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==Trivia==
==Trivia==
[[File:Ancient Mew anime.png|thumb|250px|Ancient Mew in the {{pkmn|anime}}]]
[[File:Ancient Mew anime.png|thumb|250px|Ancient Mew in the {{pkmn|anime}}]]
This card depicts text written in a mixture of {{wp|Runes|Germanic runic alphabets}}, such as those of Futhark and Gothenburg, and it also features {{wp|Maya script|Mayan glyphs}} on its artwork. In Japan, the card's lexicon was published in the September 1999 issue of [[CoroCoro]]. It contained the complete translation of the card's runic text to both Japanese, in depth, and English, though brief. The issue also presented the meanings of the four Mayan glyphs featured on the card's artwork — ''Death'', ''Birth'', ''Succession'', ''Enthronement'' — and a comprehensive sheet which deciphered the runes into their corresponding Latin alphabet letters. The card's illustrator is unknown due to its unusual design, though the lexicon shows [[Kouichi Ooyama]] impersonated as [[Dr. Mason]] from the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game (game)|Pokémon Trading Card Game]].
This card depicts text written in a mixture of {{wp|Runes|Germanic runic alphabets}}, such as those of Futhark and Gothenburg, and it also features {{wp|Maya script|Mayan glyphs}} on its artwork. In Japan, the card's lexicon was published in the September 1999 issue of [[CoroCoro]]: it contained the complete translation of the card's runic text to both Japanese, in depth, and English, though briefly. The issue also presented the meanings of the four Mayan glyphs featured on the card's artwork — ''Death'', ''Birth'', ''Succession'', ''Enthronement'' — and a comprehensive sheet which deciphered the runes into phonetically corresponding Latin alphabet letters. The card's illustrator is unknown due to its unusual design, however the lexicon showed [[Kouichi Ooyama]] impersonated as [[Dr. Mason]] from the [[Pokémon Trading Card Game (game)|Pokémon Trading Card Game]].


People who attended a [[Wizards of the Coast]] event were given a sheet to read the runes. Based on this cheat sheet, the runes in the middle translate as ''New Species'' while the ones on the bottom translate as ''Little God... or Evil?''. In the 2019 reprint the runes where changed and now can be translated as ''Little Good... or Evil?''. Four symbols in the Holofoil printing behind Mew were said to stand for Birth, Enthronement, Right of Succession and Death. A method to decrypt the runes was also [http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065444/http://www.pokemon.com/news/ancientmew.html published on Pokémon.com], which referenced several other cards to determine what the card says. Due to this card's text being in Runic, this card is one of only two cards to have ever been banned from the {{TCG|Unlimited format}} in addition to the {{TCG|Standard format}}. It shares this distinction with {{TCG ID|Wizards Promo|_____'s Pikachu|24}}.
People who attended a [[Wizards of the Coast]] event were given a sheet to read the runes. Based on this cheat sheet, the runes in the middle translate as ''New Species'' while the ones on the bottom translate as ''Little God... or Evil?''. In the 2019 reprint the runes where changed and now can be translated as ''Little Good... or Evil?''. Four symbols in the Holofoil printing behind Mew were said to stand for Birth, Enthronement, Right of Succession and Death. A method to decrypt the runes was also [http://web.archive.org/web/20000815065444/http://www.pokemon.com/news/ancientmew.html published on Pokémon.com], which referenced several other cards to determine what the card says. Due to this card's text being in Runic, this card is one of only two cards to have ever been banned from the {{TCG|Unlimited format}} in addition to the {{TCG|Standard format}}. It shares this distinction with {{TCG ID|Wizards Promo|_____'s Pikachu|24}}.
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