Top 10 Error and Misprint Pokémon Cards

Set

Base Set · 47/102

Released

1999 (English)

The smallest mistake on this list is a single energy symbol turned on its side. On a short print run of Base Set Diglett, the Fighting symbol beside the Dig attack came out rotated 90 degrees, a flaw traced to the Unlimited 2-Player Starter Set boxes. PSA recognizes the variant on its labels, and a PSA 10 copy sold on eBay in January 2023 for $199.99, the record for this error.

Set

Jungle · 33/64 · 1st Edition

Released

1999 (English)

An ink bubble settled over the 1st Edition stamp on a run of Jungle Butterfree and turned the 1 into a lowercase d, and the hobby has called it the d Edition ever since. Bulbapedia counts it among the most common errors Wizards of the Coast ever shipped, with well over 100 copies in circulation, so the money stays modest. The highest PSA 10 sale we could open and verify is $390 on eBay in December 2022, even though PriceCharting’s market level for the grade has since climbed near $720.

Set

Base Set · 2/102

Released

1999 (English)

The instructions at the top of this card tell you to put Blastoise on the 1 card. The word Stage never made it onto the plate, and PSA documents the omission in its official error guide. What keeps this entry low is the paper trail. Every PSA-logged sale of the error sits in the hundreds, topped by a PSA 8 at $475 on eBay in July 2020, and no high-grade record has surfaced to challenge it. The card is famous. Its documented sales are thin, and this list prices paper trails, not fame.

Set

Black Star Promo · 17 · Nintendo Power Insert

Released

2000 (English)

This Dark Persian came free inside Nintendo Power magazine in 2000, and a few copies reached subscribers with nothing at all in the HP corner, just the name and the type symbol where 60 HP should sit. PSA recognizes both the error and the corrected printing in its error guide. The error’s verified top is a PSA 9 at $640 on eBay in April 2025. Keep the figure in perspective, because the corrected version of this same promo is the one with the five-figure prices, including a $48,000 PSA 10 at Fanatics Collect in October 2026, and none of that money belongs to the error.

Set

Base Set · 42/102

Released

1999 (English)

Every Wartortle card tells you it evolves from Squirtle. On a short Unlimited print run, the little portrait in the evolution box shows Wartortle itself, a turtle evolving from itself. The error never reached the 1st Edition or Shadowless runs, and every Portuguese printing of the card carries it, which points to one shared print facility. A PSA 9 copy sold on eBay in January 2026 for $999.99, a single cent short of four figures.

Set

Base Set · 58/102 · Shadowless 1st Edition

Released

1999 (English)

The 1st Edition stamp on this Pikachu barely printed at all. What remains is a pale outline reading E ITION, with the 1 and the D missing, on yellow-cheeks Shadowless copies that surfaced inside gold-strip Zap! theme decks. Collectors named it the Ghost Stamp, and CGC labels it that way on its slabs. A BGS 9 copy sold on eBay in March 2026 for $2,000, matching the $2,000 that PSA 9 copies reached back in May 2022.

Set

Movie Promo · Ancient Mew I (Japanese)

Released

1999 (Japanese)

The first Japanese printing of the Ancient Mew movie promo misspells the company that made the game. The copyright line along the bottom reads Nintedo, one n short, and corrected printings followed once the mistake was caught. Unlike most of this list, the error is not rare. PSA’s population for the error in PSA 10 alone runs to roughly 800 copies. Fame does the work instead, and a PSA 10 sold on eBay in October 2026 for $6,500.

Set

Base Set · 12/102 · Shadowless

Released

1999 (English)

Fire Blast is supposed to hit for 80. On some Shadowless copies of Ninetales, the damage number was never printed at all, leaving the attack cost and text beside an empty space. The error is tied to the Shadowless Brushfire theme decks, and PSA’s error guide documents it. The record rests on collector documentation of a 2021 PWCC auction, where a PSA 9 reached $8,170 and a second PSA 9 changed hands at $8,000 the same night. It is the one record on this list we flag as softer than the rest, because PSA’s own price archive does not break this error out under its own label.

Set

Team Rocket · 5/82

Released

2000 (English)

Team Rocket printed Dark Dragonite twice, as the holo rare at number 5 and as a plain rare at number 22. Some number 5 copies came off the press with no holofoil at all, the holo card’s layout rendered completely flat. Bulbapedia traces the error to the design stage of the 1st Edition run, and it was never corrected, so Unlimited copies carry it too. A PSA 10 1st Edition copy sold at Goldin in March 2026 for $73,200, and an Unlimited PSA 10 brought $34,100 on eBay the following month.