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Japanese Pokémon Card Backs: Old, New and Special Designs
The Japanese Pokémon card back used since July 2001 has a gold border, a pastel rainbow burst behind the Poké Ball and seven colored Energy…
Pokémon Set Release Dates 2026: The Full Calendar
The next English Pokémon TCG expansion is Delta Reign, out November 6, 2026. Prerelease tournaments start October 24, and the set brings…
Are Japanese Pokémon Cards Cheaper? We Compared 377 Cards
Usually, yes. We compared 377 cards sold in both languages, each English card against the Japanese print of the same card, and the Japanese…
Pokémon Card Rarity Symbols, 1999 to 2026
A Pokémon card shows its rarity with a small symbol at the bottom, beside the collector number: a circle means common, a diamond uncommon…
All 7-Eleven Pokémon Cards: Every Japan Promo, 2003-2020
7-Eleven Japan gave out or sold 70 Pokémon cards between 2003 and 2020 , 53 of them through 7-Eleven alone: the 21-card Pokémon Fair set of…
CoroCoro Pokémon Cards: Every Promo, 1996-2025
About 170 Pokémon cards have come through CoroCoro, Shogakukan's manga magazine for children, and its sister titles. The first two, a…
All FamilyMart Pokémon Cards: Every Promo in Japan and Taiwan
FamilyMart has given out or sold 22 Pokémon cards : 12 in Japan between 2011 and 2017, and 10 in Taiwan in 2025. Four of the Japanese cards…
All Lawson Pokémon Cards: Every Promo, 2010-2021
Lawson gave out or sold 39 Pokémon cards in Japan between 2010 and 2021 , 29 of them at Lawson alone: three personalized jumbo cards in…
All McDonald's Pokémon Cards: Every Set Since 2002
McDonald's has given away official Pokémon cards since 2002. In Japan , 101 cards from January 2002 to August 2025: a 30-card Minimum Pack…
Meiji Pokémon Cards: the 324 Get Cards and 97 TCG Promos
Meiji, the Japanese chocolate maker, put Pokémon cards in its snacks in two main programs. From 1997 to 2002 it made 324 Get Cards in eight…
Pokémon Movie Cards: Every Film Promo, 1998-2025
Pokémon films have come with trading cards from the start: CoroCoro jumbo cards for the first film in 1998, a card inside the cinema…
V Jump Pokémon Cards: All Five Promos, 2012-2014
V Jump, Shueisha's monthly manga and video game magazine, has come with five Pokémon cards, in two issues: the four-card Salamence Super…
Pokémon Worlds Promo Cards: Every Year, 1999 to 2026
Every Pokémon World Championships since 2004 has handed each competitor a participation card carrying the Worlds logo and year: Tropical…
What Was the First Pokémon Card Ever Made?
The first Pokémon cards ever sold were Bandai's Carddass vending-machine cards, which Bandai's own advertisement put on sale in Japan in…
What Is the Strongest Pokémon Card?
It depends on what you mean by strongest. In play , the strongest card in Standard, as of September 24, 2026, is Dragapult ex : it won the…
The Funniest Pokémon Cards Ever Printed
Our pick for the funniest Pokémon card ever printed is Imakuni?'s Doduo (Evolutions, 2016): its rules tell you to throw the card across the…
Card Sleeve Size Guide: Pokémon, MTG, Yu-Gi-Oh
Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Lorcana, One Piece and most other trading card games use 63 x 88 mm cards, which take standard-size sleeves…
Are McDonald's Pokémon Cards Real? What They're Worth and How to Tell
Yes. McDonald's Pokémon cards are official Pokémon Trading Card Game cards, given away with Happy Meals (Happy Sets in Japan) since January…
How to Identify 1st Edition & Shadowless Pokémon Cards
Three marks tell the four English Base Set prints apart: the 1st Edition stamp, a drop shadow along the right edge of the art frame, and…
Are Gold Pokémon Cards Real? Every Official Kind and How to Tell
Yes, gold Pokémon cards can be real. The Pokémon Company makes genuine gold cards for booster packs (the Hyper Rares of Scarlet & Violet,…
