Yeah, I was just hoping someone would share a clearer definition of random as it applies to these decks.
Yes that makes sense with your grimer and muk cards.
What I seem to recall is there were only a few combinations possible - pokemon wise. Decks would be random in the sense that you didn’t know which combination you received, but there weren’t many of them.
Each deck isn’t unique by providing randomly arranged pokemon per set.
I would have to go back and check, but that was my presumed understanding.
You can see an example of a combintion below.
Note the cards are arranged in the opposite direction in the second photo, and in different row positions.
But to add a little more magic: the second photo is another Netz Toyota deck. So that’s two of those decks we’ve seen, and they both share the same combination (if you compare the ebay store I posted earlier).
Let’s sit them aside for a moment and talk about some different decks.
@omic The cards you’ve got listed as ‘CoroCoro Appendix / Televikun Magazine Promo’
Are not from CoroCoro, but are from Televi-kun.
It was an inclusion for the February issue of 1998.
They released another deck of cards a year later (Feb 1999), which are not traditional playing cards.
The deck you’ve got titled ’ Aiueo Poker Cards (Mini Deck) - Anime based one I have less than zero information about.’
Those were an inclusion for the January Issue of 1999, of the Kindergarten magazine.
Another thing I will quickly mention is I know there is at least one more magic trick release, and that’s the xy version. I haven’t checked if there are more.
That’s all I have time for at the moment.