The Pokémon Company has now posted a statement which suggests that the illustrator who was commissioned created the card designs for the game was sent “incorrect reference materials” from the game’s card production team, which were wrongly presented as official art and led to the artist using them as a reference for the card art.

Pokémon TCG Pocket has been hit with a wave of fan dissatisfaction over a plagiarism controversy stemming from missing Legendary Pokémon artwork.