English · 2005

2005 English edition almanac

This page covers the English market's four sets of 2005, 446 cards. Japan released three that year — 278 cards — and only two of them reached English: the February set was Japan's July 2004 set, seven months late; the August set was Japan's April 2005 set, four months late; the October set was Japan's October 2005 set, three days late. Japan's June 2005 set did not arrive until February 2006. Each edition has its own page.

Four releases, 446 cards, and the first English set with no Japanese parent

EX Emerald is the odd one. Every other English set of the year is a Japanese set with cards added and cards cut; Emerald is not a Japanese set at all. Japan never printed a 107-card Emerald expansion — the cards English collected into this one came out of a gift box, two constructed decks, a starter kit and a run of promotional cards. It is also the only English set of 2005 with no Gold Star in it, and the only one in this almanac whose card list has nothing behind it to compare against.

The rest of the year is the usual arithmetic — four sets, 38 Pokémon-ex, nine Gold Stars — and a gap that closes to three days in October, when EX Delta Species follows Holon Research Tower out of the door. δ is the mechanic that defines the last two years of this era: the marking beside the name, the Holon Energy that only works on a δ Pokémon, the Stadium that makes basic Energy count as Metal. English got it in the same week as Japan, for the only time.

4Sets

446Cards

108Holo

41Artists

Each set opens with what it was and when it landed, then the cards in set order — 001 to 108, 001 to 107, 001 to 117, 001 to 114. Pokémon-ex and Pokémon ☆ are marked separately from ordinary holofoils, and here they are also printed at the end of the numbering rather than inside it: English appends them after the ordinary run, Japan puts them through it. The comparison block under each set counts what actually differs from the Japanese set it was built from.

About the pictures and the numbers. Card faces are the English printings. HP, type, stage, retreat cost and attacks are read off the English card itself; where a Japanese twin exists, the Japanese page prints the Japanese numbers for the same card and says where they part. Every name-level difference from the Japanese set is computed at build time, not typed in by hand, so the lists in those blocks always match the cards on the page.

How many English Pokémon cards are documented in 2005?

This page documents 446 main-series cards across four products on four release dates in 2005. It covers cards printed outside Japan only; printings for other editions are tracked separately.

Publication edition	English edition
Products	4
Cards	446
Release dates	4 (2005-02-01 – 2005-10-31)
Series codes	ex8, ex9, ex10, ex11
Card faces on record	all 446
Latest release on record	2005-10-31

Which English edition sets were released in 2005?

EX 8 · Deoxys (2005-02-01, 108 cards) · EX 9 · Emerald (2005-05-09, 107 cards) · EX 10 · Unseen Forces (2005-08-22, 117 cards) · EX 11 · Delta Species (2005-10-31, 114 cards).

How many main-series cards does this page record for 2005?

446 cards across four products, an average of 111.5 cards per product. This is the main-series archive count, not a claim that every promo and event card from the year is itemised here.

What release dates does this page cover?

4 release dates, from 2005-02-01 to 2005-10-31.

How many of these 446 cards are shown with a card face?

All 446 cards have a card face on record.

