I just finished putting together the Gym Heroes set. I guess my collecting goals would be to complete sets of cards that I had opened packs for when I was a kid. I found I have a bunch of cards from the Japanese Gym sets, Leader’s Stadium and Challenge from the Darkness. Also apparently I opened four packs of English Gym Heroes back then and I completed it from there now and don’t really plan on doing anything for Gym Challenge but who knows.
I was planning on having both the English and Japanese for Gym Heroes in the same binder and also only the Japanese version of Gym Challenge since I didn’t open any of the English for that set. Upon further review, it seems like the cards in Japanese are numbered way differently with cards combined differently.
How would you go about organizing your own binder with the sets?
I use the Pokellector website to track and checklist my cards. Looking at the sets it shows the first card in Leader’s Stadium is Brock’s Zubat but the card is #41. The first card in Challenge from the Darkness is Koga’s Weedle but the card is #13. I know it all comes down to what I would like to have in the binder but wanted to see what other people did for theirs if they collected these sets.
Would you just combine all the cards of both Leader’s Stadium and Challenge from the Darkness and but them in card number order or try and follow the checklist order. Would I be put on some kind of Pokemon watchlist if I just put the Japanese sets in the English order since the on card numbers are all over anyways? Thanks for the input!
@smpratte@koala I appreciate it! I didn’t even think about Pokedex order and the Gym Leader then their Pokemon order seems really cool!! Thanks a lot!
Right now I’m just sorting the cards out in the checklist order trying to see what I’m missing and then will pick one of yalls orders. Found a few of the holos that my parents would of bought for me back then with prices that I don’t think aged that well hahaha I remember everyone being “whoaaaaaa” when they saw Japanese cards here.
I could be wrong but I believe the Japanese theme decks had exclusive cards that were included in the English release. Not sure if that matters to you or not.
Oh great I have found a couple of the theme decks which I’m guessing is where the No Rarity cards I’ve found are from?
Would this Electabuzz be one of those cards because I’m not seeing it listed in either of the sets but has the Gym symbol. I see on eBay there is a Corocoro one that doesn’t look like this.
I just left my house but I’m almost positive that’s the one. I have all the theme decks so I could snap some photos if you needed them for later reference.
This is the easiest way that I figured out… go through all your Leader Stadium and Challenge from the Darkness cards and pull out any that have no rarity symbols.
You should be left with cards that are easily sorted into the Leader’s Stadium (96 card set) and the Challenge from the Darkness (98 card set).
Separate all your no-rarity cards by trainer, which are theme deck cards that go like so:
you’ll have to look up the deck set lists to place all the trainer cards correctly, but most could be guessed correctly(like cards with mostly purple or purple yellow or purple in the pokeball, will be Sabrina deck)
Wow! Thanks for taking the time for all of this, I still haven’t got the missing cards needed to finish either set so I will keep track of this! Also welcome to here!
