Japan · 2010
This page covers all 314 Japanese cards of 2010, in five releases: 81 on 11 February, 40 on 16 April, 81 on 8 July, and 112 on 17 December — Black Collection and White Collection, 56 cards each, which threw out the LEGEND frame and started the BW era. The two halves of the year are documented differently: the three LEGEND sets had to be read off their English twins, while the December packs have Japanese listings of their own, so their stats are first-hand. The English edition of 2010 is 414 cards across four sets and contains none of the December packs — English Black & White did not land until 25 April 2011.
Five sets, 314 cards, fourteen LEGEND halves — and a December that replaced the frame, the rules and the pack size at once
2010 is the year the LEGEND era uses itself up and then gets thrown away. In February the three Legendary beasts are printed as three different pairs; in April a forty-card subset bets the whole game on a zone you cannot get cards back out of; in July the era closes with three pairs and the strongest Trainer line it ever printed. Then, five months later, two 56-card packs arrive with a new frame, Abilities in place of Poké-Powers, and not one two-card Pokémon anywhere in them.
Twelve ☆ cards, fourteen LEGEND halves, two Alph Lithographs — and then none of those words in December. What changes across the year is not only a mechanic but the thing you buy: the LEGEND pack was eleven cards at 315 yen, Lost Link seven at 200, and Black & White five at 150. The Japanese pack halves twice in twelve months, and the last halving is the one that sticks for the next five years.
Each set opens with what it was and when it landed, then every card in set order. The number line follows the card face. The three LEGEND sets print to 080, 040 and 080, and where a card prints past its own total — Alph Lithograph at 081/080 in February and again in July — it is shown exactly as printed, not normalised to a dash. The December packs are the only ones here that print three cards past the end: 001/053–053/053, then 054 and 055 as full-art reprints and 056 as the secret Pikachu, which is why a 53-card pack shows 56 rows.
About the pictures and the numbers. Every card face on this page is a Japanese scan. For the three LEGEND sets the stats — HP, type, stage, attacks, ability, illustrator — come from the English printing of the same card, because no Japanese database covers that era, and the pairing was checked one card at a time. The December packs do not need that detour: their type, HP, retreat cost, illustrator, attacks and Trainer text are read from Japanese listings of the cards themselves, and English is used only for the official English names and to answer one question — is this the same card, or a different one with the same name. Both answers are given on the card, under About this data.
This page documents 314 main-series cards across five products on four release dates in 2010. It covers cards printed in Japan only; printings for other editions are tracked separately.
| Publication edition | Japanese edition |
|---|---|
| Products | 5 |
| Cards | 314 |
| Release dates | 4 (2010-02-11 – 2010-12-17) |
| Series codes | l2, ll, l3, bw1b, bw1w |
| Card faces on record | all 314 |
| Latest release on record | 2010-12-17 |
L2 · Reviving Legends (2010-02-11, 81 cards) · LL · Lost Link (2010-04-16, 40 cards) · L3 · Clash at the Summit (2010-07-08, 81 cards) · BW1 · Black Collection (2010-12-17, 56 cards) · BW1 · White Collection (2010-12-17, 56 cards).
How many main-series cards does this page record for 2010?314 cards across five products, an average of 62.8 cards per product. This is the main-series archive count, not a claim that every promo and event card from the year is itemised here.
What release dates does this page cover?4 release dates, from 2010-02-11 to 2010-12-17.
Do these Japanese cards have English-edition counterparts?313 of 314 cards (99.7%) carry a mapping to an English-edition card; the remaining 1 are Japanese-only printings or not yet paired.
How many of these 314 cards are shown with a card face?All 314 cards have a card face on record. 6 of those faces are marked as a scan from another print run rather than the original printing.
Reviving Legends (よみがえる伝説, L2), 81 cards. Darkness and Metal enter the LEGEND era here, and so do its first Stadium cards. The six LEGEND halves are the same three beasts in three different pairs — Entei & Raikou, Suicune & Entei, Raikou & Suicune. 081/080 is the third Alph Lithograph. The Tyranitar and Steelix Constructed Standard Decks ship the same day, and their two ☆ cards are why English's third set of the year has six ☆ instead of four.
Lost Link (強化パック ロストリンク, LL), 40 cards. The only subset of the era: seven cards a pack, 200 yen, and no Energy card inside. Everything in it turns on the Lost Zone, and Lost World wins the game outright at ten cards a side. Never printed in English as a set.
Unleashed, 96 cards. English's cut of February's set — but not of all of it: all six beast LEGEND halves land here, and all four of February's ☆ cards, while the rest of the set waits for August.
Clash at the Summit (頂上大激突, L3), 81 cards. The last set of the LEGEND era: three LEGEND pairs, four ☆ cards, and the Trainer line the era is remembered for — Junk Arm, Twins, Black Belt, Indigo Plateau, Rescue Energy. 081/080 is the fourth Alph Lithograph. Two days later Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark opens.
Undaunted, 91 cards. English finishes February's set here — and then does something it had never done: it pulls two LEGEND pairs forward from July's set, Kyogre & Groudon and Rayquaza & Deoxys, so those four cards reach English one month after Japan. The six ☆ cards come from the Tyranitar and Steelix decks plus four promos, not from the Japanese set at all.
Triumphant, 103 cards. July's set plus the body of April's Lost Link, with eight ☆ cards — the four from Clash at the Summit and the four from Lost Link put in one set. Twelve Lost Link cards do not fit and are held back.
Black Collection and White Collection (ブラック／ホワイトコレクション, BW1), 56 cards each, 112 in all — the BW era begins, five months after the LEGEND era ended. Five cards a pack at 150 yen, after eleven at 315 and seven at 200. The two packs share exactly one card, the secret Pikachu at 056/053, so together they cover 95 species with one overlap. Abilities replace Poké-Powers and Poké-Bodies, there is no LEGEND, no Lv.X, no ☆ and no Energy card, and three cards print past the end of the list instead of one.
The same three beasts, printed three different ways. The set's six LEGEND cards are three pairs — Entei & Raikou (063/064), Suicune & Entei (065/066) and Raikou & Suicune (067/068) — so the same three Legendary beasts appear three times, each time as a different couple. This is the only set of the era that treats LEGEND as a combination puzzle rather than one marquee Pokémon. Four ☆ cards: Kingdra, Lanturn, Tyranitar and Steelix. Darkness and Metal enter the LEGEND era here, and so do its first Stadium cards. Numbered to 080, with 081 Alph Lithograph printed 081/080. The Tyranitar and Steelix Constructed Standard Decks went on sale the same day, and their two ☆ cards are what English used to fill its six ☆ slots. The common / uncommon / holo split for these sets was never published, so it is not stated here. The 315 yen price is carried over from the 2009 L1 packs of the same 拡張パック line, which sold at 300 yen plus tax; the price field for these two sets is blank in the reference listings, so it is not confirmed against a primary source.
2010-02-11. 81 cards — 68 Pokémon, 11 Trainers and 2 Energy; 26 commons, 22 uncommons, 12 rares, 10 holofoil rares, 4 Prime, 6 LEGEND halves, 1 secret rare; Colourless 10, Grass 8, Psychic 8, Darkness 8, Metal 8, Water 7, Lightning 7, Fighting 7 and Fire 5; 35 artists worked on it and Mitsuhiro Arita drew 5.
Three beasts, three pairs, and one of them is a different three beasts. The set's six LEGEND halves are Entei & Raikou (063/064), Suicune & Entei (065/066) and Raikou & Suicune (067/068) — the same three Legendary beasts printed three times, each time as a different couple. Pull both halves of one pair and they are the same Pokémon; pull one half of each and you have three cards that do nothing. This is the only set in the era that treats LEGEND as a combination puzzle rather than a single marquee Pokémon. Below them sit four ☆ cards — Kingdra, Lanturn, Tyranitar, Steelix — and the first Stadium cards of the LEGEND era. Darkness and Metal both enter the block here. The set is numbered to 080, but 081 is Alph Lithograph, printed 081/080 — the third Alph Lithograph, after the two 2009 packs.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Oddish, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Ram is 10 for a single Colourless; Find a Friend costs one Grass and, on heads, fetches any Grass Pokémon out of the deck. On a 40 HP body that is a turn spent setting up rather than attacking, which is the whole point of the line. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Gloom, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Miracle Powder is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless, and on heads you pick which Special Condition the defender gets, so it is Asleep, Confused, Paralyzed or Poisoned as needed rather than at random. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Allergy Flower
Vileplume, 120 HP, Grass, Stage 2, rare, retreat 2 — the Poké-Body Allergy Flower stops both players from playing Trainer cards out of hand, which is a lock on the whole Item economy rather than on one deck. Dazzling Pollen is 50 for two Grass and a Colourless, plus 20 on heads or Confused on tails. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Hustle Step
Bellossom, 110 HP, Grass, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Hustle Step takes one damage counter off every Pokémon you have in play, once a turn, which is the widest healing in the set. Dance 'til Dawn is 30 times the heads on three coins for a Grass and a Colourless, and puts Bellossom to Sleep afterwards. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Scyther, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Afterimage Strike is 20 for two Colourless, and during their next turn a coin flip can cancel the damage of any attack aimed at Scyther. On a 60 HP Basic that coin is the difference between a one-hit Knock Out and a wasted turn. Wataru Kawahara/Direc. Shinji Higuchi.