What happened this year

5 entries

02-01
EX Deoxys, 108 cards — Japan's Clash of the Blue Sky of July 2004, seven months late. 96 Pokémon, nine Trainer and three Special Energy; ten Pokémon-ex, three of them Deoxys at 097, 098 and 099, and three Gold Stars at 105–107: Latias ☆, Latios ☆ and Rayquaza ☆. Grass and Psychic lead with seventeen each.
05-09
EX Emerald, 107 cards, and the only set of the year with no Japanese parent. 86 Pokémon, eleven Trainer and ten Energy — the most Energy any set here carries. Eleven Pokémon-ex and no Gold Star at all. Its cards are assembled from Japan's Gift Box Emerald, two constructed decks, a starter kit and the PCG-P promotional series, and two of them, Swablu at 067 and Altaria ex at 090, are cards Japan would not print until Mirage Forest seven weeks later — the only case this year where the English edition ran ahead of Japan.
08-22
EX Unseen Forces, 117 cards — Japan's Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean of April, four months late and eleven cards larger. 96 Pokémon, sixteen Trainer, five Energy; fourteen Pokémon-ex, the most any English set of 2005 carries, and three Gold Stars at 113–115: Entei ☆, Raikou ☆ and Suicune ☆. Colourless leads with nineteen. Not one Unown is in it — see the note on the separate Unown set below.
10-31
EX Delta Species, 114 cards — Japan's Holon Research Tower of 28 October, three days later and 28 cards larger. 95 Pokémon, fourteen Trainer, five Energy and 35 δ cards against Japan's 29. Only three Pokémon-ex — Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon at 108–110, none of which Japan printed in the 86 — and three Gold Stars at 111–113: Groudon ☆, Kyogre ☆ and Metagross ☆. Lightning leads with nineteen, Fire and Water with seventeen each.
10-31
The closest gap in this almanac. Three days between Tokyo and the rest of the world is the shortest distance between a Japanese set and its English edition on any page here. The other two were four and seven months; Mirage Forest needed eight months and a new year.

Promos, handouts & prizes

not itemised

Why this is empty. English promotional cards come in several separate channels — league and tournament handouts, Prerelease promos stamped for the event, magazine and DVD inserts, and the cards that came sealed in boxes and tins. Our sources do not pin each card to a single distribution date and condition, and this almanac does not print a date it cannot stand behind. The cards are real and they are 2005; the individual release facts are what we are missing. This section stays closed until both halves can be shown together.

EX 8 · Deoxys

2005-02-01108 cardsHOLO 26

1 February 2005. One hundred and eight cards — 96 Pokémon, nine Trainer and three Special Energy; ten Pokémon-ex and three Gold Stars. 32 commons, 34 uncommons, 16 rares and 13 holofoil rares. Grass and Psychic lead with seventeen each.

Japan's July 2004 set, seven months late — the English edition of Clash of the Blue Sky, and the first English set with a Pokémon ☆ in it. The three Gold Stars are Latias 105, Latios 106 and Rayquaza 107, exactly the three Japan printed in July. Ten ex cards, which includes three separate Deoxys at 097–099 and Rocket's Raikou ex at 108, past the official 107.

Japan vs English108 cards against Japan's 82 · 26 of them have no card in that Japanese set · 3 of those names turn up in another Japanese set that year

The English set is Japan's Clash of the Blue Sky plus what the Japanese theme decks carried. Japan printed 82 cards in July; this is 108.

Not in this Japanese set (24 names, 26 cards): Balloon Berry, Deoxys, Deoxys ex, Donphan, Electrike, Energy Charge, Grumpig, Lady Outing, Lombre, Lotad, Ludicolo, Magcargo, Manectric, Master Ball, Nuzleaf, Phanpy, Rayquaza, Rayquaza ex, Rocket's Raikou ex, Seedot, Shiftry, Slugma, Spoink, Strength Charm

3 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2004. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from this Japanese set may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2004.

001Altaria★ Beautifly (2005)

002Beautifly★ Breloom (2005)

003Breloom★ Camerupt (2005)

004Camerupt★ Claydol (2005)

005Claydol★ Crawdaunt (2005)

006Crawdaunt★ Dusclops (2005)

007Dusclops★ Gyarados (2005)

008Gyarados★ Jirachi (2005)

009Jirachi★ Ludicolo (2005)

010Ludicolo★ Metagross (2005)

011Metagross★ Mightyena (2005)

012Mightyena★ Ninjask (2005)

013Ninjask★ Shedinja (2005)

014Shedinja★ Slaking (2005)

015Slaking★ Deoxys (2005)

016Deoxys★ Deoxys (2005)

017Deoxys★ Deoxys (2005)

018Deoxys★ Ludicolo (2005)

019Ludicolo★ Magcargo (2005)

020Magcargo★ Pelipper (2005)

021Pelipper★ Rayquaza (2005)

022Rayquaza★ Sableye (2005)

023Sableye★ Seaking (2005)

