EX Team Rocket Returns: How to Identify Cards From This Set

• Team Rocket's own Pokémon-ex cards have spiked borders around the artwork window and the type-symbol base, plus a Team Rocket logo on the attack box.
• The set runs to card 109 in the main numbering, with two extra secret-rare cards printed beyond that count.

English set number 22 in the overall TCG sequence; Japanese release October 15, 2004 as "Rocket Gang Strikes Back".

• Bottom-left or bottom-right corner: the set symbol and the collector number (e.g. 4/102) tell you the set; older cards have no symbol at all, which itself narrows them to Base Set.
• Left of the number: a 1st Edition stamp, if present, sits below the art on WOTC-era cards.
• Regulation mark (a letter in a box near the bottom, D through H so far) dates modern cards to a two-year window.
• Back of the card: the blue Poké Ball back has changed little since 1999; a washed-out, blurry or wrongly colored back is the first sign of a fake.

Lay the card flat on a dark surface in daylight, straight on, with the whole card in frame, then a close-up of the bottom edge where the set symbol, number and any edition stamp sit. Tilt holo cards under the light for a second shot to show the foil pattern. Photograph the back too. The app reads the card and set; the edition and rarity checks above tell you which version you have.