusively for it.
Ah, very interesting. It's funny that one little Raichu card was what caused all of these issues.
@@ParaspectreDark Raichu had succeeded in causing evil and mischief because of that
I have a PSA 9 Dark Arbok that was owned by the DJ/producer Steve Aoki. Incredible artwork that has a chest pattern that was never replicated, I love it so much.
Dark Arbok's English card also had a typo, I think it was the copyright year having an extra digit. I remember seeing it as a kid when I first opened it.
Dark Hypno has always been one of my FAVORITE retro Holo cards. Not necessarily a fan of Hypno itself, but that card is just GORGEOUS. ❤
9:20 so the reason Dark Raichu delayed the set had nothing to do with it being Pikachu's evolution, but because Media Factory and GameFreak wouldn't allow Wizards to make any cards on their own without approval. In fact any changes they made had to be approved. This caused a lot of issues, for example when they mistranslated Slowking, they couldn't issue Errata to it because that would have contradicted the official translation they were given for it, and thereby have jeopardized their agreement.
The Jamboree set (I think it was Jamboree) was supposed to have been a set constructed entirely by Wizards so that it would have been balanced but more over, completely created by Wizards. I think it actually got canned before their contract did though, and while i've asked the Master Trainers if they have any assets for it, they do not. Perhaps another Wizard's employee does.
There were occasions like with Dark Vileplume where they accidentally changed a fire type to a fighting type since they start with the two same letters and probably had similar macros, They made that one play as written but were able to correct obvious mistakes like Blaine's Charizard
There's a great video about Jamboree made by MATOBA DESIGN that goes over everything about it. He even got to interview some guys who formally worked for Wizards during their Pokemon era and actually got 3 prototype Jamboree cards (including pictures of the cards).
@@RednekGamurz no shit? I need to see that.
Ah, very interesting. All I could find is that the card delayed the release, so that helps clarify things.
@@Paraspectre I watch the matoba design video that redneck recommended and it's incredibly elucidating. I think you would enjoy it. It turns out I might have been a little wrong about a handful of things in minor ways but a lot of it lines up with what my understanding of the relationship between Wizards and the Pokemon company was. It really sucks because the people who were working on the card game Stateside really appreciated what they were doing but the people at the top really did not. Ultimately I think bringing Pokemon in house was the best idea though it is a shame we never got the vending cards. As it turns out that we may have been getting the Jamboree cards in ex sandstorm
Yeah, because of PTCG's unexpected scale of success, WOTC DESPERATELY wanted to be more involved in the card creation and balancing process, instead of just translating and distributing cards (and overseeing events) overseas as intended by TPC (see: Jamboree) - the creation of Dark Raichu and successfully getting Neo Genesis Sneasel banned (after years of begging TPC to let them ban problematic cards like Neo Genesis Slowking) were perhaps their most successful attempts as working their way into getting a bigger slice of the pie. Of course, as we all know TPC eventually got fed up with this and it was undoubtedly a big (if not the biggest) reason TPC made the decision to not renew WOTC's license after Skyridge. It's a weird situation where neither side is really in the right (TPC was in a lot of ways uncaring and out of touch with foreign PTCG scenes, but WOTC repeatedly and deliberately overstepped their contractual bounds).
Also want to second the Matoba Design videos as well as Deltaseeker's "When Wizards Made the Pokemon TCG (and how they lost it)" video, which give a lot of insight.
