The 24 Best Music-Themed Pokémon Cards

Music runs through the Pokémon TCG more than you’d think. There are Pokémon literally built around sound, gym leaders who moonlight as musicians, and a surprising number of cards where an illustrator snuck a note or an instrument into the frame. It’s one of the more fun themes to hunt for, because half of them don’t announce themselves.

Here’s our running list of the best music-themed Pokémon cards!

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Singing Cards

The most direct read on the theme, and the one with the most personality. From the cameo-filled Kricketune singing in Tranquil Park (there are more of those on our cameo Pokémon cards list) to the Wigglytuff and Jigglypuff harmonizing in Phantasmal Flames, there are some great picks here.

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Singing Pokémon Cards

Rock Music-Themed Cards

Two gym leaders carry this whole section. Roxie is the Poison-type leader of Virbank City, and she plays bass in a band when she isn’t handing out the Toxic Badge. Piers runs Spikemuth in Sword and Shield as the first Dark-type gym leader in the series, and he’s a punk singer-songwriter and the captain of Team Yell on top of that. Their cards get to lean into stage lights and amplifiers in a way most Supporters never do, and the Toxtricity and Obstagoon here fit right alongside them.

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Rock Music-Themed Pokémon Cards

Electronic Music & DJ-Themed Cards

A small section but a specific one, running from a Porygon cooking up fresh beats to Giacomo behind the decks. Giacomo is the boss of Team Star’s Segin Squad in Scarlet and Violet, and he moonlights as DJ Vice, writing the crew’s theme songs. He also used to be student council president before getting ousted, which is exactly the backstory a punk-adjacent DJ should have.

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Electronic Music & DJ-Themed Pokemon Cards

More Music-Themed Cards

The ones where the music is a detail rather than the whole point. Meloetta has musical streaks running through her hair, Chatot and Unown both play with shapes that read as notes, and Rillaboom brings the drums.

The 2016 Japanese XY Altaria Promo is very much worth a mention too, it’s rare and has roughly doubled in the last eight months at the time of writing.

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Music-Themed Pokémon Cards

Affordable & Common Music Cards

Plenty of music cards come in at common and uncommon, including some that go all the way back to Jungle. Jigglypuff alone turns up three times here across three decades, which says something about how long this theme has been running.

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Affordable & Common Music Cards

That’s our running list of the best music-themed Pokémon cards! Spotted one we missed? Let us know in the comments.

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