Singles: eX Unseen Forces

EX Unseen Forces is the twenty-sixth set in the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It comes after EX Emerald and before EX Delta Species (EX Legend Maker in Japan). Its symbol is a black silhouette Ho-oh's wing superimposed on a white silhouette of Lugia's wing. more...

(Ho-oh and Lugia are two Legendary Pokémon from Pokémon Gold and Silver and the two Pokémon featured on their boxes.) The EX part of its title comes from the presence of Pokémon-ex in the set. The Unseen Forces is highly ambiguous, however. Possibly it refers to how there are many Pokémon featured in this set that are unobtainable through the Pokémon video games released for the Game Boy Advance, hence they are "unseen" by all but the most devoted players of those games (more on that below), and that these Pokémon can potentially be very powerful, delivering much "force."

The focus of EX Unseen Forces is the Pokémon available in Pokémon Gold and Silver--that is, the prominent generation of this set is the second generation. Nearly all of the Pokémon featured in this set are from that generation, and, those that aren't can evolve into or from a Pokémon from the second generation, with a few exceptions. The Trainer cards also reflect this trait: They feature characters from Johto, such as Mary's Request and Professor Elm's Training Method (both of which are reprints from sets that actually took place within the second generation).

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