Legendary Collection: How to Identify Cards From This Set

• This is a reprint set, made up of selected reprints from four sets: Base Set, Jungle, Fossil, and Team Rocket
• This set introduced Reverse Holofoil for the first time, with the holo effect covering the entire card face outside the artwork window
• This set's Reverse Holofoil pattern is a 'fireworks'-style design — a key detail for identifying this reprint set

• [Team Rocket](/lookup/pokemon-sets/team-rocket): Legendary Collection reprints carry this set's own set symbol in the bottom right corner, and some are Reverse Holofoil cards with a 'fireworks' pattern; the card numbers, set symbol, and print version (1st Edition/Shadowless, etc.) all differ from the original sets, so there is no risk of confusing them with the originals.

This set also had a jumbo-sized box-topper card.

• 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.