Pineco, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Focus Energy is a single Colourless and lifts the base damage of next turn's Surprise Attack from 40 to 80; the attack itself costs a Grass and a Colourless and does nothing on tails. Two turns of setup for one 80-damage swing. Kyoko Umemoto.
Combee, 30 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Enraged Assault is 20 for a single Colourless, and becomes 20 plus 60 with Poison if a Vespiquen with damage counters on it is on your Bench. The smallest card in the set that only works next to the biggest one. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Defense Sign
Vespiquen, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, rare, retreat 3 — the Poké-Body Defense Sign prevents all damage done to your Benched Grass Pokémon by attacks, which is protection the Bench normally never gets. Mach Wind is 60 for a Grass and two Colourless and drops its own Retreat Cost to 0 for a turn. Naoyo Kimura.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Flareon, 90 HP, Fire, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Flame Tail is 30 for a single Colourless, so it attacks from one Energy of any colour; Flamethrower is 90 for two Fire and a Colourless and discards an Energy off Flareon. kawayoo.
Ability Active Volcano
Slugma, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, common, retreat 2 — the Poké-Power Active Volcano discards the top card of your deck once a turn and attaches it to Slugma if it turns out to be a Fire Energy, which is free acceleration that costs you the top of your deck. Combustion is 40 for two Fire and a Colourless. Yuka Morii.
Magcargo, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 3 — Searing Flame is 20 for a Fire and a Colourless and Burns; Lava Flow is 60 for two Fire and a Colourless, plus 20 for every Fire Energy you choose to discard off Magcargo. With Slugma feeding it, the second attack is the payoff of the line. Yuka Morii.
Entei & Raikou LEGEND, 140 HP, Fire, Basic LEGEND, free retreat — the top half of the pair (the bottom half is 064). Both halves together count as one Pokémon, and the pair gives up two Prize cards when Knocked Out. Detonation Spin is 90 for a Fire and a Colourless and discards a Fire Energy off it; Thunder Fall costs a Lightning and a Colourless, throws away every Energy on it, and puts 80 on each Pokémon in play that has a Poké-Power, both sides, ignoring Weakness and Resistance. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Entei & Raikou LEGEND, 140 HP, Fire, Basic LEGEND, free retreat — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 063, and the half that carries the LEGEND rule text: put both halves from your hand onto your Bench to play it. Same two attacks as the top half; the artwork is the other end of the same scene. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Horsea, 50 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Beat is 10 for one Colourless; Fin Smack is 20 times the heads on two coins for a Water and a Colourless, so anywhere from 0 to 40. Shin Nagasawa.
Seadra, 80 HP, Water, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Muddy Water is 20 for a single Water and puts 10 on one of their Benched Pokémon; Razor Fin is 50 for a Water and two Colourless. The Bench damage is what makes the middle stage worth playing. Shin Nagasawa.
Kingdra, 130 HP, Water, Stage 2, uncommon, retreat 1 — Water Arrow costs one Water and puts 30 on any one of their Pokémon, Bench included, ignoring Weakness and Resistance; Stream Pump is 50 for a Water and two Colourless, and you may take 30 more by returning an Energy to hand. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Spray Splash
Kingdra, 130 HP, Water, Stage 2, prime, retreat 1 — the ☆ version. The Poké-Power Spray Splash puts one damage counter anywhere on their side every turn, which turns every turn into a free 10 and sets up the numbers for everything else. Dragon Steam is 60 for a single Water, dropping to 20 if they have any Fire Pokémon in play. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Vaporeon, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Spiral Drain is 20 for a single Colourless and heals two damage counters off Vaporeon; Dual Splash costs two Water and a Colourless and puts 30 on two of their Pokémon, Bench included. sui.
Suicune & Entei LEGEND, 160 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 1 — the top half of the pair (the bottom half is 066). Torrent Blade costs two Water and a Colourless, returns two Water to your hand, and then puts 100 on any one of their Benched Pokémon, ignoring Weakness and Resistance for the Bench; Bursting Inferno is 80 for a Fire and two Colourless and Burns. The pair is the only LEGEND in the set that can hit the Bench for 100. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Suicune & Entei LEGEND, 160 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 1 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 065, carrying the LEGEND rule: both halves from hand onto the Bench, one Pokémon, two Prizes when Knocked Out. Same two attacks as its partner. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Jolteon, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, uncommon, free retreat — Agility is 20 for a single Colourless, and on heads every effect of their next attack, damage included, is prevented; Mach Bolt is 70 for two Lightning and a Colourless. Shin Nagasawa.
Chinchou, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, retreat 1 — the plain two-attack Basic: Ram is 10 for a single Colourless, Lightning Ball is 20 for a Lightning and a Colourless. sui.
Lanturn, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, rare, retreat 2 — Confuse Ray is 20 for a single Lightning and Confuses on heads; Reflect Energy is 60 for a Lightning and two Colourless and moves an Energy off Lanturn onto a Benched Pokémon, so the attack pays for the next one. sui.
Ability Underwater Dive
Lanturn, 110 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, prime, retreat 2 — the ☆ version, and 20 HP bigger. The Poké-Power Underwater Dive turns Lanturn into a Water Pokémon until the end of the turn, once a turn, so it can hit a Fighting weak spot or dodge one. Powerful Spark is 40 for a Lightning and two Colourless, plus 10 for every Energy attached to any of your Pokémon. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Ability Mischievous Trick
Rotom, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Mischievous Trick swaps one of your face-down Prize cards with the top card of your deck, once a turn, which is the only card in the set that edits the prize race directly. Plasma Arrow costs a single Lightning and does 20 for each Energy on the Pokémon you pick, ignoring Weakness and Resistance. MAHOU.
Raikou & Suicune LEGEND, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic LEGEND, retreat 1 — the top half of the pair (the bottom half is 068). Thunderbolt Spear is 150 for two Lightning and a Colourless, with 50 back on itself before Weakness, which is the biggest single number in the set; Aurora Gain is 50 for a Water and two Colourless and takes five damage counters off it. Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya.
Raikou & Suicune LEGEND, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic LEGEND, retreat 1 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 067, and the half that prints the LEGEND rule text. Same two attacks as its partner: 150 with 50 recoil, or 50 and a five-counter heal. Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Grimer, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Sticky Liquid costs one Psychic, does no damage, and raises the Retreat Cost of the Defending Pokémon for a turn, which is a lock on their switch rather than on their HP. Sludge Toss is 20 for two Colourless. Midori Harada.
Muk, 100 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Sludge Drag costs one Psychic, drags one of their Benched Pokémon up as the new defender and leaves it Confused and Poisoned; Pester is 50 for a Psychic and two Colourless, plus 30 if the defender is already under a Special Condition. The two attacks are built to be played in that order. Midori Harada.
Espeon, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Solar Suggestion costs one Psychic and moves up to four damage counters from any of your Pokémon to any of theirs, which is a heal and a snipe in the same attack; Psybeam is 30 for a Psychic and a Colourless and Confuses on heads. match.
Misdreavus, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Mumble is 10 for a single Colourless; Dual Draw costs one Psychic and draws three cards for each player, which is a card-advantage attack only if your deck is the one that wants the cards. Suwama Chiaki.
Mismagius, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Sleeping Spell is 30 for a single Psychic and puts the defender to Sleep on heads; Poltergeist costs a Psychic and a Colourless and does 30 for every Trainer, Supporter and Stadium card in their hand, so it punishes the hand they are holding rather than the board. Suwama Chiaki.
Ability DARK
Unown, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, uncommon, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power DARK triggers when Unown is put from hand onto the Bench and searches out a Darkness Energy card, which is how a Darkness deck finds its Special Energy. Hidden Power is 10 for a single Psychic. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Drifloon, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Minimize costs one Colourless and cuts every attack's damage to Drifloon by 20 for a turn; Pull also costs one Colourless and switches their defender out on heads. Both attacks are defensive, on a 50 HP body. Kagemaru Himeno.
Drifblim, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, rare, free retreat — Balloon Tackle is 60 for a Psychic and a Colourless and does 20 to itself; Take Away costs three Colourless and shuffles Drifblim and the defending Pokémon, with everything attached to both, back into their owners' decks. Free retreat on the way in, and a card that removes a threat without Knocking it Out. Kagemaru Himeno.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Energy Healer
Onix, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 4 — the Poké-Body Energy Healer removes a damage counter every time you attach an Energy from hand to Onix, which pays back the four-Energy retreat cost one card at a time. Boundless Power is 80 for a Fighting and three Colourless, and Onix cannot attack on your next turn. MAHOU.
