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Quietly released to stores like {{wp|Toys "R" Us}} during the month of November 2011 were the Stage 1 Blisters. Featuring Stage 1 evolutionary families, the packs contained either a {{p|Ninetales}} line, a {{p|Xatu}} line, or a {{p|Gliscor}} line, with the final evolutions each were given the Cracked Ice Holofoil treatment. Each pack contained one {{TCG|Emerging Powers}} booster pack, and one Emerging Powers preview pack. The Vulpix and Ninetales | Quietly released to stores like {{wp|Toys "R" Us}} during the month of November 2011 were the Stage 1 Blisters. Featuring Stage 1 evolutionary families, the packs contained either a {{p|Ninetales}} line, a {{p|Xatu}} line, or a {{p|Gliscor}} line, with the final evolutions each were given the Cracked Ice Holofoil treatment. Each pack contained one {{TCG|Emerging Powers}} booster pack, and one Emerging Powers preview pack. The Vulpix and Ninetales from {{TCG|HeartGold & SoulSilver}}, interestingly, were printed with the incorrect Set Symbol: the Set Symbol of the {{TCG|Undaunted}} expansion. | ||
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Revision as of 19:05, 22 May 2012
With the release of each series in the Pokémon Trading Card Game comes a plethora of collectible merchandise, and the Black & White Series is no exception. In order to release special promotional cards, booster packs, and other merchandise, promotional items such as Collector's Tins and Value Boxes are distributed. The following is a list of the merchandise released during the BW era of the trading card game.
Sneak-Peek Tins
To start off the Black & White Series for the English trading card game is the release of the Sneak-Peek Tins. Released on March 9th, 2011, these tins introduce the first Generation V Pokémon to the TCG. Each tin features one of the three starters--Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott--in the form of both a promotional card and a figure, as well as a preview pack of five other Generation V Pokémon. The three cards featured in the tin feature new artwork than when released in Japan in the Journey Partners collection. Each tin also contains four booster packs from the Platinum Series, HeartGold & SoulSilver Series, and Call of Legends.
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Black & White Theme Decks
Theme Decks are an integral part of the trading card game, being released with just about every one of the main expansions. Furthering the release of the Generation V Pokémon, the three theme decks for the Black & White expansion feature the final evolutions for Unova's starter Pokémon: Serperior, Emboar, and Samurott. The Green Tornado, Red Frenzy, and Blue Assault theme decks were released on April 6th, 2011: roughly three weeks before the main expansion. These three theme decks each contain a code for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, allowing players to use these theme decks while battling in the game.
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Black & White Blisters
The release of Black & White brought the addition of both three pack blisters and two pack blisters. Released April 25th, 2011, the three pack blisters came in three varieties: each one featuring one of the three Unova starters as a promotional card, three Black & White booster packs, a Black & White preview pack containing three Common cards from the set, and a coin featuring the starters. The two pack blisters contain one Black & White booster pack, one preview pack, and one of four promotional cards. The three starter Pokémon were the same as those in the three pack blisters, but the Ducklett promotional card could only be found in two pack blisters.
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Victini Box
In addition to the set release on April 25th, 2011, a promotional box set named the Victini Box was released. The Victini Box continues the trend of releasing a figure with the trading card promotional merchandise, and includes a new figure of the Victory Pokémon. Also included in this box are five Black & White booster packs, as well as a holographic promotional card featuring Zoroark.
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Black & White Collector's Album Box
Alongside the Victini Box on April 25th came another promotional box set, the Black & White Collector's Album Box. This box set brings a sixty card Black & White mini-collector's album, as well as two additional booster packs from the Black & White expansion. Also, a promotional card featuring Axew was included.
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Black & White booster two-packs
In conjunction with the Mystery Egg event, available exclusively at Toys "R" Us starting April 27th, 2011 were the Black & White booster two-packs. These two pack boosters included two boosters from the Black & White expansion, as well as one of three secret promotional cards featuring one of the three Pokémon that may hatch from the Pokémon Eggs distributed at the event. These Pokémon are Pansage, Pidove, and Axew.
