Incredible Pokémon Misprint Creates Mega Rare Magic Card

Last updated on May 13, 2026

Cost of Brilliance | Illustration by Darren Tan

Lorwyn Eclipsed Commander precons held a surprise for at least one player on Reddit who cracked it open and uncovered a crossover even less expected than Mr. Monopoly: Magic cards misprinted with Pokémon energy symbols stamped upside on the cards:

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This Path to Exile is just one example of the misprinted precon, with u/ZZMTechSupport posting additional pictures in this Google Drive. They aren’t alone, either, with u/fisher-alters posting a similar, though less dramatic, series of misprints from their ECL precon:

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While misprints abound these days, ones that involve a franchise-based crossover are super rare (if you ignore the other time this happened in 2026 with Star Wars). It’s not even the first time Magic and Pokémon have crossed paths, with their encounters often resulting in rare treasures for the collector with the right interests and deep enough pockets.

Magic Cards With Pokémon Logo

Tawnos, the Toymaker | Illustration by Livia Prima

Turning again to Reddit, we can find a few isolated examples of foil cards from The Brothers’ War with the faint printing of the Pokémon logo laid across the text box. Of note, both examples I found were specifically Japanese foils:

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Neither Hall of Tagsin nor Tawnos, the Toymaker are particularly pricey or regularly played cards from BRO, but these odd misprints certainly give these bulk rares an admirable quality that might even be rarer than ripping a serialized retro artifact.

Blastoise with Magic: the Gathering Card Back

Kappa Cannoneer | Illustration by Jesper Ejsing

Did you know Magic and Pokémon actually have a history together? In 1998, Pokémon looked to Wizards of the Coast to print English language Pokémon cards as they expanded into international markets. It was a successful collaboration, enough so that Wizards handled English printings between 1999-2003.

A few relics from this time persist to this day, and they’re as collectible as you would expect from such a titanic crossover and scarcity. Some of these include a handful for test print cards printed in 1998 with a promo Blastoise art on the front and that iconic Magic card back:

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These cards were graded and authenticated by CGC Cards, and they’re kind of amazing. It looks like it should be a fake card or a promo, but that’s just the beauty of the manufacturing process, I guess. It’s very fun to have relics of such a specific period in both card games, too—but these aren’t the only test prints like this either.

Uncut MTG/Pokémon Uncut Test Print Sheet

Thought Scour | Illustration by Inio Asano

Another relic from WotC working on Pokémon that involved Blastoise was this uncut text sheet that included Blaistoise alongside a handful for Magic cards and even notes from the WotC staff reviewing it:

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Accompanying Blastoise are foil Lightning Dragons, what appears to be a Japanese Drifting Meadow, and a variety of mana symbols and set symbols set on small bars.

Test prints are exactly what they sound like: Sheets Wizards and other companies order from printer to test and evaluate the quality of the print and see if they might need to change the size or color saturation or address any other quality control issues (it’s a shame Hasbro laid off the department). They can be pretty expensive, which explains why multiple games and different languages of cards would be printed on a single sheet like this.

The uncut test sheet is incredibly rare, and actually sold last year at auction for a staggering $375,000—though I suppose that’s still pocket change compared to Post Malone’s purchase of The One Ring, which will likely never be topped.