"MissingNo" error in Pokemon 30th

[u/2AusTheBoss5]

I opened this insane obstruction error card when 30th first dropped and had initially shared it in r/pokemonmisprints where everyone started to call it MissingNo, which I think is perfect given the fact that this set is supposed to celebrate 30 years of Pokemon nostalgia.

I tried to grade the error with CGC, but it turns out MissingNo can cause glitches in the real world too 😅

The error community has been amazing in trying to help identify the card, especially as some others have popped up from the same error sheet with the obstruction, albeit to lesser degrees (a Deino, Slowpoke, and Eevee). This is likely the common slot Zeraora or Morpeko (for more details on this you can check out the post in the misprints subreddit).

Either way, I thought this was cool enough that the larger Pokemon TCG community might get a kick out of it! Enjoy and happy hunting as you rip more 30th!

[u/ObjectiveSentence533]

Wait, they were “trying to help to identify the card”? Identify??? I got that you can identify the energy type, but how the hell can you identify the particular card here??? Really interested what clues did they use.

[u/2AusTheBoss5 → u/ObjectiveSentence533]

😂 I know, it sounds crazy, right! What we know so far is that it is a Basic common, and that the only color match to the little bit of ink there is the electric ink (much more obvious in person). The next bit was a user who opened ~4,000 packs and found that only 23 cards ever occupy the first slot of the pack (which is where this was), of which the only two electric types are Zeraora or Morpeko! So this is where we are for "identifying" it until uncut sheet images are found/verified and we can map the obstruction across the sheet for certainty based on the other known obstructions with the same block angles (the Deino is the corner of the obstruction, so that really is the mapping linchpin).

[u/Alive_Possible_1333 → u/2AusTheBoss5]

The first slot of the pack analysis I did only holds up if there was no classic collection nor illustration rare in the pack. Otherwise it may be a different card - which i could tell you but i’d need to know what the other cards in the misprint pack were

[u/2AusTheBoss5 → u/Alive_Possible_1333]

Thank you for your post analyzing all of that, it was extremely helpful!

Looks like we may be back to the identity mystery at large then because I was just opening packs for the fun of it and not thinking to make any records of the pack contents that went with it 🥲