There need to be more Dark Pokemon Cards. Not just gen 1 and 2, but given how Team Rocket is becoming a multi gen -> multiversal threat, they should showcase it. And also revive some of the artwork like Dark Dragonair, Dark Charmeleon, Dark Jolteon, and the can make Kadabra's again. I'm not going to write "Dark" everything so, and only using the final stages:
Venusaur; Charizard; Blastoise; Beedrill; Raichu; Golem; Alakazam; Machamp; Gengar; Annihilape; Ampharos; Crobat;
Arbok; Muk; Weezing; Hypno; Gyarados; Marowak; Slowbro; Slowking; Magnezone; Vileplume; Bellossom; Dragonite;
Golduck; Persian; Rapidash; Rhyperior; Aggron; Donphan; Steelix; Feraligatr; Typhlosion; Houndoom; Porygon Z;
Tyranitar; Salamence; Yanmega; Malamar; Kabutops; Omastar; Tyrantrum; Aurorus; Scizor; Ariados; Magcargo;
Electivire; Magmortar; Ursaluna; Ratticate; Exeggutor; Forretress; Wigglytuff; Celebi; Mewtwo; Jellicent; Amoongus;
Vaporeon; Jolteon; Flareon; Sylveon; Espeon; Leafeon; Umbreon; Glaceon; Alolan Ninetales; Staarmie; Gougeist;
Lickilicky; Delphox; Greninja; Chesnaught; Electrode; Weavile; Parasect; Honchkrow; Mamoswine; Kingler; Drapion;
Farigiraf; Banette; Mightyena; Cloyster; Tentacruel; Granbull; Dusknoir; Drednaw; Scolipede; Nidoking; Lurantis;
Armaldo; Cradily; Xatu; Azumarill; Articuno; Zapdos; Moltres; Lugia; Ludicolo; Exploud; Hariyama; Camerupt; Claydol;
Luxray; Drifblim; Serperior; Emboar; Samurott; Watchog; Whimsocott; Basculegion; Galarian Darmanitan; Crustle;
Scrafty; Garbodor; Reuniclus; Escavalier; Accelgor; Klinklang; Hydreigon; Florgess; Pangoro; Meowstic; Dubwool;
Aromatisse; Slurpuff; Crabominable; Toxapex; Mudsdale; Araquanid; Salazzle; Silvally; Greedent; Thievul; Eldegoss;
Toxtricity; Grapploct; Hatterene; Runerigus; Kleavor;
Team Rocket was the first (and only) set I tried to collect in its entirety. Iirc I was only missing Dark Charizard. Ah, fond memories.
It's a pretty awesome set to own. I recently decided to collect them all as well, but decided against it at the last minute. I want to stick to the first three only.
In terms of humans vs. humans metagame, Dark Vileplume is by far the best of these cards, as early-TCG trainers are extremely powerful and what the game revolves around
Also you could play as many trainer cards as you want
I did see that Dark Vileplume had a bit of a reputation. I really don't know much about the metagame or tournament history or anything like that.
I hope we’ll get an analysis of Light Pokémon as well, but those were gen2 cards. Too bad they didn’t continue the tcg game series further…
Dark Arbok was my favorite. The Holo one in the Rocket starter deck was such an awesome card. That deck also came with a really shiny meowth coin, which I always associated with the fact that meowths likes hunting for shiny objects. Definitely a highlight in the Pokémon TCG history.
If Anihilape existed back then the Dark Primeape's power could have been good if it added in a "if Dark Primeape is knocked out by this effect you can place an Anihilape onto the bench from your hand or deck as a basic Pokemon."
I love it. And I love Annihilape.
That would be really cool
As a long time team rocket fan, these were some of my favorite cards along with their light counterparts. The only one I have left is dark gyrados. Maybe I'll get more cards
It's funny, I started re-collecting all of the Team Rocket cards, but then decided against it. I just want to stick with Base, Jungle, Fossil and certain promos 😊
I love the dark pokemon cards. To this day Dark Arbok is one of my favorite cards period due to its design. I wish that was its shiny. One day I'd love to have all the original dark cards but I forget which ones I'm missing, I just know I have Dark Charizard, Arbok, Golduck and Primeape at least with Dark Tyranitar and Dragonite from team rocket returns.
Yeah, Dark Arbok is one of the coolest ones in the set. It's pretty good too.
I love this set so much. I'm still bitter that my holo Dark Charizard was stolen from me at an event when I was about 10 :(
Come on, who stole it? We need to track this fool down.
