Show Off Your Error Cards Megathread!

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Well, let’s start with the Base Pikachus, shall we:

  1. Red Cheeks Shadowless 1st edition (Officially the Red Cheeks isn’t really a misprint, though)
  2. Red Cheeks Shadowless non-1st edition
  3. Red Cheeks E3 stamped
  4. Ghost/Phantom 1st edition misprint
  5. Grey Stamp 1st edition
  6. XY Evolutions English Blue Background

All can be found in my Base Pikachu artwork variations article, hence the lack of pictures here. My favorites are probably the Ghost/Phantom 1st edition misprint and Blue Background XY Evolutions misprint:

As for other cards (including non-Base Set Pikachus), here is a full list of all the ‘misprints’ I own. Most of these don’t have a non-misprinted version available, some do however. (They are in random order, btw. And all are English unless stated otherwise.) The ones with a * I’ve posted a picture of below.

  1. *Delibird [EX Team Rocket Returns (21/109 Holofoil Rare)]: The only misprint I ever pulled myself
  2. Electrode [Jungle (18/64 1st edition Rare)]: Got the Base Set artwork
  3. *Marill [EX Sandstorm (68/100 Common)]: Missing the Retreat symbol
  4. *Drowsee [EX Fire Red Leaf Green (32/112 Uncommon)]: Drowsee with an ‘s’ instead of Drowzee
  5. Dark Exeggcutor [Neo Destiny (33/105 Uncommon)]: Exeggcutor with a ‘c’ instead of Exeggutor
  6. Pinsir [Jungle (9/64 Holofoil Rare)]: Missing Jungle symbol
  7. Vulpix (Base Set (68/102 Common)]: HP 50 instead of 50 HP
  8. Horsea (Neo Genesis (62/111 1st edition Common)]: Second Water Energy symbol of the Fin Slap attack is deformed
  9. Magnemite [EX Dragon (63/97 Reverse Holo Common)]: Non-Holo circle below Resistance
  10. Dark Rapidash [Team Rocket (44/82 Uncommon)]: Missing "Length: "
  11. Meowth [WotC Promo (10 Holofoil Promo)]: HP is shifted slightly to the left & Energy Symbols of Cat Punch attack are slightly smaller
  12. Zubat [Neo Revelation (59/64 Common)]: -30 missing at Resistance
  13. Scizor [Neo Discovery (10/75 Holofoil Rare)]: 20+ instead of 20x damage for Double Claw attack
  14. Scizor [Neo Discovery (10/75 Rare)]: 20+ instead of 20x damage for Double Claw attack
  15. Seaking [Jungle (44/64 Uncommon)]: States “Put Seaking on the Stage 1 card” instead of “Put Seaking on the basic Pokémon”
  16. Misty’s Seel [Gym Challenge (91/132)]: Artwork contains part with missing background, which is just plain white instead
  17. Carnivine (Diamond & Pearl Promo (DP42 Holofoil Promo)]: 80 HP instead of HP 80
  18. Gligar [Neo Destiny (67/105 Common)]: Energy Symbols of Stun Poison attack are slightly to the left & “Flyscorpio Pokémon” instead of “Flyscorpion Pokémon”
  19. Natu [Neo Genesis (67/111 Common)]: Energy Symbols of Telekinesis attack are slightly to the left
  20. Focus Band [Neo Genesis (86/111 Rare)]: White line at the bottom of the artwork
  21. Dark Golbat (Team Rocket (24/82 Rare)]: States “… Pokémon.Apply Weakness and Resistance” instead of “… Pokémon. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance.”
  22. Grimer [Team Rocket (57/82 Common)]: States “The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.” instead of “Poisonous”
  23. Team Magma’s Camerupt (EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua (19/95 Rare)]: States “Team Mamga’s” instead of “Magma’s” in the Overheat attack
  24. Unown O [Neo Discovery (69/75 Common)]: States “Once during you turn” instead of “your”
  25. Lanturn [EX Legend Maker (19/92 Rare)]: States “more then 40 damage” instead of “than” in the Water Gun attack
  26. Dark Croconaw [Neo Destiny (32/105 Uncommon)]: States “49 teeth” instead of “48”
  27. Dark Arbok [Team Rocket (2/82 Holofoil Rare)]: Copyright date of “@1999-23000” instead of “@1999-2000”
  28. Kakuna [Neo Discovery (41/75 Uncommon)]: Copyright date of “@1995-2000” instead of “@1995-2001”
  29. Alakazam [Expedition Base (1/165 Holofoil Rare)]: States “This power can’t be used if Alakazam is affected by a Special Condition” is in italics while it shouldn’t have been
  30. Energy Removal 2 [Expedition Base Set (140/165 Reverse Holo Uncommon)]: The code states “ID: B - 54 - #” which refers to the Base Set Energy Removal instead of the Energy Removal 2
  31. Fire Energy [Base Set (98/102 Shadowless Energy)]: I got one with a tiny ink spot
  32. Lightning Energy [Base Set 2 (128/130 Energy)]: I got a Square Cut one
  33. Pikachu [POP5 (12/17 Holofoil Common)]: Reversed back of the card (the one with corrected back is rarer, though)
  34. Pikachu [WotC Promo (1 1st edition Promo)]: Shouldn’t have been 1st edition
  35. Shuppet [EX Legend Maker (63/92 Chinese Common)]: I got one with a tiny ink spot
  36. Raichu [XY Generations (27/83)]: Full Holo over the entire card instead of just the image
  37. Surfing Pikachu [Pikachu World Collection 2000 WotC Promo (28 French Promo): I got one with some ink lines
  38. Metal Energy [XY Evolutions (99/100 Korean Enery)]: The first “9” in “99/100” is smaller than the other
  39. *Machop [Base Set (52/102 Shadowless 1st edition)]: Got a 1st edition mark on the back of the card
  40. *Pikachu [Rising Rivals (112/111 German Secret Rare)]: Got one with two ink spots on the back of the card
  41. Butterfree [Jungle (33/64 1st edition)]: “dst” edition instead of “1st”


