Southern Islands (TCG)

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Southern Islands
サザンアイランド
SetSymbolSouthern Islands.png
File:N3 Southern Islands.gif
Cards in set English: 18
Japanese: 18
Set number English: Promotional
Japanese: Promotional
Release date English: July 31st, 2001
Japanese: July 17th, 1999
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The Southern Islands Collection (Japanese: サザンアイランド Southern Islands) is the name given to a special set of cards for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

Set size

  • 18 cards in English release
  • 18 cards in Japanese release

Release information

  • 17th July 1999 - Japanese Promotional Set
  • In Japan, the collection was released as 3-card box sets. These box sets focused on a particular region from one of the two Southern Islands. The English version came as a decorated folder and included the cards, postcards and 3 Booster Packs. Even though Wizards compiled the collection into one set, all of the original artwork including the islands and the full picture of each region (which was split into three to provide the card art) were featured on the folder.
  • 31st July 2001 - English Promotional Set
  • While in the Japanese version the cards have the old Base-Rocket design, the English release saw them in a Neo series design. Interestingly, this made the Generation II Pokémon featured the only ones of their generation to have Base-Rocket-styled cards, and Slowking the only non-Generation I evolved Pokémon to have had a square evolution box (all later card styles retained the circular evolution box).

Artwork

Tropical Island.jpg

SIJungle.jpg

SIBeach.jpg

SISea.jpg

Tropical Island set. Illustrated by Naoyo Kimura. Jungle postcard. Beach postcard. Sea postcard.

Rainbow Island.jpg

SISky.jpg

Riverside.jpg

SIField-of-flowers.jpg

Rainbow Island set. Illustrated by Keiko Fukuyama. Sky postcard. Riverside postcard. Field of Flowers postcard.


Card List

English Collection

No. Card Name Type Rarity
1 Mew Psychic (RH)
2 Pidgeot Colorless --
3 Onix Fighting --
4 Togepi Colorless (RH)
5 Ivysaur Grass --
6 Raticate Colorless --
7 Ledyba Grass (RH)
8 Jigglypuff Colorless --
9 Butterfree Grass --
10 Tentacruel Water --
11 Marill Water (RH)
12 Lapras Water --
13 Exeggutor Grass --
14 Slowking Psychic (RH)
15 Wartortle Water --
16 Lickitung Colorless --
17 Vileplume Grass (RH)
18 Primeape Fighting --

Japanese Collection

Tropical Island

No. Card Name Type Set Rarity
-- Vileplume Grass Jungle (RH)
-- Primeape Fighting --
-- Lickitung Colorless --
-- Exeggutor Grass Beach --
-- Wartortle Water --
-- Slowking Psychic (RH)
-- Tentacruel Water Sea --
-- Lapras Water --
-- Marill Water (RH)


Rainbow Island

No. Card Name Type Set Rarity
-- Mew Psychic Sky (RH)
-- Onix Fighting --
-- Pidgeot Colorless --
-- Ivysaur Grass Riverside --
-- Raticate Colorless --
-- Togepi Colorless (RH)
-- Butterfree Grass Field of Flowers --
-- Ledyba Grass (RH)
-- Jigglypuff Colorless --

Gallery

SISet-English.png

File:Southern Islands insert .jpg

Tropical Island insert.jpg

Rainbow Island insert.jpg

Complete English set. Set insert. Tropical Island insert. Rainbow Island insert.


SITropical Island Opened.jpg

SIJungle-Japanese.jpg

SIBeach-Japanese.jpg

SISea-Japanese.jpg

An opened Tropical Island set. Japanese Jungle set. Japanese Beach set. Japanese Sea set.

SIRainbow Island Opened.jpg

SISky-Japanese.jpg

SIRiverside-Japanese.jpg

SIField of Flowers-Japanese.jpg

An opened Rainbow Island set. Japanese Sky set. Japanese Riverside set. Japanese Field of Flowers set.

Trivia

  • This was a very desired collection when it first came out in Japan. Fans pestered Wizards of the Coast enough and after a lot of work, they eventually released it.
  • None of the cards have rarity symbols, as they are part of a fixed set. The English cards were numbered in the same fashion as Wizards Black Star Promos, while the Japanese cards remained unnumbered.


Regions in the Pokémon world
Core series Kanto (Sevii Islands) • JohtoHoenn
Sinnoh (HisuiBattle Zone) • Unova
KalosAlolaGalar (Isle of ArmorCrown Tundra)
PaldeaKitakami
Side series White CityOrre
Anime Orange ArchipelagoDecolore Islands
Spin-off games FioreAlmiaObliviaPokémon IslandMintale Town
Ryme CityPasioRanseiFerrumLental
Mystery Dungeon worldPokéParkTCG Islands
Carmonte IslandTumblecube IslandAeos Island
TCG Southern IslandsPuzzle ContinentHolonParallel Worlds
Sovereign states in
the Pokémon world
Ranger UnionGuyana
Lucario KingdomMirage KingdomRota


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