Correct, not all long packs are shadowless like you said. The front of the pack must say “11 Tradeable Game Cards” instead of “11 Additional Game Cards” and the “Trading Card Game” will be located on the bottom of the pack, not the top. You just have an unlimited long seal pack.
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Curious if anyone has any info on this. If you have a booster box and one pack is either shadowless or non will every pack be like that? Or can there be both shadowless and non shadowless packs from the same booster box? Any info is appreciated, thanks !
A base set booster box will contain either 36 packs of 1st edition (shadowless), 36 packs of shadowless, or 36 packs of non-shadowless (unlimited). They won’t be mixed together.
With Wizards, nothing is a 100% with Base. Even within packs we have seen multiple editions.
Unlikely? Yes. But not definite.
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wait wtf, 1 booster pack can contain some 1st editions and some non 1st editions? do you have boxes that contain packs like these? what are the chances that they are just resealed packs with different cards inside?
There are some Shadowless booster packs that have 1st edition uncommon cards in the place of the Shadowless uncommons.
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There hasn’t been any documented mixing of Unlimited and shadowless variants within a box that I know of… outside of the 1st ed. uncommons mixture example, of which I’ve only seen a couple instances. But as Gary said it’s possible that it had occurred.
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Back then, Wizards was scrambling to get as much product out the door, by any means necessary. They used every card they had laying around to fill those packs. Also, why would anyone put 1st edition and shadowless cards back into resealed base packs?
It could also be sheer oversight; I’ve had that happen with modern boosters even, straight from my distributor (multiple reverse holo’s in a pack, no rare, etc.)
That is exactly what I’m saying. Not resealed. Direct from Wizards.
So if there are mixed packs, is there any chance to open a 1st Ed. holofoil out of a Shadowless pack?
Also, is there any chance that a 1st Ed. Black Triangle error pack has 1st Ed. inside?
As has been mentioned, anything is possible, neither of the above has ever been documented, second scenario is extremely unlikely though, these are unlimited packs accidentally stamped/printed with a 1st ed symbol, it would even be a very very long stretch for them to contain shadowless cards
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Found this in another thread - these tips would fall between variants 3 and 4:
Shadowless (and 1st edition Base) packs say “11 Tradable Game Cards”. Regular unlimited base packs say “11 ADDITIONAL GAME CARDS” (yes, all capitalized).
Also the last sentence on the “upper half” of the back of the boosters saying “Each player must have a 60-card deck of Pokémon cards to play” is missing from the shadowless boosters…
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^ Hey there!
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I’ve updated the guide to reflect the differences. Thank you! 
Amazing work! I wish there was this much information around in one place for the other WOTC packs as well.
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I have recently acquired variant #11 and would like to add a picture of the Polish Information Label at the back to clarify. This thread has helped me out a lot and i am sure it will continue to help many others!
Any other pics of information needed i’d be happy to help anyone!
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@pikachutcg Thank you! I’m very glad that the guide was helpful to you and others. I use it as a reference myself sometimes too 
Will add this to the guide!
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Wonder if there is any insight to sealed blister packs since we can’t see back of the pack itself… is there a way to know for sure on shadowless?
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Sorry to bump an old guide but I have some more info to add on the UK made for Poland sale packs:
There are a couple minor differences between stickers on the backs, they all say the same thing basically however some do not have Bolded title text, or a dash on the second line, also there is a tab after the distributor line on some
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Green wing with no logos - Are there any documented boxes with unlimited packs inside?
Green wing with logos and multiple countries - Are there any documented boxes with shadowless packs?
Not talking about reseals but original from wotc.