Gligar, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Stun Poison is 20 for a Fighting and a Colourless and, on heads, leaves the defender Paralyzed and Poisoned at once, which is both a turn skipped and a clock. Naoki Saito.
Gliscor, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Ninja Fang is 30 for a single Fighting and Paralyzes the defender if it had no damage on it before the hit, which makes it a first-strike attack; Poison Jab is 50 for a Fighting and two Colourless and Poisons. Naoki Saito.
Larvitar, 50 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Mountain Eater costs one Colourless, mills the top card of their deck and heals two damage counters off Larvitar; Reckless Charge is 20 for one Colourless and does 10 back to itself. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Ability Boost Gas
Pupitar, 70 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Boost Gas drops Pupitar's Retreat Cost to 0 as long as it has any Energy attached, so one Energy buys a free retreat. Rage is 20 for two Colourless plus 10 for each damage counter on Pupitar. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Makuhita, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Slap Down is 20 for a Fighting and a Colourless plus 10 per heads on two coins; Slap Push is 40 for a Fighting and two Colourless. Tomokazu Komiya.
Hariyama, 100 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, rare, retreat 3 — Hammer In is 60 for a Fighting and two Colourless; Backward Belt Throw costs two Fighting and two Colourless and is 80, or 100 if you take 20 back on Hariyama. The optional extra is the whole card. Tomokazu Komiya.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Umbreon, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Moonlight Fang is 30 for a single Darkness and, for the whole of their next turn, prevents all damage and effects done to Umbreon by any Pokémon that has a Poké-Power or a Poké-Body, which is a shield built specifically against the ☆ cards in this set. Quick Blow is 30 for a Darkness and a Colourless, plus 30 on heads. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Murkrow, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Glide is 10 for a single Colourless; Dark Cutter is 30 for a Darkness and two Colourless. Masakazu Fukuda.
Sneasel, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, free retreat — Fury Swipes is 10 times the heads on three coins for a single Colourless; Beat Up costs two Darkness and flips a coin for each of your Pokémon in play, doing 20 per heads, so it scales with your Bench. Aya Kusube.
Ability Claw Snag
Weavile, 80 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, rare, free retreat — the Poké-Power Claw Snag fires when Weavile evolves something and takes a card out of their hand, which is hand disruption on the turn it lands. Feint Attack costs a Darkness and a Colourless and puts 30 on any of their Pokémon, ignoring Weakness, Resistance and every effect on it. Aya Kusube.
Houndour, 50 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Jump On costs a single Darkness and is 10, plus 10 on heads. Kagemaru Himeno.
Houndoom, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Fire Counterattack costs one Darkness and is 20, or 80 if they have any Fighting Pokémon in play, which is the set's answer to the Fighting decks built around Donphan and Machamp. Dark Roar is 50 for two Darkness and makes them discard a card. Kagemaru Himeno.
Tyranitar, 160 HP, Darkness, Stage 2, prime, retreat 3 — the ☆ version and the biggest Pokémon in the set. Darkness Howl costs one Darkness and puts 20 on every Pokémon in play except Darkness ones, both sides, so it is a board wipe that spares your own type. Power Claw is 60 for a Darkness and two Colourless and ignores every effect on the defender; Megaton Tail is 120 for two Darkness and two Colourless and mills the top three cards of your deck. Wataru Kawahara.
Sableye, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Pull Out costs one Darkness and puts any card from the discard pile on top of your deck, which is a reusable way to get a card back every turn. Dark Hand is 20 for a Darkness and a Colourless, plus 30 if you hold more cards than they do. Midori Harada.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Forretress, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 3 — Mirror Shot is 30 for a Metal and a Colourless and taxes their next attack with a coin flip; Everyone Explode Now is 30 times the number of Pineco and Forretress you have in play, and puts 30 on each of them as well. It is the only attack in the set that pays you for playing a whole line. Kyoko Umemoto.
Ability Perfect Metal
Steelix, 140 HP, Metal, Stage 1, prime, retreat 4 — the ☆ version. The Poké-Body Perfect Metal makes Steelix immune to every Special Condition, which on a 140 HP body with a four-Energy retreat is the difference between a wall and a sitting target. Energy Stream is 30 for two Colourless and pulls an Energy out of the discard; Gaia Crush is 100 for two Metal and three Colourless and may discard a Stadium in play. Wataru Kawahara.
Scizor, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the plain two-attack Metal body: Cut is 50 for a Metal and a Colourless, Metal Claw is 80 for two Metal and a Colourless. No effects, no coin flips, and a retreat of 1. Kent Kanetsuna/Direc. Shinji Higuchi.
Skarmory, 80 HP, Metal, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — Steel Coat costs one Metal and searches out a Metal Energy for any of your Pokémon; Razor Wing is 40 for a Metal and two Colourless. The first attack is why it is a rare. Midori Harada.
Mawile, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Selfish Draw costs one Colourless and either takes the top card of your deck or discards it to draw a different one; Destructive Jaw is 30 for a Metal and two Colourless and, on heads, Paralyzes and strips an Energy off the defender. TOKIYA.
Beldum, 50 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Lunge Out is 10 for a single Metal; Single Smash is 50 for two Metal and a Colourless and does nothing on tails. TOKIYA.
Metang, 80 HP, Metal, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Hammer In is 30 for a Metal and a Colourless; Double Smash is 50 times the heads on two coins for a Metal and two Colourless. TOKIYA.
Metagross, 130 HP, Metal, Stage 2, rare, retreat 4 — Strength is 70 for two Metal and a Colourless; Quad Smash costs two Metal and two Colourless and is 50 times the heads on four coins, which is the widest damage range in the set: 0 to 200 on one attack. TOKIYA.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Retreat Aid
Dodrio, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Retreat Aid cuts two off your Active Pokémon's Retreat Cost while Dodrio sits on the Bench, which is a board-wide effect from a card that never attacks. Incessant Peck is 20 for two Colourless plus 20 for every heads before the first tails. Yukiko Baba.
Rattata, 40 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Gnaw is 20 for a single Colourless, which is the cheapest 20 in the set on a 40 HP body. Sachiko Adachi.
Raticate, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, free retreat — Razor-Sharp Incisors costs one Colourless and does 10 for each damage counter already on the defender, so it finishes what the rest of your board started; Gnaw Up is 30 for one Colourless and discards a Special Energy off the defender. Sachiko Adachi.
Doduo, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Peck is 10 for a single Colourless; Double Headstrike is 50 for two Colourless and does nothing if either of two coins is tails. Yukiko Baba.
Ability Retreat Aid
Dodrio, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, rare, free retreat — the Poké-Body Retreat Aid cuts two off your Active Pokémon's Retreat Cost while Dodrio is on the Bench, so it works without ever being sent out. Continuous Peck is 20 for two Colourless and keeps adding 20 for every heads until the first tails. This is the Dodrio English never printed: hgss3 carries the 039 version, and this one stayed Japanese-only. Yukiko Baba.
Eevee, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Tackle is 10 for a single Colourless; Bite is 20 for two Colourless. The Basic that every Eeveelution in the set evolves from. Kanako Eo.
Togepi, 40 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Plead costs one Colourless and asks the opponent whether you may draw two cards; if they say no, it does 20 damage instead. The only card in the set that negotiates. Atsuko Nishida.
Togetic, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Chase Up costs one Colourless and fetches any single card from the deck; Fly is 30 for two Colourless, does nothing on tails and prevents all damage and effects on heads. Atsuko Nishida.
Togekiss, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Blessed Wings costs two Colourless and removes every damage counter from every Pokémon you have in play, then shuffles Togekiss and everything attached to it back into your deck, which is a full heal at the price of the attacker. Air Cutter is 80 for three Colourless and does nothing on tails. Atsuko Nishida.
Ability Portrait
Smeargle, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Portrait looks at their hand while Smeargle is Active and copies the effect of any Supporter found there, once a turn, which is the only way in the set to use a Supporter you do not own. Tail Rap is 20 times the heads on two coins for two Colourless. Midori Harada.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Choose an Energy card from your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. Search your deck for an Energy card, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Energy Exchanger, Trainer (Goods) — put an Energy card from your hand on top of your deck, then search the deck for an Energy card and take it into your hand. It does not add Energy, it swaps one for another, which is how a two-type deck fixes its colours without playing more Energy. Ryo Ueda.
Attach Defender to 1 of your Pokémon. Discard this card at the end of your opponent's next turn. Any damage done to the Pokémon Defender is attached to by an opponent's attack is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Defender, Trainer (Goods) — a Pokémon Tool: the holder takes 20 less damage from attacks for a turn, applied after Weakness and Resistance, then the card is discarded. Twenty is exactly the size of a small attack in this set. Ryo Ueda.
Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 1 or Stage 2 card that evolves from that Pokémon in your hand, put that card on the Basic Pokémon. (This counts as evolving that Pokémon.) If you choose a Stage 2 Pokémon in your hand, put that Pokémon on the Basic Pokémon instead of on a Stage 1 Pokémon.
