Nurikabe (塗壁) is a Pokemon TCG illustrator best approached through the cards themselves. The seven cards verified for this guide run from a Secret Rare Aerodactyl V down through Art Rare Pokemon, built up card by card since a debut on Escavalier in the Brilliant Stars expansion.
This guide sticks to what’s actually documented: the verified Limitless TCG database counts, the Bulbapedia career summary, and a direct crossmatch against our own PSA 10 inventory. Nurikabe’s public biography is thin — Bulbapedia refers to the artist with they/them pronouns and doesn’t go further — so this guide follows that same restraint rather than filling gaps with guesswork.
We source and ship Japanese Pokemon cards out of Tokyo, which means every price and stock figure below comes from the same inventory we sell out of directly, checked against Limitless TCG’s artist credit on a card-by-card basis rather than assumed from set lists or fan wikis alone.
Nurikabe has illustrated 22 English-language Pokemon TCG cards and 28 Japanese-language cards on Limitless TCG (separate databases, not additive), plus 19 Pokemon TCG Pocket cards per Bulbapedia. Three Nurikabe-credited PSA 10 cards were listed in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12), including the Aerodactyl V Secret Rare, currently listed at ¥41,712 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order), and the Flareon ex Special Art Rare, currently listed at ¥16,865 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order).
Who Is Nurikabe?
Nurikabe (Japanese: 塗壁) is an illustrator who has contributed artwork to the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Per Bulbapedia, the artist’s first card was Escavalier, released in the Brilliant Stars expansion. Bulbapedia’s own tally — using its internal counting methodology, which is separate from the Limitless TCG database figures cited throughout this guide — lists 24 cards illustrated by Nurikabe.
Bulbapedia’s article on Nurikabe is brief, and it refers to the artist with they/them pronouns without stating any other biographical detail. Where a fuller profile exists elsewhere for other illustrators in our series, this one is built almost entirely from the card catalog itself, cross-checked directly against the Limitless TCG database rather than assumed from set lists.
What the seven cards verified for this guide do show is a spread across Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and current Mega-era sets: Art Rare Pokemon illustrations across sets like Clay Burst, Raging Surf, Mega Symphonia, and VSTAR Universe, punctuated by two higher-rarity headliners — a Secret Rare and a Special Art Rare — that anchor the top of the value range. The next section walks through both.
For readers comparing artists across our ongoing illustrator series, Nurikabe’s catalog sits alongside other Pokemon TCG illustrator guides we’ve published, including KEIICHIRO ITO and Naoki Saito, each covering a different illustrator’s most valuable printings in the same fact-checked format.
The Verified Catalog: Seven Representative Cards
Limitless TCG lists 22 cards matching artist:“Nurikabe” in its English-language database and 28 in its Japanese-language database — two separate counting methodologies covering largely the same set of illustrations, so the two numbers shouldn’t be summed. Every card below was individually confirmed on its Limitless card page, which shows the literal credit line “Illustrated by Nurikabe”:
Limitless labels three rarity tiers across these seven cards — Art Rare, Special Art Rare, and Secret Rare. This guide reproduces those labels exactly as Limitless lists them, without adding claims about print rates or pull odds that the source database doesn’t state. The seven verified cards include examples of all three tiers, which is part of why the value range across them is wide.
| Card | Set (JP code) | Number | Rarity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aerodactyl V (プテラV) | Lost Abyss (S11) | 106 | Secret Rare |
| Flareon ex (ブースターex) | Terastal Festival ex (SV8a) | 202 | Special Art Rare |
| Tyranitar (バンギラス) | Clay Burst (SV2D) | 79 | Art Rare |
| Groudon (グラードン) | Raging Surf (SV3a) | 69 | Art Rare |
| Ferroseed (テッシード) | White Flare (SV11W) | 144 | Art Rare |
| Snover (ユキカブリ) | Mega Symphonia (M1S) | 67 | Art Rare |
| Kricketune (コロトック) | VSTAR Universe (S12a) | 174 | Art Rare |
The two cards worth pulling out are the Secret Rare Aerodactyl V and the Special Art Rare Flareon ex — they sit at a different rarity tier than the other five cards verified for this guide, and both were listed in our PSA 10 vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12).
The Aerodactyl V Secret Rare, from the Lost Abyss expansion (S11), is the only Secret Rare among the seven cards verified for this guide. The Flareon ex Special Art Rare comes from Terastal Festival ex (SV8a), and the Tyranitar Art Rare from Clay Burst (SV2D) is typical of the Art Rare entries that make up five of the seven verified cards, spread across Scarlet & Violet-era and later sets.
In Our PSA 10 Vault
Rather than assume any of Nurikabe’s cards are in our inventory, we checked the full 28-card Japanese Limitless list directly against our PSA 10 inventory as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12), matching by collector number and set code rather than by Pokemon name alone — the same Pokemon can appear across multiple sets with multiple illustrators, so name-only matching risks crediting the wrong artist. The result is three confirmed matches, all with the artist credit individually re-verified on the corresponding Limitless card page:
| Product | Price (JPY) | Link |
|---|---|---|
| PSA10 Aerodactyl V SR: SA, S11 106/100 (Lost Abyss) | ¥41,712 | View Product (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
| PSA10 Flareon ex 202/187 (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) SAR | ¥16,865 | View Product (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
| PSA10 Tyranitar AR, SV2D 079/071 (Clay Burst) | ¥9,785 | View Product (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) |
We also ruled out a near-miss. An in-stock “Mew Mysterious Tail 030/028 UR” shares a card number pattern with one of Nurikabe’s Limitless entries, but it isn’t the same card — Nurikabe’s number-30 credit on Limitless belongs to a different Pokemon (Mewtwo V, Pokemon GO set), not Mew. We’re flagging that here specifically so it doesn’t get mixed up with the confirmed matches above.
