Espurr – Incandescent Arcana
The Japanese sets are always a step ahead, and this is Asako Ito’s most recently published card, from what will eventually become the West’s Silver Tempest collection this November. So let’s hope it’ll join that missing Swirlix in arriving on our shores by then. These two most recent cards seem to mark a step forward in how backdrops are being designed, the felt work even more refined, with a greater sense of depth. Which means I just cannot wait to see what Pokémon she gets to take on next, when next year’s Scarlet & Violet sets start to appear.
What a wonderful collection of cards, that I now feel fully obliged to own in their entirety. And thankfully, given they’re all from the last decade, this isn’t an especially over-ambitious target.
