A collector's desk, Unova first. Every Colress card there is: all nine English printings spoken for, and the rest of the world still to find. And an experiment you can run yourself.
The drive.
Every English printing is accounted for. Two in hand, seven ordered and on the way. The drive stays open. Japanese printings, doubles, a beat-up copy from a binder: any Colress, any language, any condition still has a home here.
- every printing, every language, any condition
- no coin, ever
- nothing for sale, no raffle
- a PO box goes up here when it exists
Why him.
He worked for the villains and still asked the honest question: what actually brings out a Pokémon's strength. Then he read his own result straight and changed his answer.
His name means colourless. Between black and white is where the work is.
2in hand7on the way
first arrived 2026-09-12 · all 9 English printings accounted for
prices are market, per printing, as of September 14, 2026 · every tile is a reference scan · green frames are in hand, open one for my photograph · dashed frames are ordered and on the way
Send one in.
The English nine are covered. The rest of the world is not. If a Colress is sitting in a binder you never open, it can come here instead.
- Message @ColressTCG on Xsay which card it is. a photo helps, it is not required.
- Post it when the PO box is upno address until it exists. it will be posted here first.
- It gets logged and thankedevery card that arrives goes on this page with the name you want, or none.
- 2026-09-12Colress's Experiment · Crown Zenith GG59/GG70a seller who packed it right
- 2026-09-12Colress's Experiment · Lost Origin 205/196a second seller, same day
The long list.
Every Japanese printing of a Colress card. 15 of them, none in hand yet. The Plasma Gale SR is the original of the full art, and the VSTAR Universe SAR is the workbench with the Japanese frame.
- ColressPlasma Gale064/070 · U · 2012illus. Yusuke Ohmura
- ColressPlasma Gale075/070 · SR · 2012the original of the full art; 1st Edition is the one collectors chase
- ColressTeam Plasma Battle Gift Set012/016 · 2013illus. Yusuke Ohmura
- ColressTeam Plasma's Powered Half Deck014/017 · 2013illus. Yusuke Ohmura
- ColressExtra Regulation Box035/048 · 2021printed eight years after Plasma Storm, same art, new mark
- Colress MachinePlasma Gale062/070 · U · 2012illus. Ryo Ueda
- Colress MachineTeam Plasma Battle Gift Set009/016 · 2013illus. Ryo Ueda
- Colress's ExperimentLost Abyss095/100 · U · 2022illus. Naoki Saito
- Colress's ExperimentLost Abyss113/100 · SR · 2022illus. Naoki Saito
- Colress's ExperimentLost Abyss121/100 · HR · 2022illus. Naoki Saito
- Colress's ExperimentVSTAR Universe148/172 · 2022also as a mirror holo
- Colress's ExperimentVSTAR Universe235/172 · SAR · 2022the workbench with the Japanese frame
- Colress's ExperimentStellar Miracle Deck Build Box031/044 · 2024
- Colress's TenacityNight Wanderer059/064 · U · 2024illus. hncl
- Colress's TenacityNight Wanderer083/064 · SR · 2024illus. hncl
The three Supporters.
- 2013ColressPlasma Storm
Shuffle your hand away. Draw one card for every Benched Pokémon on the table, yours and theirs.
The only Supporter that counts the other side of the table too.
- 2022Colress's ExperimentLost Origin
Look at five. Keep three. The other two go to the Lost Zone.
You do not get to keep everything you learn.
- 2024Colress's TenacityShrouded Fable
Search your deck for a Stadium and an Energy. Put both in your hand.
The environment and the power source. Never the card alone.
The scientist.
アクロマ
Achroma
achromatic. colourless, without hue.
Team Plasma's scientist in Black 2 and White 2, appointed by Ghetsis to research one question: what draws out a Pokémon's strength.
force
Unova · 2012
bond
Alola · 2016 to 2017
Force. The Colress Machine moves wild Pokémon with electromagnetic waves, then a targeted beam.
The bond with its Trainer. He ran the experiment, read the result honestly, and changed his answer.
Fourteen years, eleven beats.
- 2012
Black 2 · White 2
Team Plasma's new boss is a scientist. He gives you the Colress Machine and a Master Ball after the Frigate.
- 2013
Plasma Storm
The first Colress card. The Ohmura print shows him inside the Frigate; the Eo full art is the portrait. Colress Machine prints beside them.
- 2013
Pokémon the Series, Episode N
The Colress Machine turns up in the anime's Team Plasma arc, aimed at wild Pokémon.
- 2016
Sun · Moon
Route 8, Akala. Years later, still researching. He hands over the Genesect Drives.
- 2017
Ultra Sun · Ultra Moon
He builds the N-Solarizer and N-Lunarizer from what he learned fusing Kyurem. His answer is the bond now.
- 2022
Lost Origin
Colress's Experiment. Look at five, keep three, lose two. Three printings, Naoki Saito.
- 2022
Pokémon Masters EX
A sync pair with Klinklang. The gear Pokémon that is his lab.
- 2023
Crown Zenith
The kantaro workbench, GG59. The only card that shows him working.
- 2024
Shrouded Fable
Colress's Tenacity. A Stadium and an Energy. Still Standard-legal.
- 2025
Black Bolt · White Flare
Every one of the 156 Unova Pokémon across two sets. The two sets this whole account is built around.