When I was a kid I attempted to steal a charizard from a kid showing. It off in a park I don't remember if I did it or not because I only collected them and didn't play but if I did I'm horrible and sorry about yours being stolen
I guess I got karma cus both my yellow version and later on an emerald version I was borrowing from a friend got stolen from me
Duuude my dark charizard got stolen during at school during the break... It wasn't holo but I decorated the background with a gold glittery pen... man the rage I felt
9:46 Wizards of The Coast actually wanted to produce their own cards for quite a while, and Dark Raichu was the first one they had made. They needed to await approval from Nintendo’s Japanese side to add the card to the set. There’s an entire cancelled expansion made by Wizards called Jamboree
That's not true.... The cards were designed by Creatures inc and published by Media Factory. Dark Richu was already made and was going to be the secret rare for Neo 2 set. Wizards was inspired by that and did it to the Current Rocket set. Remember back then Japanese release was ahead about 2 years......
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo wdym? i remember a vid about the unreleased jamboree set mentioning the creation of Dark Raichu being a Wizards original. Do you have a source? I'll look for mine if I can recall it.
i posted a link ig it just didnt go through
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo deltaseeker's 'when wizards made the pokemon tcg'
@@neonthunder3261 I've seen that video and he's wrong. Wizards only had the right to publish and print the cards in the US and international markets. The only card they were officially allowed to tinker was the black star promo Mewtwo with a different artwork done by Christopher Rush. Wizards did a lot of fuckery that would cost them their license. They had bad QC compared to Media Factory, made so many translation errors, reinterpreted the rules and did what ever they wanted with the tournament which really pissed of creatures inc and game freak. Also them always scrambling cards to different releases dates and making reprint sets like base set 2/ legendary collection really annoyed them too.... There is a lot more but I don't remember all of it.
The Rocket set was the one set I was able to collect all the first editions of
I was so proud of that when I was little…
I need to find the binder it was in
Ive only watched the first 12 mins so far, but as you are going thru each card, kinda surprised you don't mention the misprint errors such as on Dark Arbok and Vileplume and Dragonite, etc.
I think it's kind of neat that Dark Golbat is the only regular holo Golbat card ever made. I also absolutely LOVE the Dark Dragonair, Dark Dugtrio, Dark Magneton, Dark Hypno, and Dark Golduck artwork in this set. Thanks for the video!
I really dig Dark Primeape art. It just looks so exhausted, but still with some fight in it.
That's a good point. It's so angry and full of rage that it wore itself out, but has to keep going. Man, I love Primeape.
I was thinking it looks angry and a lil rabid, that sort of posing is common when depicting characters that have gone crazy in anime 🙂 and the background is like a jungle, and it's been jumping between branches pursuing its foe
To quote Pokemon Sprite Guy: There's just something about its obvious anger combined with restrained body language that suggests that thing is about to snap and kill someone. The fact that it's standing in some weird Salvador Dali land probably helps make the illustration unsettling.
I would love to see a video on the light cards and shining cards as well
Thanks for including the TCG2 exclusives! Made the video feel complete and I enjoyed rewatching it :)
I was curious about how many would stay and watch that part again.
Cool thing tonote about Dark Machamp: he isn't wearing a belt!
No wonder he basically has an insta-kill move. His super strength isn't being limited by the restraining belt like it normally would!
Dude that opening was really cool. Really dig the production on these vids
When i got into pokemon the first 3 sets were already out so Team rocket was my first new release as a collector. Very cool set, love the artwork. The gym series that came after have the best art of any set and i wish modern cards looked as good! I own an almost complete set of team rocket :)
I loved those cards. The art was great
I love collecting the Dark Pokémons. The art is so amazing!
Love the graboid reference. Tremors is my favorite movie series that nobody talks about.
I don't mean to brag, but...I've seen every Tremors movie 😏
I'm getting back into vintage Pokemon card collecting. This video was a happy surprise for me today! Working to collect the entire Base Set right now.
I fully support your decision. I’m just missing stupid Charizard (of course). I wish more people I knew wanted to play haha
Great video. Hopefully you'll cover the light Pokemon cards next!
