bounsweet pokemon card Reverse Foil Sol E Lua Carta Pokemon - Bounsweet - 18/149

Used in decks like Legacy Lands, it can hate out any deck that relies on using creatures to get in

Notably, this design includes subtle green touches that reference the Pokmons canonical trainer, N (the green tones marry up neatly with the colours of the trainers hair)

Bandai says that it was released in September 1996 (It was also said that there was no exact release date left.) In summary The answer of title, Pokemon cards printed earliest is the Pokemon card released before Sep 1996

There are 12 rare creatures, 3 mythic rare creatures, and 1 mythic rare planeswalker (Tezzeret, Cruel Captain) with borderless triumphant cards

Yes, I know, I talk about this subject frequently