Pokémon Trading Card Gamefans often share crazy stories about finding cards and booster packs in the most random places, but this one joke post has prompted the comments to create an entire war story to support its lore. The card in question is an impressive pull, but its ridiculous joke backstory is even more impressive.
“Haven’t opened a pack since 1953,” begins the post byEdboy2319on Reddit, then continues: “but told the wife while in the car to look for some packs in my grandma’s abandoned attic and she pulled this.” Pictured is a graded Shiny Mew ex card from thePaldean Fatesset, which currently has a market value of $234.11 USD according toTCG Player. More impressive than just getting this card isthe implication that Edboy2319 was opening cards back in 1953, over 50 years beforePokémonwas even created.
The comments immediately took over the story, providing lore for the card and its owner. The comments quickly became home to a collaborative war story in an alternate reality wherePokémoncards were available in the trenches of World War I.
Pokémon TCG Fans Create Tear-Jerking War Backstory For Meme Post
“I Can Heal, But The Card Can’t”
Though the original poster was playing with theheavily memed trope of “finding” old packs in unexpected places, the community took the idea and ran with it in the comments. Reddit userTA2556jumped right into the story, giving the cards some more background:
“Haven’t opened a pack since the trenches in WW1. I remember my last letter before being sent back home after the war:
‘Its cold today. My boots, as always, are soaked through and the only comfort in the world I have is my daily rations; a cold, pressed meat, and saltless crackers. And also, a single pack of Evolving Skies Pokemon cards. My hopes are present, but low.'”
Other commenters quickly joined in, creating an entire war-torn setting worthy of a high-budget movie.DonShinocontinues the tale, writing:
“The artillery won’t stop. The enemy presses our lines with a furious rage rarely seen in man. I lost three friends in the past week. I would have joined them, if not for my top loaded Gardevoir EX deflecting the bullet in my chest pocket. My hit, took the hit for me, and I am literally shaking right now.”
The tear-jerking tale struck a chord with otherPokémonTCGfans, whomight not know the horrors of war but certainly know the horrors of damaging a PSA 10 card. “It is no longer PSA 10, I wish I had taken the bullet instead,” writes userpolo61965, andastroglider42069adds on, “I can heal, but the card can’t.” The comments quickly escalated to the very absurd, showing the darkly silly side of the card-collecting community.
Our Take: We Would Watch This If It Were An Alternate-History WWI Pokémon Movie
Pokémon TCG At War Puts The Small Issues Of Playing Into Perspective
Although thePokémonfranchise has always been aimed primarily at kids, the franchise has never shied away from thedarker side of humanityand the world. That said,I don’t see thePokémonCompany okaying a gritty war movie with its IP.If they did, it might look a bit like the final part of the collaborative story, penned byKnives530as alament for Moonbreon, one of the most sought-after cards in the game for its strikingly beautiful artwork:
“In the late night hours of the past evening, as the taste of pressed meats and saltless crackers finally left my taste buds, I sat there in the dimming light, evolving skies in hand. My hands trembled at the thought of moonbreon touching my lips. I opened the pack ever so slowly, sorting the cards appropriately as I begin to shuffle through. As the candle light fades and I reach my final cards….no hits. Tomorrow the battlefield will run red with my enemies blood.”
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They also include one of the most relatable letdowns of being aPokémoncard collector, of opening a pack andfinding no good cards. Doing so in the trenches of war really puts it in perspective, and is the gritty Pokémon reboot I didn’t realize I wanted. Maybe someday in the distant future when the Pokémon brand enters the public domain it’ll get the Winnie the Pooh treatment and get the horrorPokémongame or movie we’ll never see in our generation.
