It is near completed finish and the illustration is gone.

I Would Highly doubt for any reason why the illustration would still be white. I and I'm sure some of you would agree that the gold border around the illustration would indicate the entire box gold at one point before drowzee is printed on it.Įspecially since those Chinese cards was a give away indication of that theory when they had left over gold blocks on them.Ĭonsidering the height and weight is completed, all the energy symbols are there.Īnd everything else is completed. With the height/weight we have the gold image from whats left after the text is written inside of it. When they apply the evolution picture we have whats left of the gold box with those spikes going around the evolution picture. The gold box/border around the illustration proves to me at some point BEFORE drowzee is on it the entire box has to be gold at some point.

Myself and pokepop talked about this a few weeks ago about the Chinese pokemon cards with gold blocks in the illustration. The evolution box is gold, the height weight information is gold. Because when a card is completely blank its white (either white with borders or white without borders)Īnything involving detail or illustration as on the test sheet its gold before anything is applied to it. Featuring the iconic artwork of legendary Pokemon artist Ken Sugimori, this is one of the most recognizable Japanese cards ever created, as the artwork ultimately never did see an English release.Edit- um guys, when it comes to test cards i have a valued opinion considering what i own. On the second day, these top players battled it out against each other, and only those who won at least one battle received this card as their prize. Those that made the cut were invited to a two-day event in Osaka where they were separated into three age groups and then subdivided into various gyms, where only the top players in each group qualified for the second day of the event. The test was published in Shogakukan magazines, only allowing hopeful participants a limited window of time to submit it for review.

'One of the rarest and most coveted Pokemon cards in existence, the Tamamushi University Magikarp was a prize card that was given out as part of the Tamamushi University Hyper Test. This card sold during the same PWCC Premier Auction as the Tropical Wind promo above, and they had this to say:

Pokemon card gold ink error