Some of the best Pokémon art has nothing to do with battling. It’s a Deerling in the trees, a Stadium card that’s just a forest, a Pokémon somewhere out in the open with the weather doing all the work.

We’ve gathered the best nature Pokémon cards here, sorted by where they are: forest, sky, fields, mountains and water, plus the trainer cards that are really landscapes with a name on them!


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Forest Pokémon Cards

Biggest section by far, and this is with restraint. Forest is the setting illustrators reach for most, which is why we gave it a post of its own.

There’s plenty more in our roundup of forest Pokémon cards!

Our Picks:

Sky Pokémon Cards

Up and out of the trees. Clouds, open air, and a lot of cards where the Pokémon is small against a very large amount of nothing. We went further into this in our roundup of beautiful sky Pokémon cards!

Our Picks:

Sky Pokémon Cards

Fields & Meadow Pokémon Cards

Ground level and wide open. These sit between the forest and sky sections, close enough to the horizon that you often get both in one card, and they make the calmest looking binder page of anything here.

Our Picks:

Fields & Meadow Pokémon Cards

Mountain Pokémon Cards

The smallest section here, and the one that leans hardest on scale. A couple of them have a peak that looks an awful lot like Mt. Fuji, which puts them right next to the territory we covered in our roundup of Studio Ghibli-style Pokémon cards.

Our Picks:

Mountain Pokémon Cards

Rivers, Lakes & Waterfall Cards

Rivers, shorelines and a few cards where you only clock the water on a second look.

If you want more of what’s happening below the surface or in the water, check out our round-up of the best underwater Pokémon cards!

Our Picks:

Rivers, Lakes & Waterfall Cards

Nature Trainer & Stadium Cards

Half of these are Stadium cards, which means the location is the entire illustration with nothing else going on, and that’s exactly what makes them work on a nature page. Viridian Forest, Mt. Coronet and Gravity Mountain all have a second version in the commons section below too.

Our Picks:

Nature Trainer & Stadium Cards

Commons & Affordable Nature Cards

Journey Together carries most of this section, which says something about how that set was illustrated. Nearly everything here sits in the main run rather than the back half, so it’s the easiest way to fill out a page.

Our Picks:

Commons & Affordable Nature Cards


That’s our roundup of nature Pokémon cards! Which setting is your favorite? Let us know in the comments below!

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