Pokemon cards are returning to McDonald’s Happy Meals next month. That has now been officially confirmed. The thing is, when it was officially confirmed, Pokemon appears to have revealed the cards it has earmarked for next year’s McDonald’s set instead of the one that will be released in the US on November 10.

All 15 cards you’ll find in Happy Meals starting on that date (November 3 in Canada, and November 5 in Australia) have been revealed, including Chandelure, Tyranitar, and, of course, Pikachu. That’s why fans were a little confused when an entirely different set including Raichu and Rowlet appeared on the Pokemon website.

A closer look at the erroneous cards before the post was quickly taken down revealed that the stamp on them read M27, not M26, implying that the 15-card set we were shown is the one that will be in next year’s Happy Meals. To be clear, not the cards that will be available when the upcoming promo hits other countries like the UK, but an entirely new set that we likely won’t see in Happy Meals in the US until around this time next year.

Other than the surprising revelation that Pokemon seemingly plans these things more than a year in advance, there are a couple of interesting tidbits to pull from this uncharacteristic mistake. The first is the Squirtle card. The Squirtle in the M27 set is a new card. Almost every card included in McDonald’s sets is a reprint from a pre-existing expansion.

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