Mew R, G and B: the three secret cards Pokémon did not announce

Three Mew cards appear on no list for the 30th Celebration set. They do not carry a number in the set’s sequence, but the markings “R/RGB”, “G/RGB” and “B/RGB”. Illustrated by the Japanese artist YOSHIROTTEN, they refer to Pokémon Red, Green and Blue, the first games in the series, and to the three primary colours of light.

A secret, just like in 1996

The first ones were pulled on 12 September, a few days before the official release, from boosters put on the shelves too early. English, Japanese and French copies have been photographed since. None of them appears in the Elite Trainer Box booklet or in the lists published by The Pokémon Company. On 15 September, they were spotted in an internal update of the online game Pokémon TCG Live: for now, that is the only official trace of their existence.

The nod is obvious to anyone who played the original games. In 1996, Mew was already hidden in Pokémon Red and Green, without having been announced. Thirty years later, the same Pokémon plays the same role in the boosters.

What are the chances of finding one?

Nobody knows. Out of the 3,000 English boosters opened by TCGplayer to measure the set’s pull rates, too few RGB Mews came out to calculate anything: PokéBeach only estimates that they are at least as rare as one card per thousand boosters. The estimates going around range from 1 in 700 to 1 in 158,000; the “1 in 20,000” figure, attributed to an employee of the printer and widely shared, is not confirmed by any verifiable source.

For comparison, the set’s two Futuristic Rares, Mewtwo ex and Mew ex, come out roughly once every 120 boosters in the same sample.

And their price?

Several thousand dollars each, with large differences from one source to another and even from one colour to another. On 23 September, the cheapest English copies were listed at $6,900 for the red one, $5,499 for the blue one and $3,997 for the green one: asking prices, not completed sales. A week earlier, other surveys put the green one on top.

This is a market of a few dozen cards, where every sale moves the average. These figures describe a moment, not a value: the launch price of a very rare card often drops as more copies appear, as the Futuristic Rare Mew ex showed, selling for $1,808 in pre-sale on 15 September and around $107 six days later.

The three RGB Mews will be added to our card database as soon as they are included in the database we use.

Sources

• PokéBeach, 12 and 15 September 2026: discovery and Pokémon TCG Live update
• PokéBeach, 23 September 2026: 30th Celebration pull rates and prices
• TCGinvest, 22 September 2026: price trends after the release