The 15 Goofiest Pokémon Cards of All Time
Fifteen cards that gave up on looking powerful. The same artist keeps appearing, and so do the same three Pokémon families.
Most Pokémon cards are trying to look powerful. A small and precious group is not trying at all, and those are the ones worth keeping.
Fifteen cards where something went sideways, on purpose or otherwise. Two things become obvious once you line them up: the same artist keeps appearing, and the same three Pokémon families are doing most of the work.
15. Slowbro EX
Mouth completely open, eyes half closed, Shellder still attached. Its attacks are Slack Off and Flash Splash. The Slowpoke family appears three times on this list and has earned every appearance.
14. Gengar, 2023
Tomokazu Komiya drew this one, and Komiya is the reason a list like this exists at all. His Pokémon are loose, lopsided and slightly wrong on purpose, and collectors have spent years hunting his cards specifically. Here he is on Gengar, in front of a background that looks scribbled in crayon. Everything is slightly the wrong shape. That is the point.
13. Imakuni?'s Doduo
Imakuni? is a real person, a Japanese entertainer attached to the card game, who got his own joke cards. This one has a Pokémon Power called Frenzied Escape and an attack called Harmonize whose instructions require you to sing a song, out loud, while the game waits.
It is the least serious card ever printed, and it is not close.
12. Koga's Grimer, first edition
The eyes are the size of dinner plates and the mouth is open wider than the head should allow. The Gym era gave Pokémon to their trainers, and Koga apparently got the one that had just seen something terrible.
11. Muk
Muk with blank white eyes and a grin that goes too far across its face. Its Pokémon Power is called Toxic Gas, which shuts off every other Pokémon Power in play. A famously miserable card to play against, drawn as a happy blob.
10. Alolan Dugtrio
Three heads with flowing golden hair, on a beach, under palm trees. The attack is called Trio-Cheehoo and does nothing unless you hold exactly three cards.
9. Slowpoke, Neo Genesis first edition
Komiya again, and this is the card that started collectors hunting his name specifically.
This Slowpoke is lying flat with its tongue out. The card literally labels it the Dopey Pokémon.
8. Bonsly
Bonsly is crying, and the flavour text hurries to explain that it only looks like crying and is actually adjusting its body fluid levels. The attack is called Fake Tears. Nobody is convinced.
7. Grimer, Aquapolis
Grimer screaming into an empty purple void, with no context whatsoever. The attack is Poison Sludge. The scream is free.
6. Ditto, Crown Zenith galarian gallery
A peaceful meadow full of Pokémon, every one of them wearing Ditto's blank expression. The longer you look at it the worse it gets. This is the only card on the list that is genuinely unsettling rather than silly.
5. Simisear VSTAR
A VSTAR is supposed to be a finisher. This one is drawn as a plush toy, surrounded by wallpaper made of smaller versions of itself.
4. Slowking, Neo Genesis
The flavour text explains that toxins entered Slowpoke's head through a bite and unlocked extraordinary power. The art shows a creature with a shellfish on its skull, looking extremely pleased about it.
3. Ditto XY40
Ditto is sitting in a heap of jelly beans, having presumably tried to become one and stopped halfway. The ability is called Metamorphosis Gene, which is a very serious name for this situation.
2. Eevee GX
Eevee is caught mid-tumble with all four legs pointing in unrelated directions. The GX attack is called Joy Maker. It is a card about falling over.
1. Eevee and Snorlax GX
Snorlax is flat on its back and Eevee is using its stomach as a trampoline. The attack is called Dump Truck Press. Nothing about this card is trying to intimidate anyone.
The joke cards are not random
Line the fifteen up and the pattern is immediate. Tomokazu Komiya drew two of them, and his loose, deliberately awkward style is a genuine collecting category of its own. The Slowpoke line takes three slots. Grimer and Muk take three more. Ditto takes two.
Those families were designed as jokes to begin with, so the artists were simply doing their job well.
“Some of these cards are funny by accident. The best of them are funny on purpose, and that is a much harder thing to draw.”
And a few of them quietly got expensive
The awkward part of collecting oddities is that scarcity does not care whether a card is serious. First edition prints, Japanese-only jokes and promo-only characters were never printed in the quantities that chase cards were.
A card can be a punchline and still be hard to find in good condition, which is a combination that catches people out.
If you want the version of that argument with numbers attached, read why five ordinary-looking cards still hide serious PSA 10 upside.
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