VS English card list

Was there ever a card list made for this set? I understand the cards were only given out to a handful of people, but I was wondering if there was ever an official or unofficial list to these? Thanks! :blush:

As far as I’m aware, only the Tropical Mega Battle Release Tyranitar Half Deck was released in English, containing the following VS set cards:

  • Janine’s Beedrill
  • Bugsy’s Yanma
  • Karen’s Rapidash
  • Pryce’s Cloyster
  • Clair’s Mantine
  • Jasmine’s Raichu
  • Morty’s Hypno
  • Will’s Girafarig
  • Bruno’s Hitmonchan
  • Chuck’s Donphan
  • Falkner’s Fearow
  • Whitney’s Furret
  • Tropical Breeze
  • Energy Ark
  • Super Scoop Up
  • Switch
  • Potion
  • And one of each six basic Energy cards (Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, Psychic, Fighting)

The English ones I’ve seen:

The Deck was also printed in German and Italian (and probably also French and Spanish).

Here some pictures of a few Italian cards:

And here some pictures of the entire deck (except for the Energy cards) in German:


Also, this deck was first given at the Tropical Mega Battles, and later on at the 2002 World Championships.

The English Clair’s Mantine was initially printed with an error, where it had a resistance to Psychic instead of Fighting:

The ones given at the Tropical Mega Battle had this misprint, and the ones given at the 2002 World Championship had the corrected version. This misprint is arguably the rarest misprint ever in Pokémon, considering less than 50 of these VS decks were printed in general, and only around 10 with this misprint.
(Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of the corrected version in English.)

Some info about these decks in other languages can be found in this recent thread.

Greetz,
Quuador

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pokeplayer.com/cardex/vs/

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Thanks for the link @majomaal! Didn’t knew the English ones were all posted somewhere. :blush:

@credits @risingtrout Are you both aware of these English VS Energy cards? Chances of getting them is pretty slim, but in case you didn’t knew about them yet, I figured I’d give you a heads up of their existence for your checklists. :blush:

Greetz,
Quuador

I had a reply from said poster in my energy card thread that said they couldnt be distinguished from another release. To date I have not been able to confirm personally so take their word for it: www.elitefourum.com/t/pokemon-english-energy-cards-collectors-checklist/16776/43

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The VS set will always remain a mystery to me, seeing as how Clair’s Dragonite and Lance’s Dragonite were made COMMONS and not rares…truly a mystery… :thinking:

All cards except Holos and Trainers are Commons in this set.

Yeah I understand that, but what I mean is that the trainers have their ‘signature’ Pokemon as a holo card in this set. However, Lance and Clair are some of the few trainers who don’t have a holo card in the set…and they are the strongest gym leader and strongest elite four, which makes no sense to me.