50 pokemon cards Pokémon TCG: Assorted – Poke Bruvs Metro | Pokemon Cards |

Its original printing seems to be holding up alright despite many, many reprints over the past 18 years

Furthermore, Since this Pikachu was released in 1998, is the the first known English card

For example: Base Set : A Poke Ball icon (the original) Jungle : A flower/jungle leaf Fossil : A claw/fossil shape Team Rocket : A dark "R" Neo Genesis : A small star-like shape Evolving Skies : A stylized cloud/sky design Prismatic Evolutions : A prism/crystal icon 151 : A Mew silhouette Surging Sparks : A lightning/spark design There are hundreds of set symbols at this point (the Pokemon TCG has released over 100 English expansion sets), so nobody memorizes them all

(Full issue, Introduction) Hatakeyama & Kubo (2000), p