“Ash's Dad” or “Misty's New Bike”? Pokémon TCG Fan Pulls Out Disconcerting Blank Card

One Pokémon Trading Card Game player pulled an incredibly rare misprinted card that is completely and utterly blank. The card game has its share of misprints and errors, from poorly aligned images to missing or incorrect details. Often these cards are worth more than their “correct” counterparts, as they are incredibly rare. But finding a completely blank card is an especially rare occurrence, and the player isn't sure what to do with it.

Reddit user TrevSmile pulled a card that takes misprints to the extreme. Instead of a printing error occurring, the card is completely blank. The fan shared an image of the back, which appears normal and unaffected by the error, and the front, which just shows a bright, shiny white. “I've never seen anything like it,” says the Redditor. They asked the Pokémon TCG community for information about the card, as there isn't much about this extremely rare card error online.

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TCG players agree that the card must be protected

According to the comments, a blank card like this can sell for over $100as there are collectors specializing in printing errors. The comments also encourage the poster to evaluate and protect the card, both to authenticate it and to protect it from damage (which would decrease its value).

While the reviews are generally in agreement about what to do with the card, they have totally different theories and explanations about what the card could represent. The blank card spawned numerous jokes, such as “the 'Ash's Father' trainer card” (proposed by ChaneyDesigns3D), “Misty's new bike” (suggested by Uspresso235), and “Brock's girlfriend” (posted by Angelic Prince_), all things that are notably absent from the Pokémon franchise.

Several other comments allude to the former flaw of the original Pokemon Red and Blue games, saying This must be the “No card missing,“ an error Pokémon that could only be found by following very specific steps and caused a series of errors in titles. User Zes_Teaslong Have another idea about the empty card. Redditor says the player has “pulled the letter from John Cena,“making fun of another popular meme that says no one can see popular wrestler, actor and philanthropist John Cena.

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The Pokémon franchise meets Yu-Gi-Oh

There are some comments in the discussion that mention the card game and show Yu-Gi-Oh, and the comparisons are accurate. User EddySpagetty jokes,”It is a personal invitation card from Maximilian Pegasus for a trip to the kingdom. Good luck my friend.“The comparison becomes even more accurate when you realize that there is a card in Yu-G-Oh called Soul Prison, which was used by Pegasus to trap people's souls. The card starts out blank and takes on the appearance of the soul it traps within it.

The closest to this concept in Pokémon TCG is the Ditto card, which allows players to use the attack of any basic Pokémon in the player's discard pile. It would be crazy and game-breaking, but probably a lot of fun, to take a misprint like this card into an actual game. A blank card could theoretically be used to copy the opponent's Pokémon or the last used Trainer cardor even to be used as a “wildcard”. Even if they aren't useful in battle, cards like this blank misprint make the opening Pokémon Trading Card Game even more exciting cards because you never know what you're going to get. It could be a Moonbreon, or even, as in this case, the absence of a Moonbreon.

Source: TrevSmile/Reddit, ChaneyDesigns3D/Reddit, Uspresso235/Reddit, AngelicPrince_/Reddit, Zes_Teaslong/Reddit, EddySpagetty/Reddit