The Pokémon TCG has just revealed the full product line for its 30th Anniversary set, and it includes a killer promo card for Nidorina, the Pokémon at #30 on the National Pokedex. There are 30 Nidorina hidden away on this Illustration Rare, the promo card from the set’s Elite Trainer Box which will be available from September 16.
While all but Nidoking are often forgotten these days, the entire Nidoran line are some of my favorite Gen 1 Pokémon. I love how this little poisonous freak evades any direct comparisons to a real world animal. The line combines traits of an echidna, a rabbit, and some sort of half-mammal, half-reptile synapsid. If it does have any direct source of inspiration, it’s likely one of the Godzilla-verse monsters, Baragon. We could do with more Pokémon inspired by kaiju, honestly.
Alongside the ETB, which looks positively royal in white and gold, The Pokémon Company showed off its full list of products for this set. Releasing alongside the main booster packs in September there’s the Knock Out collection, a dinky box with just two booster packs, a coin, and a really pretty foil Eevee card. There’s also the Poster Collection which, alongside an unrevealed poster, has three boosters and a promo card for each of Kanto’s legendary birds.
Then there’s theTech Sticker collection, with three boosters, stickers, and an Alolan Exeggutor or Lucario promo; and the Pokémon ex boxes, one for Sylveon and one for Greninja, with four boosters, and two promos of their titular cards (one regular, one oversized).
More products arrive later on, with a binder collection and mini tins coming in early October, and Espeon and Umbreon ex battle decks releasing at the end of that month. You can find the entire product list over on the Pokémon website.
I have my concerns about how incredibly sought after this Pokémon set is going to be. Hopefully TPC will have some way of counteracting the scalper hordes, because I’d like to get my hands on an ETB for that Nidorina promo alone!
Source: Wargamer