Paraspecter,
Thank you for giving these dark pokemon cards some love. I absolutely adore the offbeat art style of the rocket set. My sister and I are big enthusiasts of the older cards and have a "kanto cup" box filled with decks themed off kanto trainers, places etc. One of our decks is the "Rocket Grunt" deck with primary dark pokemon and rocket trainer cards, such a fun set of cards!
loved this video! maybe more deep dives from other vintage line subsets?
IIRC the reason Dark Raichu had to be approved by Nintendo is that it was designed by Wizards of the Coast, who at the time handled the distribution of Pokemon TCG outside Japan, as a special bonus card. That's also why it got a western release before a Japanese one. Since it wasn't designed by the people normally responsible for designing the cards they had to get an OK from Nintendo/the Pokemon Company to do it.
Interesting...yeah I couldn't find anything on it, but that makes sense. Kinda funny that one card out of number order is the one to cause all of the issues.
Yes it would’ve been nice to see Dark Gengar and Dark Ninetales get released. When I played GB2, I would usually just keep Dark Gengar on my Bench to use its awesome pokemon power. Dark Ninetales of course would be fantastic in any deck flipping 9 coins as vintage pokemon all had very little HP.
As for the released ones, without a doubt the best ones were Dark Blastoise, Dark Venusaur, Dark Vileplume, Dark Slowbro, and Dark Dragonair.
For Dark Vileplume, Dark Slowbro, and Dark Dragonair, I would only keep them on the bench for their pokemon power. Keep in mind that combos using Dark Slowbro/Dark Dragonair’s PPower, master ball, pokemon trader, pokemon breeder were all excellent ways to bring out all of your evolution Pokemon really quickly in the old meta.
Yeah, I love this group here. Dark Venusaur may even be my favorite dark card
Can I just say, I love your choice of background. That tiny pixelated 😮 pikachu is too cute!
I also love the background! Joshua Griffin does some excellent work.
I really love the Rainbow in the Dark rendition in the background
🤘🏻
Ive always been a big fan of dark gloom, especially in tcg2. I always ran him on a puppet master Hypno team,. Clefairy dolls cannot be confused, so its just a free chance to cause mayhem. It also synergizes with Snorlax for the same reason.
Many of these card artworks look so wonky, but I kind of love it. Off-model pokemon can look very interesting in their own right, but with many of these you can really see behind the scenes what materials and techniques they used. Primeape looks like it was drawn with simple coloring pencils and then scanned, while Arbok gives me the vibe that it was cut out from paper and then pasted into its new home. I later also had some cards that had pokemon modeled from play dough. I never had many cards or anyone to play, but I love how varied techniques were back then. Do they still do this nowadays? I don't know.
My favorite artwork has to be that ridiculous Dugtrio. It's a clean artwork with power behind it, and the setting is just funny. In terms of effect, that Alakazam is my favorite. I love bench damage and poison as well, but with how frail the Rocket mons are, a hit and run Alakazam seems much more feasible. I also like U-Turn in the video games a lot, and that's basically that.
I wonder if it being in a house and that it's a dark mon, maybe it's a small reference to the diglet guy's house that got robbed by Team Rocket
Yeah, like I said with the Dark Ivysaur, it looks like it was drawn with a sharpie and that's pretty cool. And I also love that Dark Dugtrio artwork. That poor bedroom.
@@honjon666 I also thought that this could be the Cerulean City house, but I didn't say it. Either way, it's pretty funny.
Back then, the game freak design team( who also create the artwork) very much were true artist using true principles that were applied in analog mediums. There is a alot of elitism to pre 2004 artwork and their is merit to it. You really saw the different art style of each artist, and saw their unique voice and their unique interpretation of the franchise. Sugimori with his Japanese watercolor, unique shading , Akira Toriyama influenced art style is the definitive interpretation of the franchise. Arita with his grungy sketching and later went all Caravaggio with his accuracy. Hemino usually had this scratchy fairytale texturing, while really personifying the monsters. Kizuki was a abstract artist while playing with surrealist themes. Komiya was another abstract artist with a primitive Paleo art style that played with dark or heavy themes and loved to apply humor as well. Morii with her clay model dioramas just popped and somehow made the monsters feel real in a way. I mean I can go on and on........