Rare Candy, Trainer (Goods) — put a Stage 1 or Stage 2 card straight onto a Basic, skipping the middle stage, and it counts as evolving. On a Stage 2 it is put on directly instead of on a Stage 1. The card every evolution deck in the set is built around. Noriko Hotta.
Attach PlusPower to 1 of your Pokémon. Discard this card at the end of your turn. If the Pokémon PlusPower is attached to attacks, the attack does 10 more damage to the Defending Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
PlusPower, Trainer (Goods) — a Pokémon Tool: while attached, the holder's attacks do 10 more damage to the Defending Pokémon, before Weakness and Resistance, and it is discarded at the end of the turn. Ten damage is the most common miss in this set: this is the card that turns a 90 into a Knock Out. Takashi Yamaguchi.
Reveal the top 10 cards of your deck. If you reveal both halves of a Pokémon LEGEND, put those cards onto your Bench and attach all revealed Energy cards to that Pokémon LEGEND. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. (You can play only 1 Pokémon LEGEND in this way.)
Legend Box, Trainer (Goods) — reveal the top ten cards of your deck; if both halves of a Pokémon LEGEND turn up, put them onto your Bench together and attach every revealed Energy card to it. It is the only card that assembles a LEGEND without holding both halves in hand. Shizurow.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. Search your discard pile for 3 Pokémon and 3 basic Energy cards. Show them to your opponent and shuffle them into your deck.
Flower Shop Lady, Supporter — search the discard pile for three Pokémon and three basic Energy cards, show them, and shuffle them back into the deck. Six cards back for one Supporter, which is the biggest recovery card in the set. Kanako Eo.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. Look at the top 5 cards of your deck. Choose any 2 cards you find there and put them into your hand. Discard the other cards.
Sage's Training, Supporter — look at the top five cards of your deck, take any two into your hand and discard the rest. Two cards for one Supporter and five cards off the deck at the same time. Masakazu Fukuda.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. Draw 2 cards. Then, your opponent discards a card from his or her hand.
Team Rocket's Trickery, Supporter — draw two cards, then they discard one from their hand. It is the set's only Supporter that takes a card off the opponent, and it is card-neutral for you, so it is a disruption card rather than a draw card. Takao Unno.
This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card. Each Pokémon in play has no Resistance.
Ruins of Alph, Stadium — every Pokémon in play has no Resistance while this is out. On a board full of Colourless attackers facing Fighting and Metal defenders it is worth 20 a turn, and it works for both players. Ryo Ueda.
This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card. Once during each player's turn, that player may flip a coin. If heads, the player searches his or her discard pile for a basic Energy card, shows it to his or her opponent, and put it into his or her hand.
Burned Tower, Stadium — once on each player's turn that player may flip a coin and, on heads, take a basic Energy card out of their discard pile into their hand. Free Energy recovery in a set whose two best ☆ cards both discard Energy. Ryo Ueda.
Return any Stadium card in play to its player's hand!
Alph Lithograph, Trainer (Goods) — return any Stadium card in play to its player's hand. It is the set's secret card, printed 081/080, one past the end of the set, and the only card here numbered above the total. Milky Isobe.
2 cards · listed in original order.
If the Pokémon Darkness Energy is attached to attacks, the attack does 10 more damage to the Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). Ignore this effect if the Pokémon that Darkness Energy is attached to isn’t Darkness. Darkness Energy provides Darkness Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.)
Darkness Energy, Special Energy — provides one Darkness Energy and does not count as a basic Energy card. While it is attached to a Darkness Pokémon, that Pokémon's attacks do 10 more damage to the Active Pokémon, before Weakness and Resistance. The 10 is the same margin PlusPower buys, except this one stays attached. Kent Kanetsuna.
Provides 1 Metal Energy. Damage done to the Pokémon this card is attached to by the Defending Pokémon's attacks is reduced by 10.
Special Metal Energy, Special Energy — provides one Metal Energy and does not count as a basic Energy card. Damage done to the Pokémon it is attached to by the Defending Pokémon's attacks is reduced by 10. The mirror of the Darkness one at 079: that card buys damage, this one buys survivability. Kent Kanetsuna.
The only subset of the LEGEND era, and the only pack with different contents and a different price. Seven cards a pack instead of eleven, 200 yen including tax, twenty packs a box, and not one Energy card inside the pack. All forty cards are built on the Lost Zone, and Lost World (040) wins the game outright once both players have ten cards there; Lost Remover sends a Special Energy straight out of play. There is no Fire Pokémon and no Metal Pokémon anywhere in the forty, which is a strange shape for a set this small. No secret card — it runs 001/040 to 040/040 and stops. Released in Japanese only: English folded twenty-eight of the forty into Unleashed and Triumphant and held the other twelve back for Call of Legends in February 2011.
2010-04-16. 40 cards — 36 Pokémon, 4 Trainers and 0 Energy; 12 commons, 10 uncommons, 6 rares, 6 holofoil rares, 4 Prime, 2 LEGEND halves; Psychic 10, Grass 7, Colourless 7, Lightning 4, Fighting 4, Darkness 3 and Water 1; 10 artists worked on it and Hideaki Hakozaki drew 8.
Forty cards, seven to a pack, and a mechanic nobody can play around. Lost Link is the only subset of the LEGEND era: 200 yen a pack instead of 315, seven cards instead of eleven, and no Energy card in the pack at all. Everything in it is built on the Lost Zone — the discard-pile-like area introduced in 2009 that cards cannot get things back out of. Lost World (040) wins the game outright once both players have ten cards in the Lost Zone, and Lost Remover strips a Special Energy straight out of play. There is no Fire Pokémon and no Metal Pokémon anywhere in the forty. It is not a thin set, though: one LEGEND pair — Darkrai & Cresselia (035/036) — and four ☆ cards, Magnezone, Gengar, Mew and Absol, which are the four ☆ cards Triumphant borrows in November. No secret card: it runs 001/040 to 040/040 and stops. This set was never printed in English as a set — twenty-eight of its forty cards were folded into Unleashed and Triumphant, and the other twelve waited for Call of Legends in February 2011.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Venonat, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Leech Life is 10 for a Grass and a Colourless and heals off Venonat exactly the damage it dealt; Tackle is 20 for two Colourless. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Ability Poison Moth Wind
Venomoth, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Poison Moth Wind flips a coin every turn: heads poisons their Active Pokémon, tails poisons yours. It is a coin flip that is never wasted, only aimed badly. Stun Spore is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and Paralyzes on heads. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Tangela, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Nutritional Support costs one Grass and attaches a Grass Energy straight out of the deck to any of your Pokémon, which is a turn-one accelerator on a Basic; Poisonpowder is 30 for a Grass and two Colourless and Poisons. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Tangrowth, 110 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 4 — Grind costs one Colourless and does 20 for every Energy attached to Tangrowth; Plow Over is 30 for a Grass and two Colourless and either Paralyzes on heads or, on tails, puts an Energy off the defender into the Lost Zone, which is permanent. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Volbeat, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Illumisile costs one Grass and does nothing at all unless Illumise is in play, and then puts 30 on a Benched Pokémon; Firefly Light is 30 for a Grass and two Colourless and leaves the defender Burned and Confused at once. Kent Kanetsuna.
Illumise, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Sweet Scent costs one Colourless and takes three damage counters off any of your Pokémon; Vulcan Beat costs one Grass and flips a coin for each Volbeat you have in play, 30 per heads. The pair only pays off if both are on the board. Kent Kanetsuna.
Carnivine, 80 HP, Grass, Basic, rare, retreat 2 — Saliva Lure costs one Colourless and drags one of their Benched Pokémon up as the new defender, without doing damage; Stick and Absorb is 30 for two Grass and a Colourless, heals three off Carnivine and stops that Pokémon from retreating for a turn. Ryo Ueda.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Relicanth, 80 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Prehistoric Wisdom costs one Colourless, puts a card from your hand into the Lost Zone and draws three, so it converts one card into three at the price of losing it for the game; Granite Head is 30 for a Water and two Colourless and cuts incoming attack damage by 30 for a turn. Wataru Kawahara.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Magnemite, 50 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Magnetic Switch costs one Colourless and swaps Magnemite with a Benched Pokémon; Thundershock is 20 for a Lightning and a Colourless and Paralyzes on heads. Noriko Hotta.
Magneton, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Speed Ball is 20 for a single Lightning; Tri Attack costs two Colourless and is 20 times the heads on three coins. It attacks for Colourless, which is why it fits any deck. Noriko Hotta.
Ability Magnetic Draw
Magnezone, 140 HP, Lightning, Stage 2, prime, retreat 3 — the ☆ version. The Poké-Power Magnetic Draw refills your hand to six cards every turn, which is the best draw engine in the set and needs no cost at all. Lost Burn costs a Lightning and a Colourless and puts as many Energy cards off your Pokémon as you like into the Lost Zone, doing 50 for each — up to 200 off a charged board, permanently spent. Noriko Hotta.
