Pokemon TCG: Neo Genesis Set

Neo Genesis (金、銀、新世界へ…) Trading Card Game Set E8 / J7
General information
Cards	English: 111 Japanese: 96
Series	Neo Series
Previous Expansion	Gym Challenge
Following Expansion	Neo Discovery
Associated Decks	Cold Fusion Hotfoot
Released	December 16th, 2000 (English) December 10th, 1999 (Japan)

Quick menu: Overview / Print Versions / Set List / For Collectors / Most Powerful / Trivia / Images & Videos

Neo Genesis was released in English on 16 December 2000, and it is the most consequential handover in the game’s early history. Every set before it — Base Set through Gym Challenge — had drawn on the 151 Pokémon of Kanto. This one opened the door to Johto and Generation II, and carried the “rookie cards” of Lugia, Typhlosion, Feraligatr and Meganium.

It brought two additions that are still load-bearing twenty-five years later: Darkness Energy and Metal Energy. Almost nothing introduced in 2000 survives in the modern game; these two types do. The set also introduced the Pokémon Tool — a Trainer subclass that stays attached to a Pokémon in play, a direct nod to the held items that debuted in Pokémon Gold and Silver.

Then there are the Baby Pokémon. Pichu, Cleffa, Elekid and Magby all have 30 HP, no Weakness, no Resistance and no Retreat Cost, and the Baby Rule forced an opponent to flip a coin before attacking them at all. That combination made them, awkwardly, often more useful than the Pokémon they evolved into.

Neo Genesis also redesigned the card face. The evolution box became circular, the HP text changed from red to black, the Evolution Stage moved beneath the HP, and Weakness and Resistance gained a background graphic. If you can date a Wizards-era card at a glance, this is usually the change you are reading. The set runs to 111 cards, the first 19 of them holographic.

Print Versions & Collectors Info

Neo Genesis exists in 1st Edition and Unlimited printings. 1st Edition is the one collectors pursue, and there is a market quirk worth knowing: Neo-era holos consistently outperform the Gym-series holos. Fewer were graded and they are simply harder to locate in high grade, so a Neo Genesis holo often costs more than a Gym equivalent of comparable rarity.

The set is unusual in offering two holographic versions of each Johto starter’s final form, distinguished by level: Feraligatr at Lv.56 (4/111) and Lv.69 (5/111), Meganium at Lv.54 (10/111) and Lv.57 (11/111), Typhlosion at Lv.55 (17/111) and Lv.57 (18/111). Master-set collectors need both of each — check the level line before assuming you have a duplicate.

Other language releases followed in February 2001, roughly two months behind English.

The pack wrappers

Neo Genesis shipped in four English booster wrappers — one for Lugia, and one each for the three Johto starters in their final forms: Typhlosion, Meganium and Feraligatr. It is a neat piece of marketing: the wrappers advertise precisely what the set was selling, a whole new generation of Pokémon making their first appearance on cards. The Japanese pack for Gold, Silver, to a New World… is shown alongside for comparison.

