Bulbasaur · Team Magma vs Team Aqua (MA) #39

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1. 

   Blob Takeshi

   (8 years ago)

   This is Bulbasaur’s first English Set card since Expedition.

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   Ambassador

   (3 years ago)

   Ever sort your e-TCG sets by ID number? (No, since this is an oft-overlooked topic in the TCG, but please humor me.) EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua has several conspicuous gaps.

   M-01-# Bulbasaur
   ..
   M-03-# Squirtle
   M-04-# Psyduck
   ..
   M-11-# Pikachu
   ..
   M-15-# Slowpoke
   M-16-# Cubone
   ..
   M-23-# Jigglypuff
   M-24-# Meowth
   ..
   M-70-# Raichu

   It’s also obnoxious because M-##-# IDs were used for JP promo cards released in McDonald’s in 2002, and is the only instance of e-Readers IDs being non-unique. It’s a shame, since at the start, e-Reader IDs appeared to have some a dual purpose to act as a ‘bilingual’ identifier of a card (since JP and international releases often had different sets and therefore set numbers), but by the time the final e-TCG set had come out, Japanese Pokémon cards had long abandoned both dot codes and e-TCG IDs, and one is left with the impression the last 9 e-TCG cards included in EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua are an afterthought only there to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation with Olympus (the licensor of dot code technology). The whole project, whatever it had been intended to be, was dead, and so it seems no one was bothered to doublecheck whether the M-##-# IDs had already been assigned or not. At least we still got this Bulbasaur.

   https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_TCG_cards_by_e-Reader_card_ID

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