GE Images

EDIT: Added a theory below the images that could explain why the size of the set is smaller than it should be.

School and life are busy this week!

Great Encounters Card Images – We now exclusively have the first [Great Encounters] card images (they are computer images which are later printed, not scans, so the holos are not holo)! Click the thumbnails below for larger images.

Dialga and Palkia were in [DP3: Shining Darkness] (as reprints from DP1, except with different art) and the rest of the cards were in the main Japanese DP4 set.

Related links: [DP4: Moon Hunting / Night Dashing Scans] / [DP4 Translations]

Since Great Encounters has only 106 cards (not considering any secret cards) and the original DP4 set from which Great Encounters is based off had over 140, around 30-40 cards will be cut out of the English set. Perhaps the cards cut from this set and cards from the Japanese [Entry Pack 08 DX] will be combined to create a DP5 set for America, thus filling the gap created in Japan by DP5’s supposed three month delay (remember the whole “DP5 on Hold?” news story?). Then, the real Japanese DP5 will be our DP6 later on, creating a new D/P set for America using cards already released in Japan. Again, this is only a theory, but cutting out such a large amount of cards from one set does not make any sense unless they will be in a new set later on. With this theory, all of the promos we have not received and the Japanese Entry Pack 08 will have a chance to come to America. With DP5’s three month delay in Japan and no sets being released during the gap, America will have a gap too, so creating a set to fill it for when it comes makes the most sense.