Set List with Pictures

Card Image	No.	Card name	Rarity	Card type
	1/111	Ampharos
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed and this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
	2/111	Azumarill
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed and this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
	3/111	Bellossom
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, remove all damage counters from 1 of your Pokémon.
	4/111	Feraligatr
	Card text When you play Feraligatr from your hand, flip a coin. If heads, discard the top 5 cards from your opponent’s deck. If tails, discard the top 5 cards from your deck.
	5/111	Feraligatr
	Card text As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Water Energy card from your hand. This power can’t be used if Feraligatr is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	6/111	Heracross
	Card text If Heracross’s remaining HP are 20 or less, you may make its Megahorn attack’s base damage 120 instead of 60. This power can’t be used if Heracross is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	7/111	Jumpluff
	Card text The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
	8/111	Kingdra
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Kingdra.
	9/111	Lugia
	Card text Discard a Fire Energy card, a Water Energy card, and a Lightning Energy card attached to Lugia in order to use this attac
	10/111	Meganium
	Card text When you play Meganium from your hand, you may flip a coin. If heads, remove all damage counters from all Grass Pokémon in play.
	11/111	Meganium
	Card text As long as Meganium is in play, each Grass Energy card attached to your Grass Pokémon instead provides GrassGrass. This power stops working while Meganium is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	12/111	Pichu
	Card text Does 20 damage to each Pokémon in play that has a Pokémon Power. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance.
	13/111	Skarmory
	Card text Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing.
	14/111	Slowking
	Card text Whenever your opponent plays a Trainer card, you may flip a coin. If heads, that card does nothing. Put it on top of your opponent’s deck. This power can’t be used if Slowking is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	15/111	Steelix
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 20 more damage; if tails, this attack does 30 damage.
	16/111	Togetic
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, choose an attack of 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. Super Metronome copies that attack except for its Energy cost. (You must still do anything else in order to use that attack.) (No matter what type the Defending Pokémon is, Togetic’s type is still Colorless.) Togetic performs that attack. (Togetic can make that attack even if it does not have the appropriate number of type of Energy attached to it necessary to make the attack.)
	17/111	Typhlosion
	Card text Once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, attach a Fire Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Fire Pokémon. This power can’t be used if Typhlosion is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	18/111	Typhlosion
	Card text When you play Typhlosion from your hand, you may flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for up to 4 Fire Energy cards and attach them to Typhlosion. Shuffle your deck afterward.
	19/111	Metal Energy
	Card text Damage done to the Pokémon Metal Energy is attached to is reduced by 10 (after applying Weakness and Resistance). If the Pokémon Metal Energy is attached to isn’t Metal, whenever it damages a Pokémon, reduce that damage by 10 (before applying Weakness and Resistance).Metal Energy provides Metal Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.)
	20/111	Cleffa
	Card text Shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 7 cards.
	21/111	Donphan
	Card text Does 10 damage times the number of damage counters on Donphan
	22/111	Elekid
	Card text Once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, do 20 damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon. (Apply Weakness and Resistance.) Either way, this ends your turn. This power can’t be used if Elekid is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	23/111	Magby
	Card text All Pokémon Powers stop working until the end of your next turn.
	24/111	Murkrow
	Card text The Defending Pokémon can’t retreat as long as Murkrow remains your Active Pokémon. (Benching or evolving either Pokémon ends this effect.)
	25/111	Sneasel
	Card text Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.
	26/111	Aipom
	Card text Shuffle Aipom and all cards attached to it into your deck. Flip a coin. If heads, shuffle a card from your discard pile into your deck.
	27/111	Ariados
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon can’t retreat. (Benching or evolving that Pokémon ends this effect.)
	28/111	Bayleef
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
	29/111	Bayleef
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads and if any of your Pokémon have any damage counters on them, then remove 2 damage counters from 1 of them (or 1 if it only has 1). If tails and if any of your opponent’s Pokémon have any damage counters on them, choose 1 of them and remove 2 damage counters from it (or 1 if it only has 1).
	30/111	Clefairy
	Card text Flip 2 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.
	31/111	Croconaw
	Card text Until the end of your next turn, if an attack damages the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), that attack does 20 more damage to the Defending Pokémon.
	32/111	Croconaw
	Card text Discard the top 3 cards from your deck.
	33/111	Electabuzz
	Card text This attack’s damage isn’t affected by Weakness, Resistance, Pokémon Powers, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon.
	34/111	Flaaffy
	Card text Discard all Lightning Energy cards attached to Flaaffy in order to use this attack. Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Lightning Energy cards you discarded. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads.
	35/111	Furret
