Error cards

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Error Cards have an element on the card that is 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 Pikachu cards have a number of small errors in their flavor text and images.
• 1st Edition Voltorb - This card refers to Poké Balls as "Monster Balls". Obviously a result of a direct translation.
• Unlimited Diglett - Some Diglett have their attack energy cost symbol rotated 90 degrees.
• 1st Edition Metapod & Caterpie, and all Vulpix - Some Metapod, Caterpie, and Vulpix cards are listed as "HP XX" instead of "XX 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" when its supposed to say "that attack does nothing".
• Wartortle - Apparently some Wartortle have a picture of Wartortle in its evolution box.
• Base Set Blastoise - A very rare number of Base Set Blastoise were printed without the word "stage" in their "Put Blastoise on the stage 1 Pokémon" line.

Jungle errors

• Any 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 are "Edition d" instead of "Edition 1".
• 1st Edition Nonholo Electrode - Some Jungle Electrode have the image of their Base Set counterpart.
• Unlimited Jungle Rares Holos - Some Jungle cards during the last few Jungle print runs were printed without a Jungle Symbol.

Fossil errors

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

• 1st Edition Holo Zapdos - Some Fossil Holo Zapdos cards have an Evolution symbol punched out of the holo, even though Zapdos is a Basic Pokémon.

Team Rocket errors

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

• Dark Arbok - Dark Arbok was first printed with the copyright "©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." ... Plus 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, even though it's supposed to be Fire.
• Dark Dragonites - About 5000 Holo Dark Dragonite were actually printed as nonholo.
• Dark Raichu - Dark Raichu's Evolution Box is colored light grey (as opposed to the dark grey found on other Dark Pokémon). Plus it tells you to "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" instead of "Put Dark Raichu..."

Gym Heroes errors

No errors were found in this set.

Gym Challenge errors

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

• Blaine's Charizard - Some Blaine's Charizard have a Fighting symbol instead of the Fire symbol that's supposed to be there.
• Rocket's Minefield Gym - This card does not mention how many damage counters to put on a Pokémon for an unsucessful flip (for the record, it's 2 damage counters).
• Giovanni's Pinsir - Pinsir's "Snapping Pincers" attack is supposed to do 20+ damage and not 10+ damage.

Neo Genesis 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 Focus Band has a white bar beneath it, as if the picture wasn't properly positioned when they were doing the layout on the computers.

Neo Discovery 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 some reason, this card's copyright is "©1999-2000".
• Scizor - The attack's damage done is "20+" when it's supposed to be "20x". For the record, you play it as "20x".
• Umbreon - The Psychic symbol in Umbreon's resistance is bigger than normal.

Neo Revelation 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 - The "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" text is unnecessarily bold and italic.
• Zubat - Zubat's resistance lacks the "-30".

Neo Destiny errors

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

• Dark Croconaw - Doesn't Croconaw have only 48 teeth in its mouth? The card says it has 49.
• Dark Exeggutor - There's an unneeded C in the 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 "hust" in its flavor text is supposed to be "just".
• Unown C - Unown C's Chase power adds a useless "Apply Weakness and Resistance" considering the power doesn't do damage.
• Unown P - There's an extra space in Basic Pokémon title on Unown P.

Legendary Collection 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 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 (considering that normally you cannot put extra damage to Benched Pokémon).
• Alakazam - The "This power stops working if..." text is italicized when it's 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 obviously 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 - When you scan in these two cards in your E-Reader for GBA, the TM01 card tells you that you can use the "Paralyzing Stare" attack (when the card attack name is really Paralyzing Gaze), and the reader refers to "Energy Removal 2" as just "Energy Removal".

Aquapolis 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. As in the mask for the holo wasn't done correctly.
• Crystal Nidoking - The Crystal Type power 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 - This isn't an error, per se. But it is strange that the "Attach this card..." text 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 errors

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

Ruby & Sapphire 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 errors

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

• Vigoroth (#52) -Under its "Focus Energy" attack it reads "Vigoroth's Slash is attack" as if someone left is by mistake.
• 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 errors

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

• Combusken (#25) - The card was printed as Stage 2 when 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 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 misaligned to the right.
• Team Magma's Claydol (#8) - The Retreat Cost energy is supposed to centered under "Retreat Cost". It misaligned to the right.
• Team Magma's Torkoal (#12) - The Retreat Cost energy is supposed to centered under "Retreat Cost". It 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 errors

No errors were found in this set.

Fire Red & Leaf Green 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 errors

No errors were found in this set.

Deoxys errors

No errors were found in this set.

Emerald errors

No errors were found in this set.

Unseen Forces errors

No errors were found in this set.

Delta Species errors

No errors were found in this set.

Legend Maker errors

No errors were found in this set.

Holon Phantoms errors

No errors were found in this set.

Crystal Guardians errors

No errors were found in this set.

Dragon Frontiers errors

No errors were found in this set.

Power Keepers errors

No errors were found in this set.

Diamond & Pearl 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 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):

• Prerelease Raichu - Arguably the rarest cared printed by Wizards. Rumoured to have been about 50 made, some of which were retrieved by Wizards themselves.
• Promo Pikachu #1 - Promo Pikachu #1 was accidentally released with 1st Edition Jungle, with a 1st Edition symbol on it when it wasn't supposed to.
• Promotional Card Meowth #10 - The HP is too far over to the left, and the attack cost symbols are much smaller than they should be.
• Promotional Card Eevee #11 - Promo Eevee's Pokémon Power text lacks the accent mark (it's e instead of é).
• Promotional Card Persian #17 - Some Promo Persian cards lack an HP.
• Team Rocket's Meowth #18 - TR's Meowth type is listed as "Scratchcat" instead of "Scratch Cat".
• Promotional Card Marill #29 - Its stat is listed as "Height" instead of "Length", its Water Gun attack lacks a Water energy symbol (for the record, you play it as it's written , and its 20+ damage done is off the center.
• Promotional Card Scyther #45 - Scyther's game text in (parenthesis) isn't in italics when it should be.
• Promotional Card Mew #47 - "Lily Pad" Mew's attack Confused when it was supposed to Paralyze.
• Promotional Card Celebi #50 - The art is credited to "Hajime Kusajim", although his name is supposed to be spelt "Hajime Kusajima". And if you'll also notice, the copyright text on Celebi is listed as "Pokémon/Nintendo" instead of "Pokémon / Nintendo".... as in that there is no space separating the two names on Celebi as opposed to other Card-E Cards.
• Slowking (Southern Islands) - Slowking's length is listed as 6' 8" instead of 6' 7" (which is what it's supposed to be).
• Best Promotional Card Hitmonchan - Hitmonchan's HP is 60 when 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 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...".