The Pokémon Card With a Magic: The Gathering Back

Okay, you guys. There's a Pokémon card with a Magic: The Gathering back on it. Not a Pokémon back. A Magic back. It's a German 1st Edition Base Set Growlithe. Collectors call it Magic Back Growlithe. Bro. Imagine flipping over your Growlithe and it's the wrong game. This is Random Pokémon Facts. I'm Josh. It's Monday, so it's Collectibles! Okay, so today is all about mistake cards. Error cards. And some of them are so weird. Back to Magic Back Growlithe. It's not the only one. There's a whole bunch of German Base Set cards with this same mistake. How many do you think are known? Ten! Only ten. And they got caught before they were even finished. The corners weren't rounded yet. And they never went into packs. That's crazy. Okay, next one. This one's called Ghost Stamp Pikachu. Ghost Stamp. That's such a cool name. So you know the 1st Edition stamp? On this Pikachu, the stamp only printed partly. The 1 is missing. The D is missing. So all you can see is the outline of an E, then a gap, then ITION. E ITION. That's not even a word. It's a yellow-cheeked Pikachu, and it turned up in the Zap! theme decks from the early shadowless print run. It happens when one layer of ink doesn't print right while the cards go through the press. So the stamp is just, like, a ghost. That's why the name. Okay, one more mistake. Wartortle. You know the little evolution box in the corner? It's supposed to show the Pokémon it evolves from. Wartortle evolves from Squirtle. So it should show Squirtle. But a short run of English Base Set Wartortle cards showed somebody else. Who do you think was in the box? Wartortle! Wartortle evolves from... Wartortle. No way. Wizards fixed it later. But here's the weird part. Every Portuguese copy of the card has the same mistake. Every single one. So it looks like the English and Portuguese cards were printed at the same factory. That's like detective stuff. Okay, story two. This one is wild. For a really long time, no new Kadabra card came out. Like, none. The last one was in the 2003 Skyridge set. How long do you think it was before Kadabra came back? About 20 years! The next one was in the Pokémon Card 151 set in 2023. Twenty years. Bro. So why? There's this guy named Uri Geller. He's a performer who bends spoons. And in 2000 he sued Nintendo, saying Kadabra was based on him. A spoon-bender suing over a Pokémon. Bro. The case never even got a court ruling. But Kadabra disappeared from the card game anyway. Then in 2020, Geller said he regretted it and dropped his complaints. And in 2023, when Kadabra finally came back, he said sorry to fans. In public. So Kadabra is back. Finally. Wild Facts! Okay, Alakazam. Pokédex entries say it has an IQ of five thousand. Five thousand! And its brain can beat a supercomputer. Some entries say its brain never stops growing. And one says its head gets too heavy for its neck, so it holds it up with psychic power. That's so weird. Imagine your head being too heavy. Okay, next. Victini. It's number zero zero zero in the Unova Pokédex. Triple zero. It was the first Pokémon ever to come before a region's starters in the Pokédex. It's a Mythical Pokémon from Pokémon Black and White, and it's said to bring victory. It makes endless energy inside its body and shares it with anyone who touches it. You find it on an island called Liberty Garden. Riddle time! Okay, this one's about the Dragonite card from the Fossil set. Number four. It has a hundred HP. No Weakness. A Retreat Cost of just one. Its Slam attack flips two coins and does forty for each heads. So zero up to eighty. It has a power called Step In, so it can jump from the Bench into the Active spot. And it takes thirty less damage from Fighting. Now here's the question. It's Dragonite. But what type is the card? Is it Dragon, Colorless, or Fire? Okay, ready? Colorless! It's not even a Dragon card. Dragonite. Not a Dragon. That makes zero sense! Tomorrow is Tuesday, so it's Video Games! That's gonna be so fun. You guys have to come back. See you tomorrow! Bye!