Everyone makes mistakes sometimes, and the same is with Pokemon cards. There are many mistakes, some rare, some uncorrected, but all noticeable mistakes.

40 HP HP 40 Mirror 

You might find that your caterpie, metapod, or vulpix has their HP as HP 70 instead of 70 HP. This is only on non-shadowed cards (no shadow on right edge of picture frame). The mistake cards are usually worth about $3 more.

Really long Pokemon 

If you have a bulbasaur or a kakuna that is non-shadow, its pokedex plaque will say 

______ pokemon, length ____ Length ____

It will say length the second time as well as the first!

Aren't Ponyta and Goldeen Basic Pokemon?

You may or may not notice that ALL rapidashes and seakings have this error. it says:

Evolves from Goldeen, Put seaking on the Stage 1 Pokémon

ponyta and goldeen are basic Pokémon, not stage 1.

Diglett Dig!

On some digletts the fighting energy for dig is turned to the right completely. This card is rare among the other digletts.

Pokedex

If you have lots of pokedex cards, you'll notice that some pokedexs are bigger than others. If you have a first edition one, it will be smaller than others.

Crop Circles?

Sometimes when you get a card fresh from a pack, there will be a small red ring somewhere on the card. this has happened to 2 of my cards so far. This was probably caused by dripping ink presses.

Misplaced energies

This is the most common misprint. You'll notice that the card on the right has its energies higher up. The "floating" energies can be found on almost any non-shadowed card.

Cut-Out

If you happen to have a first-edition, fossil, foil zapdos lying around, you might notice that the foil in the top left corner is cut out. The cut out space resembles an evolution icon. It is unknown if there is more cut out cards.

Monster Ball?

If you have a non-shadow voltorb, and you look at its pokédex, you'll realize that it says that it resembles a "Monster Ball". In japan pokéballs are called monster balls.

Base set jungle cards?

About 5% of jungle Holofoils don't have a jungle symbol on them. So far I have seen a scyther and a flareon with this.

I think ill buzzap my electrode... hey wait a second!

If you get a first edition jungle electrode, it will have the picture of the base set electrode.

Edition "D"

This is nearly the rarest mistake there is. If you have a first edition butterfree check on the first edition symbol. If you have this card it will say edition D. This was made by a bubble in the ink.

Red? yellow? its all the same to me.

Some pikachus have red cheeks. Believe it or not, but the red one is the misprint. Only on some non shadow cards.

The rarest mistake...

This is the rarest mistake so far. there is about a 99.9% chance of finding a promo (1) pikachu in packs of cards. This misprint is the fact that it is first edition. It is worth $100+.

Very long Copyright

On Dark Vileplume and Dark Arbok cards (Team Rocket) The copyright says copyright 1999-23000. It is yet determined if it is only on first editions.

Grass vs. Fighting?

On Dark Vileplume non-holofoil the weakness says fighting instead of fire. This is corrected on the holofoil version

Real Short Rapidash

On Dark Rapidash there is no word "length" on the gold bar. 

Those dripping presses again...

I have this rarely seen messed up slowpoke. The HP color is inverted on the P and the abnormal blue ring with purple splotches. These are also signs of ink drips.

Eevee is dash-less!

On the Promo 11 eevee, the Pokémon power chain reaction has no ' on the e.

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