Pokmon card collectors, however, can instead blame the Pokmon Companys inflation-taming card printing for their evaporated returns
During the development of this release, we invited these esteemed artists to select the character of their choice from the FINAL FANTASY series and illustrate them in their own art style as a celebration of the collaboration
Idle Thoughts gets a much lower position than those other cards because blue specifically has a ton of other (and better) card draw engines
Here are the reports I've received from Pokemon since starting PokeBeach in 2003: March 2025: Over 75 billion cards worldwide in 16 languages and 90 countries and regions March 2024: Over 64.8 billion cards worldwide in 15 languages and 93 countries and regions March 2023: Over 52.9 billion cards worldwide in 14 languages and 89 countries and regions March 2022: Over 43.2 billion cards worldwide in 13 languages and 77 areas March 2021: Over 34.1 billion cards worldwide in 13 languages and 77 areas March 2020: Over 30.4 billion cards worldwide in 13 languages and 77 areas September 2019: Over 28.8 billion cards worldwide in 13 languages and 77 areas March 2019: Over 27.2 billion cards worldwide in 12 languages and 77 countries and regions March 2018: Over 25.7 billion cards worldwide in 11 languages and 74 countries and regions March 2017: Over 23.6 billion cards worldwide in 11 languages and 74 countries and regions Between 2014 and 2016: Over 21.5 billion cards worldwide in 10 languages and 74 countries and regions Between 2004 and 2010: Over 14 billion cards worldwide in 30-40 countries As I've reported before, it doesn't seem Pokemon kept accurate records for the total number of cards printed before 2017
e.g., if a sleeping Bulbasaur is in the background of a Pikachu card, that still counts
Its the reward for playing cards like Blue Sun's Zenith while benefiting from cards like Nexos and Geometer's Arthropod that reward you for playing X-spells
