I know that there are still a few Pokemon from Gen. V that have not been put in the TCG yet, but I am trying to find out if there are any Pokemon, especially from Gen. I-IV that have never been made as a TCG card.
Pokemon excluded from the TCG
- Thread starter rowsdower24
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Actually, every existing Pokémon - from Bulbasaur to Kyurem - have had at least one TCG card...
rowsdower24 said:
Every pre-Unova Pokemon has multiple cards. Heck, the Kanto Pokemon with the fewest cards is Krabby who has SIX. Discounting the Unown forms who have 1-3 cards each, Skiploom and Sunflora are Johto's Pokemon who appear least in the TCG, also with six. Hoenn's least common Pokemon are Azurill, Clamperl, Gorebyss and Huntail, each with three cards. Budew, Finneon, Lumineon, Snover, Abomasnow and Phione wrap up Sinnoh with two cards each.
All of the Unova Pokemon have at least one card right now except for Keldeo, Meloetta and Genesect, who don't officially exist yet, and the autumn/winter forms of Deerling and Sawsbuck.
The 5th generation event Pokemon have not been made into the TCG yet.
Kadabra most likely won't ever have a card again, since Uri Geller or whatever his name was tried to sue Pokemon for making Kadabra similar to him. Outside of that, there are no Pokemon that have really been excluded, although there are a few babies that haven't been printed since DP's first set.
Celebi23 said:
Yup, Yuri Geller (Maybe you spelt it right and I didnt D: ). The last printing of Kadabra was in Skyridge. Now, cards that have been excluded from playable printings, that's a long list. But yes, every single Pokemon has been printed at least once.
EDIT: thanks for the correction on the set Celebi.
His name is Uri... Yuri would be correct if he is Japanese, but he is Slavic (Russian I think). As has been said, only the unreleased Pokemon have not been in a PTCG set. Kadabra will be absent from all sets that involve Abra and Alakazam... so sad face. That Pokemon line will not receive the treatment it deserves... although it gives the designers an excuse to make the line really good because it is missing a Stage 1. I think the more interesting question would be which card has been printed the most. I'd guess either Unown or Pikachu... actually probably Unown... anyone care to do the math? 
It is actually Unown, but only if you count all of the forms as one combined entity. Consider that each one has 2-3 cards and there's 28 of them and there you go. Pikachu is winner for singular entities.
These are my own personal totals that account for reprints with alternate artwork, but not holographic reprints:
1. Unown - 89
2. Pikachu - 79
3. Raichu - 35
4/5. Mew/Deoxys - 26
6-9. Magnemite/Mewtwo/Rayquaza/Lucario - 23
10-14. Magneton/Pichu/Gyarados/Meowth/Eevee - 22
Pichu, Pikachu and Raichu are pretty obvious since they're A) the mascot or related to it and B) Lightning Pokemon, which generally have more cards due to their type's lower quantity of Pokemon. This is also probably why Magnemite and Magneton have such inflated card counts since, in addition to being Kanto Pokemon, they're also Metal and Lightning Pokemon, which are two of the smallest TCG types in terms of Pokemon, meaning they get used a LOT. The rest are all mascot-esque or extremely popular, too, except Unown which is an obvious exception since every Unown has 3 cards on average (plus now we have a couple generic "Unown" cards after HGSS.)
These are my own personal totals that account for reprints with alternate artwork, but not holographic reprints:
1. Unown - 89
2. Pikachu - 79
3. Raichu - 35
4/5. Mew/Deoxys - 26
6-9. Magnemite/Mewtwo/Rayquaza/Lucario - 23
10-14. Magneton/Pichu/Gyarados/Meowth/Eevee - 22
Pichu, Pikachu and Raichu are pretty obvious since they're A) the mascot or related to it and B) Lightning Pokemon, which generally have more cards due to their type's lower quantity of Pokemon. This is also probably why Magnemite and Magneton have such inflated card counts since, in addition to being Kanto Pokemon, they're also Metal and Lightning Pokemon, which are two of the smallest TCG types in terms of Pokemon, meaning they get used a LOT. The rest are all mascot-esque or extremely popular, too, except Unown which is an obvious exception since every Unown has 3 cards on average (plus now we have a couple generic "Unown" cards after HGSS.)
If I'm not wrong, Bonsly still has only one card released in English... but Japan has a few more...
Really? I thought it was because Lucian had an Alakazam. Which might explain why his other Pokémon are in Rising Rivals.Celebi23 said:
They also did Alakazam as a Pokémon-* in the ex era probably less because it is an interesting alt. color (it's not..) and more because the * mechanics, like SP, let them skip Abra/Kadabra.Celebi23 said:
By the way, I don't understand why they've changed how they handle alt colors/shinies now; currently you can have a Pokémon evolve into or out of shininess, which technically makes no sense, and since BW so far has no *, SP, or similar mechanic that would let us have Alakazam without Abra, Kadabra, the Mysterious Treasures-style solution looks like it'll have to show up again. Kind of weird.
