Background cameos let illustrators wink at the wider Pokédex. Gengar earns 10 of those moments across 2000–2024, distributed among Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Keiji Kinebuchi and other contributors.
These cards feature indeterminate, mischievous, abstract and floating in their background art, illustrated by artists like Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida and Keiji Kinebuchi.