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New Legends Tins
Continuing the tradition of releasing tins featuring reprints with alternate artwork brings the addition of the New Legends Tins. Released on May 2nd, 2011, these tins feature Reshiram and Zekrom, the mascots for Pokémon Black and White. These tins come with either a Reshiram or a Zekrom holographic promotional card, in addition to four booster packs from the Black & White expansion.
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Black & White Trainer Kit
In order to teach beginning players how to play the Pokémon Trading Card Game, Trainer Kits with two preconstructed half decks are released. The Black & White Series brings the Black & White Trainer Kit. This kit was originally due for release August 3rd, 2011, but was held back for unknown reasons. The Black & White Trainer Kit features Zoroark and Excadrill as holographic cards with artwork exclusive to the Trainer Kit. It also contains two booklets to guide players through the game, a coin, an exclusive deck box, a Black & White Series booster pack, and a code card to unlock the cards in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
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Emerging Powers Theme Decks
As with almost every expansion, the Emerging Powers expansion features two theme decks, which are named Toxic Tricks and Power Play. These two theme decks feature the Pokémon Scolipede and Krookodile, respectively, whose cards were, at the time, English exclusive. Much like with Black & White, the theme decks were released earlier than the main expansion: being released on August 17th, 2011. These theme decks each contain a code for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, allowing players to use these theme decks while battling in the game.
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Emerging Powers Blisters
The Emerging Powers expansion brings an additional three pack blisters and two pack blisters. Released with the set on August 31st, 2011, three different promotional cards were made available within the products. The three pack blisters have two varieties: one with a Pansage promotional card, and one with a Zorua promotional card. These blisters also include three Emerging Powers booster packs, an Emerging Powers preview pack containing three Common cards from the set, and a coin featuring both Reshiram and Zekrom. The two pack blisters feature a Minccino promotional card, in either a Cracked Ice Holofoil print or a Cosmos Holofoil print, one Emerging Powers booster pack, and one Emerging Powers preview pack.
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Emerging Powers Collector's Album Box
Much like the Black & White expansion, Emerging Powers also featured a Collector's Album Box. The Emerging Powers Collector's Album Box, released on August 31st, 2011, the same day as the set, contained a sixty card Black & White mini-collector's album, as well as two additional booster packs from the Emerging Powers expansion. The promotional card included in this box is a holographic Darumaka card.
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Starter Figure Boxes
Released September 2011 were the Starter Figure Boxes. Featuring the Unova Region Starter Pokémon, these boxes were appropriately named the Super Snivy Box, the Terrific Tepig Box, and the Outstanding Oshawott Box. Each box contained a holographic reprint of either Snivy, Tepig, Oshawott, and a 3D Jumbo promotional card featuring the starters' evolutionary families: _____'s Snivy, _____'s Tepig, or _____'s Oshawott, respectively. Each tin also included one of the three starter figures previously released in the Sneak-Peek Tins, as well as three booster packs from the Emerging Powers expansion and a code card to unlock these items in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
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- Snivy (Black & White 1; holographic)
- _____'s Snivy (Miscellaneous Promotional cards; jumbo)
- Tepig (Black & White 15; holographic)
- _____'s Tepig (Miscellaneous Promotional cards; jumbo)
- Oshawott (Black & White 27; holographic)
- _____'s Oshawott (Miscellaneous Promotional cards; jumbo)
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Zoroark-Illusions Collection
Released October 5th, 2011, the Zoroark-Illusions Collection was a promotional box featuring the Illusion Fox Pokémon, Zoroark. Each Zoroark-Illusions Collection includes a holographic Zoroark as both a regular promotional card and a 3D jumbo card, three booster packs, and a code card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online. This code card unlocks one booster pack online, the promotional card, and a Zoroark themed Item online. This is the first promotional item since the release of Black & White to include booster packs from expansions before Generation V.