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage; if tails, this attack does 20 damage.
	36/111	Gloom
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused; if tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Asleep
	37/111	Granbull
	Card text This attack does 10 damage plus 10 damage for each damage counter on Granbull. Then, Granbull does 20 damage to itself.
	38/111	Lanturn
	Card text You may make Floodlight do 10 more damage for each Water Energy attached to Lanturn but not used to pay for Floodlight’s Energy cost. This power can’t be used if Lanturn is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	39/111	Ledian
	Card text If you have any Grass Pokémon on your Bench, remove all Grass Energy cards from Ledian and attach them to 1 of those Pokémon, then switch Ledian with that Pokémon.
	40/111	Magmar
	Card text Tail Slap
	41/111	Miltank
	Card text Flip 2 coins. Remove 2 damage counters times the number of heads from Miltank. If it has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.
	42/111	Noctowl
	Card text Once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. If heads, look at your opponent’s hand. If your opponent has any Trainer cards there, choose 1 of them. Your opponent shuffles that card into his or her deck. This power can’t be used if Noctowl is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
	43/111	Phanpy
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, then if, during your opponent’s next turn, Phanpy would be Knocked Out by an attack, Phanpy isn’t Knocked Out and its remaining HP become 10 instead.
	44/111	Piloswine
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon can’t attack. (Benching or evolving the Defending Pokémon ends this effect.)
	45/111	Quagsire
	Card text Does 10 damage to each of your own Benched Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.)
	46/111	Quilava
	Card text Discard 1 Fire Energy card attached to Quilava in order to use this attack
	47/111	Quilava
	Card text If the Defending Pokémon tries to attack during your opponent’s next turn, your opponent flips a coin. If tails, that attack does nothing.
	48/111	Seadra
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
	49/111	Skiploom
	Card text The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
	50/111	Sunflora
	Card text Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads. Sunflora is now Confused (after doing damage).
	51/111	Togepi
	Card text The Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
	52/111	Xatu
	Card text Look at the top 3 cards of either player’s deck and rearrange them as you like.
	53/111	Chikorita
	Card text During your opponent’s next turn, whenever Chikorita takes damage, divide that damage in half (rounded down to the nearest 10). (Any other effects still happen.)
	54/111	Chikorita
	Card text If the Defending Pokémon attacks Chikorita during your opponent’s next turn, any damage done to Chikorita is reduced by 10 (before applying Weakness and Resistance). (Benching or evolving either Pokémon ends this effect.)
	55/111	Chinchou
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
	56/111	Cyndaquil
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon can’t attack Cyndaquil during your opponent’s next turn. (Benching or evolving either Pokémon ends this effect.)
	57/111	Cyndaquil
	Card text Flip a coin. If tails, discard 1 Energy card attached to Cyndaquil.
	58/111	Girafarig
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Girafarig.
	59/111	Gligar
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
	60/111	Hoothoot
	Card text The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
	61/111	Hoppip
	Card text Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon named Hoppip and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward. (You can’t use this attack if your Bench is full.)
	62/111	Horsea
	Card text If an attack damaged Horsea during your opponent’s last turn, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage. If not, this attack does 20 damage.
	63/111	Ledyba
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Confused.
	64/111	Mantine
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Mantine.
	65/111	Mareep
	Card text For each Mareep in play, you may search your deck for a Lightning Energy card and attach it to Mareep. Shuffle your deck afterward.
	66/111	Marill
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all damage done to Marill during your opponent’s next turn. (Any other effects of attacks still happen.)
	67/111	Natu
	Card text Choose 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. This attack does 20 damage to that Pokémon. Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.)
	68/111	Oddish
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Oddish.
	69/111	Onix
	Card text Until the end of your next turn, if an attack damages the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), that attack does 20 more damage to the Defending Pokémon.
	70/111	Pikachu
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage; if tails, this attack does 10 damage.
	71/111	Sentret
	Card text Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads.
	72/111	Shuckle
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, prevent all damage done to Shuckle during your opponent’s next turn. (Any other effects of attacks still happen.)
	73/111	Slowpoke
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed.
	74/111	Snubbull
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads and if your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)
	75/111	Spinarak
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, until the end of your opponent’s next turn the Defending Pokémon can’t attack or retreat.
	76/111	Stantler
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage; if tails, this attack does 20 damage.
	77/111	Sudowoodo
	Card text Does 10 damage times the number of damage counters on Sudowoodo.
	78/111	Sunkern
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, you may attach up to 2 Energy cards from your hand to Sunkern.
	79/111	Swinub
	Card text The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep.
	80/111	Totodile
