Ancient Mew (The Power of One promo): Difference between revisions

Ancient Mew   ミュウ Mew

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Evolution stage Basic Pokémon Card name Ancient Mew Type Psychic HP 30 weakness ×2 resistance None retreat cost English expansion Miscellaneous Promotional cards Japanese expansion Unnumbered Promotional cards For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Mew.

Ancient Mew (Japanese: ミュウ Mew) is a Psychic-type Basic Pokémon card. It was released as a promotional card. This card's text is depicted in medieval Futhark Runic and Gothenburg Runic writing; this page uses their English equivalents.

Card text

Psychic サイコキネシス 40

Release information

• This card was released as a promotional card. It was released during the theatrical run of The Power of One in both Japan and the United States.

Trivia

• Due to this card's text being in Runic, this card is one of only two cards to have ever been banned from the Unlimited format in addition to the Modified format. It shares this distinction with ___'s Pikachu.
• The card's illustrator is also unknown due to the Runic text.
• This card was depicted in The Power of One as the object that started Lawrence III's collection. The card was the only object from his collection still in his possession at the end of the movie.
• Early Japanese prints of the card misspelled "Nintendo" in the understandable text.
• People who attended a WotC event were given a sheet to read the runes. Based on this cheat sheet, the runes in the middle translate as Little God or Evil? while the ones on the bottom translate as Birth, Enthronement, Right of Succession and Death.

Origin

Psychic is a move in the Pokémon games that Mew can learn.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.