The art now in general is super bland and cheap. Everything now is so homogenized due to the fact it's all digital, and using the same programs. Game freak has stated that they their design ethos is everything cute and pretty which is why the monsters look so different starting in gen 3. The company really changed when Tajiri left and game freak went corporate, and for a lot of radical fans the real Pocket monsters was gen 1 and and 2 with crystal as the conclusion.
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo Honestly, I'm very close to becoming "a radical fan" as time goes on as well. I still really like what comes out of the franchise in terms of monster designs, but with every generation, they feel a bit more sterile to better fit toy design or something. Gen1 and 2 have my favorite artwork, where Gen3 and onwards, I mostly focus on the design itself rather than how the artwork looks style-wise, because it's so much less expressive.
Thank you for all these artist name drops! I'm gonna look through their work for sure. I'm a big fan of Sugimori's early work, Hidari (for Fire Emblem Echoes and Toukiden 2 among other things) and I love the character art for Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre Let us cling together. But I rarely go out to actually find new artists, I mostly find them through games and other media I consume.
Dark Clefable and Dark Dragonite alone made Dark pokemons broken in TCG 2. It didn’t matter that they had bad stats, being close to invulnerable to damage was ridiculous.
The artwork is bringing me back to my elementary memories and I’m loving it
I got a box of random Pokemon card packs as a kid including a Japanese pokemon card pack. I ended up getting a Japanese Light Dragonite from the japanese card pack. I always new it was a Dragonite but I didn't learn that it was Light Dragonite until years later since I don't speak Japanese. I like the Team Rocket and Dark and Light Pokemon cards. I also like that Pokemon Go implemented Dark and Light Pokemon as well as I have a Light Dragonite in that also.
This Team Rocket/Dark Set is my favorite, just got Dark Marowak and Dark Celebi both with swirls!!! Gonna put this cards in black border toploaders, gonna look cool af!
I remember a card shop at the old Greengate Mall (which has been closed for over 20 years) in Greensburg PA that displayed baseball and Pokemon cards. They Had Team Rockets Dark Slowbro on display and i thought it was the coolest looking card ever.
Dark Gloom is by far the most epic version of Gloom I have ever seen.
Great video! One on Gym Challenge would be awesome.
More trivia about the dark series:
1. Dark Kadabra was the biggest offense to Uri Geller banning the Pokémon’s merch distribution. Kadabra’s Japanese name is a nod to the illusionist, so adding “Dark/Bad” to the title offended and thought it defamed him. That’s why we haven’t seen a Kadabra card for about 20 years with Uri apologizing and Pokémon releasing the 151 card set afterwards.
2. Dark Dragonite actually has a sought-after error card where it’s the non-holo version with the holo numbering in the card set. Sells for a pretty penny if you have any!
The thing about the TR dark persian is that's it supposed to be frail from being abused, which is really saddening :(
one of my best friends back in the day used a rain dance deck that had the dark dragonaire and dragonnight and dark gyarados. that was a strong deck
Heck yeah, nice combo. It's funny that now I go out of my way to NOT think of strong decks for the channel haha
@@Paraspectre it was definitely his best deck.
Oh heck yeah. Every Time you have a video come out it reminds me of all the decks me and my friends cooked up back in the day. I miss that time.
19:15
Keep in mind you don't have to discard the energy card (as it says "you may").
If you don't, it just does 30 damage for 2 energy. Not a bad trade back then.
I have an OG dark muk/dark golbat+dark crobat deck and it’s really cool.
Nobody thought Dark Raichu's number was a typo, pretty sure everyone always just thought it was a cool "secret" card.
The dark dugtrio design reminds me of the rocket grunt that you find in celadon behind the house that is ramshackleled
Great video! Would love to see you take on Neo Destiny”s Light and Dark mons too!
