"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death." Mary Shelley, *Frankenstein*
The holographic treatment is particularly effective here, making the scales and water spray shimmer with an intensity that matches the card's aggressive energy and gives the sea serpent a sense of movement and life that makes it feel like it could burst from the card at any moment
That leaves us with 50 more creatures to go through in part 2 which you can read right here
That third Initiates card notes that 'non-human races had special talents to be exploited', which explains the orcs in this picture and the centaur one above
To be clear, even though you will see American YouTubers ripping open packs of international cards long before their street dates (either because they are sent samples by TPCi, as we are, or because they get retail stock ahead of sale), this isnt the case for the Japanese sets
This is sort of rare, and its very unusual to find more than the black border that has been crimped