#emareep

Hey there, times are tough and I'm selling a significant portion of my rare Pokemon card collection to pay bills.

Please consider checking out my store and helping support me and my family, thank you :)

Here are just a few of what I have for sale and I'm adding new listings now and then.

Evolving Skies 054/203 ~ Yukiko Baba

Platinum ~ 82/127 ~ Yuka Morii

Yuka Morii is possibly my favorite PTCG artist of all time. I stopped collecting cards as a child before the "Neo" era began, so I didn't know about her work until I started collecting again, about 4-ish years ago. My memory is foggy, but I believe I got her Ralts card from a pack of Lost Thunder. It was just immediately impressive, and I had my first goal as a collector.

At this time I have a large binder with nearly every single English Yuka Morii card (except for those annoying expensive Ditto variants from EX Delta Species and EX Legend Maker). I plan to do a series on that collection at some point. All of that rambling is to get to the point that I love Yuka Morii, and I love mareep, and this card features both of them.

And this is such a good mareep in general. They are just chilling, not really focused on anything in particular. Perhaps they are considering how to go about their minor errand's, if the card text is anything to go by. I love how Morii's physical media representations of pokemon tend to highlight how silly they look in the real world. I think we know deep down, that IRL pokemon would not look like this (and many would probably be terrifying). This mareep just looks like a piece of popcorn with weird flavor candy corn stuck to it (said with affection). If I saw that IRL, it would at least be a novel experience.

Best Quality: GENUINE ORB FOOTAGE CAPTURED ON CAMERA!

[diagram of orb evidence included for easier viewing]

Steam Siege ~ 38/114 ~ Eri Yamaki

Similar to the last entry, by Ken Sugimori, this Mareep is a package deal. Yamaki offers slightly less mareeps then the Neo Genesis variety, but I think she makes up for it in quality. You get a mareep facing in every direction. Each of them are fantastically fluffy, but the star of the card features a level of detail that truly displays the mareep's fluff-osity. There's a lot of of floof and poof, but not much depth. It's all very flat, despite the composition of the art. A silver lining I suppose, is that it makes it easier to study these mareeps.

Neo Genesis ~ 65/111 ~Ken Sugimori

See the great thing about Ken Sugimori's mareep is that you get more mareeps for the price of each mareep. Due to the forethought of having drawn one mareep for the game, Sugimori was able to use the power of photoshop 5.0 to copy multiple mareeps from a single mareep. This essentially produces an infinite supply of mareeps. Thankfully, they've confined them to this one card. Therefore the mareep economy is safe.

He pulls off a lot of clever tricks here, like making the mareeps in the background a bit smaller, and even horizontally flipping some of them. You can also see how Sugimori adds some glow around the mareep in the foreground, so the viewer is aware that this is the main character of the card. I'm truly in awe at this masterful composition.

But for real though it is an adorable mareep. All the classic qualities of a luxury mareep are present. Technically, this is the mareep from which all mareeps draw their inspiration, and should be respected.