I may very well move onto those
I actually have the Legendary Collection reverse holo Dark Blastoise. No idea where I got it, and I don't have any other Legendary Collection card nor did I ever get any LC packs as a kid. The LC reverse holo looks amazing, even if it's not super readable. Ended up getting the Base Set Rattata reverse holo during the 2020 TCG craze.
The whole Pokemon having different fates based on their Trainer is really cool, and I'm sad that they really haven't explored it since Neo Destinies.
Cool looking cards, made me wanna buy a card even tho I have never collected stuff
Bad: Paraspectre uploaded 18hrs ago and I didn't know despite being subscribed and ringing that bell
Good: I have a chill video to watch after a hard day at work
It sucks hearing that loyal subscribers still don't know when I post videos 😡 Thanks a lot, UA-cam
The guy in Dark Magneton's art is so loyal to Team Rocket that he carved an R straight through his body
DARK CHARIZARD HAS MY FAVORITE CARD ART OF ALL TIME AND IT WAS IN THE PACK I HAVE EVER OPENED AND CHARIZARD IS MY FAVORITE POKEMON 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You are such a good youtuber! Keep this going brother!
Why thank you! It's really nice to hear when these videos of me just talking about cards can still find an audience.
I like the version of rainbo iin the dark playing in the background at the beginning of the video.
these were some pretty interesting ideas
Some cool cards for one of the first gimmicky sets
Christmas 1999. My american ass was visiting my aunt and uncle in the UK for the holidays. My uncle was working in Japan regularly in finance at the time and my aunt was pregnant with their first kids at the time.
Uncle Chris brought me back a pack or two of japanese pokemon cards he happened to grab at probably the airport in tokyo. He knew i liked pokemon.... i was 7, it was 1999 - this was more important than anything else to us back then.
I pulled a japanese holofoil dark blastoise from that pack and lost my mind so hard i think my uncle was concerned. Still have that card. Probably would grade a 10 because it went straight into safe keeping that very day.
Thanks Uncle Chris
That’s awesome. Dark Blastoise SHOULD be the most valuable in the set if I had things my way
My sister had a lot of the dark/light and gym leader cards! They were so cool!
Not sure if it’s just my speaker setup but man the intro was much louder than your voice, with the exception of when it peaks during sentences. Fantastic video, regardless of sound issues
They remind me a bit of shadow pokemon from Pokemon Coliseum, which are just corrupted versions of normal pokemon, but would often be much stronger than ordinary pokemon of that type.
I have a dark Wartortle i got as a hand me down and its not in great shape but ive held onto it for about 15 years now and ill never get rid of it.
We need part 2 of the dark cards loool.
Do more!
It was a mistake not making Dark Clefable a real Pokémon card(33:21). Clefairy, its pre-evolved form, is one of the Pokémon available at the Celadon Game Corner which is run by Team Rocket.
YOOOOO THE DIO RAINBOW IN THE DARK PIANO BACKGROUND MUSIC IS CRAZY
🤘🏻
WHEN I SEE LIGHTNING
YOU KNOW IT ALWAYS BRINGS ME DOWN
'CAUSE IT'S FREE AND I SEE THAT IT'S ME
WHO'S LOST AND NEVER FOUND!
It did have some really powerful trainer, but other than Dark Vileplume there isn't any playable Pokémon.
We had a load of old Gen 1 cards with a few Unowns thrown in for good measureat my grandparents. Those stupid cards made me start calling the party the bench in my original copy of SoulSilver (which I still hadn't beaten; who knew only using Typhlosion and keeping Flame Wheel until the bitter end wouldn't end well). One of those cards was Dark Machoke, and Drag Off seemed like a really interesting move. Kinda like Dragon Tail, but it hits the one who gets switched in. I liked to imagine that Machoke was literally hitting the opponent using the active Pokemon. I wonder what would happen if it was in the main series - I like to see it as a 60 Base Power Dark-type move, and I can already imagine all sorts of cruel strats involving Drag Off and Stealth Rocks.
