Sorry Mewtwo, there’s a brand new, ominous descendant to the cherubic all highly effective Pokémon. To rejoice the collection’ thirtieth anniversary, and ease tensions round brief provides, The Pokémon Firm launched a commemorative set with a a lot larger pull fee for shiny variants and beloved Pikachus. After all, this was by no means going to cease the gathering circuit, who have now centered their consideration on an particularly cursed misprint of quantity 151.
Labelled “Blood Mew” by card dealer Miss Natoshi, the usually very somber, swish new Mew card apparently suffered a run of misprints. Now as an alternative of a golden magical grove, Mew is descending (or ascending, relying on the printer error) right into a pool of crimson ink saturated throughout half the cardboard. Regardless of finest intentions for the brand new set to be extra equitable for all gamers, an intense quantity of focus has already piled on to misprinted playing cards, with resellers asking as excessive as six figures for these paper mishaps. Bathed in blood, this unintentional variant has shortly change into the most recent prize, and resellers are already testing the waters on how a lot it’ll fetch on-line.
Loopy blood mew misprint on TWO playing cards.
Do you suppose somebody goes to pay up for these? pic.twitter.com/Fwbg1wPJUy
— MISSNATOSHI 👸🏻 (@missnatoshi) September 18, 2026
As collectors see greenback indicators in all places, defected merchandise may be thought of much more worthwhile resulting from their unexpected shortage. Earlier this yr, 404 Media noticed a Yu-Gi-Oh card vendor with irregular entry to uncut, manufacturing unit sheets of the Blue Eyes Silver Dragon. Whereas claimed to have come out of the dumpster, some in the neighborhood believed the nameless service provider was sitting on one million’s value of illegitimate inventory.
Pokémon collectors, after all, take the whole lot to the intense, and over the previous few years hoarding any and all merch have brought on complications for retailers, collectors, Nintendo themselves and just a few fireplace marshals. Shiny, holographic playing cards can add additional room for bizarre trying misprints. But when there’s a recurring glitch within the system, that newfound misfit may be made fascinating. Even when the particulars really feel like a warning scrawled on the gates of hell.
