The latest set from Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket introduces shiny Pokémon to the game, but the community only wants to talk about the new Wigglytuff card, instead. The hit mobile game brings the experience of opening booster packs and collecting cards into the virtual world, and the experience includes regular releases of new sets. The latest set, Shining Revelry, brings shiny variants of certain Pokémon to the title, but the card that's actually captivated players is just a regular full-art Wigglytuff.

The card itself is unremarkable, boasting 100 HP and a Gentle Slap attack that requires two energy cards of any type to do 50 damage. The Pokémon also has the useful Comforting Song ability, which lets players heal 20 damage at every turn. But while the Wigglytuff card is fairly ordinary, it's the unique illustration that's eliciting some pretty strong feelings from players.

Pokémon TCG Pocket's New Wigglytuff Card Captivates Fans With Its Gaze

There's Nothing Comforting About This Wigglytuff's Comforting Song

The new TCGP card depicts Wigglytuff, Jigglypuff's evolution, in a 3D-rendered style that leans a bit too hard into realism and lands right in the middle of Uncanny Valley. The Pokémon's serene smile is nothing more than an indent in the fur, while its massive clear blue eyes seem to stare directly into your soul.

The Pokémon's description at the bottom of the card states that "it has a very fine fur," and this can be clearly seen in the soft fuzz that covers the entire creature, providing a strange contrast to the shiny plastic-doll-like eyes. The entire card is made even more unusual by the ethereal white space that surrounds Wigglytuff in lieu of an actual background, resulting in a somewhat surreal image.

Fans React To Unsettling Wigglytuff Card

"Comforting Song? Nah, Perish Song"

The Shining Ravelry Wigglytuff card was created by 5ban-Graphics, a prolific card illustrating studio that specializes in 3D renderings of Pokémon for the TCG. The art studio has provided over 1600 cards for the card game since the 2011 Black & White set, most of which are loved by many fans for their dynamic nature. This Wigglytuff, though, seems to have missed the mark, causing many players to react quite differently.

Redditor SmithyLK, for instance, quips: "Comforting Song? Nah, Perish Song." The card is drawing comparisons to Detective Pikachu in style by many fans, including Accomplished_Rope699 on Reddit, who states simply, "i hate it i hate it i hate it."

"i hate it i hate it i hate it"

Redditor bafael decided to take things a step further and create a joke deck "themed around forcing the opponent to look at Wigglytuff for as long as possible." The deck is built to prolong the fight and the comments have suggestions to make it even more cursed, like to "gently slap your opponent's Pokemon to 10HP" and then stop attacking, a genius idea provided by naiets.

In the few days that the Shining Revelry set has been available on Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, the Wigglytuff card has been compared to the 90s Furby and generative AI, and called "blursed" (blessed and cursed) by many. Some people (including, alarmingly, my husband) do actually find the card art to be cute, but they seem to be in the minority. At the very least, the silly card has gotten people talking and building excitement for the game.

Source: SmithyLK/Reddit, Accomplished_Rope699/Reddit, bafael/Reddit, naiets/Reddit