Ability Self-Generation
Pachirisu, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Self-Generation fires when Pachirisu is put from hand onto the Bench and attaches up to two Lightning Energy from your hand to it, which is a two-Energy acceleration for free on the turn it lands. Shocking Bolt is 50 for two Lightning and puts every Energy on Pachirisu into the Lost Zone. Noriko Hotta.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Gastly, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Sneaky Placement costs one Psychic and puts a single damage counter on any of their Pokémon, which is the cheapest way in the set to set up a Knock Out number. Takashi Yamaguchi.
Haunter, 70 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, free retreat — Sneaky Placement costs one Psychic and puts two damage counters anywhere on their side; Sleep Poison costs two Colourless and leaves the defender Asleep and Poisoned without doing damage. Takashi Yamaguchi.
Ability Catastrophe
Gengar, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, prime, free retreat — the ☆ version, and the card the whole Lost Zone engine is built around. The Poké-Body Catastrophe sends any of their Pokémon that would be Knocked Out to the Lost Zone instead of the discard pile, so it can never be recovered. Hurl into Darkness costs one Psychic and puts one Pokémon from their hand into the Lost Zone for each Psychic Energy on Gengar; Cursed Drop costs a Psychic and a Colourless and spreads four damage counters anywhere you like. Takashi Yamaguchi.
Ability Sweet Sleeping Face
Mime Jr., 30 HP, Psychic, Basic, uncommon, free retreat — the Poké-Body Sweet Sleeping Face prevents all damage done to Mime Jr. while it is Asleep, so the whole card is built to stay asleep. Sleepy Lost costs nothing at all: it puts the top card of their deck into the Lost Zone and puts Mime Jr. to Sleep. Noriko Hotta.
Ability Trick Reveal
Mr. Mime, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Trick Reveal makes both players reveal their hands, once a turn, which is information rather than advantage. Juggling costs a Psychic and a Colourless and is 10 times the heads on four coins. Noriko Hotta.
Ability Lost Link
Mew, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, prime, free retreat — the ☆ version, and the strangest card in the set. The Poké-Body Lost Link lets Mew use the attacks of every Pokémon in the Lost Zone, yours and theirs, as long as you pay the Energy. See Off costs one Psychic and puts a Pokémon from your deck into the Lost Zone, which is how you load the Body with the attacks you want. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Seviper, 90 HP, Psychic, Basic, uncommon, retreat 2 — Poison Buildup costs one Colourless and poisons Seviper itself; Poison Effect costs a Psychic and a Colourless and is 20, or 20 plus 60 if Seviper is Poisoned, and it removes the Poison as it pays out. The first attack exists only to turn on the second. Wataru Kawahara.
Shuppet, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Disable costs one Colourless and, on heads, locks one of the defender's attacks for a turn; Haunt costs one Psychic and puts a damage counter on the defender. Ryo Ueda.
Banette, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Lost Crush costs one Psychic and, on heads, puts an Energy off one of their Pokémon into the Lost Zone, which is permanent Energy denial; Breakdown costs a Psychic and two Colourless and puts one damage counter on the defender for every card in their hand. Ryo Ueda.
Ability Spooky Whirlpool
Spiritomb, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power Spooky Whirlpool fires when Spiritomb is put onto the Bench and makes them shuffle their hand into their deck and draw six, which is the only card in the set that resets the opponent's hand. Color Tag costs one Psychic and puts a damage counter on every Pokémon of one chosen type they have in play. Shizurow.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Diglett, 40 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Sand Veil costs one Colourless and, on heads, prevents all damage and effects done to Diglett for a turn; Mini Earthquake is 40 for a Fighting and a Colourless and puts 10 on each of your own Benched Pokémon. Shizurow.
Dugtrio, 80 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, rare, free retreat — Dig is 30 for a single Fighting; Sand Impact costs three Colourless and is 50 plus 20 for each heads on a coin per Fighting Energy attached, so it scales with the Energy rather than the board. Shizurow.
Riolu, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, uncommon, retreat 1 — Kick is 10 for a single Colourless; Double Chop is 20 times the heads on two coins for a Fighting and a Colourless. Kouki Saitou.
Lucario, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — Bulk Up is 30 for a single Colourless and adds 30 to every Lucario attack next turn, which makes the second attack the real one; Magnum Punch is 50 for two Fighting. Kouki Saitou.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Eye of Disaster
Absol, 80 HP, Darkness, Basic, prime, retreat 1 — the ☆ version. The Poké-Body Eye of Disaster puts two damage counters on every Basic Pokémon they put onto their Bench while Absol is Active, which taxes the setup turn of every deck in the format. Vicious Claw is 70 for a Darkness and a Colourless and costs a Pokémon out of your hand into the Lost Zone — and does nothing at all if you cannot pay. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND, 150 HP, Darkness, Basic LEGEND, retreat 2 — the top half of the pair (the bottom half is 036); the two halves together count as one Pokémon and give up two Prizes. Lost Crisis is 100 for two Darkness and two Colourless, puts two Energy off it into the Lost Zone, and sends any Pokémon it Knocks Out to the Lost Zone instead of the discard pile; Moon's Invite costs one Psychic and moves as many damage counters around their side as you like. Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya.
Darkrai & Cresselia LEGEND, 150 HP, Darkness, Basic LEGEND, retreat 2 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 035, and the half that prints the LEGEND rule: both halves from your hand onto your Bench. Same two attacks: 100 that removes a Pokémon from the game, or a free redeployment of their damage counters. Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Snorlax, 100 HP, Colourless, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 4 — Layabout costs three Colourless, does no damage and removes every damage counter from Snorlax, then cannot be used next turn; Clomp Clomp Clobber is 80 for four Colourless and puts an Energy off Snorlax into the Lost Zone. Kent Kanetsuna.
Dratini, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Gentle Wrap is 10 for a single Colourless and stops the defender retreating for a turn; Ram is 20 for two Colourless. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Dragonair, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Search and Invite costs two Colourless and fetches up to two Pokémon out of the deck; Slam is 40 times the heads on two coins for three Colourless. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Dragonite, 140 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, rare, retreat 4 — Calming Wind is 50 for three Colourless and clears every Special Condition off Dragonite; Dragon Stamp is 80 for four Colourless, does nothing if both coins are tails and Paralyzes if both are heads. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Swablu, 40 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Wing Flick is 10 for a single Colourless and makes the opponent switch their own defender out, which is a free hit on whatever they bring up. Ryo Ueda.
Altaria, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, holofoil rare, free retreat — Midnight Eyes is 20 for a single Colourless and puts the defender to Sleep; Stadium Power is 40 for three Colourless and 40 plus 30 whenever there is a Stadium in play, which in this set is usually Lost World. Ryo Ueda.
Zangoose, 80 HP, Colourless, Basic, rare, retreat 2 — Swords Dance costs one Colourless and lifts the base damage of next turn's Lost Claw from 30 to 80; Lost Claw costs three Colourless and takes a card out of their hand, at random, straight into the Lost Zone. Wataru Kawahara.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put as many of them as you like back on top of your deck in any order. Then, put the remaining cards on the bottom of your deck in any order.
Research Record, Trainer (Goods) — look at the top four cards of your deck, put back as many as you like in any order and send the rest to the bottom. It is deck order, not card advantage, which is exactly what a Lost Zone deck needs. English held this one back and printed it in Call of Legends (2011-02-09). Hideaki Hakozaki.
Put 1 Special Energy card attached to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon in the Lost Zone.
Lost Remover, Trainer (Goods) — put one Special Energy card off one of their Pokémon into the Lost Zone. In a format where Special Energy is what attaches two at once, removing it permanently is the cheapest tempo card here. English printed it in Call of Legends (2011-02-09), not in Triumphant. Wataru Kawahara.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. Each player returns 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon and all cards attached to it to his or her hand. (You return your Pokémon first.)
Seeker, Supporter — each player returns one Benched Pokémon, with everything attached, to their hand, and you go first, so you get to pick before they do. It is a Supporter that resets a damaged Pokémon and re-uses an on-play Poké-Power at the same time. Wataru Kawahara.
This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card. Once during each player's turn, if that player's opponent has 6 or more Pokémon in the Lost Zone, the player may choose to win the game.
Lost World, Stadium — once on each player's turn, if their opponent has six or more Pokémon in the Lost Zone, that player may simply win the game. It is the only alternative win condition printed in this era, and the reason every other Lost Zone card in the set exists. English did not put it in Triumphant: it was held back for Call of Legends (2011-02-09). Hideaki Hakozaki.
