Forests do more work in the TCG than any other setting. They can be bright and green, cold and still, magical, tropical, or genuinely a bit ominous, and the illustrators use all of it.
We’ve gathered the best forest Pokémon cards in the hobby, sorted by what kind of woods you’re standing in!
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Green Forest Pokémon Cards
The classic version, and the easiest page to build out of anything here. Bright greens, sun getting through the canopy, everything looking like a good day to be outside. If you only want one forest section in your binder, it’s probably this one.
Our Picks:
- Hisuian Voltorb · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG01 on eBay
- Snorlax · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP051 on eBay
- Leafeon · Chinese Gem Pack 2 #7/15 on eBay
- Deerling · White Flare #091 on eBay
- Pikachu ex · Ascended Heroes #276 on eBay
- Charizard V · SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH260 on eBay
- Vivillon · Surging Sparks #193 on eBay
- Caterpie · 151 #172 on eBay
- Pikachu · Lost Origin Trainer Gallery #TG05 on eBay
- Nymble · Phantasmal Flames #096 on eBay
- Throh · Black Bolt #128 on eBay
Moody Forest Pokémon Cards
The other half of the forest, and it’s all in the palette. Deeper greens, cooler shadows, a lot less light coming through, and a completely different energy for it.
Our Picks:
- Ferrothorn · White Flare #149 on eBay
- Wo-Chien ex · Paldea Evolved #257 on eBay
- Vibrava · Surging Sparks #206 on eBay
- Venipede · Black Bolt #132 on eBay
- Virizion · White Flare #095 on eBay
- Psyduck · 151 #175 on eBay
- Aipom · Paradox Rift #211 on eBay
- Tapu Bulu · Shrouded Fable #065 on eBay
- Ferroseed · White Flare #148 on eBay
- Leafeon ex · Prismatic Evolutions #144 on eBay
Cute Forest Pokémon Cards
What separates this from the green section isn’t the palette, it’s the scale and Pokémon. Put something small at the base of a tree and the forest suddenly reads as enormous, which is why cute lands harder in woods than it does almost anywhere else.
Mostly small things in the undergrowth minding their own business, and the easiest page in this post to fill up!
Our Picks:
- Maushold · Paldea Evolved #226 on eBay
- Emolga · Black Bolt #112 on eBay
- Togedemaru · Phantasmal Flames #104 on eBay
- Iono’s Kilowattrel · Journey Together #163 on eBay
- Pikachu · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP088 on eBay
- Tangela · 151 #178 on eBay
- Foongus · Black Bolt #095 on eBay
- Pawmi · Paldean Fates #226 on eBay
- Lillie’s Clefairy ex · Journey Together #184 on eBay
- Togepi, Cleffa & Igglybuff GX · Cosmic Eclipse #143 on eBay
- Lilligant · Black Bolt #092 on eBay
- Pikachu · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG30 on eBay
- Solosis · Black Bolt #118 on eBay
- Paras · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG32 on eBay
- Turtwig · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG31 on eBay
Vibrant Forest Cards
Where the color gets pushed past what a forest actually looks like. Saturated greens, light coming from nowhere in particular, and backgrounds that owe more to a palette choice than to anywhere real.
Our Picks:
- Panpour · Black Bolt #101 on eBay
- Deerling · Temporal Forces #165 on eBay
- Sawsbuck · Temporal Forces #166 on eBay
- Hop’s Zacian ex · Journey Together #186 on eBay
- Scream Tail · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP065 on eBay
- Pecharunt · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP129 on eBay
- Snivy · Black Bolt #087 on eBay
- Pansear · White Flare #099 on eBay
- Archen · White Flare #131 on eBay
- Hop’s Trevenant · Ascended Heroes #237 on eBay
- Teal Mask Ogerpon · Scarlet & Violet Promos #SVP123 on eBay
- Parasect · Lost Origin Trainer Gallery #TG01 on eBay
- Electivire · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG08 on eBay
- Sliggoo · Chaos Rising #095 on eBay
- Iron Leaves ex · Temporal Forces #203 on eBay
- Patrat · White Flare #152 on eBay
Jungle & Tropical Forest Pokémon Cards
Hotter, wetter, and a lot more crowded. Jungle cards fill every inch of the frame where a forest card leaves you room to breathe. The Pokémon tend to match it too. This section skews heavily toward the ones that coil, climb, or carry their own canopy around with them.
Our Picks:
- Meditite · Stellar Crown #153 on eBay
- Gouging Fire ex · Temporal Forces #204 on eBay
- Koraidon ex · Scarlet & Violet #247 on eBay
- Nidoking · 151 #174 on eBay
- Pikachu · Celebrations #005 on eBay
- Arbok · Temporal Forces #176 on eBay
- Darmanitan · Black Bolt #098 on eBay
- Pansage · Black Bolt #089 on eBay
- Tropius · Paldea Evolved #195 on eBay
- Accelgor · White Flare #094 on eBay
- Exeggutor · Mega Evolution #135 on eBay
Magical & Enchanted Forest Cards
Something is happening in these woods. Sunbeams coming down through the canopy, light where there shouldn’t be any, the occasional Pokémon that clearly knows something you don’t.