024Seaking★ Shiftry (2005)

025Shiftry★ Skarmory (2005)

026Skarmory★ Tropius (2005)

027Tropius★ Whiscash (2005)

028Whiscash★ Xatu (2005)

029Xatu★

030Donphan Golbat (2005)

031Golbat

032Grumpig Lombre (2005)

033Lombre

034Lombre

035Lotad

036Lunatone Magcargo (2005)

037Magcargo Manectric (2005)

038Manectric Masquerain (2005)

039Masquerain Metang (2005)

040Metang

041Minun

042Nosepass Nuzleaf (2005)

043Nuzleaf Plusle (2005)

044Plusle

045Shelgon Silcoon (2005)

046Silcoon Solrock (2005)

047Solrock Starmie (2005)

048Starmie Swellow (2005)

049Swellow Vigoroth (2005)

050Vigoroth Weezing (2005)

051Weezing Bagon (2005)

052Bagon

053Baltoy

054Barboach Beldum (2005)

055Beldum

056Carvanha Corphish (2005)

057Corphish Duskull (2005)

058Duskull Electrike (2005)

059Electrike Electrike (2005)

060Electrike Goldeen (2005)

061Goldeen Koffing (2005)

062Koffing Lotad (2005)

063Lotad

064Magikarp Makuhita (2005)

065Makuhita Natu (2005)

066Natu

067Nincada Numel (2005)

068Numel

069Phanpy

070Poochyena Seedot (2005)

071Seedot

072Shroomish Slakoth (2005)

073Slakoth Slugma (2005)

074Slugma

075Slugma

076Spoink

077Staryu

078Surskit Swablu (2005)

079Swablu

080Taillow Wingull (2005)

081Wingull Wurmple (2005)

082Wurmple Zubat (2005)

083Zubat

084Balloon Berry Crystal Shard (2005)

085Crystal Shard Energy Charge (2005)

086Energy Charge Lady Outing (2005)

087Lady Outing Master Ball (2005)

088Master Ball Meteor Falls (2005)

089Meteor Falls Professor Cozmo's Discovery (2005)

090Professor Cozmo's Discovery Space Center (2005)

091Space Center Strength Charm (2005)

092Strength Charm Boost Energy (2005)

093Boost Energy Heal Energy (2005)

094Heal Energy Scramble Energy (2005)

095Scramble Energy Crobat ex (2005)

096Crobat ex★ Deoxys ex (2005)

097Deoxys ex★ Deoxys ex (2005)

098Deoxys ex★ Deoxys ex (2005)

099Deoxys ex★ Hariyama ex (2005)

100Hariyama ex★ Manectric ex (2005)

101Manectric ex★ Rayquaza ex (2005)

102Rayquaza ex★ Salamence ex (2005)

103Salamence ex★ Sharpedo ex (2005)

104Sharpedo ex★ Latias ☆ (2005)

105Latias ☆★ Latios ☆ (2005)

106Latios ☆★ Rayquaza ☆ (2005)

107Rayquaza ☆★ Rocket's Raikou ex (2005)

108Rocket's Raikou ex★

EX 9 · Emerald

2005-05-09107 cardsHOLO 25

9 May 2005. One hundred and seven cards — 86 Pokémon, eleven Trainer and ten Energy; eleven Pokémon-ex and no Gold Star at all. 32 commons, 32 uncommons, 18 rares and 14 holofoil rares. Colourless and Water lead with fourteen each, Fighting follows with thirteen.

No Japanese parent. There is no Japanese set to hold this card list against, which is why there is no comparison block under it: Japan never printed a 107-card Emerald expansion. The material came out of the Gift Box Emerald, two constructed decks, a starter kit and the promotional series, and the eleven ex cards run 090 to 100. Farfetch'd at 107 is the one card past the official 106.

