Shining bright

Shining bright is a page of Shining Pokémon, the shiny‑coloured cards that first appeared in Neo Revelation in 2001 and came back for Shining Legends in 2017. The bottom two rows are the originals and the top row is the comeback, so twenty years of the same idea sit on one page.

Shiny hunters can spend weeks resetting a game for one oddly coloured Pokémon. This page has twelve, and nobody had to reset anything.

The colours

Every Pokémon is in its shiny colours, so you get a red Gyarados, a gold Magikarp, a black Rayquaza and a blue Mew. The Neo Destiny cards draw theirs as dark silhouettes against bright pink, orange and purple skies, which makes the middle row look like a stained‑glass window.

Standout cards

• Shining Charizard, Neo Destiny #107, illustrated by Hironobu Yoshida.

• Shining Rayquaza, Shining Legends #56, illustrated by Naoki Saito.

• Shining Gyarados, Neo Revelation #65, illustrated by Ken Sugimori.

Make your own

Shiny themes mix eras nicely, and Star power does the same with Gold Star cards. Hironobu Yoshida drew five of these, so if one artist keeps turning up in your binder, start an illustrator collection.