QotD: What’s the most common pokemon card, (excluding energies)?

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*QotD: What’s the most common pokemon card (excluding energies)? * (This was a suggested question)

Helpful Considerations: Pidgey? A Pikachu? Some Pokemon thats inexplicably in every set?

I think it will be Pikachu by far yes?

Cheers!

But what about specific card?

My guess would be an item, probably something like Potion, Switch, or Poke Ball. Just low rarity trainers that have appeared in a ton of sets while not really changing. There may be a ton of cards for any given pokemon but they’ll all be wildly different, whereas trainers of the same name tend to be more consistent.

I can see 37 printings of Potion, but that is split between two different abilities so maybe that doesn’t count for one card (remove 2 damage counters vs heal 30 damage). Switch seems to have at least 30 printings and has had the same effect since Base Set, so maybe it’s that?

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As a kid i had full page of fossil slowpoke and mysterious fossil in my binder from opening that set so based on my quite thorough research i’m quite sure it’s one of those two

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JP Scarlet & Violet game preorder Pikachu promo

Takato Utsunomiya, CEO and Chief Operating Officer of Pokémon Co., Ltd., attended and announced that the number of reservations for the latest work was the highest in the history of the series.

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2257288/full/

  • 49,702 PSA graded, which makes up nearly 15% of all JP SV promos graded
  • Pokémon Scarlet & Violet surpassed Pokémon Red & Green last November as the highest selling JP Pokémon game of all time, with over 8.3 mil copies (last recorded)
    • Highest record of preorders from the highest sold JP Pokémon game (largely thanks to this promo)
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has to be pikachu with grey felt hat

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