001Blaziken★ Deoxys (2005)

002Deoxys★ Exploud (2005)

003Exploud★ Gardevoir (2005)

004Gardevoir★ Groudon (2005)

005Groudon★ Kyogre (2005)

006Kyogre★ Manectric (2005)

007Manectric★ Milotic (2005)

008Milotic★ Rayquaza (2005)

009Rayquaza★ Sceptile (2005)

010Sceptile★ Swampert (2005)

011Swampert★ Chimecho (2005)

012Chimecho★ Glalie (2005)

013Glalie★ Groudon (2005)

014Groudon★ Kyogre (2005)

015Kyogre★ Manectric (2005)

016Manectric★ Nosepass (2005)

017Nosepass★ Relicanth (2005)

018Relicanth★ Rhydon (2005)

019Rhydon★ Seviper (2005)

020Seviper★ Zangoose (2005)

021Zangoose★ Breloom (2005)

022Breloom Camerupt (2005)

023Camerupt Claydol (2005)

024Claydol Combusken (2005)

025Combusken Dodrio (2005)

026Dodrio

027Electrode Grovyle (2005)

028Grovyle Grumpig (2005)

029Grumpig Grumpig (2005)

030Grumpig Hariyama (2005)

031Hariyama Illumise (2005)

032Illumise Kirlia (2005)

033Kirlia

034Linoone Loudred (2005)

035Loudred Marshtomp (2005)

036Marshtomp Minun (2005)

037Minun

038Ninetales Plusle (2005)

039Plusle

040Swalot

041Swellow Volbeat (2005)

042Volbeat Baltoy (2005)

043Baltoy

044Cacnea

045Doduo

046Duskull Electrike (2005)

047Electrike Electrike (2005)

048Electrike Feebas (2005)

049Feebas

050Feebas

051Gulpin

052Larvitar Luvdisc (2005)

053Luvdisc Makuhita (2005)

054Makuhita Meditite (2005)

055Meditite Mudkip (2005)

056Mudkip

057Numel

058Numel

059Pichu

060Pikachu Ralts (2005)

061Ralts

062Rhyhorn Shroomish (2005)

063Shroomish Snorunt (2005)

064Snorunt Spoink (2005)

065Spoink

066Spoink

067Swablu

068Taillow Torchic (2005)

069Torchic Treecko (2005)

070Treecko Voltorb (2005)

071Voltorb Vulpix (2005)

072Vulpix

073Whismur Zigzagoon (2005)

074Zigzagoon Battle Frontier (2005)

075Battle Frontier Double Full Heal (2005)

076Double Full Heal Lanette's Net Search (2005)

077Lanette's Net Search Lum Berry (2005)

078Lum Berry Mr. Stone's Project (2005)

079Mr. Stone's Project Oran Berry (2005)

080Oran Berry PokéNav (2005)

081PokéNav Professor Birch (2005)

082Professor Birch Rare Candy (2005)

083Rare Candy Scott (2005)

084Scott

085Wally's Training Darkness Energy (2005)

086Darkness Energy★ Double Rainbow Energy (2005)

087Double Rainbow Energy★ Metal Energy (2005)

088Metal Energy★ Multi Energy (2005)

089Multi Energy★ Altaria ex (2005)

090Altaria ex★ Cacturne ex (2005)

091Cacturne ex★ Camerupt ex (2005)

092Camerupt ex★ Deoxys ex (2005)

093Deoxys ex★ Dusclops ex (2005)

094Dusclops ex★ Medicham ex (2005)

095Medicham ex★ Milotic ex (2005)

096Milotic ex★ Raichu ex (2005)

097Raichu ex★ Regice ex (2005)

098Regice ex★ Regirock ex (2005)

099Regirock ex★ Registeel ex (2005)

100Registeel ex★ Grass Energy (2005)

101Grass Energy★ Fire Energy (2005)

102Fire Energy★ Water Energy (2005)

103Water Energy★ Lightning Energy (2005)

104Lightning Energy★ Psychic Energy (2005)

105Psychic Energy★ Fighting Energy (2005)

106Fighting Energy★ Farfetch'd (2005)

107Farfetch'd★

EX 10 · Unseen Forces

2005-08-22117 cardsHOLO 32

22 August 2005. One hundred and seventeen cards — 96 Pokémon, sixteen Trainer and five Energy; fourteen Pokémon-ex and three Gold Stars. 31 commons, 34 uncommons, 20 rares and 15 holofoil rares. Colourless leads with nineteen, Grass follows with sixteen.

