Pokemon TCG - Gym Heroes Booster Box, 1st Edition (English)

The Gym Heroes booster box is one of the most distinctive releases of the Wizards of the Coast era. Published in 2000, the set moved the game into the hands of the gym leaders of Kanto: for the first time cards belonged to named trainers such as Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge and Erika, and for the first time the game introduced Stadium cards, a category that changed the way the table was built.

Gym Heroes was the largest set WOTC had released to that point, at 132 cards, and it carried an unmistakable visual identity: the portrait of the gym leader impressed on every card, a decision never repeated in the same form. Production came at the moment the original boom was slowing, which is part of why 1st Edition boxes have become scarce sealed objects on the global market.

Inside the set are some of the most pursued holos of the era, among them Sabrina's Gengar, Blaine's Moltres, Erika's Dragonair and Rocket's Moltres, together with the first Stadium cards ever printed: No Removal Gym, Cerulean City Gym and Pewter City Gym among them.

This box is the English 1st Edition, factory sealed, never opened and never tampered with, in its original configuration of thirty-six sealed packs.