hey guys, I generally lurk just checking out cool collections on web forums and YouTube and I’ve seen multiple times now people wondering where the ninetales error came from. Almost like the origin is some kind of myth. Well I do actually have a small collection from 1999 and the ninetales error is one of the cards I have. My small collection consists of an unlimited base set that is almost completely shadowless. When I was 14 in 1999, I actually remember seeing the shadowless cards transition into shadowed border unlimited and being annoyed with it enough to actually attempt to seek out shadowless cards, because I didn’t like the discrepancy in my binder. I was never able to completely get them all shadowless, but I’m trying to tell you why I have a very good memory of the shadowless cards in the first place.
So I started collecting Pokémon cards when my mother bought me a brushfire deck and a few packs for my 14th birthday in April 1999. My first 2 holos were the ninetales from the brushfire deck and a shadowless chansey from one of the packs. I immediately upgraded my brushfire deck with the chansey and started playing the Game with a few friends and at my local comic shop. I specifically had to explain many times that the ninetales did 80 damage, because it was missing on the card. I later acquired more ninetales cards and eventually put the no damage ninetales in my collection binder attempting to get all shadowless cards in the set.
I stopped my Pokémon collecting sometime into jungle fossil, and stored my binder and deck away, only to retrieve them fairly recently and started lurking around the internet to reminis a bit. This is where I’ve seen people refer to the shadowless brushfire deck as a potential origin for the ninetales with no damage, and I figure people might find it interesting If I told you that this is in fact where I got it as one of my first 2 holo cards.
I imagine many of you probably have pretty vivid memories of your first holo card!