Japan's April 2005 set, four months late and eleven cards larger. The three Gold Stars are the legendary beasts at 113–115 — the same three Japan printed in April. Fourteen ex cards is the most any English set of 2005 carries, and two of them sit past the official 115: Rocket's Persian ex at 116 and Celebi ex at 117. Sixteen Trainer cards against Japan's eight, because the English edition keeps the standard Trainer kit in the main set.

Japan vs English117 cards against Japan's 106 · 36 of them have no card in that Japanese set · 2 of those names turn up in another Japanese set that year · 25 Japanese cards are missing here

The English set is Japan's Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean with the standard Trainer kit added. Japan printed 106; this is 117 — but none of the difference is Pokémon: both sets carry 96, and the eleven extra cards are Trainer and Energy.

Not in this Japanese set (36 names): Bayleef, Boost Energy, Celebi ex, Chikorita, Chinchou, Clefable, Clefairy, Croconaw, Cyndaquil, Darkness Energy, Energy Recycle System, Energy Removal 2, Energy Search, Energy Switch, Feraligatr ex, Granbull, Ho-Oh, Hoothoot, Lanturn, Lugia, Meganium ex, Metal Energy, Natu, Noctowl, Poké Ball, Pokémon Reversal, Potion, Quagsire, Quilava, Rocket's Persian ex, Snubbull, Totodile, Typhlosion ex, Warp Point, Wooper, Xatu

Only in the Japanese set (25): Unown

2 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2005. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from this Japanese set may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2005.

001Ampharos★ Ariados (2005)

002Ariados★ Bellossom (2005)

003Bellossom★ Feraligatr (2005)

004Feraligatr★ Flareon (2005)

005Flareon★ Forretress (2005)

006Forretress★ Houndoom (2005)

007Houndoom★ Jolteon (2005)

008Jolteon★ Meganium (2005)

009Meganium★ Octillery (2005)

010Octillery★ Poliwrath (2005)

011Poliwrath★ Porygon2 (2005)

012Porygon2★ Slowbro (2005)

013Slowbro★ Slowking (2005)

014Slowking★ Sudowoodo (2005)

015Sudowoodo★ Sunflora (2005)

016Sunflora★ Typhlosion (2005)

017Typhlosion★ Ursaring (2005)

018Ursaring★ Vaporeon (2005)

019Vaporeon★ Chansey (2005)

020Chansey★ Cleffa (2005)

021Cleffa★ Electabuzz (2005)

022Electabuzz★ Elekid (2005)

023Elekid★ Hitmonchan (2005)

024Hitmonchan★ Hitmonlee (2005)

025Hitmonlee★ Hitmontop (2005)

026Hitmontop★ Ho-Oh (2005)

027Ho-Oh★

028Jynx★

029Lugia★

030Murkrow★ Smoochum (2005)

031Smoochum★ Stantler (2005)

032Stantler★ Tyrogue (2005)

033Tyrogue★ Aipom (2005)

034Aipom

035Bayleef Clefable (2005)

036Clefable Corsola (2005)

037Corsola Croconaw (2005)

038Croconaw Granbull (2005)

039Granbull Lanturn (2005)

040Lanturn Magcargo (2005)

041Magcargo Miltank (2005)

042Miltank Noctowl (2005)

043Noctowl Quagsire (2005)

044Quagsire Quilava (2005)

045Quilava Scyther (2005)

046Scyther Shuckle (2005)

047Shuckle Smeargle (2005)

048Smeargle Xatu (2005)

049Xatu

050Yanma

051Chikorita Chinchou (2005)

052Chinchou Clefairy (2005)

053Clefairy Cyndaquil (2005)

054Cyndaquil Eevee (2005)

055Eevee

056Flaaffy Gligar (2005)

057Gligar

058Gloom

059Hoothoot Houndour (2005)

