pokemon cards with googly eyes 💚 Gloom from Aquapolis(2003) & Gloom from Crown Zenith(2023)❤️ both illustrated by Kyoko Umemoto. I wanted to revisit one of my Favorite ever which is this Gloom from Crown Zenith which 4x Goomy 91/131 Forbidden Light

Featuring a strong ramp package (yes in Mardu) and great creature removal, its easy to get ahead on card advantage and maintain the Monarch

Oko's direct impact may not be flashy, but the opponent has to answer him - and all the time they're expending resources trying to remove the three-mana planeswalker, his controller can keep building up their own board, getting further and further ahead

It's one of the swingiest cards in the format

for example, the alternate art of Liliana, Dreadhorde General by Yoshitaka Amano goes for close to a hundred dollars, and the foil version has seen asking prices well over a thousand

The Darkness Ablaze set of the Pokemon TCG contains a rainbow rare printing of Eternatus Vmax which looks absolutely dazzling in the light