Cards you’re unsure actually exist?

[Quuador]

I’ve made a similar thread mid-2017, and it’s funny how many cards I was unsure about existing, I currently own.

To quote myself, and color the different cards:

• green, if they do exist and I own them by now
• yellow, if they do exist, but I don’t own them yet
• red, if I’m at this point rather sure they don’t exist
• orange, if I’m still not sure about whether they exist or not, even now…

@Quuador

But this thread is about the cards I think (might) not exist, for which I haven’t seen a single picture yet. Some should have been released back in the early 2000s, others only recently, but I have yet to see any evidence.
So let me start by naming all the cards I have doubts about. If anyone has a picture or other evidence for any of these cards at all, please let me know:

• English Base Set Shadowless Red Cheeks Grey Stamp 1st edition Pikachu. @KingPokemon mentions it here in my Base Pikachu Variations article , but I haven’t seen a picture of it yet (please Gary, you’re killing me… I need pictures as prove almost as much as a lost tourist need water in the desert… )
• English Base Set Shadowless Thin Stamp 1st edition Pikachu. I have seen a couple of Thin 1st edition Base Set non-Holos, but they are very rare to come across. I’ve seen three different Wartortles, two different Charmanders, a Squirtle and a Ratatta so far. But no evidence of a Pikachu yet.
• Thick 2D 1st edition Yellow Cheeks / Back Imprinted Yellow Cheeks: Both exist for Red Cheeks, but I’ve never seen them for Yellow Cheeks before. (See here for more information of what I mean by 2D / back imprint. )
• English EX Legend Maker non-Holo Pikachu. Just like the non-Holo 035 Promo Pikachu that was released as part of a Sweden magazine, this non-Holo EX Legend Maker cards should be part of a Swiss magazine. I’ve only seen it mentioned once (and am unable to find that original source anymore…), but this was without picture.
• Spanish Neo Genesis 1st edition Pikachu. Do any Spanish 1st edition Neo Genesis cards exist at all? I’ve never seen any so far…
• Spanish HeartGold & SoulSilver Reverse Holo Pikachu. Before this set, Spanish Reverse Holos didn’t exist for a while, and after this set they do. Because this set was released somewhere in the middle of that switch, I don’t know if the Spanish Reverse Holo exists for this set. If anyone has seen ANY Spanish Reverse Holo from the HeartGold & SoulSilver set that is enough evidence for me, so it doesn’t have to be the Pikachu in particular in this case.
• Italian HeartGold & SoulSilver Pokémon Day stamp Pikachu. I do have the English and German Pokémon Day stamped Pikachus of this set, but I haven’t seen the Italian one ever so far.
• Japanese Raichu Deck (Undaunted) 1st edition Pikachu. Not sure if these Decks have been released as 1st editions, or they were printed as unlimited edition from the start.
• Japanese Oshawott Deck / HSZ (Boundaries Crossed) 1st edition Pikachu. Same applies as the Deck card above.
• French POP5 12/17 & 13/17 Pikachus. No idea if POP5 has been released in French. If anyone has seen any French POP5 cards let me know.
• Italian POP6 Pokémon Day stamp Pikachu. I have the English Pokémon Day stamp Pikachu, as well as the English, German and Italian POP9 Pokémon Day stamp, but I’m not sure if this one exists.
• Spanish WotC #25 Flying & #28 Surfing Pikachus. I’ve only come across the French Flying Pikachu twice so far, and the German Flug-Pikachu never (I’ve only seen it in @omahanime 's collection). I’ve never seen these Spanish promos though.
• German WotC #28 Surfing Pikachu. Same applies as the Spanish Flying & Surfing Pikachus.
• French DP16 Holofoil Promo without Snowflake Stamp. You see them with Snowflakes stamps everywhere in French. The English and German are both released with and without Snowflake Stamp, but I haven’t seen the French one without Snowflake ever.
• Italian DP16 Holofoil Promo (both with and without Snowflake Stamp). Haven’t seen the DP16 promo in Italian, with or without stamp. Not sure if it was released in Italian.
• German / French / Spanish BW54 Holofoil Promo. This card is released as non-holo in English, and holo in Italian, but I seriously doubt it has been released in any of these other languages.
• Italian / Spanish XY84 Pikachu EX. This card has been released in English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese for sure, but I seriously doubt about the Italian and Spanish ones.

It is pretty tough to say something doesn’t exist just because almost no one has ever seen anything. “With absence of evidence, we don’t have evidence of absence.” A quote used pretty often by Alien enthusiasts, which makes this subject pretty hard to grasp in my honest opinion. How do we prove something doesn’t exist? As I said, some cards I haven’t seen at all in more than 1.5 years time, BUT some I also haven’t seen in 1.5 years time, but I have seen a picture of somewhere. Take the following list for example for some Pikachus I have yet to find:

• Spanish Neo Genesis 1st edition Pikachu
• German Expedition Base Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Italian EX Holon Phantoms 79/110 Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Italian Mysterious Treasures 94/123 Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Polish Mysterious Treasures 94/123 Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Italian Stormfront Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Japanese L1 (HeartGold & SoulSilver) unlimited edition Pikachu
• Japanese L1 (HeartGold & SoulSilver) unlimited edition Reverse Holo Pikachu
• German Next Destinies Reverse Holo Pikachu
• Chinese POP4 Pikachu
• German WotC #24 Promo Birthday Pikachu
• Korean 049/BW-P Promo (151/BW-P)

Some of these are in the possession of Justin(ator). And for those that are not, we’re both fairly certain they do exist, even though we’ve haven’t come across any yet so far.

So after 7 years, only the 2D 1st edition stamp on a Base Set yellow cheeks Pikachu; back stamp on a yellow cheeks; and grey stamp on a red cheeks I’m still unsure about whether it exists or not from this list above. Everything else I’ve either found or I’m confident by now it doesn’t exist - or have yet to find for my own collection, for those pesky German/Spanish Surfing/Flying Pikachu WotC promos…

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As for a new list of cards I’m unsure about whether they exist or not, at this time of writing:

• English Ivy Pikachu with upside down “GIOCATORI” stamp: I’ve heard rumors six were given to staff members of LPPCollecting, which I do kinda believe. But I have yet to see any pictures of them.
• English E3 2001 Sample Set Pikachu: I know the Pikachu and Eevee exist as Japanese Sample prints; I know the Dratini and Pichu exist as English Sample prints; but I have yet to see any pictures of the English Pikachu.
• English Gym Heroes grey 1st edition stamps: I know grey 1st edition stamps exist for Base Set; Gym Challenge; and Neo Genesis, but I have yet to see any for the Gym Heroes set.
• Japanese Base Set cards with small Commons symbol: I know the Holofoil Rare cards all exist with both large and small rarity symbol; and I know some of the Uncommons exists with both large and small rarity symbol as well. But I have yet to see any Commons with smaller rarity symbols. (Source: thread 1 and thread 2.)
• Japanese 1995 Delta Playtest Sample Pikachu (jungle Pikachu with Ivy background): with all the different Sample cards we’ve seen lately, I kinda expected we’d already seen this one, which previously has only been seen in some CoroCoro magazines, but alas. But maybe it’ll emerge as physical card one day (soon). (Right one in the first picture here.)

Greetz,
Quuador