	Card text Does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Totodile.
	81/111	Totodile
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon can’t attack Totodile during your opponent’s next turn. (Benching or evolving either Pokémon ends this effect.)
	82/111	Wooper
	Card text Choose 1 of the Defending Pokémon’s attacks. That Pokémon can’t use that attack during your opponent’s next turn.
	83/111	Arcade Game		T[GC]
	Card text Shuffle your deck, then reveal the top 3 cards of it. If at least 2 of those cards share the same name, put all of the ones with that name into your hand and shuffle the rest into your deck. If none of them do, shuffle all 3 into your deck.
	84/111	Ecogym		T[st]
	Card text Whenever an attack, Pokémon Power, or Trainer card discards another player’s non-Colorless Energy card from a Pokémon, return that Energy card to its owner’s hand. (Energy cards that are discarded when that Pokémon is Knocked Out don’t count.)
	85/111	Energy Charge		T
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, shuffle up to 2 Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck.
	86/111	Focus Band		T[Tool]
	Card text If the Pokémon Focus Band is attached to would be Knocked Out by your opponent’s attack, flip a coin. If heads, that Pokémon is not Knocked Out and its remaining HP become 10 instead. Then, discard Focus Band.
	87/111	Mary		T
	Card text Draw 2 cards. Then, shuffle 2 cards from your hand into your deck.
	88/111	PokéGear		T
	Card text Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. If any of them are Trainer cards, you may show 1 of them to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. You can’t play any more Trainer cards this turn.
	89/111	Super Energy Retrieval		T
	Card text Trade 2 of the other cards in your hand for 4 Energy cards from your discard pile. If you have fewer than 4 Energy cards there, take all of them.
	90/111	Time Capsule		T
	Card text Your opponent may choose 5 Basic Pokémon, Evolution, and/or basic Energy cards in his or her discard pile. (If your opponent doesn’t have that many, he or she chooses all or none of them.) If your opponent chooses any cards, he or she shuffles them into his or her deck. Either way, you may do the same, and you can’t play any more Trainer cards this turn.
	91/111	Bill’s Teleporter		T
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, draw 4 cards.
	92/111	Card-Flip Game		T[GC]
	Card text Choose 1 of your opponent’s face-down Prizes. Guess whether it is an Energy card, a Trainer card, or a Pokémon (Basic or Evolution) card. Flip the card face up (and leave it face up). If you guessed right, draw 2 cards.
	93/111	Gold Berry		T[Tool]
	Card text At any time between turns, if there are at least 4 damage counters on the Pokémon Gold Berry is attached to, you may remove 4 of them and discard Gold Berry. At the start of each turn, if there are at least 4 damage counters on the Pokémon Gold Berry is attached to, remove 4 of them and discard Gold Berry.
	94/111	Miracle Berry		T[Tool]
	Card text At any time between turns, if the Pokémon Miracle Berry is attached to is Asleep, Confused, Paralyzed, or Poisoned, you may remove all of those effects from that Pokémon and discard Miracle Berry. At the start of each turn, if the Pokémon Miracle Berry is attached to is Asleep, Confused, Paralyzed, or Poisoned, remove all of those effects from that Pokémon and discard Miracle Berry.
	95/111	New Pokédex		T
	Card text Shuffle your deck. Then, look at up to 5 cards from the top of your deck and rearrange them as you like.
	96/111	Professor Elm		T
	Card text Shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw 7 cards. You can’t play any more Trainer cards this turn.
	97/111	Sprout Tower		T[st]
	Card text All damage done by Colorless Pokémon’s attacks is reduced by 30 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
	98/111	Super Scoop Up		T
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, return 1 of your Pokémon and all cards attached to it to your hand.
	99/111	Berry		T[Tool]
	Card text At any time between turns, if there are at least 2 damage counters on the Pokémon Berry is attached to, you may remove 2 of them and discard Berry. At the start of each turn, if there are at least 2 damage counters on the Pokémon Berry is attached to, remove 2 of them and discard Berry.
	100/111	Double Gust		T
	Card text If you have any Benched Pokémon, your opponent chooses 1 of them and switches it with your Active Pokémon. Then, if your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, choose 1 of them and switch it with his or her Active Pokémon.
	101/111	Moo-Moo Milk		T
	Card text Choose 1 of your Pokémon. Flip 2 coins. Remove 2 damage counters times the number of heads from that Pokémon. If the Pokémon has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.
	102/111	Pokémon March		T
	Card text Your opponent may search his or her deck for 1 Basic Pokémon card and put it onto his or her Bench. Then, you may search your deck for 1 Basic Pokémon card and put it onto your Bench. Then, each player shuffles his or her deck. (A player can’t do any of this if his or her Bench is full.)
	103/111	Super Rod		T
	Card text Flip a coin. If heads, put an Evolution card from your discard pile, if any, into your hand. If tails, put a Basic Pokémon card from your discard pile, if any, into your hand.
	104/111	Darkness Energy		E
	Card text If the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to damages the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance), the attack does 10 more damage to the Defending Pokémon. At the end of every turn, put 1 damage counter on the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to, unless it’s Darkness or has Dark in its name.Darkness Energy provides Darkness Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.)
	105/111	Recycle Energy		E
	Card text Recycle Energy provides Colorless Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.) If this card is put into your discard pile from play, return it to your hand.
	106/111	Fighting Energy	__	E
	107/111	Fire Energy	__	E
	108/111	Grass Energy	__	E
	109/111	Lightning Energy	__	E
	110/111	Psychic Energy	__	E
	111/111	Water Energy	__	E

