Since 30th Celebration reached shelves, collectors have reported pulling a Mew card that does not appear anywhere on the official card list: a set of three coloured Mew variants, red, green and blue, echoing the original Pokemon Red, Green and Blue games. They have become known as the RGB Mew.
The Pokemon Company has not confirmed that these cards exist. They are not on the official card list published on 9 September 2026, they are not in the card-list booklet included with the Elite Trainer Box, and no official page or statement mentions an "RGB" rarity. Everything below is reporting and claim, not confirmation, and we have marked which is which.
What is actually claimed
- Three cards, not one. Red, green and blue versions are reported, corresponding to the three original games.
- No standard collector number. Rather than a number out of the set total, the cards are reported to carry an RGB marking that identifies which of the three you have.
- Reportedly illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN, the artist who designed the set's Futuristic rare card type and is officially credited with the Mewtwo ex and Mew ex Futuristic rares. That connection is reported rather than officially stated for these cards.
- Pulled from retail packs by individual collectors, some of whom had product early. We have not independently verified any pull.
Why they are not on the official list
This is the part that turns the story from a mystery into something fairly ordinary, and it is the piece most coverage leaves out. PokeBeach, which has done the substantive reporting on these cards, explains that Pokemon in Japan does not officially reveal a set's secret rares until the following set arrives. On a normal release, the English side of the business publishes the full card list at launch anyway, so the gap never shows. 30th Celebration launched worldwide simultaneously, and the English list followed the Japanese convention instead — so the secret rares were left off.
On that reading, the absence of an RGB Mew from the official list is not evidence that the cards are fake. It is what you would expect to see either way, which is precisely why the absence settles nothing on its own. PokeBeach reads the same intent into the Elite Trainer Box booklet, which lists the set's cards and also omits the trio: a card deliberately left out of the paperwork is a card meant to be found rather than announced. If that is right, an official acknowledgement could be months away rather than days.
There is a neat symmetry to it that is worth noting even while the cards are unconfirmed. Mew was the original mythical Pokemon, the one that generated a decade of playground rumours about trucks and Pokedex entries, and a card you cannot prove exists from any official document is an unusually faithful tribute to that.
What the colours are said to mean
Red, green and blue are the three primary colours of light, and combining them produces the rest of the visible spectrum — which is where the RGB name comes from. They are also the original three Pokemon games: Red, Green and Blue. PokeBeach connects that double meaning to YOSHIROTTEN's wider work, which is preoccupied with light, colour and futuristic design, and who is officially credited as the designer of this set's Futuristic rare card type.
That connection is reported rather than officially stated for these particular cards. What is official is YOSHIROTTEN's involvement in the set itself, which is why the artist's name keeps appearing in this story.
Where the cards came from
The trio first surfaced roughly two months before release, when streamers opened 30th Celebration product early. PokeBeach reports that the product came from an unauthorised source within the distribution chain, and may have been stolen. More recently, collectors have reported pulling all three variants from ordinary retail packs as stock reached shops.
That progression matters for how much weight to put on the story. Early sightings from a single unauthorised batch are weak evidence; independent pulls from normal retail stock across many people are considerably stronger. It is still not official confirmation, and we are not going to promote it to one.
eBay removed the early listings
This is the part that matters most if you are thinking about buying one, and it is a matter of record rather than rumour. In August 2026, before the set released, eBay began removing listings for unreleased 30th Celebration cards under its Stolen Property Policy, after being contacted by The Pokemon Company International. Sellers who received a removal notice were told that TPCi had indicated the cards were not, at that time, distributed or available for public sale through authorised channels. The crackdown was reported by PokeBeach, Dexerto and Wargamer among others.
Two things follow from that, and they pull in different directions. It is the clearest signal yet that the early product genuinely was outside authorised distribution — TPCi does not send that kind of notice about cards it has released. But it applied to pre-release listings: the expansion has since released normally on 16 September, so a card pulled from a pack bought in a shop this week is in an entirely different position from one sold in August.
The practical warning is narrow and worth heeding. If you are offered an RGB Mew, when and how the seller obtained it is a fair question, and a listing that cannot answer it is one to leave alone. We have no way to tell you which side of that line any individual card falls on, and neither, in most cases, will the listing.
About the "1 in 20,000" figure
A pull rate of one in every 20,000 booster packs has circulated widely and is worth being precise about, because it is not a number anyone has measured. It originates with the TCG content creator TheCardScience, who described it as insider information from a person said to work at the card manufacturer Millennium Print Group, in a post dated 17 August 2026, subsequently reported by Dexerto.
That is a single unverified claim relayed second-hand. The Pokemon Company publishes no pull rates for any set, has published none for this one, and has not commented on this figure. We are reporting that the claim exists and where it came from. We are not telling you it is the pull rate, because nobody currently knows that, and we do not publish odds we cannot stand behind.
It is worth adding that PokeBeach, which has reported this story most closely, does not give a figure either. It expects the cards to be exceptionally rare and says that reliable pull rates need far more pack-opening data than exists a few days after release. That is the honest position: an expectation is not a measurement, and "exceptionally rare" is a description, not odds.
What the official list does say
The official card list runs to 167 revealed cards and accounts for the set's secret Mew slots with cards that are confirmed: the Futuristic rare Mew ex and Mewtwo ex, the two cards that introduced the set's new rarity. Those are real, they are in our catalogue, and they are what most people are actually going to pull. They are also, for the avoidance of doubt, not the RGB cards.
Mew ex #158/128
Confirmed Futuristic rare
Mewtwo ex #157/128
Confirmed Futuristic rare
A word on these photographs, because this article is about not treating unverified things as settled. They are collectors' and reporters' images of reported pulls, not scans we have taken, and the versions in circulation have been resized and sharpened as they have been passed around — which visibly degrades the small text. Different copies of the same photograph disagree with each other on the fine print. So treat them as evidence of what the cards look like: three colours, a Mew silhouette, a radiating background. Do not treat them as a reliable reading of the card's name, attack or wording, and do not use them to authenticate a card you are being offered.
We have not reconstructed, redrawn or AI-enhanced anything here, and we will not. When the cards enter our catalogue, these will be replaced with our own scans, the same source every other card image on this site comes from.
What we would tell a buyer today
- Nothing about these cards is settled, including whether they are what they appear to be. Anyone selling one is selling an unconfirmed item.
- Ignore rarity claims in listing titles. "1 in 20,000" is a claim from one person, not a measurement, and it has already made its way into listings as if it were established.
- A price paid is not a value. Early sales of an unconfirmed card tell you what one person paid in an information vacuum. We are not quoting figures for this reason.
- Ask when and where it was obtained. eBay removed pre-release listings of this set under its Stolen Property Policy after a notice from TPCi. That was about August listings, not cards pulled since release — but it makes provenance a reasonable thing to ask about.
- The confirmed cards are the safe purchase if what you want is the YOSHIROTTEN artwork. The Futuristic rares are real, numbered, and on the official list.
We will update this
If The Pokemon Company confirms the cards, publishes a rarity or adds them to an official list, we will update this article and say what changed. Until then it stays labelled as what it is: a widely reported, officially unacknowledged card.
For the parts of the set that are confirmed, our 30th Celebration collector's guide is the overview, and the Mew and Mewtwo guide covers all six Mew and Mewtwo cards in the release, including both Futuristic rares.