Changelog (dd/MM)
28/06/2026, adding new mercari batch, rework section 1 and 4 according to new criterias
22/05/2026, initial post
Hello, and welcome to my Gardevoir collection thread ! 
For future updates, I will post new messages with the new arrivals, and they will also be added to the section 2 on this message.
Section 1, 3, 4 and 5 will be updated as needed.
1. How I Collect (as of 06/2026)
Since every collection is unique, here are my criterias for the collection.
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TCG:
- As a french person I decided to focus on every release (main series and special decks) of the french language for the core of the collection, from which I take every variants of a card: Classic, Holos, Reverses, Stamps.
- To this, I add cards from other languages if one of these elements is not available in french (If it exists in multiple other langages, Japanese is prefered, followed by English, then anything):
- An artwork
- A variant (holo type, reverse, stamps…)
- A different border. Usually yellow in international, grey in japanese. I also consider a border different if the variant pattern is going over it (happens with a few reverse pattern, or when a card is holo then the border is also holo).
Note: I am not interested in grading or having perfect cards in the binder. As long as its not completely wasted its enough for me, I dont mind having card that looks to have been played, it can even give them some value in my opinion.
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Non-TCG:
- I focus on products that are official, wether produced by the pokemon company or via a partnership.
- I search exhaustivity on products that are linked to the TCG (boosters, sleeves, coins), and around the size of a card for those not linked to the TCG (stickers, other cards)
- For other products (plushes, pins, figures…), I welcome them with pleasure if they cross my path, but I am not especially searching for them.
2. The Collection:
Temporary note: Initially wanted to put this under a “hide details” section like the others, but just found out that Slideshow galleries are not showing if nested in this. So for now it will be a regular thing with a title.(I warned a moderator in private just in case)
Here is the link to my excel sheet which helps me to keep track of the collection.
I initially set up some buttons in the Non-TCG page to allow you to navigate the section faster, but just realized that it does not work for read-only users 
(Also dont look at the other sheets past Gardevoir ones, its not up to date and not interesting currently)
PokeCollec - Google Sheet
- TCG:
I put some placeholder with black sleeves for TCG. At first I thought that I would just add the missing cards via copy pasting the photo on paint, but if it turns out to be too ugly I will just re-do the whole pics every now and then.
- Non-TCG:
3. Missing Items:
Temporary note: Initially wanted to put this under a “hide details” section like the others, but just found out that Slideshow galleries are not showing if nested in this. So for now it will be a regular thing with a title. (I warned a moderator in private just in case)
Here are the details of the items that I have searched but not found yet. (Dont hesitate to direct message me if you want to trade/sell/have any hint on some !)
- TCG:
I think I have everything in sight, just need to buy them now !
Except one, probably the rarest of them all if it exists:
- 408 SM-P - 2019 Jumbo (JP) - Based on Bulbapedia’s Unnumbered promo cards, it was an illustration Grand Prix Winner were “One overall winner received ¥300,000, a trophy featuring their name and winning illustration, and had their artwork featured on an oversized TCG card”. Thats the only info I could get, dont have a pic to confirm 100% as this could still be a mistranslation from the redactors, given that the card effectively got released in a regular sized format.
- Non-TCG:
In the following gallery, this is in the corresponding order:
- Boosters - 2020 EB3.5 Champion’s Path (opened, without scissors)
- Boosters - 2016 Japanese XY11 Ruthless Rebel (opened)
- TCG Coins - 2007 Purple Regular Sized MindGame Theme Deck
- TCG Coins - 2016 Green Regular Sized Pokemon Center Mega Battle
- Bandai Candy Sticker - 2007 Pokemon Kids Encore 3
- Topsun VS - 2004-2005 3D GBA Series 7 (Gardevoir vs Manectric)
- Topsun VS - Year ? Series 10, Jumbo Diamond And Pearl (Gardevoir vs Toxicroak)
- Topps Advanced Trading Cards - 2003 n°34
- Topps Advanced Trading Cards - 2003 Embossed D12
- Menko Card - Kakumen Restsuden 2003-2004 Part 1 or 2, blue back
- Artbox Action Flipz - 2006 AF12
- Panini Collectibles - 2004 n°11 Advanced Action Cards
- Poker Playing Cards - 2003 Ruby And Sapphire Queen of Clubs
- Poker Playing Cards - 2006 10th Anniversary Eight of Clubs
- Bromide Gum Cards - 2005 Ensky Advanced Generation
- Bromide Gum Cards - 2016 XY&Z Series 2 Movie Promo
- Any Shogakukan stamp
- Any Daily Desk Calendar (doubts I will ever find this in sale)
Some more items for which I do not have pics, but should be similar to these below:
- Bandai Zukan - 2005 n°261 Holo Diamond And Pearl
- Bandai Zukan - 2005 n°261 Non-Holo Diamon And Pearl
- Topps Advanced Trading Cards - 2003 n°34 Holo (unconfirmed)
- Menko Card - Kakumen Restsuden Kai 2003-2005
- Menko Card - DP Kakumen Restsuden 2003-2005 (unconfirmed)
- Bromide Gum Cards - 2004 Amada Advanced Generation (unconfirmed)
- Bromide Gum Cards - 2006 Ensky Advanced Generation (unconfirmed)
Please Pokemon Company we need a release of the cards from the game TCG Pocket !
