🚀 Dex for Android (Early Access) is available right now!
🌐You can now, for the first time time, access Dex directly from your Android phone. Dex for Android is in Early Access, meaning it is public and reliable for daily use, but it's not feature complete yet.
🛠 We’re closing the gap from iOS quickly, with new features landing regularly. Folders and Card Notes are on the way and will be available before Christmas.
🎭 Poncho-wearing Pikachu promos became some of the most iconic Pokémon TCG collectibles ever. And they all are Japanese exclusive releases.
✨ What started with a single Mega Charizard Y promotion for Mega Tokyo Pokémon Center quickly exploded into boxes, campaigns, event rewards, and some of the hobby’s biggest grails.
📦 From Pretend Magikarp Pikachu to the famous Mega Charizard and Rayquaza boxes, these promos mixed adorable designs with extremely limited Japanese releases collectors still chase today.
👀 Some releases are instantly recognizable, while others like Tohoku’s Pikachu remain surprisingly unknown even among longtime collectors.
🧠 While everyone kept searching for answers to Dragapult ex, Cerys Jones brought one of the most unexpected decks of the format to counter it in the Indianapolis Regionals.
✨ Single prize Alakazam was already known for consistency and favorable matchups into much of the meta, especially in formats with little hand disruption slowing it down.
⚡ This version pushed things even further with a control package focused on exhausting resources and manipulating Energy. Nighttime Mine forced awkward Energy requirements while Elgyem kept moving them around to make attacks even harder.
🏆 The result was one of the smartest anti meta calls we have seen recently and a reminder that creative deckbuilding can still win huge events.
🍕 During 2008 and 2009, Domino’s Pizza and Pokémon collaborated in Japan to give promotional cards with pizza purchases.
✨ The campaigns featured connected illustrations around apples starring Snorlax and Slowking evolution lines, creating one of Pokémon TCG’s cutest collaborations.
📦 Even more interesting, the illustrations later appeared internationally in Rising Rivals and Undaunted, although only the Japanese versions kept the Domino’s branding printed directly on the cards.
👀 It is still hilarious that a pizza campaign somehow ended up themed entirely around apples instead. Why do you think that is?
🎉 30th Celebration hype just keeps growing.
✨ Between every card being holographic, thirty different Pikachu cards illustrated by different illustrators, and a full classic collection returning older staple cards, this expansion feels packed with collector and player appeal.
👀 The new Futuristic Rare cards illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN immediately stand out! And we might already have all thirty classic cards revealed already.
📦 With multiple collections, special numbering, and nostalgic throwbacks everywhere, this expansion already feels designed for binder collectors.
❓ What part of 30th Celebration are you most excited for right now?
⚡ Rotom V from Lost Origin might secretly be one of the most detailed Pokémon TCG illustrations ever made.
👀 Between every Rotom appliance, hidden items, and tiny references spread throughout the scene, this card feels completely packed with things to discover.
🧩 It also makes you wonder how many more appliance forms Rotom could realistically get in future Pokémon games or Pokémon TCG releases.
📦 This is definitely one of those cards that becomes even better once it sits inside your binder and you start noticing new details every time.
❓ Did you already know about all these references, or did this card surprise you after looking closer?
🧩 Modern connected illustration cards became one of the coolest collection themes in recent Pokémon TCG series.
🎨 From Kouki Saitou’s Crown Zenith cards to newer pages illustrated by HYOGONOSUKE, Teeziro, Ayako Ozaki, and Saboteri, these collections create incredible binder displays.
📦 What makes them even better is how affordable most of them are, especially outside the Crown Zenith cards that are already much more expensive.
📱 Dex folders make it easy to organize connected illustration collections and track every missing piece while completing your binder pages.
❓ Which connected illustration page would you most want to complete in your own collection?
🎨 It completely changes how these cards feel once you see the full composition together, especially for collectors who love connected art concepts from older Pokémon TCG series.
📱 You can track every Japanese expansion on Dex, making it much easier to catalog cards that differ from international releases.
❓ Do you prefer the Japanese connected artwork approach, or the international booster art featuring the classic Legendary Beast sprites?
👀 These Legendary Beast cards are actually connected illustrations, even though most collectors never realise it at first glance.
📦 While Neo Revelation used the trio heavily across products, the Japanese Awakening Legends release made the connection much clearer by combining the actual illustrations into one unified illustration.