Hi everyone! I’ve got a fun case for y’all, and would love to hear what you would do in my situation.
I’ve been living in Japan for a few years now, and enjoying Pokémon a bit more on the competitive side than on the collection side; although performing well in the former also contributes to the later! Point in case: this 3rd place Victory Decoration I was awarded in Nagoya’s Champion’s League last year.
It goes without saying that it is one of my most cherished belongings, as it is both the rarest card I’ve ever owned and the proof of my best competitive accomplishment to date.
To my knowledge, to this day there were only 70 copies of the 3rd place Victory Decoration distributed to semi finalists of major events over the last three competitive seasons. (And with the new games generation coming soon, I also wouldn’t be surprised if they changed the trophy cards next season.)
To be more specific, there are only 20 copies of the 2018 season version, and even more specifically only 6 copies were printed with the Bronze 2018 Nagoya stamp.
But there’s one more thing that makes this version of Victory Decoration even more unique.
You see, it was put in the wrong case.
While all trophies for this event were supposed to be displayed in cases featuring the blue Champion’s League 2018 logo, all 12 trophies for Nagoya’s Champion’s League were mistakenly displayed in cases stamped with the green logo for the Certified Champion’s League, another big event held once per year.
The mistake hasn’t been repeated ever since, which means I’m in possession of one of the only six mis-cased “error” 3rd place Victory Decoration, where the case’s logo and the card’s stamp don’t match. But while six were awarded that day, there might actually be less than six in the world right now.
Because there’s more to this story! A few moments after we had been handed out our trophies, another player with a keen eye pointed out to a staff member that the trophies were displayed in the wrong cases. You can bet there was a bit of a “Whoopsie!” from the staff in charge, as they struggled to figure out how the blunder could have happened and what should be done. While we players never found out why our trophies were mis-cased in the first place, we were told that we would soon be sent replacement cases with the correct logo.
And indeed a few days later a brand new empty case featuring the blue Champion’s League 2018 logo (no extra Trophy card included, allas) was sent to my address. Included in the box was a letter apologising for the trouble, and asking me to kindly send back the error case once I’m done swapping them.
Well, I’m not done swapping them and I probably never will. I do wonder though how many of my fellow Japanese players kindly obeyed and sent back their original case? I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that a few of these mis-cased cards have already been re-cased.
As for me, I’d like to keep my trophy as it was on that very happy day, and I certainly wouldn’t want to risk damaging my precious card while doing some kind of revisionist swap.
Plus, I now have an extra official trophy case, giving me the power to turn just about any card into a Trophy card! 
My choice is made, but what would you lovely people do?
A) Keep the card in its original trophy
B) Swap the cases to have the case match the card’s stamp
C) Have the card PSA graded
D) Something else
Thanks for reading my story! 
Congrats on this great achievement!
