Pokémon Web (TCG)
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Pokémon Web (Japanese: ポケモンカード★web Pokémon Card★web) is a Japanese-only release of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Cards were only available to buy online.
Set Size
- Pokémon Web contains 48 cards
Sequence
- 12th Japanese Expansion
Release Date
- 20th October 2001
Trivia
- This was the first (and only) Pokémon TCG Expansion available exclusively online. Japanese visitors to Pokémon Center Online could purchase "packs" of 10 cards and have their cards sent to them. After their purchase, users had the opportunity to view which cards they had bought online.
- Pokémon Web contained reprints of cards featured in Base Set, Jungle, Fossil and Team Rocket, along with several Promotional cards.
- The cards were on the e-series card design, which likely added to their appeal. Rather than just producing a complete reprint, as Wizards of the Coast often does, MediaFactory brought old favorites into the new generation of the TCG. The set logo "Web" is in place of the "e" symbol as seen in future Expansions.
- The Expansion was seen as a novel idea, but unfortunately never really took off, which is why such an idea has not been repeated thus far.
- The cards Dark Ivysaur and Dark Venusaur, featured in this set eventually made their English appearence as Best of Game Promotional cards #6 and #7 respectively.