I love that a couple of these cards deal with the bench switching in and out and damage being dispersed around. Dark Machoke isn't messing around.
Some of my all-time favorite card art come from _Team Rocket,_ so many absolutely incredible illustrations, so many just look so powerful, ominous, and dangerous, but one that I didn't notice being particularly important as a kid but see now for what it is, is Dark Magneton, which we see is the implied abuse and mistreatment turning it "dark" from the simple strokes giving it a mean and angry expression with the shadow of it's abuser smiling, as though it's enjoying the inhumane acts they're carrying out and their awful results. 😢
Also, Dark Alakazam & Dark Machamp reminded me of the time one of my friends tried to convince another friend that trading Kadabra cards will evolve them into Alakazam cards because Psychic Pokémon cards were special and that's how they evolved in-game 😂
Haha that’s awesome. I mean the vending set DID have the mail in thing to “evolve” Kadabra, Machoke, etc
Part of the reason I like wartortle is I have a dark card of it.
Adds some character I might say
Dark Raichu was the only card designed by WotC in the USA. That's why it came out in English first, and it had to be 'approved by Nintendo'
Dark and Light Pokemon are my favorite special Pokemon card types. EX and TagTeam are the best as far as newer designs go, but I like the simplicity of Dark and Light; they are unique enough and do different things while not just being "It goes more damage and/or has a bunch more HP so you get extra prizes." I wish it was a design space they went back to rather then just upping the stats and +1ing the prize you get for KOing it.
Dark Vileplume is baller even in conjunction with trainer cards, considering you can use as many as you want and *then* gate off your opponent. My favorite deck for TCG2 combos Hay Fever and Neutral Damage Mr. Mime with Muk's Toxic Gas so I can revert my own abilities when it benefits me most, making them much less of a double-edged sword.
Yeah, I’ve heard Dark Vileplume used to be pretty epic
Whats the piano cover playing in the background? Its really good
I always liked "dark" pokemon but their low hp was always a liability. That was until they released rocket support with e
Later sets.
I used an electric dark mon deck with the stadium that increased their hp by 20 and dark energies to buff their attacks
The Dark Wartortle artwork made me uncomfortable when I was a child 😁 it just looked so mean
18:22 As a kid I compared the rock machoke is lifting to the one that base set machop is lifting with it's one arm. The dark machoke doesn't seem as strong.
These are some of my fav vintage cards, had to click this vid
My favorite set and the one I am working on
I think I used to have a Dark Muk. I still have Dark Arbok. It has the wizards of the coast logo in the bottom right corner of the picture.
Have some great nostalgia from this time period and the 2nd TCG game is worth checking out translated rom.
9:45 - dogs jump through hoops, not over them.
I have 9 old school packs 2 of which are rocket. I got them out of those mystery power box things and because im not stupid i didn't open them, i know they are far more valuable sealed
Hi! New to your channel as of making this comment, but im about 4 videos in and im loving them all! Im currently on your middle evolution vid and im so glad theres someone else that appreciates Charmeleon! I like Charizard a lot, but I've honestly always gave a slight edge to Blastoise in terms of favoritism all time, but yeah Charmeleon is just soooo underrated. I wonder how itd be if they kept Charizard with the darker red skin that Charmeleon has 🤔 which also makes me agree with the point in this video from the Team Rocket set, that Charmeleons card art is definitely more badass than Charizards.
Golduck is one of my favorite Gen 1 Pokemon and it's Dark's version is my favorite TR card with Dark Hypno coming in second and Dark Rapidask coming in third.
Definitely agree on the Dark Golduck and Hypno artwork. Awesome stuff.
In 6th my uncle gave me his Pokemon cards, lots of base set and stuff. Only holo I got was a first edition machamp. Anyways, my first dark Pokemon was dark omastar. It’s my favorite Pokemon
Can confirm. We thought Raichu was an error. I remember having this discussion on a Saturday morning in a books a million cafe during Pokémon league way back 😂
I can see the argument now with someone laying out all 82 cards to see where Raichu should’ve been