The set that closes the LEGEND era, with three pairs each spending a different resource. Kyogre & Groudon (070/071) mills the opponent's deck; Palkia & Dialga (072/073) hands the opponent Prize cards in exchange for stalling their draws; Rayquaza & Deoxys (074/075) takes an extra Prize. Four ☆ cards: Yanmega, Celebi, Electrode and Machamp. The Trainer line is the strongest the era printed — Junk Arm, Twins, Black Belt — and Rescue Energy is its last new Special Energy. Numbered to 080 with 081 Alph Lithograph printed 081/080. Released two days before Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark opened in Japan. The common / uncommon / holo split for these sets was never published, so it is not stated here. The 315 yen price is carried over from the 2009 L1 packs of the same 拡張パック line, which sold at 300 yen plus tax; the price field for these two sets is blank in the reference listings, so it is not confirmed against a primary source.
2010-07-08. 81 cards — 75 Pokémon, 5 Trainers and 1 Energy; 27 commons, 21 uncommons, 12 rares, 10 holofoil rares, 4 Prime, 6 LEGEND halves, 1 secret rare; Water 14, Colourless 14, Psychic 10, Grass 9, Fighting 9, Lightning 6, Fire 5, Metal 5 and Darkness 3; 30 artists worked on it and Kagemaru Himeno drew 6.
The last set of the LEGEND era, and the one that spends everything it has. Three LEGEND pairs close the block — Kyogre & Groudon (070/071), Palkia & Dialga (072/073), Rayquaza & Deoxys (074/075) — each pair built around a different resource: milling the opponent's deck, handing out Prize cards, and taking an extra one. Four ☆ cards: Yanmega, Celebi, Electrode, Machamp. The Trainer line is the strongest of the three sets — Junk Arm, Twins, Black Belt — and Rescue Energy is the era's last new Special Energy. Numbered to 080 with 081 Alph Lithograph printed 081/080. Released two days before Ruler of Illusions: Zoroark opened, the last film of the generation.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Bellsprout, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Inviting Scent costs one Colourless and switches their Active Pokémon for one on their Bench, which is how this set drags a benched support Pokémon into the firing line. Careless Tackle is 20 for a single Grass and puts 10 on Bellsprout. Midori Harada.
Weepinbell, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Poisonpowder costs one Colourless and Poisons; Corrode Target is 10 for a Grass and a Colourless and, on heads, looks at their hand and throws one card away. Midori Harada.
Ability Tangling Tendrils
Victreebel, 110 HP, Grass, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 2 — the Poké-Body Tangling Tendrils adds two Colourless to the Retreat Cost of their Active Pokémon while Victreebel is Active, so it pins whatever they send up. Acidic Drain is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless, Burns and Poisons both, and pulls three damage counters off Victreebel. Midori Harada.
Ability Free Flight
Yanma, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Free Flight drops its Retreat Cost to nothing while it has no Energy attached, which makes it a free pivot. Dive is 20 for a Grass and a Colourless. Naoyo Kimura.
Yanmega, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Shoot Through is 20 for one Grass and puts 10 on a Benched Pokémon; U-turn is 50 for a Grass and two Colourless and switches Yanmega out afterwards. This is the plain version, the one the English set kept as a normal rare; the ☆ is at 006. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Insight
Yanmega, 110 HP, Grass, Stage 1, prime, free retreat — the ☆ card. The Poké-Body Insight makes every attack free whenever your hand matches theirs in size, which turns a 110 HP Stage 1 into something that attacks for nothing all game. Linear Attack costs a Grass and a Colourless for 40 to any one of their Pokémon, Bench included; Sonicboom is 70 for two Grass and a Colourless and ignores Weakness and Resistance. Noriko Hotta.
Ability Forest Breath
Celebi, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, prime, retreat 1 — the ☆ Grass Celebi. The Poké-Power Forest Breath attaches a Grass Energy from your hand to any of your Pokémon once a turn while Celebi is Active, which is an extra Energy drop every single turn. Time Circle is 30 for a Grass, a Psychic and a Colourless, and shuts out all damage from their Stage 1 and Stage 2 Pokémon for a turn. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Kricketot, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Beat is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless, which is the most damage any 50 HP Basic in this set does on a single Energy. Tomokazu Komiya.
Kricketune, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Entrancing Melody is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and Confuses on heads; Fury Cutter costs a Grass, a Grass and a Colourless and is 20 for one heads, 40 for two and 120 for three, so the whole card is one coin flip away from a Knock Out. Tomokazu Komiya.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Ponyta, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Rear Kick is 10 for one Colourless; Flare is 20 for a Fire and a Colourless. Kyoko Umemoto.
Ability Fiery Spirit
Rapidash, 90 HP, Fire, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Fiery Spirit makes it immune to Confusion, the one Special Condition that would otherwise ruin a one-attack attacker. Ring of Fire is 50 for a Fire and two Colourless, Burns the defender and locks its retreat for a turn. Kyoko Umemoto.
Ability Sweet Sleeping Face
Magby, 30 HP, Fire, Basic, uncommon, free retreat — the Poké-Body Sweet Sleeping Face blanks all damage while Magby is Asleep, and Play with Fire costs nothing at all: it Burns them and puts Magby to sleep, so the condition that protects it is the condition it inflicts. Masakazu Fukuda.
Magmar, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, uncommon, retreat 2 — Eruption costs one Fire and is 20 times the Energy cards thrown away when both players mill the top card of their deck; Combustion is 30 for a Fire and two Colourless. Masakazu Fukuda.
Magmortar, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, rare, retreat 2 — Top Burner costs a Fire and mills one card off their deck for every Fire Energy on Magmortar, then throws all of it away on tails; Burst Punch is 60 for two Fire and a Colourless and Burns. Masakazu Fukuda.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Psyduck, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Tripping Headbutt costs one Water and is 30 to any one Pokémon, except the coin decides whose: heads, theirs; tails, yours. Naoki Saito.
Ability Natural Remedy
Golduck, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Natural Remedy strips two damage counters every time you attach a Water Energy to it from hand, so every Energy drop is also a heal. Powerful Splash is 30 for a Water and a Colourless, plus 10 for every Water Energy on all of your Pokémon. Naoki Saito.
Tentacool, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Gentle Wrap is 10 for one Water and stops the defender retreating next turn, which is the cheap half of the Tentacruel lock at 018. Sachiko Adachi.
Tentacruel, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Tentavolve is 20 for one Water and, if it evolved this turn, leaves them Paralyzed and Poisoned at once; Hyper Beam is 50 for three Colourless and discards an Energy off the defender on heads. Sachiko Adachi.
Swinub, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Headbutt is 10 for one Water; Ice Ball is 20 for two Colourless. The Water-type Basic at the bottom of the Mamoswine line. Kagemaru Himeno.
Piloswine, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Blizzard is 40 for a Water and two Colourless and spreads 10 onto a Bench, the coin deciding whose; Hammer In is 60 for a Water and three Colourless. Kagemaru Himeno.
Mamoswine, 140 HP, Water, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 4 — Icy Wind is 40 for a Water and two Colourless and puts them to sleep; Snowstorm is 70 for two Water and two Colourless and puts 20 on every one of their Benched Pokémon that already carries damage. Kagemaru Himeno.
Wailmer, 90 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 3 — Double Attack costs a Water and two Colourless for 20 to two of their Pokémon, Bench included; Surf is 50 for a Water and three Colourless. Hajime Kusajima.
Wailord, 180 HP, Water, Stage 1, rare, retreat 4 — the highest HP in the set, 30 above the next biggest. Underwater Dive costs two Colourless and takes three damage counters off it for each heads; Swallow Up is 50 for three Water and a Colourless, and 100 whenever the defender has less HP left than Wailord does. Hajime Kusajima.
Luvdisc, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Rendezvous Draw costs one Colourless and makes both players draw and reveal the top card of their deck; Distorted Wave is 30 for one Water and heals a damage counter off the defender before the damage lands. sui.
Kyogre & Groudon LEGEND, 150 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the top half of the pair; 071 is the bottom half. Both halves together count as one Pokémon and give up two Prize cards when Knocked Out. Mega Tidal Wave costs two Water and two Colourless and mills five cards off their deck, then does 30 to each of their Benched Pokémon for every Energy card milled; Massive Eruption costs two Fighting and two Colourless and does 100 damage for every Energy card among the top five of your own deck. One half mills them, the other half mills you, and both pay off on the same board. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Kyogre & Groudon LEGEND, 150 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 070, and the half that prints the LEGEND rule: put both halves from your hand onto your Bench to play it. Same two attacks as its partner, and the same two Prizes given up. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Palkia & Dialga LEGEND, 160 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the top half of the pair; 073 is the bottom half. Sudden Delete costs a Water and two Colourless and puts one of their Benched Pokémon, with everything attached, back into their hand, which is how this pair undoes an evolution; Time Control costs two Metal and a Colourless, throws away every Metal Energy on it and adds the top two cards of their deck to their Prize cards, so it hands them Prizes but takes two turns of draws away. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Palkia & Dialga LEGEND, 160 HP, Water, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 072, carrying the LEGEND rule text. Same two attacks as the top half: bounce a Benched Pokémon, or pay two Prizes out of their deck. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Voltorb, 40 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Magnetic Bomb is 20 for one Lightning, 30 on heads and 10 back onto Voltorb on tails. Masakazu Fukuda.
