Japanese Masaki Promos Card List
The Masaki promos are five holographic cards that were mailed out, not sold: you posted a non-holo Vending Machine card — Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler, Haunter or Omanyte — together with the Pass Card Bill's PC to MediaFactory, and the evolved holographic card came back. The five are Alakazam, Machamp, Golem, Gengar and Omastar, each with new artwork rather than a recolour of the card you sent in. Bulbapedia files them as unnumbered promos; the price source files them inside the Japanese Vending console, which is why they look like Vending cards until you read the price — Gengar's holo here trades in the five figures graded, against about ten dollars for a Vending series card. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 5 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Japanese Vending Machine — the five non-holo cards you mailed in — Kadabra, Machoke, Graveler, Haunter and Omanyte — are Vending Machine cards, priced on that set's page
Card List
Japanese Masaki Promos At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Masaki Promos?
The set holds 5 cards, released 1998. This site tracks 5 printings of them (Holo 5), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
One printing of each card: the card posted out in the exchange, in holo, with no second run and no reverse. None of the five prints a collector number — the number shown is the National Dex the price source files them by. Source: Bulbapedia, Unnumbered Promotional cards (TCG); prices and scans from PriceCharting.
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Gengar [Masaki] #94 at $6,365 raw, about $168,000 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $10,603.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. None the five non-holo cards you sent in are Vending Machine cards, and they are documented on the Vending set page, so these are the only printings of these cards that were ever made. They are one of just two Japanese releases of the era with no English counterpart at all.
How do I tell a Japanese Masaki Promos card apart from the English printing?
Turn it over, which is the quickest tell there is: this set predates July 2001, when Japanese cards carried the Pocket Monsters Card Game back — a design no English card ever had, against the blue Pokémon back. The back changed once, with Pokémon VS in July 2001, so the back alone dates a card to this era.
Either way, the symbol beside the number is the Japanese set's own, not the English set's.
Prices are PriceCharting sold comps read 2026-11-06 and are per printing. This set is not in TCGdex, and no structured fact source covers it, so rarity, type and illustrator are omitted rather than guessed. One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $10,603.