Summary
Yesterday,Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’snext expansion,Extradimensional Crisis, was announced. Following on from theSun and Moon-focusedCelestial Guardians, Extradimensional Crisis introduces fearsomeUltra Beaststo the digital TCG for the first time.
While many have been concerned about how these new cards will impactthe game’s meta, some eagle-eyed players have spotted a very confusing connection between the game’s new cards, and they’re trying to figure out exactly what it means.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s Ultra Beast Cards All Have Very Musical Attacks
First spotted onRedditby user Poison_Soda, each one of Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket’s new Ultra Beast cards has an attack named after a music genre, for some reason.
The Pokemon and their moves are as follows:
This even extends to a Pokemon coming from an upcoming event, with Ultra Necrozma ex having a move called Shoegaze when it’s released as part of the game’snext drop event.
As you can see, many of these moves are linked to obscure music genres, which has led to some big-brain theories from the Pokemon TCG Pocket community.
Blargen69suggestedthat the naming convention was a “Close Encounters of the Third Kind reference,” due to the fact that “the universal language of communicating with alien life was music”, and the Ultra Beasts are Pokemon’s versions of aliens.
The alien links didn’t stop there, though, as MyClericalGnomancetheorizedthat it could “be a reference to theVoyager Golden Record.” These records were placed in two Voyager spacecraft and contain a collection of sounds that encapsulate life on Earth. They were designed for any alien or other extraterrestrial entity that may find them.
Another, slightly less alien-centric theory came from Bobguy117, whopointed outthat the new set could be abbreviated to EDC, much like the music festival Electric Daisy Carnival held in Las Vegas every year.
Although we’re unlikely to ever find out the real reason behind the naming conventions, it’s fun to speculate, andanother really cool Easter egg from the Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket designers.
