ex: Ruby & Sapphire Blaziken Print Error?

[Gibby]

Well, I was at my local Wal-Mart the other day, looking in the Trading Card Game section, like I tend to do every time I go to Wal-Mart. While I was there, I got the few things that I went in to get, and I decided to pick up a few packs since I had some money left over.

I picked up a couple of the ex: Ruby & Sapphire packs for I am still a little behind in those cards, and they happen to have them.

When I got back to my house and I opened the packs, I found this peculiar card. It is Blaziken. The card itself isn’t what’s peculiar, for it has all the information that it should.

Now, in the ex: Ruby & Sapphire set, there are two Blaziken cards; a holographic (card number 3 / 109) and a rare (card number 15 / 109). What I found that is strange is that this Blaziken is the holographic (card number 3 / 109) but it isn’t holographic. The number on the bottom right says 3 / 109, so I was wondering if this was an error card.

I have looked at several sites, such as pokegym.com and pokebeach.com, checking their error report sections and this one was not listed in either of them, so I was not sure what to think, or if I just have some wrong information going on in my mind.

So, my question is, is there a known ex: Ruby & Sapphire Blaziken error known or am do I have some wrong information?

[Bullados]

Can you scan it and put it on Photobucket or something like that? I'd like to see this card before I make any judgements...

[Gibby]

Sure.

You can find the scan of this card here (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v256/GibbyGibson/?action=view&current=rs003.jpg).

[ZAKtheGeek]

Changed print run? There's no "e"...

[Gibby]

... now that you say it, there is not "e". I didn't notice that before.

[ EDIT ]

Well, I'm most likely just blowing this thing way out of proportion then it really needs to be. Once ZAKtheGeek said something about the lack of an "e", I wanted to check something else out. I went through all my cards and found several others that didn't have the "e" when it should have, such as Makuhita, Taillow, Switch, and Energy Search in the ex: Ruby & Sapphire set, and my Reverse Holo Multi Energy from the ex: Sandstorm doesn't have the "e" either (when based on the scan on pokeschool.com does have it).

Oh well, I will just wait and see what Bullados has to say. I'm most likely have some sort of wrong information and am blowing this thing into something it really doesn't need to be.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Do all the cards from the pack lack it, or just some?

[Gibby]

I guess it was good of me to not have already sorted and filed this particular pack yet with the rest of my cards. I left it to the side for later on.

Looking over the cards, they seemed to all have the "e" beyond the Blaziken and a Psychic Energy card.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Well, I'm no expert in collecting matters, but I think it's safe to say that that's out of the ordinary. Guess we should wait for Bullados.

[Bullados]

There was one nonholo Blaziken with no Card-E symbol printed. It was placed in the EX Master Trainer kit. There's a pic of the card here (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pokemon.no/tcg/bilder/prodbild/deck_mt2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pokemon.no/tcg/ex_mt.htm&h=119&w=150&sz=32&tbnid=LvGkdw2CE5OXlM:&tbnh=71&tbnw=90&hl=en&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3DEX%2BMaster%2BTrainer%2BBlaziken%26sv num%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG). It's in another language, but the scan is about halfway down the page. That's the best pic that I could find for a card similar to that, though. You might want to post this in the Gym's Price Guide section, they'll know what to do with it much better than I would...

[Gibby]

There was one nonholo Blaziken with no Card-E symbol printed. It was placed in the EX Master Trainer kit.

Well, that is picular now isn’t it? If that card did came from that ex Master Trainer kit, how would I have gotten it, for I never got one of those two boxes shown there. I did pick, several months ago, the four 2004 World Championship Deck box sets, the four 2005 World Championship Deck box sets, and the ex Trainer Kit (the one with the Latios and Latias cards), then just a week or so ago picked up the ex Trainer Kit 2 (the one with the Minum and Plusle cards). Other then those, I didn’t get any boxed sets.

Oh well, I will take your suggestion Bullados and try posting this in the pokegym.com Price Guide section. Maybe someone can tell me something.

Thank you for the help. I greatly appreciate it.

[ PS ]
Bullados, I noticed your post in the RP forum and will get to it as soon as I can.

[Abhorsen]

I have a Blaziken like that. I bought an EX: Battle Stadium Kit which came with 2 decks, 1 Blaziken, 1 Gardevoir. It had a variety of different sets, but mainly focused around RS, SS with some Dragon cards I think but cant really remember. They were all normal cards, none were E-reader cards. This is what it looks like here.
(http://toymandala.com/pm840303.html)

[Bullados]

What's strange to me is that this one came from a booster pack. It's not that the card exists, it's the source from where the card came from that's a little off...

[Gibby]

I have a Blaziken like that. I bought an EX: Battle Stadium Kit which came with 2 decks, 1 Blaziken, 1 Gardevoir.

Yes, I know. That's what someone on pokegym.net said. But as I told him, I never purchased such a kit.

From what I've been seeing, and from what people on pokegym.net have been saying, even though it did come from a booster pack, it still follows the same deal as if it were a card from that ex: Battle Stadium kit. Since the card is available in some form or fashion, they've decided not to declair it as a print error.

What I've decided to do is put this card (and all the other cards I have with no "e") to the side and try to get my hands on one that does contain the "e" and is from the set itself.

I thank you all for all the help.

[ EDIT ]
Basically, what they said was since the card / cards were available in the bulk (from the Kit that Abhorsen mentioned and the Boxes that Bullados mentioned) in some form or fashion, the card isn't a error print job. It's more like a misscatagorization.

[ZAKtheGeek]

Plus you can't really prove that it came from a booster, and neither can anyone else, so no one can actually feel certain of the rarity of something like this...