060Houndour Larvitar (2005)

061Larvitar Mareep (2005)

062Mareep

063Natu

064Oddish

065Onix

066Pineco

067Poliwag Poliwhirl (2005)

068Poliwhirl Porygon (2005)

069Porygon Pupitar (2005)

070Pupitar Remoraid (2005)

071Remoraid Slowpoke (2005)

072Slowpoke Slugma (2005)

073Slugma

074Snubbull Spinarak (2005)

075Spinarak Sunkern (2005)

076Sunkern Teddiursa (2005)

077Teddiursa Totodile (2005)

078Totodile Wooper (2005)

079Wooper

080Curse Powder Energy Recycle System (2005)

081Energy Recycle System Energy Removal 2 (2005)

082Energy Removal 2 Energy Root (2005)

083Energy Root Energy Switch (2005)

084Energy Switch Fluffy Berry (2005)

085Fluffy Berry Mary's Request (2005)

086Mary's Request Poké Ball (2005)

087Poké Ball Pokémon Reversal (2005)

088Pokémon Reversal

089Professor Elm's Training Method Protective Orb (2005)

090Protective Orb Sitrus Berry (2005)

091Sitrus Berry Solid Rage (2005)

092Solid Rage Warp Point (2005)

093Warp Point Energy Search (2005)

094Energy Search Potion (2005)

095Potion

096Darkness Energy★ Metal Energy (2005)

097Metal Energy★ Boost Energy (2005)

098Boost Energy Cyclone Energy (2005)

099Cyclone Energy Warp Energy (2005)

100Warp Energy Blissey ex (2005)

101Blissey ex★ Espeon ex (2005)

102Espeon ex★ Feraligatr ex (2005)

103Feraligatr ex★ Ho-Oh ex (2005)

104Ho-Oh ex★ Lugia ex (2005)

105Lugia ex★ Meganium ex (2005)

106Meganium ex★ Politoed ex (2005)

107Politoed ex★ Scizor ex (2005)

108Scizor ex★ Steelix ex (2005)

109Steelix ex★ Typhlosion ex (2005)

110Typhlosion ex★ Tyranitar ex (2005)

111Tyranitar ex★ Umbreon ex (2005)

112Umbreon ex★ Entei ☆ (2005)

113Entei ☆★ Raikou ☆ (2005)

114Raikou ☆★ Suicune ☆ (2005)

115Suicune ☆★ Rocket's Persian ex (2005)

116Rocket's Persian ex★ Celebi ex (2005)

117Celebi ex★

EX 11 · Delta Species

2005-10-31114 cardsHOLO 25

31 October 2005. One hundred and fourteen cards — 95 Pokémon, fourteen Trainer and five Energy; 35 δ cards, three Pokémon-ex and three Gold Stars. 34 commons, 35 uncommons, 20 rares and 19 holofoil rares. Lightning leads with nineteen, Fire and Water with seventeen each.

Holon Research Tower plus 28 cards. Japan's set has 86; this has 114, and the additions are visible: ten Ditto instead of seven, the standard Trainer kit Japan did not print in October (Dual Ball, Great Ball, Master Ball, Super Scoop Up, Potion, Switch), basic Darkness and Metal Energy, the three Eeveelution ex at 108–110, and Azumarill at 114 past the official 113. What went the other way is shorter: nothing — every one of Japan's 86 cards has a card here.

Japan vs English114 cards against Japan's 86 · 28 of them have no card in that Japanese set · 3 of those names turn up in another Japanese set that year

The English set is Japan's Holon Research Tower with the Trainer kit and two basic Energy added. Japan printed 86 and no Pokémon-ex; this is 114 with three.

Not in this Japanese set (25 names, 28 cards): Azumarill δ, Bagon δ, Darkness Energy, Ditto, Dragonair δ, Dratini δ, Dual Ball, Eevee δ, Flareon ex, Great Ball, Jolteon ex, Magnemite, Magneton, Marill, Master Ball, Metal Energy, Ponyta, Potion, Rapidash, Shelgon δ, Starmie δ, Staryu, Super Scoop Up, Switch, Vaporeon ex

3 of those names also turn up elsewhere in Japan's 2005. That is a statement about names, not cards: the same Pokémon was often printed more than once, with different HP, attacks and art. The English edition never matched a Japanese set one for one, so a name missing from this Japanese set may still belong to a card Japan printed that year.

