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Mystery of the Fossils

Series: Original Series

Release date: June 21, 1997

Cards: 48

Fossil Pokémon get their first cards in this third expansion, Omanyte and Omastar, Kabuto and Kabutops, Aerodactyl, with a Mysterious Fossil Trainer to bring them back. It arrived in June 1997, three months after Pokémon Jungle, and Mitsuhiro Arita painted its wrapper as he had the two before. Sixteen holographic cards again, Dragonite by Kagemaru Himeno, Moltres by Arita, and a Gengar that Keiji Kinebuchi built in 3D software rather than painting by hand. Ken Sugimori's Mew closes the list, and with it the whole original roster: Creatures counts these three expansions together as covering all 151 Pokémon of the first games.

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