{"id":521,"date":"2026-10-11T23:25:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdora.eu\/?p=521"},"modified":"2026-10-11T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:30:41","slug":"blaziken-world-champions-pack-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdora.eu\/it\/blaziken-world-champions-pack-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaziken 014\/108: the rarest fire of the 2007 World Champions Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most Japanese Pok\u00e9mon sets were sold in every toy shop and convenience store in the country. The <strong>World Champions Pack<\/strong> was not. Released on <strong>5 July 2007<\/strong>, it could only be ordered online, for roughly two weeks, by players registered in Japan&#8217;s official card-game programme. That is why its holo Blaziken, card <strong>014\/108<\/strong>, is one of the hardest Japanese EX-era cards to find today.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A set made for players, not shops<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Champions Pack (\u30ef\u30fc\u30eb\u30c9\u30c1\u30e3\u30f3\u30d4\u30aa\u30f3\u30ba\u30d1\u30c3\u30af) is a 108-card set, the Japanese counterpart of the English <em>EX Power Keepers<\/em>. Instead of a normal retail launch, it was distributed through a short mail-order window aimed at registered players. Few collectors outside Japan even knew it existed at the time, and many of the copies that were sold went straight into decks.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1st Edition first, then a tiny Unlimited run<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like most Japanese sets of the period, the pack was first printed as <strong>1st Edition<\/strong>. According to long-time collectors, the response was weaker than expected, so only a very small <strong>Unlimited<\/strong> print followed. The result is unusual: here the Unlimited cards, without the 1st Edition mark, are scarcer than the 1st Edition ones. Collectors often rank it among the scarcest Unlimited Japanese sets, next to the e-Card series&#8217; first expansion.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The card: Blaziken 014\/108<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Type:<\/strong> Fire, Stage 2, 100 HP, holo rare<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pok\u00e9-Power \u2013 Firestarter:<\/strong> once per turn, attach a Fire Energy from your discard pile to one of your Benched Pok\u00e9mon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attack \u2013 Fire Stream (50):<\/strong> discard a Fire Energy from Blaziken and deal 10 damage to each of your opponent&#8217;s Benched Pok\u00e9mon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Illustrator:<\/strong> Masakazu Fukuda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Firestarter made Blaziken a real engine in the Fire decks of the time, which is another reason so many copies were played rather than kept.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our copies<\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We currently have this Blaziken in both versions. Every card is photographed front and back, so you see exactly what you will receive:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nerdora.eu\/it\/prodotto\/blaziken-unlimited-world-champions-pack-japanese\/\">Blaziken 014\/108 \u2013 Unlimited<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nerdora.eu\/it\/prodotto\/blaziken-1st-edition-world-champions-pack-japanese\/\">Blaziken 014\/108 \u2013 1st Edition<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources and further reading<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elitefourum.com\/t\/distribution-scarcity-of-2007-jpn-world-champions-pack\/29613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elite Fourum \u2013 Distribution &amp; scarcity of the 2007 World Champions Pack<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pokewiki.de\/World_Champions_Pack_(TCG)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pok\u00e9Wiki \u2013 World Champions Pack (German)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold online for only two weeks in 2007, the Japanese World Champions Pack is one of the scarcest EX-era sets. 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