This coveted flamethrower is the first Charizard card ever issued in the Pokmon Trading Card Game. You can identify it by the lack of a rarity symbol in the bottom right cornera feature Japanese Mewtwo Pokemon card 1st edition Base set(Rarity Symbol) Unown I (Neo Discovery 68) Bulbapedia, the community driven Pokmon encyclopedia These No Rarity Symbol cards were released in 1996 and are the first print of Pokemon cards (English prints were introduced in 1999, so they predate the English 1st Edition cards). They