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HeartGold & SoulSilver
ハートゴールドコレクション / ソウルシルバーコレクション
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Pokémon TCG: HeartGold & SoulSilver (Japanese: ハートゴールドコレクション HeartGold Collection and ソウルシルバーコレクション SoulSilver Collection) is the name given to the first expansion of cards from the LEGEND era of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. The set brings several new mechanics and features to the game.
Information
- Based on Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, this set predominantly includes Generation II Pokémon and features from the re-envisioned Johto region.
- For only the second time in the TCG, the card layout was redesigned mid-generation (the first was the transition from Neo to e-Card during Generation II). Changes include:
- The card border, as well as some of the graphics on the card have a gold and silver tinge, a direct reference to the games.
- The evolution box graphic returns to the upper left corner of the card next to the card name, as it was on cards released before the EX era. The stage name graphic remains on the top of the illustration window, albeit shifted slightly to the left. Basic Pokémon cards also have a small graphic added where the evolution box is on evolved Pokémon.
- The illustrator credit graphic is shorter in length, allowing more space for the Pokédex entry text, which has also been moved further down.
- As with the mid-Generation II redesign, levels are no longer shown.
- Another graphic has been added in the top right corner of the card, making the HP and card type more prominent.
- Pokémon LV.X are no longer present, now replaced by Pokémon Prime. Reflecting the namesake of the new TCG era, Pokémon LEGEND were another type of powerful Pokémon introduced.
- Trainer cards are now reclassified as Goods cards, resulting in three separate classes of what used to be Trainer cards. Similarly to Supporter cards and Stadium cards, which were color-coded orange and green respectively after their reclassification in Diamond & Pearl, Goods cards are now color-coded blue. For the purpose of this and future checklists, Goods cards are marked as "G". The illustration window on all of these cards is now also gold instead of silver.
- In Japan, this set introduced a parallel alternate foil set, a feature that has been part of the English version of the TCG since Legendary Collection. In Japan, these cards are called Mirror Cards (ミラーカード) and feature a similar foil treatment to the alternate foil cards in English sets.
Trivia
- As mentioned above, this is the second time the card layout has been changed mid-generation as opposed to changing it at the start of a new one, but it is the first time the TCG has featured three distinct eras in one generation: DP, PL (DPt in Japan) and LEGEND.
Card list
HeartGold Collection
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SoulSilver Collection
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Both sets
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