# The Mystery of Green Zekrom

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**Tags:** zekrom, variant\
**Created:** [January 17, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249 "2025-01-17T05:24:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:24am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/1 "2025-01-17T05:24:35Z")

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There a few of these 15th anniversary green Zekrom cards floating around. Supposedly they’re super rare with a mysterious origin. Does anyone have an idea of what that origin is and how it’s different from the black version?

I have a theory that I’ll share, but curious to see what you all think about these first.

Original release

 ![black version](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/2/3/23bcb7849319f2b792cfd85a4690467af6d26a2b.png)

Green version

 ![green version](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9f2487b8758a906791829b0ed0545c7ad93a936.png)

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**Author:** ![lyleberr](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/lyleberr/32/156919_2.png) [@lyleberr](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/lyleberr)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/2 "2025-01-17T05:33:41Z")

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Is it actually green from multiple angles?

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/3 "2025-01-17T05:36:24Z")

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Yes, here is the Mercari listing for reference

[https://jp.mercari.com/item/m81978819309](https://jp.mercari.com/item/m81978819309)

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/4 "2025-01-17T05:52:41Z")

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The fun part for me is that Zekrom is not supposed to be a matte-black Pokemon that is just a flat black colour all over, and it really gets lost in the most recent games because they’ve decided to portray it as such.

The stock art for Zekrom definitely shows a green hue as the foundation of his black colour, so if anything the ‘green’ Zekrom card is more proper to me than just a black one. I think the green colouring is meant to be there on every card. But perhaps there were differences in the printing process that means there is some variation in how ‘green’ the card is.

[![](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/7/72/0644Zekrom.png) ](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/7/72/0644Zekrom.png)

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:11am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/5 "2025-01-17T07:11:31Z")

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Magenta is the first colour to decompose in UV light 🌞

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:35am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/6 "2025-01-17T07:35:03Z")

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> [@banks](#):
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> ![green version](https://efour.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9f2487b8758a906791829b0ed0545c7ad93a936.png)

This is 100% UV damage. You can tell by the yellowish hue of the fighting energy.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-mystery-of-green-zekrom/52249/7 "2025-01-17T07:37:13Z")

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I agree with both of you. Was curious if there was another possible explanation that people may have heard of.