Electrode, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Rollout is 20 for one Colourless; Lightning Strike is 40 for two Lightning and a Colourless, or 100 if you throw every Lightning Energy on it away. Masakazu Fukuda.
Ability Energymite
Electrode, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, prime, retreat 1 — the ☆ card and the fastest Energy engine in the set. The Poké-Power Energymite Knocks Electrode Out on purpose and attaches any number of Energy cards out of the top seven of your deck to your Pokémon, so it is a one-shot acceleration that refills a whole board. Gigashock is 30 for a Lightning and a Colourless and puts 10 on two of their Benched Pokémon. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Ability Sweet Sleeping Face
Elekid, 30 HP, Lightning, Basic, rare, free retreat — the Poké-Body Sweet Sleeping Face blanks all damage while it sleeps, and Sparking Ball costs nothing: 20 to any one of their Pokémon, ignoring Weakness and Resistance, then Elekid goes to sleep. TOKIYA.
Electabuzz, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, uncommon, retreat 2 — Light Punch is 10 for one Colourless; Shock Bolt is 60 for two Lightning and a Colourless, with every Lightning Energy discarded on tails. TOKIYA.
Electivire, 100 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 3 — Plasma is 30 for one Lightning and reattaches a Lightning Energy out of the discard pile; Thunder Shot costs three Lightning and does 50 to every one of their Pokémon that has an Energy attached, Bench included, which is the set's answer to a stacked Bench. TOKIYA.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Nidoran ♀, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Friend Search costs one Colourless and takes a Pokémon out of the top five cards of your deck; Double Kick is 20 times the heads on two coins for a Psychic and a Colourless. sui.
Nidorina, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Quick Blow is 20 for one Colourless, 30 on heads; Tail Slap is 50 for a Psychic and two Colourless. sui.
Nidoqueen, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, rare, retreat 2 — Return is 30 for one Colourless and draws you up to six cards in hand; Prize Count is 50 for a Psychic and two Colourless, plus 30 whenever you are behind on Prizes, which is exactly when a Stage 2 comeback matters. sui.
Nidoran ♂, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Pheromone Poison is 10 for one Colourless and Poisons if Nidoran ♀ is on your Bench; Horn Attack is 20 for two Colourless. match.
Nidorino, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Horn Attack is 30 for two Colourless; Lunge is 80 for a Psychic and two Colourless and does nothing at all on tails. match.
Ability CURE
Unown, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, uncommon, retreat 1 — the Poké-Power CURE clears every Special Condition off your Active Pokémon the moment Unown is put onto the Bench, so it is a one-card answer to Paralysis. Hidden Power is 10 for one Psychic. One of the Unown letters released across the HGSS sets. Hideaki Hakozaki.
Celebi, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the second Celebi in the set, and the Psychic one rather than the ☆. Future Sight costs one Psychic and reorders the top five of either player's deck; Leaf Bind is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and Paralyzes on heads. Shin Nagasawa.
Spoink, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Sleep Pearl costs one Psychic, puts them to sleep and switches Spoink out, which is a free retreat every turn out of a single Energy. Yukiko Baba.
Grumpig, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, rare, retreat 2 — Psychic Lock is 20 for a Psychic and a Colourless and stops every Poké-Power on their side of the table for a turn, which shuts off Energymite and Forest Breath; Bench Manipulation costs a Psychic and two Colourless and is 40 for each tails they flip on their Bench, ignoring Weakness and Resistance. Yukiko Baba.
Skorupi, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Paralyzing Clamp is 30 for two Colourless, Paralyzed on heads and nothing at all on tails. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Pheromone Stamina
Nidoking, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 3 — the Poké-Body Pheromone Stamina gives it 20 more HP for every Nidoqueen you have in play, so the two halves of the Nido line stack into a 180 HP Stage 2. Venomous Horn is 80 for two Fighting and two Colourless and Poisons. match.
Machop, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Steady Punch is 10 for one Fighting, 20 on heads; Mach Cross is 50 for three Fighting. Shin Nagasawa.
Machoke, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, common, retreat 2 — Knuckle Down is 30 for one Fighting and ignores Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies and every other effect on the defender, which makes it the set's clean answer to a protected Active; Strength is 60 for two Fighting and a Colourless. Shin Nagasawa.
Machamp, 130 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, uncommon, retreat 2 — Vital Throw is 40 for one Fighting, 60 if you take 20 back on Machamp; Hundred Furious Punches is 60 for three Colourless, plus 10 for every Fighting Energy on Machamp. A Stage 2 at uncommon, which is why it turned up in starter decks rather than packs. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Fighting Tag
Machamp, 150 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, prime, retreat 3 — the ☆ card and the biggest Fighting Pokémon in the set. The Poké-Power Fighting Tag moves every Fighting Energy off your Active onto Machamp from the Bench and then switches it in, so it arrives already loaded. Crushing Punch is 60 for a Fighting and two Colourless and strips a Special Energy off the defender; Champ Buster is 100 for two Fighting and two Colourless, plus 10 for each of your Benched Pokémon that carries damage. Shizurow.
Ability Lonely Bone
Cubone, 40 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 1 — the Poké-Body Lonely Bone cuts 20 off every attack against Cubone for each Marowak in your discard pile, so a deck that has already lost two Marowak is playing a 40 HP Basic that takes 40 less. Bone Rush is 20 for two Colourless and keeps adding 20 for every heads until the first tails. kawayoo.
Marowak, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Bonemerang is 60 for two Colourless and 60 times the heads on two coins; Bone Impact is 20 for two Fighting, or 80 if a Stadium is in play, and then throws that Stadium away. kawayoo.
Lunatone, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — Lunar Blast is 20 for one Fighting; Selfdestruct is 60 for a Fighting and a Colourless, with 10 onto every Benched Pokémon on both sides and 60 back onto Lunatone. It is built to be played next to Solrock at 049. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Heal Block
Solrock, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, holofoil rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-BODY Heal Block stops any damage counter being removed from any Pokémon on either side while you have Lunatone in play, which switches off every heal in the format including Golduck's Natural Remedy. Sun Flash is 20 for one Fighting and taxes their next attack with a coin flip. Kouki Saitou.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Carvanha, 50 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Focus Energy costs one Colourless and raises Bite's base damage to 40 for a turn; Bite is 10 for one Darkness. MAHOU.
Sharpedo, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Strip Bare is 20 for one Darkness and, if both of two coins come up heads, takes their entire hand; Rage is 50 for two Darkness and a Colourless, plus 10 for every damage counter on Sharpedo. MAHOU.
Drapion, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, holofoil rare, retreat 3 — Toxic Fang is 40 for a Darkness and two Colourless and, on heads, Poisons with two counters between turns instead of one; Land Crush is 80 for two Darkness and two Colourless. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Aron, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Mountain Eater costs one Colourless, mills the top card of your deck and takes two damage counters off Aron; Confront is 30 for a Metal and two Colourless. Kagemaru Himeno.
Lairon, 80 HP, Metal, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — one attack. Take Down is 80 for two Metal and a Colourless, with 20 back onto Lairon. Kagemaru Himeno.
Aggron, 140 HP, Metal, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 4 — Second Strike is 40 for two Metal and a Colourless, or 80 if the defender is already damaged; Guard Claw is 60 for two Metal and two Colourless and cuts 20 off everything done to Aggron next turn. Kagemaru Himeno.
Bronzor, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Iron Defense costs one Colourless and, on heads, blanks all damage and effects against Bronzor for a turn; Tackle is 20 for two Colourless. Yuka Morii.
Bronzong, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, rare, retreat 3 — Legend Ceremony costs one Colourless and pulls both halves of a Pokémon LEGEND straight out of your deck into your hand, which is the only card in the set that assembles a LEGEND from nothing. Reflect Energy is 30 for two Colourless and moves an Energy onto a Benched Pokémon. Yuka Morii.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Pidgey, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Messenger costs one Colourless, fetches a Pokémon into your hand, and shuffles Pidgey and everything attached to it back into your deck, so it is a search that also clears the board; Glide is 10 for one Colourless. Suwama Chiaki.
Pidgeotto, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Gust is 20 for two Colourless and drags up whatever they have on the Bench; Twister is 30 for three Colourless, does nothing if both coins are tails and strips an Energy off the defender for each heads. Suwama Chiaki.
Pidgeot, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, uncommon, free retreat — Headwind is 20 for two Colourless and adds two Colourless to the cost of every attack the defender has next turn, which is a soft lock on their Active; Quick Attack is 40 for three Colourless, 70 on heads. A Stage 2 with no Retreat Cost at all. Suwama Chiaki.
Lickitung, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Beat is 10 for one Colourless; Tongue Whip costs three Colourless and puts 30 on any Benched Pokémon they have, ignoring Weakness and Resistance. Atsuko Nishida.
Lickilicky, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Licking Shot costs one Colourless and puts 10 on any of their Pokémon for every Energy attached to Lickilicky; Stick and Absorb is 50 for three Colourless, heals two damage counters and stops the defender retreating. Atsuko Nishida.
