Error cards

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Error Cards are cards in the TCG that have certain elements on the card that are incorrect. The errors on these cards vary from minor to major errors. Often there are only a very small amount of these cards available which make these cards sought after by collectors.

Base Set

Blastoise: A few Base Set Blastoise were printed without the word "stage" in the "put Blastoise on the stage 1 Pokémon" text.
Ninetales: A few of Base Set Ninetales lack the damage done for their attacks.
1st Edition Kakuna: This card has the word "length" repeated twice.
Wartortle: A number of Wartortle have pictures of Wartortle in its evolution box.
1st Edition Bulbasaur: This card has the word "length" repeated twice.
1st Edition Caterpie: A number of these cards cards have their HP's listed as "HP ##" instead of "## HP".
Diglett: A number of Diglett have their attack energy cost symbols rotated 90 degrees.
1st Edition Metapod: A number Metapod cards have their HP's listed as "HP ##" instead of "## HP".
1st Edition Pikachu: A number of Pikachu cards had a number of minor errors in their flavor text and image.
1st Edition Sandshrew: Sandshrew's attack says "this attack does nothing" while it's supposed to say "that attack does nothing".
1st Edition Voltorb: This card refers to Poké Balls as its Japanese counterparts the Monster Balls.
1st Edition Vulpix: A number of these cards cards have their HP's listed as "HP ##" instead of "## HP".

Jungle Set

1st Edition Electrode: A number of Jungle Electrode have the image of Base Set Electrode.
1st Edition Butterfree: Due to a bubble in the printing ink, a number of Butterfree Cards were written as "Edition d" instead of "Edition 1".
Rapidash and Seaking: Seaking and Rapidash are Stage 1 Pokémon but the text tell you to "Put XXX on the Stage 1 card".
All cards: A number of Jungle cards during the last few Jungle print runs were printed without a Jungle Symbol.

Fossil Set

1st Edition Holo Zapdos: A number of Fossil Holo Zapdos cards have their Evolution Symbols punched out of the holo graphic card, even though Zapdos is a Basic Pokémon.

Team Rocket Set

Dark Arbok: Dark Arbok was first printed with extra zeros and the number three was misplaced so it was written as "©1999-23000 Wizards".
Holo Dark Dragonite: The attack cost symbols for Holo Dark Dragonite are not centered. Also, a number (around 5000 cards) of this card were accidentally printed as non-holographic.
Dark Golbat: The English Pokémon Power mentions "Apply Weakness and Resistance", while in the Master Rules Document, the Japanese Dark Golbat's Pokémon Power says "Don't apply Weakness and Resistance." There is also a lacking space between the words "Pokémon" and "Apply". (Reads "Pokémon.Apply")
Non-Holo Dark Vileplume: Non-holo Dark Vileplume have a weakness to Fighting instead of Fire.
Dark Rapidash: Dark Rapidash's stats lacks the word "Length".
Grimer: English Team Rocket's Grimer's Poison Gas attack puts Pokémon to sleep, although the Japanese version Poisons them.
Dark Raichu: Dark Raichu's Evolution Box is colored light grey instead of dark grey.

Gym Heroes Set

No errors have been found in this set.

Gym Challenge Set

Blaine's Charizard: A number of these cards have a Fighting-type symbol instead of the Fire-type symbol.
Giovanni's Pinsir: Pinsir's "Snapping Pincers" attack is supposed to do 20+ damage and not 10+ damage.
Rocket's Minefield Gym: This card does not mention how many damage counters are needed to put on a Pokémon for an unsucessful coin toss (flip).

Neo Genesis Set

Meganium Lv.57: The Pokémon Power title text is black instead of red.
Slowking and Typhlosion Lv.57: These cards' damages are off the center.
Horsea: One of the attack cost energy symbols for its attack is oddly off.
Focus Band: The picture on the Focus Band has a white bar beneath it, as if the picture wasn't properly positioned while they were doing the layout on the computers.

Neo Discovery Set

Scizor: The attack's damage done is "20+" while it's supposed to be "20x".
Umbreon: The Psychic symbol in Umbreon's resistance is bigger than normal.
Kakuna: The copyright text of all other Neo Discovery cards is "©1999-2001", but for an unknown reason, this card's copyright is "©1999-2000".

