Reverse holo cards, like many of Wizards’ other TCG staples, had their origins in Magic, debuting in the February 1999 Urza’s Legacy expansion. It should come as no surprise that Wizards used the information it learned from Magic to influence its development and production of the Pokemon TCG.
The most important of these, and the reason that the Legendary Collection remains so popular to this day, was the debut of reverse holographic cards.Īt the time of Legendary Collection’s release, Pokemon was still being produced and distributed by Wizards of the Coast, the same company that made the very first TCG, Magic the Gathering. This is in part because the set introduced a number of concepts into the game that would become enduring staples of the Pokemon TCG.
Unlike Base Set 2, which collectors and players viewed with disdain at its release, Legendary Collection proved to be a very popular expansion for most players and collectors. Like Base Set 2 before it, Legendary Collection was not released in Japan, it was a Western exclusive expansion. As most collectors know, Legendary Collection was not Wizards’ first reprint set in the Pokemon TCG, that honor belongs to Base Set 2. Released on May 24, 2002, Legendary Collection featured cards from Base Set to Team Rocket (with a single black star promo thrown in for good measure) using the original card templates from those early expansions. Today’s retrospective article examines one of the most popular reprint sets in the history of the Pokemon TCG: Legendary Collection.
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