For Collectors: Most Valuable Cards

Holos run 1–19 and include one Energy card. Because these are first appearances for an entire generation of Pokémon, Neo Genesis holos carry the “rookie card” premium that later Johto printings never quite match.

Lugia (9/111)

The defining chase card of the Neo era and one of the most recognisable vintage holos in the game. Lugia’s status as the cover legendary of Pokémon Silver did the groundwork, and this is where it first appeared in the TCG. In high grade it is the card that sets the ceiling for the whole set.

Typhlosion (17 and 18/111)

The Johto fire starter’s first card, and one of two Pokémon here printed as two separate holos at different levels. Consistently among the most sought-after non-legendary cards in the set.

Feraligatr (4 and 5/111)

Same story as Typhlosion — two holo versions, Lv.56 and Lv.69. The water starter tends to trail Typhlosion slightly in demand, which makes it the better value of the two.

Steelix (15/111)

The first Steel-type Pokémon in the TCG, and still the one most associated with the type. There is a neatness to it that collectors like: the type debuts here, and its emblem is a Pokémon with “steel” in its name.

Metal Energy (19/111)

A holographic Energy card sitting inside the holo run at number 19. Easy to overlook next to Lugia, but it marks the arrival of one of only two genuinely new Energy types the game has ever added — a historical marker rather than a beauty contest.

Vintage prices move constantly. Treat any quoted figure as directional and check live sold comps before buying or selling.

Most Powerful Cards (Competitive Play)

Neo Genesis contains two of the most notorious cards Wizards of the Coast ever printed — one deliberately overpowered, the other by accident.

Sneasel (25/111)

A Darkness-type Basic with zero Retreat Cost and no Weakness, whose Beat Up attack averaged around 80 damage and could reach 140 in a single turn — as early as turn two. For context, the strongest comparable two-Energy attack before it was Base Set Electabuzz, dealing 30, or 40 on a coin flip. Sneasel dominated the first two Super Trainer Showdowns after release and was banned outright by the third. When the Modified format arrived in 2001 it was singled out by name and stayed banned until Neo Genesis rotated out. Worth noting for accuracy: it was never banned in Standard — Wizards never banned a card from that format.

Slowking (14/111) — the mistranslation

The most consequential error in the game’s history. Slowking’s Mind Games Pokémon Power was meant to work only while it was Active. The English printing was mistranslated so that it worked from the Bench — and Wizards, who disliked issuing errata, decided it would simply be played as written. Players could field up to four Slowkings on the bench, giving four separate coin-flip chances to block every single Trainer card the opponent tried to play. It went on to dominate the 2002 World Championships before finally being banned, and it never received an errata for its entire life in the game.

Focus Band (86/111)

The Pokémon Tool that best demonstrates why the subclass mattered. Attached to a Pokémon, it gave a coin flip to survive a knockout at 10 HP. A permanent attachment that changed the maths of every attack aimed at that Pokémon was a genuinely new idea in 2000.

Trivia & Pop Culture

• Released in English on 16 December 2000 as the eighth expansion and the first of the Neo Series. The Japanese original, Gold, Silver, to a New World…, had appeared on 4 February 2000.
• It introduced Darkness and Metal Energy — among the very few things from the Wizards era still core to the modern game.
• It introduced the Pokémon Tool, a direct reference to the held-item mechanic that debuted in Pokémon Gold and Silver.
• It introduced Baby Pokémon, whose protective Baby Rule made them more useful in play than the Pokémon they evolved into.
• The card face was redesigned: circular evolution box, black HP text instead of red, Evolution Stage moved below the HP, and a background graphic behind Weakness and Resistance.
• Slowking was mistranslated into English so that its Pokémon Power worked from the Bench. Wizards chose not to correct it, and it went on to warp two years of competitive play — the single most costly translation error in Pokémon TCG history.
• Wizards produced five-foot-tall Sneasel display cards for the Super Trainer Showdown events — players photographed themselves beside the card that would shortly be banned.
• Three Pokémon appear twice in the holo run at different levels: Feraligatr, Meganium and Typhlosion.

Images & Videos

All 111 cards from Neo Genesis in official set order. Click any card to open it full size. The holographic rares run 1–19 and include Metal Energy, followed by the rares, uncommons and commons — among them the first Baby Pokémon and the debut cards of the entire Johto starter line.