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2005.

001Beedrill δ★ Crobat δ (2005)

002Crobat δ★ Dragonite δ (2005)

003Dragonite δ★ Espeon δ (2005)

004Espeon δ★ Flareon δ (2005)

005Flareon δ★ Gardevoir δ (2005)

006Gardevoir δ★ Jolteon δ (2005)

007Jolteon δ★ Latias δ (2005)

008Latias δ★ Latios δ (2005)

009Latios δ★ Marowak δ (2005)

010Marowak δ★ Metagross δ (2005)

011Metagross δ★ Mewtwo δ (2005)

012Mewtwo δ★ Rayquaza δ (2005)

013Rayquaza δ★ Salamence δ (2005)

014Salamence δ★ Starmie δ (2005)

015Starmie δ★ Tyranitar δ (2005)

016Tyranitar δ★ Umbreon δ (2005)

017Umbreon δ★ Vaporeon δ (2005)

018Vaporeon δ★ Azumarill δ (2005)

019Azumarill δ★ Azurill (2005)

020Azurill★ Holon's Electrode (2005)

021Holon's Electrode★ Holon's Magneton (2005)

022Holon's Magneton★ Hypno (2005)

023Hypno★

024Mightyena δ★ Porygon2 (2005)

025Porygon2★ Rain Castform (2005)

026Rain Castform★ Sandslash δ (2005)

027Sandslash δ★ Slowking (2005)

028Slowking★ Snow-cloud Castform (2005)

029Snow-cloud Castform★ Starmie δ (2005)

030Starmie δ★ Sunny Castform (2005)

031Sunny Castform★ Swellow (2005)

032Swellow★ Weezing (2005)

033Weezing★ Castform (2005)

034Castform Ditto (2005)

035Ditto

036Ditto

037Ditto

038Ditto

039Ditto

040Ditto

041Dragonair δ Dragonair δ (2005)

042Dragonair δ Golbat (2005)

043Golbat

044Hariyama Illumise (2005)

045Illumise Kakuna (2005)

046Kakuna

047Kirlia

048Magneton Metang δ (2005)

049Metang δ Persian (2005)

050Persian Pupitar δ (2005)

051Pupitar δ Rapidash (2005)

052Rapidash Shelgon δ (2005)

053Shelgon δ Shelgon δ (2005)

054Shelgon δ Skarmory (2005)

055Skarmory Volbeat (2005)

056Volbeat Bagon δ (2005)

057Bagon δ Bagon δ (2005)

058Bagon δ Beldum δ (2005)

059Beldum δ Cubone (2005)

060Cubone

061Ditto

062Ditto

063Ditto

064Ditto

065Dratini δ Dratini δ (2005)

066Dratini δ Drowzee (2005)

067Drowzee Eevee δ (2005)

068Eevee δ Eevee (2005)

069Eevee

070Holon's Magnemite Holon's Voltorb (2005)

071Holon's Voltorb Koffing (2005)

072Koffing Larvitar δ (2005)

073Larvitar δ Magnemite (2005)

074Magnemite Makuhita (2005)

075Makuhita Marill (2005)

076Marill

077Meowth

078Ponyta

079Poochyena Porygon (2005)

080Porygon Ralts (2005)

081Ralts

082Sandshrew Slowpoke (2005)

083Slowpoke Staryu (2005)

084Staryu

085Staryu

086Taillow Weedle (2005)

087Weedle

088Zubat

089Dual Ball Great Ball (2005)

090Great Ball Holon Farmer (2005)

091Holon Farmer Holon Lass (2005)

092Holon Lass Holon Mentor (2005)

093Holon Mentor Holon Research Tower (2005)

094Holon Research Tower Holon Researcher (2005)

