Japanese Neo Premium File Card List
The Neo Premium File promos shipped in three 2000-era binders of nine cards each — 27 cards, one printing apiece. File 1 (10 December 1999) is the nine Johto starter evolutions; File 2 (8 July 2000, with the film Spell of the Unown: Entei) is nine Cosmos Reverse Holofoil cards — Charizard, Entei, Pichu, Espeon, three Unown, Umbreon and Eevee — one of the earliest reverse-holo printings in the Japanese TCG; File 3 (23 November 2000) is nine legendaries, one per card type, including Celebi's TCG debut. The cards carry no printed collector number: the number shown is the National Dex the price source files them by. Japan-only, no English release. This page lists every card with its printings priced separately — 27 printing records — and every one opens its own record with the prices, the printing notes and where to buy.
Card List
Japanese Neo Premium File At a Glance
How many cards are in the Japanese Neo Premium File?
The set holds 27 cards, released December 10, 1999. This site tracks 27 printings of them (Reverse Holo 2 · Standard 25), each with its own record and price.
What printings does it have?
Every card here has one printing, with no 1st Edition or Unlimited split. Entei appears twice because it is two different cards: the Cosmos Reverse Holofoil from File 2 and the plain holo from File 3 — different binders, different artwork treatment, the same National Dex. They are kept as two records, never merged as printings. Sources: the three binders' release records (10 Dec 1999 · 8 Jul 2000 · 23 Nov 2000).
What is the most valuable card in the set?
Charizard #6 at $212 raw, about $2,537 in PSA 10. One raw copy of every printing here totals $774.
How do these cards relate to the English printing?
No English version of these cards exists. None Japan-only promos, no English release, 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 Neo Premium File 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; card numbers, rarities, types and illustrators come from TCGdex's Japanese card data (set None). One raw copy of every printing on this page totals $774.