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This month we celebrate... a really old Pokemon trading card! Ancient Mew was a promo card given away at Toys'R'Us locations in the United States (not sure how the other regions got it or if they did), and was super special in many different ways: It was the first completely holofoil card, front & back were both holo-foil, included no sign to show it was promo or from any set, had a unique language that had to be decrypted to be able to tell what his move was. Of course my favorite part was simply that it looked all ancient style.

One thing to note is that the glyphs on the card are not Unown, what are now usually associated as the ancient writing in the Pokemon universe. The Unown were not yet created as this card came out well before Gold and Silver were introduced, and the glyphs really are a mystery. To help with the site design I used the Wind Waker Hylian language, and if any of you nerd are good enough, can actually decipher a hidden message running through the background of the page! Of course Hylian was designed to be translated into Japanese and the English translation is not official, so maybe it's pretty hard to do.

Anyway there IS a wallpaper version of the artwork, and it's not the card you see pictured here. Don't forget to visit the N+ Design Gallery for the Ancient Mew wallpaper, as well as many other past wallpapers and screen shots of N+ through the ages!