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Error Cards are cards in the TCG that have some elements on the card that are incorrect. The errors on the cards vary from minor to major errors. There is only a very small amount of these cards. These cards are often sought after by collectors.

Base Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Base Set:

• 1st Edition Kakuna & Bulbasaur - These two cards had "Length Length" instead of "Length Weight".
• 1st Edition Pikachu - A number of {{|p|Pikachu}} cards had a number of small errors in their flavor text and images.
• 1st Edition Voltorb - This card refers to Poké Balls as "Monster Balls".
• Diglett - A number of Diglett have their attack energy cost symbol rotated 90 degrees.
• 1st Edition Metapod & Caterpie, and Vulpix - A number Metapod, Caterpie, and Vulpix cards are listed as "HP ##" instead of "## HP".
• Base Set Ninetales - A rare number of Base Set Ninetales lack the damage done for their attacks.
• 1st Edition Sandshrew - Sandshrew's attack says "this attack does nothing" while its supposed to say "that attack does nothing".
• Wartortle - Apparently a number of Wartortle have a picture of Wartortle in its evolution box.
• Base Set Blastoise - A rare number of Base Set Blastoise were printed without the word "stage" in the "put Blastoise

Jungle Set errors

• Seaking & Rapidash - Seaking and Rapidash are Stage 1 Pokémon but the text tell you to "Put XXX on the Stage 1 card".
• 1st Edition Butterfree - Due to a bubble in the printing ink, a number of Butterfree have the phrase "Edition d" instead of "Edition 1".
• 1st Edition Electrode - A number of Jungle Electrode have the image of Base Set Electrode.
• Jungle Set Cards - A number of Jungle cards during the last few Jungle print runs were printed without a Jungle Symbol.

Fossil Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Fossil Set:

• 1st Edition Holo Zapdos - A number of Fossil Holo Zapdos cards have their Evolution Symbols punched out of the holo, even though Zapdos is a Basic Pokémon.

Team Rocket Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Team Rocket Set

• Dark Arbok - Dark Arbok was first printed with a wrong copyright date "©1999-23000 Wizards".
• Dark Golbat - The English Pokémon Power mentions "Apply Weakness and Resistance". Per the Master Rulings Document, the Japanese Dark Golbat's Pokémon Power says "Don't apply Weakness and Resistance." ... and there's no space between the words "Pokémon" and "Apply". (Reads "Pokémon.Apply")
• Holo Dark Dragonite - The attack cost symbols for Holo Dark Dragonite are off the center.
• Grimer - English TR Grimers' Poison Gas attack puts Pokémon to sleep, even though the Japanese version Poisons them.
• Dark Rapidash - Dark Rapidash's stats lacks the word "Length".
• Holo Dark Vileplume - Holo Dark Vileplumes have a weakness of Fighting, while it is supposed to be Fire.
• Dark Dragonite - About 5000 Holo Dark Dragonite were actually printed as nonholo.
• Dark Raichu - Dark Raichu's Evolution Box is colored light grey instead of dark grey (dark grey colored Pokémon Evolution Boxes are found on Dark Pokémon while light grey Pokémon Evolution Boxes are used for other Pokémon). And it tells you to "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" instead of "Put Dark Raichu..."

Gym Heroes Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Gym Challenge Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Gym Challenge Set:

• Blaine's Charizard - A number of Blaine's Charizard Cards have a Fighting symbol instead of the Fire symbol.
• Rocket's Minefield Gym - This card does not mention how many damage counters needed to put on a Pokémon for an unsucessful coin toss(flip).
• Giovanni's Pinsir - Pinsir's "Snapping Pincers" attack is supposed to do 20+ damage and not 10+ damage.

Neo Genesis Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Neo Genesis Set:

• Slowking & Typhlosion - These card's damages are off the center.
• Horsea - The attack cost energy symbol for Horsea is oddly off.
• Meganium - The Pokémon Power title text is black instead of red.
• Focus Band - The picture on the Focus Band has a white bar beneath it, as if the picture wasn't properly positioned while they were doing the layout on the computers.

