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Parallel Worlds

The worlds as seen in the Parallel City card.

The Parallel Worlds (as named in booster pack descriptions) are a pair of worlds introduced and explored exclusively in the Pokémon Trading Card Game during the XY Series.

Backstory

A crowd cheers Mega Alakazam.

From various pieces of information and artwork in TCG products, in addition to interviews with game director Atsushi Nagashima^[1][2], it can be determined that these areas are similar due to being from separate timelines. At some point, several rifts in space revealed the existence of the opposing worlds to each other: the "nature" and "technology" sides as seen in the BREAKthrough, BREAKpoint and Fates Collide expansions. These worlds were at the brink of merging against each other, creating a struggle between Pokémon from both sides. This could be related to Giovanni, as the Giovanni's Scheme card has the two color schemes of the Parallel City card. In Fates Collide, however, the struggle is replaced with themes of unification through Mega Alakazam's future vision and the enforcement of order by Zygarde and other Pokémon.

Geography

While one world's lifestyle focused on ruralism and rustic architecture, the other focused in urbanism and the foundation of modern buildings, even expanding to previously arid lands. There is a similar city in these worlds on the shore of an ocean, both having an island portion connected to the mainland by a series of bridges. A giant tree exists in the "nature" world's island, while a group of skyscrapers is in its place on the "urban" counterpart. After the rifts, some areas of these worlds featured portals which could be crossed through, the regions artistically seen on the Stadium cards as being upside down from the opposing world's point of view. The Chaos Tower in Fates Collide appears to be the fallout of the merged areas: a single world/city where buildings and nature blended on eachother, creating a mix of the two worlds' styles.

Cards

This listing is of Stadium cards featuring the parallel worlds.

Parallel Worlds Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format. Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card	Type	English Expansion	Rarity	#	Japanese Expansion	Rarity	#
Parallel City	St	BREAKthrough		145/162	Blue Shock		058/059
					The Best of XY		159/171
Reverse Valley	St	BREAKpoint		110/122	Rage of the Broken Heavens		079/080
					The Best of XY		161/171
Chaos Tower	St	Fates Collide		94/124	Awakening Psychic King		078/078

These locations were also featured on the artwork of many Pokémon released along with these cards: Blue Shock focused on Pokémon from the "nature" world and Red Flash focused on Pokémon from the "technology world". Rage of the Broken Heavens focused on both worlds outside of the urban areas, and Awakening Psychic King featured Pokémon in the merged worlds. Two Mewtwo promo cards with artwork from each opposing world were also printed.

Gallery

Trivia

• The concept of a modern and a rustic city from different worlds slightly resembles Black City and White Forest from the Generation V games.

See also

• Narrative illustration

References

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