Neo Revelation Set

Delibird: The energy cost for Delibird's attack is off the center.
Raichu: For an unexplained reason the "Put Raichu on the Basic Pokémon" text on the card is unnecessarily bold and italic.
Zubat: Zubat's resistance lacks the "-30".

Neo Destiny Set

Dark Croconaw: Croconaw only have 48 teeth while in the card it says it has 49.
Dark Exeggutor: There is an unnecessary letter C in Exeggutor's name.
Dark Haunter: Dark Haunter's "Call Back" attack's clause leaves out the word "opponent's".
Light Flareon: The "b" in "benched" is not capitalized.
Togepi: The "before applying Weakness and Resistance" text should be in italics.
Unown C: Unown C's "Chase" Pokémon Power adds an unnecessary "Apply Weakness and Resistance" even though the attack does not inflict damage.
Unown P: There is an extra space in the Basic Pokémon title on Unown P.
Gligar: The energy symbols on Gligar are not in the correct position.
Shining Tyranitar: The word "just" is spelled wrong. It was spelled "hust".

Legendary Collection Set

Reverse Holo Exeggcute: Normally on Reverse Holos, the Energy costs for attacks aren't reflective. On Exeggcute, they are.

Expedition Base Set

Alakazam: The "This power stops working if..." text is italicized while it is not supposed to be.
Dugtrio: Its Attack Energy Costs Symbols are larger than the standard size.
Gengar: Gengar's Chaos Move Pokémon Power game text has a few spots where the text could go up a line.
Charizard: This card tells you to "Put Charizard on the Basic Pokémon".
Totodile: When you scan in Cyndaquil's card into the E-Reader for GBA, you can use a "Cynda!" sound for your Melody Box. However when you scan in the Totodile card, you get "Wani!" instead of "Toto!". "Wani" maybe reference to Totodile's Japanese name "Waninoko". Since both Chikorita and Pikachu's name is the same in English and Japanese, either Totodile's sound effect is the error, or Cyndaquil's is.
Energy Removal 2 and Multi Technical Machine 01: As you scan these two cards in your E-Reader for Game Boy Advance, the TM01 card tells you that you can use the "Paralyzing Stare" attack (while the card attack name is actually "Paralyzing Gaze"), and the reader refers to "Energy Removal 2" as just "Energy Removal".
Darkness Energy: The card text implies that you can do extra damage to Benched Pokémon while normally all attacks cannot do extra damage to benched Pokémon.

Aquapolis Set

Crystal Nidoking: The Crystal Type Pokémon mentions Grass/Lightning/Fire energy, but the Crystal Nidoking's attacks only use Grass/Lightning/Fighting energy.
Reverse Holo Lanturn: There's a PokéBody icon on it for no specific reason at all.
Magnemite: The text on this card is quite faded as opposed to other Metal Pokémon in the set.
Weakness Guard: The "Attach this card..." text is in its own separate paragraph, unlike other cards in the past.
Ariados: In its Spider Force attack, it should say "Defending Pokémon", not "defending Pokémon". This error is not present in the non-holographic version.
Rare Holo Cards: For some reason, the bottommost cut out on the left side of the card is not holographic.

Skyridge Set

Nidoqueen: The period is misplaced at the left of the end of Nidoqueen's last attack.

EX Ruby & Sapphire Set

Here is the list of error cards from the Ruby & Sapphire Set:

Slakoth (#45): For some reason, the last "f" in the attack "Slack Off" isn't bolded.

EX Sandstorm Set

Vigoroth (#52): there is a Grammatical error under its "Focus Energy" attack where it says "Vigoroth's Slash is attack".
Marril (#68): This card is supposed to have a Retreat Cost of 1 but a third to a half of these cards were printed with a Retreat Cost of 0. Alternate Holo version of this card don't have this error.

EX Dragon Set

Combusken (#25): The card was printed as Stage 2 while it is supposed to be Stage 1. Only cards that were printed from Ex Battle Stadium set have this error.
Latios ex (#94): In its holographic-foil, there's a circular space as if the evolution box was used to cover it up.