For seven weeks the “RGB Mew” was one blue card, pulled once on a livestream, that half the hobby called a fake. With 30th Celebration reaching some shops ahead of its 16 September release, all three colours have now been pulled on camera by unrelated openers in more than one language. Whatever The Pokémon Company says, the cards are in packs.
The three cards
Three Mew cards share one illustration, one set of game text and one layout. What changes is the colour of the textured foil and the letter in the bottom-left corner: R, G or B, each written as a fraction of RGB where the collector number would normally be.
The name is the point. Red, Green and Blue are the three original 1996 Game Boy releases the set celebrates, and the three primaries of light. Mew was the Pokémon hidden in those cartridges outside the official Pokédex count, so a hidden, unlisted Mew is the most on-brand secret rare the anniversary could have. The illustrator, YOSHIROTTEN, is the artist behind the set’s officially announced Futuristic rares, Mew ex (158) and Mewtwo ex (157), and his own long-running art project is called PHENOMENON: RGB. That was the strongest early argument the card was real.
What is printed on the cards
The game text is identical across all three and matches the regular Mew 065/128 and the MEP EN 105 promo.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Number | R/RGB, G/RGB or B/RGB, set code 30C |
| Type / HP | Basic Psychic, 60 HP |
| Attack | Psychic — 2 Psychic — 10+. This attack does 40 more damage for each Energy attached to your opponent’s Active Pokémon. |
| Weakness / Resistance / Retreat | Darkness ×2 / Fighting −30 / 1 |
| Illustrator | YOSHIROTTEN |
| Flavour text | “So rare that it is still said to be a mirage by many experts. Only a few people have seen it worldwide.” |
| Rarity symbol | A multicoloured circle not used on any other announced card |
| Anniversary stamp | None |
That is Mew’s original Pokédex entry, used on Mew cards since Base Set. On a card left off every list and every checklist, “still said to be a mirage” reads like a deliberate wink.
The red card above is a French print, with the attack titled “Psyko” and the standard French wording. That means the cards were printed into at least two language runs, which a hoaxer with one doctored English card cannot arrange.
How the leak unfolded
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25 July 2026
Australian seller PokeAus Hits pulls a blue B/RGB Mew from an early pack on a Whatnot livestream, for the X user Akaneco_2323. The clip is posted the next day.
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Late July – August
Doubt sets in. The card is missing from the leaked list, has no Pikachu 30 stamp, uses a numbering format the TCG has never printed, and nobody else has one. Against that: the footage shows the guaranteed Pikachu directly behind it in the pack, and the foil is far beyond home printing.
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17 August 2026
The X account TheCardScience claims a Millennium Print Group employee has confirmed the card, three variants, and a pull rate of one in 20,000 packs. Neither company comments.
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9 September 2026
The official database lists 167 cards of the set. No RGB card. Coverage calls it a hoax more loudly than ever.
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Second week of September
Product reaches some retailers early. Red, green and more blue copies are pulled on camera in English and French by openers unconnected to the July stream. PokéBeach reports the cards are also absent from the card list booklet in the Elite Trainer Box.
Three colours, two languages and multiple independent openers is a print run, not a prank.
The one-in-20,000 figure
The only pull rate anyone has put a number on comes from an anonymous second-hand claim on X. The Pokémon Company has never published pull rates for any set. Do not price a card on that figure.
What can be said is that the RGB cards are rarer than the Futuristic rares, which have been pulled in numbers since product started moving and already trade above $1,400 for the Mew ex. The RGB cards are a handful of pulls against thousands of opened packs, split three ways by colour. No RGB copy has been openly sold yet, so any price you see asked is invented.
Official status
As of 13 September 2026 The Pokémon Company has not mentioned the RGB Mew in any language, and neither has YOSHIROTTEN. The cards are absent from the official card database, the Elite Trainer Box booklet and every product listing. That is not unusual: Japan routinely holds some secret rares back until the following set is on sale, and PokéBeach expects acknowledgement could be months away. Given the flavour text, the missing stamp and the missing number, the likelier reading is that the cards were designed to be found rather than announced.
Every confirmed pull so far has come from ordinary 30th Celebration booster packs, not the Futuristic Box or Classic Collection pack. The set releases worldwide on 16 September 2026. Product details are in our 30th anniversary products and MSRP guide, and the 30th Celebration set guide will list the RGB cards the moment they are acknowledged.
