HeartGold SoulSilver

The first main expansion of cards from the HeartGold & SoulSilver Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

HeartGold & SoulSilver introduced Pokémon Prime, a type of Pokémon and Pokémon LEGEND, a classification of cards.

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The first main expansion of cards from the HeartGold & SoulSilver Series of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

HeartGold & SoulSilver introduced Pokémon Prime, a type of Pokémon and Pokémon LEGEND, a classification of cards.

• Pokémon Prime were considerably more powerful than their regular counterparts. Pokémon Prime had Holofoil card border, gold foil name text, spikes on the border of the artwork window, and lacked the Pokédex entry. The artwork featured a close-up of the Pokémon's face. They replaced the Reverse Holofoil in booster packs.
• Pokémon LEGEND featured Legendary Pokémon and were consisted of two cards, a top and bottom half. They were treated as a single card when in play and both halves must be played to the Bench at the same time. To compensate for their higher-than-average HP and stronger attacks, there were two drawbacks to playing Pokémon LEGEND.
  1. Both halves of the card have the same name, so only two of each half can be used in a 60-card deck.
  2. The opponent would also take two Prize cards upon their defeat, excluding Ho-Oh LEGEND and Lugia LEGEND from this expansion as they only featured one Pokémon.
• Pokémon LEGEND were entirely Holofoil and takes up three-quarters of the overall card. The top half included the HP and the illustrator's name in both English and Japanese, while the bottom part included the attack box, game rule box, weakness, resistance and retreat cost. The card text in the attack box appeared as if being pushed aside by the artwork.
  
  HeartGold & SoulSilver also introduced an updated card design, which included numerous changes.
  • The card border was changed to gold and silver
  • the evolution circle moved to the extreme top-left with gold and gray circle
  • a new graphic of the name and HP strip, a new font for the Stage and the strip was extended slightly longer
  • a new font and smaller Pokédex entry text
  • shorter illustrator strip with silver and gold border
  • and the weakness and resistance no longer have a background graphic.

The Basic Energy cards were printed with a silhouette of a Pokémon and some with a location in the background.

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