Pokémon Advanced Trading Cards

A packet of cards featuring Pikachu

A packet of cards featuring Treecko

Pokémon Advanced Trading Cards was a set of Pokémon-themed trading cards manufactured by Topps in 2003. There were 90 cards in total: 8 character cards, 81 Pokémon cards, and a checklist card. Each of these 90 cards also had a foil card version. In addition, there were 28 bonus "chase cards" not included on the checklist: 18 embossed evolution cards and 10 pop-up cards.

Cards were sold in randomly distributed packets of seven. One card in each packet would be a randomly chosen foil card.

Cards in the Pokémon Advanced series

Characters and Pokémon

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Character card featuring Team Rocket

The first eight cards in the set feature a character or group of characters from the Pokémon anime. On the back of each card is a short bio explaining their role in the series.

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Front and back of a Cacnea card

The remaining cards feature Pokémon. Unlike in Topps's previous sets, these Pokémon cards are ordered alphabetically instead of by their Pokédex numbers. All Pokémon appearing in this set were introduced in Generation III.

Characters

1. Ash
2. Team Aqua
3. Professor Birch
4. Brock
5. Team Rocket
6. Team Magma
7. May
8. Max

   Pokémon

9. Absol
10. Aggron
11. Altaria
12. Anorith
13. Armaldo
14. Aron
15. Azurill
16. Bagon
17. Banette
18. Beautifly
19. Blaziken
20. Cacnea
21. Cacturne
22. Camerupt
23. Carvanha
24. Castform
25. Combusken
26. Corphish
27. Cradily
28. Crawdaunt
29. Delcatty
30. Duskull
31. Dustox
32. Exploud
33. Feebas
34. Gardevoir
35. Glalie
36. Groudon
37. Grovyle
38. Grumpig
39. Hariyama
40. Illumise
41. Kecleon
42. Kirlia
43. Kyogre
44. Lairon
45. Latias
46. Latios
47. Lileep
48. Linoone
49. Lotad
50. Loudred
51. Ludicolo
52. Makuhita
53. Marshtomp
54. Masquerain
55. Medicham
56. Meditite
57. Minun
58. Mudkip
59. Nosepass
60. Numel
61. Nuzleaf
62. Pelipper
63. Plusle
64. Poochyena
65. Ralts
66. Roselia
67. Sableye
68. Salamence
69. Sceptile
70. Sealeo
71. Seedot
72. Seviper
73. Sharpedo
74. Shiftry
75. Shroomish
76. Skitty
77. Slakoth
78. Spinda
79. Spoink
80. Swampert
81. Taillow
82. Torchic
83. Trapinch
84. Treecko
85. Vigoroth
86. Volbeat
87. Whiscash
88. Wynaut
89. Zigzagoon

Other

• Checklist

Chase cards

Embossed evolution cards

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Embossed evolution card #2: Grovyle

There are 18 embossed evolution cards in the set, representing six three-stage evolutionary lines. Each evolution card is die-cut in a way that when the three stages of the evolutionary line are placed together, the shapes of the cards will fit together. Additionally, the image of the Pokémon and the Pokémon logo are embossed.

1. Treecko
2. Grovyle
3. Sceptile
4. Mudkip
5. Marshtomp
6. Swampert
7. Torchic
8. Combusken
9. Blaziken
10. Ralts
11. Kirlia
12. Gardevoir
13. Whismur
14. Loudred
15. Exploud
16. Aron
17. Lairon
18. Aggron

Pop-up cards

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Pop-up card #7: Latios & Latias

There are 10 pop-up cards in the set. Each pop-up card has an image of a Pokémon which can be punched out and then propped up using the rest of the card for support.

1. Torchic
2. Mudkip
3. Pikachu
4. Treecko
5. Combusken
6. Groudon
7. Latios & Latias
8. Sceptile
9. Kyogre
10. Absol

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