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If your card reads 1995, 96, 98, 99 Nintendo, Creatures, GAMEFREAK, then you have a legitimate first-edition Pokmon card

Whether youre a fan or not, youll remember popular characters like Pikachu, Charizard, Machamp, Squirtle, and Ash, the trainer

Naturally, you can use the Card Dex to see what cards youre missing, put together custom binders of your favorite cards, and place them on backgrounds to put your rarest, most stylish stuff on display

With some of the 1st edition Base Set cards youll notice the 1st edition stamps will look almost 3D (except for the 1st and D), due to misaligned 1st edition stamps

Only 41 copies are currently known to exist, all of which were handed out to winners of a card drawing contest held by Japanese magazine CoroCoro in November 1997 and then twice more in May and June 1998

Although both are fake cards in the sense that neither is an authentic card, the goal of a proxy card is not to fool someone into believing it is authentic, but to be a temporary stand-in for a real card