Odd Base Brushfire Theme Deck

[Aster128]

Hello,

I've recently acquired what seems to be a shadowless Brushfire theme deck from the original base series. I have noticed something odd about the picture of the back of the deck and have been searching the Internet for similar pictures, but I haven't been able to find any.

I've taken pictures of the back of my deck and you can see that the energy cards are placed in front of the Charmeleon card. Whereas all of the other pictures I've seen of the Brushfire decks have it the other way around as in the Charmeleon is in front of the energy cards. Here are some of my other decks to show you what I mean. Sorry for the blurriness.

I'm sure it is nothing special, but I'm curious if anyone has come across this before or could offer some further information.

Cheers,

 

[donavannj]

I honestly have never seen that before, but I don't really collect the older sets at the moment due to a lack of money. I can see about looking into it, but maybe one of our more serious collectors has seen this before.

 

[Aster128]

I honestly have never seen that before, but I don't really collect the older sets at the moment due to a lack of money. I can see about looking into it, but maybe one of our more serious collectors has seen this before.

Thanks, I'm asking around in other places as well so if I find any further information I'll post an update here.

 

[lloebet]

oh.....my...god where did u get these from how much money depending on the price ill tell u if their real or not.......if its real i can tell u what they r ................ur a a lucky person :D

 

[Aster128]

oh.....my...god where did u get these from how much money depending on the price ill tell u if their real or not.......if its real i can tell u what they r ................ur a a lucky person :D

I managed to get them off someone from ebay for a pretty good price. I'm fairly sure the seller too aware what they were. Sounds like you know something I don't :)

 

[donavannj]

Wait... is the deck wrapped like it's supposed to be? Or is that not Shrink-wrap I'm seeing there.

 

[Aster128]

All of my decks are still sealed in the original plastic wrappings. :)

 

[donavannj]

Huh. Could be an error. Look for typos on the back of the word "Pokémon" on the back.

 

[Aster128]

Huh. Could be an error. Look for typos on the back of the word "Pokémon" on the back.

Everything all of the writing looks normal. It's identical to every brushfire I've managed to see on the Internet except for the picture. Hopefully Romeo010 can solve the mystery =)

 

[donavannj]

Romeo010's best idea is how much you paid for it, which isn't exactly a good indicator.

I honestly can't find anything like it. Might be a rare error. Which doesn't help its value any if it's not well known.

 

[lloebet]

True donavannj its unliky to find out on if they are real or not depending on the price but usually overpriced means a scam if it looks odd thts why i was asking no harm done right? :P

 

[donavannj]

True donavannj its unliky to find out on if they are real or not depending on the price but usually overpriced means a scam if it looks odd thts why i was asking no harm done right? :P

Overpriced doesn't mean it's a scam.

 

[lloebet]

Well it has for my past experiences when cards looked odd.

 

[donavannj]

Underpriced cards is better indicative that something's wrong with the card itself or that it's a World Tournament deck version of the card, as was the case with Luxray GL Lv. X a couple years back.

 

[Aster128]

True donavannj its unliky to find out on if they are real or not depending on the price but usually overpriced means a scam if it looks odd thts why i was asking no harm done right? :P

Thanks very much for your input, but putting aside whether it is real or not, do you have any idea if the deck something special?

 

[donavannj]

You didn't find anything anywhere else, I presume?

Might just be a very rare error. Wouldn't be worth any more than the non-error version because it seems there aren't enough of these to confirm their existence.

 

[Rocket_Executive]

An interesting oddity. This is mostly likely attributable to the number of adjustments WotC made to the base set run throughout its printing time. Most people know about the shadowless 1st edition run, the regular 1st edition run, and the unlimited run, but there were actually many more subtle changes made in subsequent runs as well. You can imagine why, considering it was a brand new series and there were many initial kinks to work out. Your deck is likely from an older print run from before they decided to put the pokemon in front of the energy cards.
This is an educated guess, mind you. There are a lot of little things like that to be found in base set products, and this looks a lot like one of those.

 

[Bitsnbobs55]

I have the 4 original decks here I purchased them for £40 a piece, I will compare mine to yours and get back to you, I know mine are real as I had my Mewtwo Gyarados Ninetails and Hitmonchan PSA graded.