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Reshiram Box
Similar to the Template:Merch released in April, a box dedicated to Reshiram was also released. On October 19th, 2011, the Reshiram Box included four Emerging Powers Series booster packs, a Reshiram figure, a new promotional reprint of the Reshiram card from Black & White, and a code card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
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Zekrom Box
Also released October 19th, 2011 is the Zekrom Box. It has the same contents as the Reshiram Box, but contains a Zekrom figure and a new promotional reprint of the Zekrom card from Black & White instead of the Reshiram themed merchandise.
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2011 World Championships Decks
Released in October 2011, shortly after the 2011 World Championships, were the 2011 World Championships Decks. These four decks (The Truth, Megazone, Reshiphlosion, Twinboar) were the decks used by the three champions in each of the three divisions of Juniors, Seniors, and Masters, as well as the Masters finalist. Each Deck comes with a Worlds 2011 themed Deckbox, a booklet about the championships, and a non tournament legal print of the sixty card deck.
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Evolved Battle Action Tins
Released November 2nd, 2011 were the Evolved Battle Action Tins. Each tin features one of the three final evolutions of the Unova Region Starter Pokémon, the Grass Pokémon Serperior, the Fire Pokémon Emboar, and the Water Pokémon Samurott, in the form of both a promotional reprint and a figure. The tins also include a special code card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, as well as five booster packs: two from Emerging Powers, one from Black & White, one from Call of Legends, and one from Triumphant.
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Noble Victories Theme Decks
The release of the Noble Victories expansion brought with it the release of the additional Theme Decks: Fast Daze and Furious Knights, featuring Accelgor and Escavalier, respectively. These theme decks were the last to be released earlier than the main expansion: being released on November 2nd, 2011. Fast Daze features Grass-type and Fire-type Pokémon, while Furious Knights features Metal-type and Lightning-type Pokémon. These theme decks each contain a code for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online, allowing players to use them while battling in the game.
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Stage 1 Blisters
Quietly released to stores like Toys "R" Us during the month of November 2011 were the Stage 1 Blisters. Featuring Stage 1 evolutionary families, the packs contained either a Ninetales line, a Xatu line, or a Gliscor line, with the final evolutions each were given the Cracked Ice Holofoil treatment. Each pack contained one Emerging Powers booster pack, and one Emerging Powers preview pack. The Vulpix and Ninetales from HeartGold & SoulSilver, interestingly, were printed with the incorrect Set Symbol: the Set Symbol of the Undaunted expansion.
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- Ninetales (HeartGold & SoulSilver 7; error)
- Vulpix (HeartGold & SoulSilver 87; error)
- Xatu (Unleashed 11)
- Natu (Unleashed 55)
- Gliscor (Undaunted 4)
- Gligar (Undaunted 49)
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Prime Challenge Boxes
Released on November 15th, 2011, the Prime Challenge Boxes feature reprints of older cards from the HeartGold & SoulSilver series with particular focus on popular Pokémon Prime cards at the time. Collectively, the four boxes focus on the last two HeartGold & SoulSilver series expansions: two for Undaunted and two for Triumphant. Each of the variants include one Theme Deck that accompanied the expansion: Daybreak or Nightfall for the Undaunted boxes, Verdant Frost or Royal Guard for the Triumphant boxes, as well as two booster packs from that expansion, and a three-card evolutionary chain from that expansion. Each box also includes a code card to unlock these items in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
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- Espeon (Undaunted 81)
- Oddish (Undaunted 60), Gloom (Undaunted 27), and Bellossom (Undaunted 1); all reverse-holographic
- Umbreon (Undaunted 86)
- Beldum (Undaunted 43), Metang (Undaunted 30), and Metagross (Undaunted 18); all reverse-holographic
- Machamp (Triumphant 95)
- Nidoran♂ (Triumphant 70), Nidorino (Triumphant 46), and Nidoking (Triumphant 6); all reverse-holographic
- Yanmega (Triumphant 98)
- Swinub (Triumphant 79), Piloswine (Triumphant 48), and Mamoswine (Triumphant 5); all reverse-holographic
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Noble Victories Blisters
Accompanying the Noble Victories expansion on November 16th, 2011 were three pack blisters and two pack blisters, with three different promotional cards available to collect. The three pack blisters, now adopting the new package design phased in with the release of Emerging Powers have two varieties: one with an Axew promotional card, and one with a Litwick promotional card. These blisters also include three Noble Victories booster packs, one Noble Victories preview pack containing three Common cards from the set, and a coin featuring Victini. The two pack blisters feature a Scraggy promotional card, one Noble Victories booster pack, and one Noble Victories preview pack.