- 2026
Two down.
GG59 and the rainbow 205 arrive from two strangers who packed them right. The list is long.
The team.
- Magneton#082 · Electric · Steel
- Magnezone#462 · Electric · Steel
- Klinklang#601 · Steel
- Beheeyem#606 · Psychic
- Metagross#376 · Steel · Psychic
- Genesect#649 · Bug · Steel
Team Plasma's engineered Pokémon. He hands over its Drives on Route 8.
After the story, the Plasma Frigate docks at the P2 Laboratory.
Run the experiment.
Look at five. Keep three. The other two go to the Lost Zone. You do not get to keep everything you learn.
The Lost Zone is not the discard pile. Nothing placed there ever comes back.
- Seven to start. One more card each turn after.
- One Experiment a turn. Look at five, keep three, the other two are lost.
- Each Comfey goes down once and looks at two. Greninja goes down once, then trades an Energy for two cards a turn.
- Ten in the Lost Zone, in the fewest turns, with a Mirage Gate and a basic Energy still in hand.
Play a Colress's Experiment from your hand to look at five.
Psychic EnergyBasic Energy.Psychic EnergyBasic Energy.
Water EnergyBasic Energy.
Energy RecyclerFive Energy back into the deck.
Escape RopeBoth players switch.- 2023 · 7thShoichi Saito, Lost Zone Box. 4 Colress's Experiment, 4 Comfey, 4 Mirage Gate, 1 Cramorant, 2 Sableye.
- 2024 · 1stFernando Cifuentes, Iron Thorns ex. 2 Colress's Tenacity, 3 Lost City.
Colress (2013)
Shuffle your hand away. Draw one card for every Benched Pokémon on the table, yours and theirs.
The only Supporter that counts the other side of the table too.
Board the Frigate.
His battle on the Plasma Frigate in Black 2 and White 2. Five Pokémon, in battle order, and one attacking type to hit each of them with.
- Each round shows one of his Pokémon and its types.
- Pick the one attacking type. The multiplier is the round's score, so 14 is a perfect run.
- The Frigate ran on the Generation V chart. No Fairy, and Steel still resisted Ghost and Dark.
- The rematch adds Rotom and Metagross at the end.
Magneton
#082 · Electric · SteelPick one of the seventeen. The multiplier is the round's score.
- now1Magneton
- next2Metang
- next3Beheeyem
- next4Magnezone
- next5Klinklang
Wake the Crustle.
“A special device that wrings out the potential of Pokémon. It is an imperfect prototype.”
Seaside Cave. A wild Crustle is asleep across the only way through to where the Plasma Frigate docked.
- The faint trace is the Crustle's resonance. The bright one is the machine.
- Drag across the scope, or use the arrow keys, until the two fall into step.
- Hold it there for a moment and the machine locks.
- The machine breaks after one use. Another cave is another Crustle.
Drag across the scope, or use the arrow keys.
Route 4. Colress uses it himself to wake a whole group of Crustle blocking the road.
Unova.
Isshu, from 一種, one variety.The English name reads unum plus nova.Black's mascot is Reshiram, the white dragon.White's is Zekrom, the black one.
The region.
- 156new Pokémon in Generation Vstill the most of any generation
- Victini in the Unova dexthe only Pokémon numbered zero in any regional dex
#000 - NYCthe first region based outside JapanUnova is the New York City area
- 0older Pokémon in the Black & White dexuntil the main story is done
The pair.
- 086cards in each main numbering
- 139Illustration Rares across the pair
- 4Black White Rares, everVictini twice, Zekrom ex, Reshiram ex
- 2new reverse foils in EnglishPoké Ball and Master Ball patterns
- Victini
- Zekrom ex
- Victini
- Reshiram ex
Pick your partner.
The three poster promos are not one set code. Snivy is BLK, Tepig and Oshawott are WHT, printed bottom-left of each card. Both sets run to 086, so the number alone never tells you.
The inversion.
Black Bolt carries the Pokémon exclusive to White; White Flare carries Black's.
Under the loupe.
Colress's Experiment · Crown Zenith GG59/GG70
One photograph, straight on. Look closer. The workbench is the whole point of this card.
- corners
- Whitening shows as a lighter edge where the print has worn through to the card stock. Check all four. A photograph favours the two nearest the light.
- edges
- A foil card shows silvering along the cut, a thin bright line where the layers meet. It is easiest to see at the corners you are already looking at.
- the workbench
- Blueprints, a wrench, a Poké Ball and a Great Ball, a mug, a plant. kantaro drew him working, and it is the only Colress card that does. Nine printings, one that shows the job.
Who is behind this.
- I collect Pokémon cards. Unova first.
- Black Bolt and White Flare are home. The poster collections are a conviction, not a prop.
- I open packs with the little ones. They want a hit. I want redemption.
- Every Colress card there is, one at a time, from people who packed them right.
- Colress asked what brings out a Pokémon's strength and read his own result honestly. That is the job.
Field notes.
read it on XI am going to collect every Colress card there is. every printing, every language, any condition.
read it on XSo I ACCIDENTALLY dropped an Ascended Heroes promo blister in front of my wife this morning and the seal broke…
read it on XIt still can be found by the right grading company! 🙃