[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

There is a difference between the Geodude card and the Skarmory "card." The Geodude card is a rare promotional physical card, tournament legal, bearing Morgusi's art. Just being a Morgusi card instead of some lesser artist's card makes it very valuable, for a card.

The Skarmory "card" is printed on the birthday card directly. This is not easy to do with Morgusi's art, and it was probably fairly costly to get such a high quality print, but it is not a physical trading card. It is not tournament legal because it's basically a photo of the card, albeit a very good one. Now, it's printed on cardstock and Nathan could cut it out if he wished, but it's not really a card.

Tried to make this clear as we went along but I don't think we're on the same page. Hopefully this post makes it clear! (Maybe it was a confusing idea to try to put a birthday card and a trading card in the same context).

Ah, I see.  Makes sense.  Well, still a pretty cool gift idea, though.