If this is your corner of the hobby, we went further into it in our roundup of cards that remind us of Studio Ghibli movies!
Our Picks:
- Ninetales · Obsidian Flames #199 on eBay
- Mew · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG10 on eBay
- Galarian Rapidash V · Chilling Reign #168 on eBay
- Gardevoir ex · Paldean Fates #233 on eBay
- Lunatone · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG11 on eBay
- Celebi · XY Black Star Promos #XY111 on eBay
- Serperior ex · Black Bolt #164 on eBay
- Sewaddle · White Flare #087 on eBay
- Toedscruel · Paradox Rift #185 on eBay
- Serperior V · Silver Tempest #007 on eBay
Autumn & Fall Forest Cards
Same trees, different palette. Oranges, browns, and a lot of leaves on the ground. More where these came from in our full fall Pokémon cards roundup!
Our Picks:
- Keldeo ex · White Flare #167 on eBay
- Leafeon V · Evolving Skies #167 on eBay
- Tepig · White Flare #096 on eBay
- Hisuian Samurott V · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG51 on eBay
- Dedenne · Perfect Order #093 on eBay
- Spearow · Mega Evolution #151 on eBay
- Blitzle · Paradox Rift #195 on eBay
- Blitzle · White Flare #114 on eBay
- Volcarona · Black Bolt #100 on eBay
- Chi-Yu ex · Paldea Evolved #259 on eBay
Winter & Snowy Forest Cards
Snow flattens the forest palette down to whites, greys and the odd bit of blue, and a forest with the leaves gone is a completely different place from the same forest in summer.
The full winter set is in our winter Pokémon cards round-up!
Our Picks:
- Articuno · Journey Together #161 on eBay
- Swinub · Journey Together #165 on eBay
- Snorunt · Ascended Heroes #227 on eBay
- Raboot · Stellar Crown #147 on eBay
- Galarian Articuno V · Chilling Reign #170 on eBay
- Shadow Rider Calyrex V · Chilling Reign #172 on eBay
- Snom · Temporal Forces #168 on eBay
- Vanillish · White Flare #112 on eBay
- Glaceon VSTAR · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG40 on eBay
- Galarian Articuno · SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH282 on eBay
Misc. Forest Pokémon Cards
Forest cards that don’t sit neatly in any of the moods above. Nothing wrong with them, they just don’t lead with a palette or a season the way the rest of the post does.
Worth a scroll once you’ve been through the other sections, since this is where the ones that don’t announce themselves ended up.
Our Picks:
- Fletchinder · Paldea Evolved #199 on eBay
- Zacian V · Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery #GG48 on eBay
- Escavalier · Black Bolt #138 on eBay
- Greninja & Zoroark GX · Unbroken Bonds #201 on eBay
- Deino · White Flare #146 on eBay
- Druddigon · White Flare #151 on eBay
- Heatmor · White Flare #104 on eBay
- Mienshao · Paradox Rift #200 on eBay
- Beautifly · Ascended Heroes #219 on eBay
- Trevenant V · Evolving Skies #013 on eBay
- Celebi · XY Black Star Promos #XY93 on eBay
Trainer & Support Forest Cards
Forests turn up on Trainers and Stadiums too, and a few of them are named for the place rather than the people in it!
Our Picks:
- Forest of Vitality · Perfect Order #109 on eBay
- Gravity Mountain · Surging Sparks #250 on eBay
- Arven · Scarlet & Violet #249 on eBay
- Mt. Coronet · Ultra Prism #SV89 on eBay
- Viridian Forest · Unified Minds #256 on eBay
- Wally’s Compassion · Mega Evolution #186 on eBay
- Wally’s Compassion · Mega Evolution #176 on eBay
- Ortega · Obsidian Flames #219 on eBay
- Lillie’s Determination · Mega Evolution #184 on eBay
- Professor’s Research · Pokémon GO #078 on eBay
- Professor’s Research · SWSH Black Star Promos #SWSH152 on eBay
Commons & Affordable Forest Cards
Forests show up constantly on ordinary set cards, which makes this one of the cheapest themes in the hobby to build. Journey Together in particular is full of them!
Our Picks:
- Viridian Forest · Team Up #156 on eBay
- Wally · Roaring Skies #94 on eBay
- Wally’s Compassion · Mega Evolution #132 on eBay
- Brock’s Scouting · Journey Together #146 on eBay
- Black Belt’s Training · Journey Together #144 on eBay
- Sentret · Journey Together #118 on eBay
- N’s Klink · Journey Together #103 on eBay
- N’s Zorua · Journey Together #097 on eBay
- N’s Joltik · Journey Together #049 on eBay
- Toedscool · Journey Together #088 on eBay
- Cubone · Journey Together #076 on eBay
- Paldean Wooper · Journey Together #093 on eBay
- Caterpie · Journey Together #001 on eBay
- Pikachu · Ascended Heroes #055 on eBay
- Lilligant · BREAKpoint #8 on eBay
That’s our roundup of the best forest Pokémon cards in the TCG! Bright green page or moody page? Let us know in the comments!
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