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When Pokémon USA took over the English card game from Wizards of the Coast

September 2003

ReportedReported by a reliable secondary source. Not a primary record.

Found in one pass only. The research team reads every source twice, independently; this record turned up in one reading but not the other, so treat it as less certain than its grade.

What this is

When Pokémon USA took over the English card game from Wizards of the Coast: when Wizards' original contracts ran out on 30 September 2003.

How it’s built

  1. Reported in a retrospective article on Kotaku, a games news site, which says the last of Wizards' original contracts ran out on 30 September and Pokémon USA cards appeared that month.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

This is a later look back by a journalist, not a contract or company notice. The month is consistent with other research records on the handover.

Where it comes from

When Pokemon and Magic Cards Went to War Kotaku (Luke Plunkett) · 14 November 2011 Open the original ↗

The line in the source

the last of Wizards' original contracts ran out on September 30

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