Neo Discovery Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Neo Discovery Set:

• Kakuna - The copyright text of all Neo Discovery cards is "©1999-2001". But for an unknown reason, this card's copyright is "©1999-2000".
• Scizor - The attack's damage done is "20+" while it's supposed to be "20x".
• Umbreon - The Psychic symbol in Umbreon's resistance is bigger than normal.

Neo Revelation Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Neo Revelation Set:

• Delibird - The energy cost for Delibird's attack is off the center.
• Raichu - For an unexplained reason the "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" text on the card is unnecessarily bold and italic.
• Zubat - Zubat's resistance lacks the "-30".

Neo Destiny Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Neo Destiny Set:

• Dark Croconaw - Croconaw only have 48 teeth while in the card it says it has 49.
• Dark Exeggutor - There is an unnecesary letter C in Exeggutor's name.
• Dark Haunter - Dark Haunter's "Call Back" attack's clause leave out the word "opponent's".
• Light Flareon - The "b" in "benched" is supposed to be capitalized.
• Togepi - The "before applying Weakness and Resistance" text should be in italics.
• Gligar - The energy symbols on Gligar is not in the correct position.
• Shining Tyranitar - The word "just" is spelled wrong it was spelled "hust".
• Unown C - Unown C's "Chase" Pokémon Power adds a useless "Apply Weakness and Resistance" considering the Pokémon doesn't do damage.
• Unown P - There's an extra space in the Basic Pokémon title on Unown P.

Legendary Collection Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Legendary Collection Set:

• Reverse Holo Exeggcute - Normally on Reverse Holos, the Energy costs for attacks aren't reflective. On Exeggcute, they are.

Expedition Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Expedition Set:

• Darkness Energy - The card text implies that you can do extra damage to Benched Pokémon while normally all attacks cannot do extra damage to benched Pokémon.
• Alakazam - The "This power stops working if..." text is italicized while it is not supposed to be.
• Charizard (#39) - This card tells you to "Put Charizard on the Basic Pokémon".
• Gengar - Gengar's Chaos Move Pokémon Power game text has a few spots where the text could go up a line.
• Dugtrio - Like the Umbreon error with the oversized Psychic symbol, Dugtrio's attack's Energy cost's symbols are larger than they should be.
• Totodile (#134) - When you scan in Cyndaquil's card into the E-Reader for GBA, you can use a "Cynda!" sound for your Melody Box. However when you scan in the Totodile card, you get "Wani!" instead of "Toto!". "Wani" is in reference to Totodile's Japanese name "Waninoko". Since both Chikorita and Pikachu's name is the same in English and Japanese, either Totodile's sound effect is the error, or Cyndaquil's is.
• Multi Technical Machine 01 & Energy Removal 2 - As you scan these two cards in your E-Reader for Game Boy Advance, the TM01 card tells you that you can use the "Paralyzing Stare" attack (while the card attack name is really "Paralyzing Gaze"), and the reader refers to "Energy Removal 2" as just "Energy Removal".

Aquapolis Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Aquapolis Set:

• Holo Rare Cards - For some reason, the bottommost holo "cut out" on the left side of the card is not holofied.
• Crystal Nidoking - The Crystal Type Pokémon mentions Grass/Lightning/Fire energy, but the attacks only use Grass/Lightning/Fighting energy.
• Reverse Holo Lanturn (#20) - There's a PokéBody icon on it for no specific reason at all.
• Magenemite (#52) - The text on this card is quite, quite faded. As opposed to other Metal Pokémon in the set.
• Weakness Guard - The "Attach this card..." text is in its own separate paragraph, unlike other cards in the past.
• Ariados - In its Spider Force attack, the holo version says "defending Pokémon" while the nonholo version says "Defending Pokémon".

Skyridge Set errors

• Nidoqueen - The period is misplaced at the left of the end of Nidoqueen's last attack.

Ruby & Sapphire Set errors

Here is the list of error cards from the Ruby & Sapphire Set:

• Slakoth (#45) - The last f in the attack "Slack Off" isn't bolded.

Sandstorm Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Sandstorm Set:

• Vigoroth (#52) -Under its "Focus Energy" attack it says "Vigoroth's Slash is attack".
• Marril (#68) - This card is supposed to have a Retreat Cost of 1 but a third to a half of these cards were printed with a Retreat Cost of 0. Alternate Holo version of this card don't have this error.

