Pokemon Card Prototype Discussion Thread

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it’s this pattern

Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024

I wanted to provide more observations about the alpha prototypes. The dot matrix is different, and I’ve referred to it as the “alpha pattern” in this thread. [image] I have been using this triangle and these two pairs of dots as a quick way to identify it. [image] There is a pattern to the dots, and it repeats on a diagonal. [image] If you rotate the pattern 90 degrees, you get this 16x24 pattern that repeats across the page. [image] There is a dissertation that breaks down differen…