Colress TCG / Colress and Unova
Colress and Unova.
Who Colress is, the question he kept asking from Team Plasma to Alola, and Unova, the region it all started in: the Black Bolt and White Flare rares, the partners and the inversion.
The scientist.
アクロマ
Achroma
achromatic. colorless, 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.
The timeline.
- 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.
- 2026
Nine of nine.
The 155 lands. Every English printing is on the desk, two of them in slabs.
- 2026
The long list starts.
Three Japanese printings and one Korean in, more in the mail. The drive stays open.
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.
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.