We’re formally on the run-up to the Pokémon World Championships that are set to kick off on the Hawai‘i Conference Heart in Honolulu from Sixteenth-18th August. We’re so shut, in truth, that The Pokémon Firm has revealed this 12 months’s particular tie-in promo card, and it is fairly candy.
The essential Pikachu promo card options the collection’ most iconic ‘mon in a heated aerial battle towards Mew. Atsushi Furusawa’s paintings features a Honolulu-inspired backdrop which sits exterior the stadium and the cardboard proudly brandishes the World Championships 2024 brand in its backside proper nook.
The cardboard will come as a gift-with-purchase at choose retailers together with The Pokémon Heart from 2nd-Twenty eighth August (whereas shares final). Alternatively, you might be in with an opportunity of choosing up one of many playing cards by attending the Worlds Celebration at an area Pokémon League occasion between Twelfth-18th August or by touchdown a high 100 spot on this 12 months’s Worlds Pokémon Fantasy Staff within the US — the place you are expecting which TCG or VGC Pokémon will beat its competitors — as soon as registration opens on 1st August.
As you may count on, particular promo playing cards have a behavior of reaching foolish resale costs after the occasion, so we might recommend happening any of the aforementioned routes in case you are aiming so as to add this one to your assortment. You’ll find out extra details about the place and when the cardboard will likely be accessible on the official Pokémon web site.
The Pokémon World Championships 2024 will see the easiest (like nobody ever was) Pokémon gamers going head-to-head with competitions ranging throughout Scarlet and Violet, the Buying and selling Card Sport, Pokémon GO and Pokémon Unite. After thrilling European and North American competitions earlier this 12 months, it is shaping as much as be a very good weekend of battling.