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V for Victini Tin
On December 5th, 2011, the V for Victini Tin was released. This tin, as the name suggests, features the Victory Pokémon Victini. Included was the Victini figure previously released in the Template:Merch, a promotional reprint of the Victini numbered 14/101 from Noble Victories, five Noble Victories booster packs, and a code card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online.
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Next Destinies Theme Decks
The Next Destinies expansion brought with it two Theme Decks: Explosive Edge and Voltage Vortex. They featured the two main legendary Pokémon of Unova, Reshiram and Zekrom, respectively. Unlike the first three expansions of the Black & White Series, these Theme Decks were released the day of the set, instead of weeks prior. In addition, their featured cards, Reshiram and Zekrom, used the Pinstripe Holofoil, instead of the Cracked Ice Holofoil typically used in Theme Decks. Each included a Pokémon Trading Card Game Online code that allows the deck to be unlocked online.
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Next Destinies Blisters
Released together with the Next Destinies expansion, various blister packs hit store shelves on February 8th, 2012. In an unprecedented move by The Pokémon Company International, the blister packs for North America began to include different assortments of products compared to the international blisters. The familiar three pack blisters, released internationally, came in two varieties: one with an exclusive holofoil Riolu promotional card, and one with an exclusive holofoil Luxio promotional card. These blisters included three Next Destinies booster packs, and a coin featuring Munna.
The North American blister packs, on the other hand, came in four varieties: two different two pack blisters containing either one of two Stage 2 evolutionary families, and two single pack blisters containing either one of two Stage 1 evolutionary families. The Stage 2 blisters contained either the Klinklang family or the Gigalith family, all Cracked Ice Holofoil. The Stage 1 blisters contained either the Zoroark family or the Beartic family, with the final stage as a Cracked Ice Holofoil, and also contained a Next Destinies 3-card sampling pack and a code card to unlock either family in the online game.
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- Riolu (BW Promo 33; holofoil)
- Luxio (BW Promo 34; holofoil)
- Roggenrola (Emerging Powers 49; holofoil)
- Boldore (Emerging Powers 51; holofoil)
- Gigalith (Emerging Powers 53; holofoil)
- Klink (Black & White 74; holofoil)
- Klang (Black & White 75; holofoil)
- Klinklang (Black & White 76; holofoil)
- Cubchoo (Emerging Powers 28)
- Beartic (Emerging Powers 30; holofoil)
- Zorua (Black & White 70)
- Zoroark (Black & White 71; holofoil)
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Mewtwo Collection
Alongside Next Destinies on February 8th, 2012 came the Mewtwo Collection, a promotional box featuring the Genetic Pokémon, Mewtwo. Each Mewtwo Collection includes a jumbo Mewtwo-EX card, a Battle City promotional card featuring Mewtwo and Kyurem, a Mewtwo figure, three Next Destinies booster packs, and a code card for the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online. This code card unlocks Battle City online, a jumbo Mewtwo avatar item, and Mewtwo figure avatar item online.
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- Mewtwo-EX (Next Destinies 54; jumbo)
- Battle City (BW Promo 39)
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EX Tins
Shortly after the release of the Next Destinies expansion, on March 21st, 2012, the EX Tins were released. These tins featured three of the newest Pokémon-EX: Reshiram-EX, Kyurem-EX, and Zekrom-EX. Included in the tins were four Next Destinies booster packs, and an online code card to unlock the promotional card online. For the first time in several Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the tin promos neither were exclusive cards, nor given alternate artwork. They were exactly the same as their in set prints, with the exception of their number.
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