I can consider that as a cameo, but anyway I wont pay a card 7500€ no thanks x)
4. Possible Evolutions:
Here are the few points Im currently thinking of to extend the collection further (but still behind an all languages master set)
- Getting the main series stamped cards for all langages. I just noticed that these are translated as well, and if the stamp is different then it fits the current criteria.
For exemple, “Ex Emerald” is “Ex Smeraldo” in Italian:
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Looking at all your beautiful collections, it gave me the idea to try to get one model of a card in every languages, would be fun to do.
So I have to find one that exists in: Japanese, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin American Spanish (EV09+), Portuguese, Korean, Simplified Chinese (Oct 23), Traditional Chinese, Russian (XY - XY Breakpoint), Polish (Diamond & Pearl and Mysterious Treasures), Thai (Feb 2019) and Indonesian (May 2019).
Dutch is Base, Jungle and Fossil, as well as a few WotC promos, too old so its excluded (thanks @Quuador for these infos you put on a random reddit)
But I dont know yet if one card exist in all of these, maybe I will have to mix multiple cards. -
I am also aware of a few cards in japanese that got out in special decks called “Best of XY”, “World Champion Pack” (Diamond and Pearl Era), “Extra Regulation Box” (Sun and Moon Era), and “Imprison! Gardevoir ex Constructed Standard Deck” (PCG Era).
I actually dont want to add them because only the ID number on the bottom left and sometimes the logo on the bottom right are changing compared to the main series cards.
Accepting these based only on these criterias would open the door to collecting all japanese cards, since these also differ by their bottom informations.
Maybe one criteria could be to accept it only if it is part of a special serie, but then I should also collect special decks from international and chinese series otherwise it is not coherent, we will see later. -
Just found out that article, thats so cool Im taking a note for the future as well
Creating a Binder Preview (with Michi Method)
5. Fun Facts and Rarities
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141/214 cosmos holo has a perfectly placed swirl
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With my lighting setup for the pics on section 2, there was no way to see the reverse pattern of the 069/195 japanese. So here it is in a special angle:
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About RC10/RC25, I know there is supposed to only be one variant and in english, but upon inspecting my card in EVERY possible angle and different lights, I could not find the little cosmos dots that were supposed to be everywhere on the card. It was not looking fake or anything, but I was troubled nonetheless. So I bought another one, and suddenly I could see the dots on both cards. Glad to be blind.
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Most expansive are 178/132 and 187/132 from ME01, considering that I went crazy and opened 2 full display to get none of them. Never again.
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First one I bought is 070/073 for 5.5 euros on april 2021 <3
6. My Story with Collecting
(Feel free to skip cause I speak a lot here)
When I was a child, I always played pokemon cards with friends at school. I was also in video games early, and I played every pokemon games since diamond and pearl in which I discovered the mighty Gardevoir (but lately in the switch era, I skipped “Lets go”, “Legends of arceus” and “Z-A”, having a hard time to love the 3D as much as I did on 2D).
Battle were wons, battle were losts, gifts and christmas presents were made, cards were wasted to the washing machine; I entered adulthood with a lot of good memories and quite a few cards in my pockets.
When I had to decorate my first geek shelf on april 2021, I stumbled upon a beautiful gardevoir card (Gardevoir V 070/073) out of a random search on google. I thought why not exposing 1 or 2 cards on the shelf, it could be a good idea right ? A few years passed and I had my first salary. Searching what to do with all this money, I looked at my card on the shelf and it hit me : lets start a collection !
Since then, the collection never stopped evolving.
After days of passionate researches, reading forums, slowly gathering all the cards month after month, I eventually had all the variants of the french series. I also started similar collections for my other favorite pokemons (though they are currently in standby in favor of gardevoir since the multiple extension ideas I found).
Then I discovered by pure chance a japanese card that had an artwork I had never seen (Gardevoir 408/SM-P). So I extended the collection to other languages if they had unique artwork.
Once it was done, I was already too far gone and I couldnt stop. So I extended the collection to other langages if they had different variants.
It was at this moment that I discovered Non-TCG product and this forum a few months ago, so I extended the collection again (edit june 2026: and again). (I also created the google sheets thanks to seeing others do it in there collections. I dont know why I did not think of it sooner, this is a far more convenient solution than paper lol).
And here we are today. Given its changing nature, I cant guarantee that the collection will stay in this form forever. However I feel like this is close to the max, more than ever. Gathering every non-tcg products that ever existed, or every tcg langages in a master set seems an impossible task to me. I can feel that I would loose the fun from it, but who knows.
7. Resources
Since without them, I would have never been able to complete the collection, I would like to mention my main resources.
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TCG:
- Coleka
- Pokecardex
- Bulbapedia
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Non-TCG:
- Multiples identification threads on the fourum, first the index ( The Index of Elite Fourum Articles ) to which I add @orannge’s ( Orannge's identification thread ) and @sableguy’s ( Sableguy Non-TCG Identifications ) ones.
- Looking at the countless result pages on mercari japan after searching “サーナイト”, “サーナイト ステッカー”…etc
- More specific sources are available in my google sheet below
8. Pokemon name/design origin
Some people might think we collect gardevoir for the wrong reasons… but take a look at the name/design’s origin, its just so classy in every aspects. Adding this to the overall style is top notch in my opinion:
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gardevoir\_(Pokémon)#Trivia
And voilà !
Thanks for passing by and feel free to suggest me other ways of emptying my wallet, or if you think I missed some cards ! (especially for cameos/uncommon stamps were im not sure to be exhaustive).
Bye~~