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None of the remaining Nurikabe-credited cards on the Limitless list — Groudon, Ferroseed, Snover, Kricketune, or any of the others covered below — had a graded PSA 10 copy in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12). If one of those specifically brought you here, our Quick Order page is the fastest way to flag interest for when a copy surfaces and gets graded.
Beyond the Top Cards: The Rest of the Catalog
The Aerodactyl V and Flareon ex headline the value range, and the seven cards verified for this guide skew toward the Art Rare tier, spread across Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and current Mega-era Japanese sets.
Groudon, from Raging Surf (SV3a), and Snover, from Mega Symphonia (M1S), both carry the Art Rare label that covers five of the seven cards verified for this guide. Kricketune, pulled from VSTAR Universe (S12a), rounds out the representative set used in this guide. Ferroseed, from White Flare (SV11W), continues the same pattern into one of the most recent Scarlet & Violet sets on the list.
Read as a set, the seven verified cards look less like a single chase card with filler around it and more like a run of Art Rare illustration work, with the Aerodactyl V Secret Rare and Flareon ex Special Art Rare standing out as the two rarity peaks among them. For collectors building a set-by-set illustrator collection rather than chasing a single grail, that spread across Clay Burst, Raging Surf, Mega Symphonia, White Flare, and VSTAR Universe is arguably the more interesting story than any individual card — it shows the seven cards verified for this guide spread across Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and current Mega-era print runs rather than a single breakout credit.
Beyond the Cards
Outside the Pokemon TCG catalog, Bulbapedia credits Nurikabe with 19 cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket — a separate mobile product with its own card list, so that figure shouldn’t be combined with the 22 or 28 English/Japanese TCG counts above.
Bulbapedia’s external links list a personal website, a Twitter account, and a Pixiv profile for Nurikabe. We’re linking to Bulbapedia’s own citations rather than describing what’s on those pages, since we haven’t independently verified their content: Bulbapedia’s Nurikabe page is the place to start if you want to trace those sources yourself.
Beyond that, we found no verified real name, gender beyond the they/them pronoun usage, location, or nationality tied to this name. Rather than pad this section out, we’re leaving it here: the card catalog and Bulbapedia’s short career summary are the extent of what’s currently documented, and this guide will be updated if a more detailed, sourced profile becomes available.
Where to Buy Nurikabe Cards from Japan
We source and ship Japanese PSA 10 singles out of Tokyo, and the Aerodactyl V Secret Rare and Flareon ex Special Art Rare are the two headline Nurikabe-illustrated cards listed in our vault as of this guide’s stock check (2026-08-12).
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For the wider PSA 10 catalog across every illustrator we’ve profiled, browse our PSA 10 collection, or use our Quick Order page to request Nurikabe cards — or any other card — that aren’t currently listed. You can also browse the complete, filterable inventory on our PSA 10 card list. If you’re building out a broader illustrator collection, our guides to KEIICHIRO ITO and Naoki Saito cover two more illustrators from the same ongoing series.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Nurikabe?
Nurikabe (塗壁) is a Pokemon TCG illustrator whose first card, per Bulbapedia, was Escavalier in the Brilliant Stars expansion. Limitless TCG credits Nurikabe with 22 English-language cards and 28 Japanese-language cards, plus 19 cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket. Bulbapedia refers to Nurikabe with they/them pronouns and does not state further biographical details.
What is Nurikabe’s most valuable card?
Among the cards individually verified for this guide, the Aerodactyl V Secret Rare (Lost Abyss, S11 106/100) and the Flareon ex Special Art Rare (Terastal Festival ex, SV8a 202/187) are the two highest-rarity cards. Our PSA 10 copies are currently listed at ¥41,712 and ¥16,865 respectively.
What Nurikabe cards does Samurai Sword Tokyo have listed (as of 2026-08-12)?
We checked Nurikabe’s full 28-card Japanese Limitless list against our PSA 10 inventory as of this guide’s stock check on 2026-08-12 and found three matches: Aerodactyl V SR: SA (S11 106/100), Flareon ex SAR (SV8a 202/187), and Tyranitar AR (SV2D 079/071).
What other cards has Nurikabe illustrated?
Beyond the Aerodactyl V and Flareon ex, Nurikabe’s confirmed catalog includes Art Rare Pokemon illustrations such as Tyranitar (Clay Burst, SV2D 79), Groudon (Raging Surf, SV3a 69), Ferroseed (White Flare, SV11W 144), Snover (Mega Symphonia, M1S 67), and Kricketune (VSTAR Universe, S12a 174).
Is the “Mew Mysterious Tail” card illustrated by Nurikabe?
No. An in-stock Mew Mysterious Tail 030/028 UR shares a similar card-number pattern with one of Nurikabe’s entries, but it’s a different Pokemon — Nurikabe’s number-30 credit on Limitless TCG belongs to Mewtwo V in the Pokemon GO set, not Mew.
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