The one on the right is missing the Retreat Energy. (Sorry for the bad quality pictures, it’s pretty dark in my room at the moment.)


Got yellow smudge over the entire card, including the artwork. It’s the only misprint I ever pulled myself.


Drowsee instead of Drowzee.

I got a few more not mentioned in the list, but my log-document has been reset to halve a year ago… When I recently made a back-up of my files I accidentally replaced the saved backup of a year back over my current version, instead of the other way around… :sob: :sob: So since then I haven’t logged any new cards I added to my collection (except Pikachus, Sevipers and Mimikyus). Will have to re-organize my binders first, and then update this log again.
Luckily I hadn’t made this mistake for all documents I wanted to back-up, only three Pokémon-related documents (including my Pikachu and Seviper excels), but fortunately I also update those regularly in google drive, so I had a back-up from there. So I just got screwed with my Pokémon Card collection log-document, which consists of over 3,500 cards… Or it should, the old one I have now contains 2,674… :unamused:

If anyone wants to see more pictures of the list above let me know.

EDIT: Some I missed (which are missing from my current log…)

  1. Ancient Mew [WotC Promo (Japanese Ancient Mew Promo)]: States “Nintedo” instead of “Nintendo” at the copyright
  2. Jolteon [Jungle (Japanese Holofoil)]: Got Holo stars over the card
  3. Raikou [Neo Revelations (Japanese Holofoil)]: Got Holo stars over the card
  4. Diglet [Base Set (47/102 Common]): Sideways Energy symbol at Dig attack
  5. Water Energy [Base Set (102/102 Energy)]: Symbol & title shifted upwards against the top of the card border
  6. Caterpie [Base Set (45/102 Shadowless 1st edition Common)]: HP 40 instead of 40 HP

And the pictures I forgot of the cards marked with a *:


Base Machop with 1st edition symbol at the back. If anyone has a Base Pikachu, let me know.


German Rising Rivals Pikachu with two ink drops at the back of the card.

Greetz,
Quuador

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