095Holon Researcher Holon Ruins (2005)

096Holon Ruins Holon Scientist (2005)

097Holon Scientist Holon Transceiver (2005)

098Holon Transceiver Master Ball (2005)

099Master Ball Super Scoop Up (2005)

100Super Scoop Up Potion (2005)

101Potion

102Switch

103Darkness Energy★ Holon Energy FF (2005)

104Holon Energy FF★ Holon Energy GL (2005)

105Holon Energy GL★ Holon Energy WP (2005)

106Holon Energy WP★ Metal Energy (2005)

107Metal Energy★ Flareon ex (2005)

108Flareon ex★ Jolteon ex (2005)

109Jolteon ex★ Vaporeon ex (2005)

110Vaporeon ex★ Groudon ☆ (2005)

111Groudon ☆★ Kyogre ☆ (2005)

112Kyogre ☆★ Metagross ☆ (2005)

113Metagross ☆★ Azumarill (2005)

114Azumarill★

Also released this year: Japanese edition.

What came next

1 entry

2006-02-13
EX Legend Maker reaches English, 93 cards — Japan's Mirage Forest of June 2005, eight months late, and the last Japanese set of 2005 to be printed in English. Two of its cards, Swablu and Altaria ex, had already shipped in EX Emerald the previous May, so Legend Maker arrives with cards the English market had owned for nine months.

The δ line runs on into 2006 on both sides, and the Holon Supporters go with it — but that is the next page. What matters here is that 2005 is the year the two editions almost met: one set three days behind Tokyo, one set seven months behind, one set with nothing behind it at all.

Evidence & release sources

4 of 4 linked

Release dates and product identities are connected to the English edition release register by set code. Sources are printed per product so a reader can check the claim without trusting this page alone. Unmatched products say so instead of borrowing another edition’s citation.

EX 8 · Deoxys ex8 verified_secondary
secondary · api.tcgdex.net
EX 9 · Emerald ex9 verified_secondary
secondary · api.tcgdex.net
EX 10 · Unseen Forces ex10 verified_secondary
secondary · api.tcgdex.net
EX 11 · Delta Species ex11 verified_secondary
secondary · api.tcgdex.net

About this data

All 446 cards are listed, in the four English sets of the year, and the counts match the printed sets exactly — 108 / 107 / 117 / 114, with the official numbers 107 / 106 / 115 / 113 and one to two secret cards past each of them.

The Unown are not counted in the 446. The English cards are catalogued as a separate 28-card set — A to Z plus ! and ? — and EX Unseen Forces itself carries none of them, while Japan's Golden Sky, Silvery Ocean puts 25 Unown inside its own 106. That is the single largest structural difference of the year, and it is why the Japanese page has twenty-five Unown entries that this one does not.

The comparison blocks under each set are computed, not written. For every set that has a Japanese original, the page reads that set's card list and works out which names are here and not there, and the other way round. Where a name turns up in a different Japanese set of the same year, the block says so rather than claiming the card was never printed in Japan.

Pokémon-ex and Pokémon ☆ are counted as holofoils and labelled separately — HOLO RARE ex and HOLO RARE ☆ — rather than folded into the ordinary holofoil count. 2005 has 38 Pokémon-ex across the four sets and nine Gold Stars, and one of the four sets, EX Emerald, has none of the latter at all.

The Gold Star names are printed as ☆ here. The card database records them as Groudon Star and Kyogre Star; the card face prints the star symbol, so the page does too.

What is still missing. The pack itself: wrapper artwork, the price at release, what you had to do to buy one, and the shop link for the sealed product. None of that is in the card databases this almanac is built from, and none of it is guessed here. It is a standing task for every year on the site, and 2005 is no different.

Four sets, 446 cards, 38 Pokémon-ex and nine Gold Stars. Two of the four were Japan's own year, one was a year old, and one had no Japanese parent at all — and the one with no parent is the one with no Gold Star in it. δ arrived three days behind Tokyo, which is as close as the two editions ever come on these pages. What is here is what could be verified. The rest is marked.