I'm guessing Mega Evolution is the main series name since we've totally dropped the Scarlet & Violet name, so it would probably go Mega Evolution - (set name). Sorta like what they did with the EX series way back in the day. BREAKpoint and BREAKthrough are somewhat oddities, but they did still...
It's not that it "keeps getting delayed", we never had any information about a release date other than 2025. Everyone just speculated it would be early 2025 because of PLA, but PLA was also advertised as an early year release from the very first announcement. PLZA was not.
If they were only going to make a metal card for one of the two UPCs, it seems like it'd make more sense for it to be in the Terapagos box since it's already a more "premium" selection. I do really hope that Greninja is just a placeholder and we're going to get a much cleaner card as a metal...
I thought the frame itself was really nice but the stands on those were criminal. I almost threw away the one from my Skeledirge box because it just looked like part of the packaging! They should've stuck with the nice weighted ones like what the Charizard and Gyarados boxes had
It does have just as much input as traditional art, speaking from experience in both. I won't deny there are tools in digital art that can make it somewhat easier or faster than traditional, but if you don't have the same foundational skills that make you successful in traditional art, you're...
Why would they do that? There's nothing wrong with digital art on its own, there's still just as much work involved as there is with traditional art. It's just a different set of tools to use. I'd be shocked if most of the official TCG artists weren't already using digital art programs like CSP...
I fear you're correct. There's a handful of other entries still in the pot that reek of common telltale AI signs. I'm glad they removed the ones they did, but they need to go through entries with a much finer toothed comb if they want their contests to survive with real artists in the future...