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🌿 Quick Facts & Listing Overview
Pokémon TCG – Bulbasaur 166/165 – Scarlet & Violet 151 – Illustration RareGrading Company: ACE Grading
Grade: 9 MINT
Subgrades: Surface 10 | Centering 10 | Edges 9 | Corners 9
Card: Bulbasaur – 166/165
Set: Scarlet & Violet – 151
Rarity: Illustration Rare
Language: English
HP: 70
Type: Grass
Artist: Yoriyuki Ikegami
Certification Number: 1398259
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🔥 Card Overview
A beautiful example ofBulbasaur 166/165from the enormously popularScarlet & Violet – 151set, professionally graded ACE 9 MINT.
Yoriyuki Ikegami's Illustration Rare artwork places Bulbasaur deep withina dense bed of foliage, almost blending the Pokémon into its naturalsurroundings.
Rather than relying on a dramatic battle pose, the illustration focuses onthe quieter side of Bulbasaur's character, surrounded by layers of leaves,flowers and vegetation that reward a closer look.
This particular example also presents especially well within the grade,receiving perfect scores for both Surface andCentering.
✨ Features & Details
★ Bulbasaur 166/165
★ Scarlet & Violet – 151
★ English Illustration Rare
★ Yoriyuki Ikegami artwork
★ Full-art botanical composition
★ One of the original Kanto starter Pokémon
★ Artwork-matched green ACE label
📦 Shipping & Packaging
★ Slab securely protected before dispatch
★ Carefully bubble-wrapped and boxed
★ Tracked delivery used for graded cards
★ Combined shipping available
🌟 Collector’s Corner
Bulbasaur has been part of Pokémon since the very beginning, holding thedistinction of being Pokédex #001 and remaining one of the franchise's mostrecognisable starter Pokémon.Pokémon 151 was built heavily around that nostalgia, returning the focus tothe original Kanto Pokédex while giving many familiar Pokémon completelynew artwork.Bulbasaur's Illustration Rare is a particularly good example of that approach.Instead of presenting the character against an abstract foil background,artist Yoriyuki Ikegami embeds Bulbasaur into an incrediblylush natural environment.The layers of green vegetation make Bulbasaur almost disappear into thescene at first glance, perfectly suiting a Grass-type Pokémon whose plantand animal characteristics have always been central to its design.For collectors of the original starters, Pokémon 151 Illustration Rares orthe Bulbasaur evolution line, it is one of the most charming moderninterpretations of the character.
