My Charmander Master Set (English)

Greetings collectors. I finally found time to get this thread going for my English Charmander master set. As it grows closer to completion I’m getting more and more excited to finish it. Also more frustrated lol.

Currently I have 91. One of the challenges of this endeavor has been finding a straight forward complete list strictly for English (so any feedback is welcomed if I’m missing something). It seems every list has discrepancies so one of my goals after completing this will be posting a readily available list just for English in chronological order. But from what I have gathered I believe there are 99 Charmanders, 100 if you include the 1 oversized card (not including Topps cards). It would be 102-3 if you included the weakness guards from Aquapolis. Again, if someone has a different figure please lmk.

Missing Charmanders: (not including the weakness guards (have 1) which I haven’t decided if I’m including.) I may start a separate section of binder for those and cameos.

  1. Legendary Collection reverse holo
  2. City championship stamp
  3. Delta species 37 Ditto Charmander reverse holo
  4. Delta species 61 Ditto Charmander Origins stamp 2007 promo
  5. EX Crystal Guardians reverse holo
  6. GameStop promo
  7. EBgames promo (I’m on the fence about including this).

8? I’m also missing the promo 44 Pokemon Center variation because I refuse to pay scalper prices. Looking at all of Charmander’s cards as a whole there is no justification for the price tag.

The ultimate goal is to take my collection over the top and get the entire set sequentially graded by PSA. However, I have been on the fence about that as well. I’ve been as mindful as I can be about condition of each card and will probably comb back over all of them several times before submitting. But with this many submissions avoiding anything lower than a 7 or ideally 8. And this is a tall task especially with vintage.

If anyone has any of the cards I mentioned needing for sale please feel free to reach out.

Here is the binder and page 1 to start:

Thanks everyone!

Binder:

Page 1:

Pages 2-3:

Only card I’m missing from page 2 is the Legendary reverse.

I have the Charmander 97 Expedition reverse holo in a PSA 9 so I just use my back up regular copy as a placeholder.

The holo energy card marks the end of WOTC era.

Only card missing from page 2 is the City Championship stamp variant.

The divider is used a placeholder for the Charmander 58 from FireRed LeafGreen I have graded (CGC 9.5/10).

Pages 4-5:

Pages: 6-7

Pages: 8-9

In addition to the Charmander 7 reverse holo from Hidden Fates in the binder I have a PSA 10

Page 10:

The order towards the end may not be perfect. Will be sorting that out shortly.

In total I have 4 graded Charmanders:

#98 Expedition reverse holo PSA 9

#7 Hidden Fates reverse holo PSA 10

#46 Base set CGC 10

#58 Firered Leafgreen reverse holo CGC 10

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I have a total of 3 sealed Charmanders:

Toys r Us

Build a Bear

Promo 44

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Love it!

One nitpick with eventually grading with PSA to get a sequential set is that more Charmander cards will eventually come up, so there will ultimately be a break in the order.

But then again, different strokes for different folks!

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Yea I would just have a hard cutoff like “first 25 years” or something along those lines.

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Really great collection goal and I absolutely love the binder. I wish you success in your hunt for the missing pieces. Great first page and I look forward to seeing more of them. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers!

The dittomander is a must :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Yea I have the non holo 37 (surprisingly hard to find nm raw copies). But the reverse holo has been tough. I’m being very particular about condition like I’ve mentioned and I’m trying to avoid buying cards already slabbed. But I may have to (already have with a few cards I got good deals on). When it’s time to grade the lot I’ll just send the slabs into psa with my order and ask for new cert # to match sequential without regrading (if they do that). Otherwise I’ll ask for regrades.

As for the 61 variant I recently scored a beautiful copy of both the regular and reverse holo variants. Love them.

The Origins 2007 stamped variant has been a flat out bitch. There is a couple CGC 10s going for $200+ which I’m not so keen on. Trying to be patient although when I’m this close it’s tough.

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Do you have a list somewhere of your English Charmander TCG cards? Or better: could you post pictures of all your binder pages to enjoy seeing instead of just the first? :pikasmile: Yesterday I did a quick count through Bulbapedia and counted 100 Charmander + Ditto Charmander (or 101 if you include the Jumbo), but I counted very quickly, so I’m pretty sure I simply miscounted somewhere and your 99 (or 100) is correct.

Also, you only collect English, without any of the non-English exclusive artworks (mostly Japanese, and one Simplified Chinese one)?

Greetz,
Quuador

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Thanks for quickly fact checking.

Right now I just collect English. Once I finish I will probably target a few non English exclusives like the Japanese McDonald’s promo from 2002 (such a beautiful card).

As for the list I still have to put some finishing touches on it. And tonight I’ll post the rest of the pictures.

Stay tuned!

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Pretty sure everyones tired of my comments on these types of threads but i can prob add a bunch of charmanders to this list depending on your outlook and end goals. You have a 99-00 base set charmander, do you want UK? Aus? USA? Technically theres like 6-7 variants of these alone. Differences between regions are subtle but they exist. Differences within regions are basically different ink and cant see em without uv

Thanks for popping in. I’m happy with just the 1 variation of the (99-00) copy. Like you said the variations are minute and I don’t think they add tremendous value to the collection as a whole.

Update: these Delta species Charmanders I need are gonna be tough to find at a reasonable cost. Anybody out there that can help?

I will post pictures of the rest of my collection later this afternoon I’ve been very busy the last couple days.

Check it out. I edited my original post to include more details and pictures. Hope you enjoy! @Quuador

Edit: my list is coming I’m just being as thorough as possible. I also intend on this being used as a resource down the road so I want to make it as clean as I can.

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Thanks for the pictures. :slight_smile:

There seem to be some missing after all, though. Luckily the missing ones should be pretty easy to find. The early EX era sets had different codes in the bottom-left corner for the non-holo Commons and most of the Uncommons. For Charmander, this would be:

  1. [4 missing] Both EX FireRed & LeafGreen Charmander non-holos: FT9-P20-FTR; FT9-P20-HJ9; and FT9-P20-5E5 (note, only the last three characters differ) for number 57/112 and CCF-B8B-6J9; -AE5; -E7Z for number 58/112.
  2. [2 missing] Likewise for the EX Delta Species Ditto number 61/113: codes 5BV-ND5-6BK; -D4X; -ER2.

PS: I know you’re only going for official releases, but for completeness and as FYI, there is also a MATCHPRINT color test prototype of the 97/165 Charmander (more info in this video - timestamped at the Charmander). :slight_smile:

Best of luck completing your English Charmander collection!

Greetz,
Quuador