Look past the front-of-card pokemon and Ho-Oh is there — 6 times across the TCG, drawn between 2001 and 2010. Aya Kusube, Tomokazu Komiya and Katsura Tabata's work shows up most often.
Skyridge contains the most Ho-Oh cameos in any one set, while Aya Kusube is the artist most associated with Ho-Oh background appearances.
These cards feature flying, indeterminate, sky and dynamic in their background art, illustrated by artists like Aya Kusube, Tomokazu Komiya and Katsura Tabata.
Ho-Oh appears as a background cameo across 6 Pokémon cards.
These appearances range from clear sightings to barely-visible silhouettes, scattered across 2001–2010 of the TCG.
Each cameo rewards collectors who pause to look closely at the card art.