Dragon Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Dragon Set:

• Combusken (#25) - The card was printed as Stage 2 while it should be Stage 1. Only cards that were printed from Ex Battle Stadium set have this error.
• Latios ex (#94) - In its holo-foil, there's a circular space as if an evolution box was to cover it up.

Team Magma vs Team Aqua Set errors

Here are the list of Error Cards from the Team Magma vs Team Aqua Set:

• Team Aqua's Crawdaunt (#2) - The Retreat Cost energy is supposed to centered under "Retreat Cost". It is misaligned to the right.
• Team Magma's Claydol (#8) - The Retreat Cost energy is supposed to centered under "Retreat Cost". It is misaligned to the right.
• Team Magma's Torkoal (#12) - The Retreat Cost energy is supposed to centered under "Retreat Cost". It is misaligned to the right.
• Team Magma's Camerupt (#19) -In the PokéPower explanation the second Magma's was misspelled as "Mamga's".
• Team Magma's Baltoy (#32) - Under its "Psymist" attack it reads "choose 1 of you opponent's". It should read "choose 1 of your opponent's"
• Team Magma Belt (#81) - The "T" in Pokémon Tool isn't capitalized.

Hidden Legends Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Fire Red & Leaf Green Set errors

Here are the list of error cards from the Fire Red & Leaf Green Set:

• Hypno (#25) - Drowzee was misspelled as "Drowsee".
• Drowzee (#32) - Drowzee was misspelled as "Drowsee".
• Gastly (#63) - The card is a common, but has an uncommon symbol.
• Magikarp (#67) - The card is a common, but has an uncommon symbol.

Team Rocket Returns Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Deoxys Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Emerald Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Unseen Forces Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Delta Species Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Legend Maker Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Holon Phantoms Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Crystal Guardians Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Dragon Frontiers Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Power Keepers Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Diamond & Pearl Set errors

Here is the list of error cards from the Diamond & Pearl Set:

• Empoleon Lv.X (#120) - The PokéBody icon on it is supposed to be a PokéPower icon.

Mysterious Treasures Set errors

No errors were found in this set.

Other/Promotional Card errors (Wizards)

Here are the list of error cards from the Promotional Cards (Wizards):

• Prereleased Raichu - Arguably the rarest cared printed by Wizards. Rumoured to have been about 50 made, some of which were retrieved by Wizards themselves.
• Promotional Pikachu #1 - Promotional Pikachu #1 was accidentally released with 1st Edition Jungle, with a 1st Edition symbol on it.
• Promotional Card Meowth #10 - The HP is nudged too far over to the left, and the attack cost symbols are much smaller than the normal cost.
• Promotional Card Eevee #11 - Promotional Eevee's Pokémon Power text lacks the accent mark (it's e instead of é).
• Promotional Card Persian #17 - A number of Promotional Persian cards lack an HP.
• Team Rocket's Meowth #18 - Team Rocket's Meowth type is listed as "Scratchcat" instead of "Scratch Cat".
• Promotional Card Marill #29 - Its "Length" stat is listed as "Height" instead of "Length", its Water Gun attack is missing a Water energy symbol and its 20+ damage done is off the center.
• Promotional Card Scyther #45 - Scyther's game text in the parenthesis isn't in italics when it should be.
• Promotional Card Mew #47 - "Lily Pad" Mew's attack inflicts confusion while it was supposed to Paralyze.
• Promotional Card Celebi #50 - The art is credited to "Hajime Kusajima", although his name was spelt "Hajime Kusajim". And the copyright text on Celebi is listed without spaces so it bacame "Pokémon/Nintendo" instead of "Pokémon / Nintendo" unlike the other Card-E Cards.
• Slowking (Southern Islands) - Slowking's length is listed as 6' 8" instead of 6' 7".
• Promotional Card Hitmonchan - Hitmonchan's HP is 60 while it's supposed to be 70.

Other/Promotional Card errors (Nintendo)

Here are the list of error cards from the Promotional Cards from Nintendo:

• Ancient Mew- When it was being printed in Japan, the first print misspelled the word Nintendo in the copyright line.
• Promotional Cards Kyogre and Groudon #1 & 2 - These card's text says "Does damage..." when it's supposed to say "This attack does...".