Kangaskhan, 80 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 3 — Split Spiral Punch is 20 for two Colourless and Confuses; Dizzy Punch is 50 times the heads on two coins for three Colourless. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Dittobolic
Ditto, 40 HP, Colourless, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — the Poké-BODY Dittobolic caps their Bench at four and forces them to discard a fifth, which is the only card in the set that attacks the size of the opponent's board; Sharp Point is 20 for two Colourless. match.
Porygon, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Sharpen is 10 for one Colourless; Recover costs two Colourless, discards an Energy off Porygon and takes four damage counters off it. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Mapping
Porygon2, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, retreat 2 — the Poké-Power Mapping searches out a Stadium card the moment Porygon2 is played from hand to evolve, which is how a deck reliably finds Indigo Plateau at 079; 3-D Attack is 20 times the heads on three coins for two Colourless. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Dimension Transfer
Porygon-Z, 110 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, holofoil rare, retreat 2 — the Poké-Power Dimension Transfer flips a coin and, on heads, puts any Trainer card from your discard pile on top of your deck, once a turn; Suspicious Beam β is 80 for three Colourless, and 20 back onto itself plus Confusion unless it has a Rainbow Energy attached. Kouki Saitou.
Aipom, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Imitate costs one Colourless and draws you up to their hand size; Tail Punch is 10 for one Colourless. Naoyo Kimura.
Ambipom, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Astonish is 20 for two Colourless and takes two cards out of their hand blind, which they then shuffle back into their deck; Tail Spank is 60 for two Colourless at the cost of discarding two cards from your own hand. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Space Virus
Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND, 140 HP, Colourless, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the top half of the pair; 075 is the bottom half. The Poké-BODY Space Virus takes one extra Prize card every time this Knocks something Out, which makes the pair a four-Prize clock in two turns. Ozone Buster is 150 for two Fire, a Lightning and a Colourless and discards every Fire Energy on it, the biggest printed number in the set. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
Ability Space Virus
Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND, 140 HP, Colourless, Basic LEGEND, retreat 3 — the bottom half of the pair whose other half is 074, and the half carrying the LEGEND rule text. Same Poké-Body and the same single attack: 150 damage for two Fire, a Lightning and a Colourless. Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Discard 2 cards from your hand. Search your discard pile for a Trainer card, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. You can't choose Junk Arm with the effect of this card.
Junk Arm, Trainer (Goods) — discard two cards from your hand, then take any Trainer card out of your discard pile. It cannot fetch another Junk Arm, which is the only restriction on the best recovery card in the set: two dead cards become the Supporter you need. Ryo Ueda.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. You may use this card only if you have more Prize cards left than your opponent. During this turn, each of your Active Pokémon's attacks does 40 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Black Belt, Supporter — playable only while you have more Prize cards left than they do, and then every attack your Active Pokémon makes does 40 more damage to their Active for the turn, before Weakness and Resistance. Forty is a full extra hit; it is the card a losing player uses to get back into the game. Kanako Eo.
You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card. You may use this card only if you have more Prize cards left than your opponent. Search your deck for any 2 cards and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Twins, Supporter — playable only while you are behind on Prizes, and then it searches your deck for any two cards and puts them into your hand, with no restriction on what they are. The single strongest search card in the set, deliberately gated on losing. Kanako Eo.
This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card. Each Pokémon LEGEND in play (both yours and your opponent's) gets +30 HP.
Indigo Plateau, Stadium — every Pokémon LEGEND in play gets 30 more HP, both yours and theirs. On a 150 or 160 HP LEGEND that is the difference between surviving a 150-damage Ozone Buster and not. Ryo Ueda.
LOOK AT ALL OF YOUR FACE DOWN PRIZE CARDS!
Alph Lithograph, Trainer (Goods) — look at all of your face-down Prize cards. That is the whole card: it does not change them, it only tells you what you are playing for. Printed 081/080, one past the end of the set, and the only card numbered above the total; the English set carried it as the secret Alph Lithograph FOUR in Triumphant. Milky Isobe.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Rescue Energy provides Colorless Energy. If the Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an attack, put that Pokémon back into your hand. (Discard all cards attached to that Pokémon.)
Rescue Energy, Special Energy — provides one Colourless Energy, and if the Pokémon it is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an attack, that Pokémon goes back to your hand instead of the discard pile, with everything attached discarded. It does not save the Pokémon from the Knock Out, only from losing it. Kent Kanetsuna.
The first BW pack, and the one that cut the pack in half. Five cards to a pack, 150 yen plus tax (158 with), twenty packs to a box — down from eleven cards at 315 yen in the LEGEND era and seven at 200 in Lost Link. The pack changed shape before the cards did: rarity moved to letters (C / U / R / SR / UR) with no RR tier at all, R is always holofoil and roughly half the packs carry one, and the reverse-holofoil card was dropped. Fifty-six cards, fifty-three of them numbered: 001/053–053/053 is fifty Pokémon and six Trainers, and then 054 Tornadus and 055 Reshiram are the full-art versions of 047 and 013 from this same pack, with 056 the secret Pikachu that White Collection prints identically. The C / U / R seal ratio was never published beyond that fifty-fifty split, so the exact odds are not stated here. Price and pack size are confirmed against the Japanese product listings — 150 yen excluding tax, five cards, twenty packs to a box.
2010-12-17. 56 cards — 50 Pokémon, 6 Trainers and 0 Energy; 24 commons, 22 uncommons, 7 rares, 2 full-art cards, 1 secret card; Colourless 8, Grass 7, Fire 7, Psychic 7, Water 5, Fighting 5, Lightning 4, Darkness 4 and Metal 3; 14 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 12.
The frame is thrown away here. Black Collection runs 001/053–053/053 — fifty Pokémon and six Trainers — and then keeps going: 054 Tornadus and 055 Reshiram are full-art reprints of cards already inside the same pack (047 and 013), and 056 is a secret Pikachu that White Collection prints identically. Fifty-six cards, fifty-four names. Abilities replace Poké-Powers and Poké-Bodies — three of them in this pack, Emboar's Inferno Fandango, Gothitelle's Magic Room and Klinklang's Shift Gear — the number moves to the bottom right, the HP bar goes up, and there is no LEGEND, no Lv.X and no ☆ anywhere in the set. What is in it is Unova and only Unova: 48 species, every one of them a fifth-generation Pokémon, the single exception being Pikachu on the secret card. All six Trainers are reprints the game already had — Energy Retrieval, Crushing Hammer, Pokémon Communication, Max Potion, Recycle, Professor Juniper.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Sewaddle, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Tackle is 10 for one Colourless; String Shot costs one Grass and Paralyzes on heads. Kagemaru Himeno. English never printed this card: its Sewaddle is a different one, in Emerging Powers (2011-08-31), with Gnaw and Razor Leaf instead.
Swadloon, 70 HP, Grass, Stage 1, common, retreat 2 — Grass Cocooning costs one Grass and heals 40 off Swadloon; Razor Leaf is 20 for a Grass and a Colourless. MAHOU. One of the few cards English held back to Emerging Powers as the same card.
Leavanny, 130 HP, Grass, Stage 2, uncommon, retreat 1 — Nurturing costs one Colourless and evolves a Pokémon straight out of the deck, which is the cheapest way this era has of skipping a turn of waiting; X-Scissor is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and 50 more on heads. Kouki Saitou. English's Leavanny is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
Cottonee, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Cotton Guard is 10 for a Grass and knocks 10 off every attack aimed at it next turn, which on a 50 HP Basic is the difference between surviving a hit and not. Kagemaru Himeno.
Whimsicott, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, free retreat — Helping Hand costs a Colourless and drops a basic Energy from the deck onto a Benched Pokémon, an Energy attachment that does not cost you the turn's drop; Cotton Guard is 30 for one Grass and knocks 30 off everything aimed at Whimsicott next turn. Free retreat means it can do the first job and leave. sui.
Deerling, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Double Kick is 10 per heads on two coins; Leech Seed is 20 for a Grass and a Colourless and heals 10. Atsuko Nishida.
Sawsbuck, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Nature Power is 20 for a single Colourless and grows by 10 for every Grass Energy on both sides of the table, so it feeds on the opponent's setup; Horn Leech is 60 for a Grass and two Colourless and heals 20. Naoyo Kimura.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Tepig, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, common, retreat 2 — one attack. Take Down is 30 for a Fire and a Colourless and puts 10 on Tepig, which is a lot of damage for one Energy on a 70 HP Basic. 5ban Graphics.
Pignite, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Rollout is 20 for two Colourless, so it works before a Fire Energy arrives; Flamethrower is 70 for two Fire and a Colourless and discards an Energy off Pignite. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Inferno Fandango
Emboar, 150 HP, Fire, Stage 2, rare, retreat 4 — the Ability Inferno Fandango lets you attach a Fire Energy from hand to any Pokémon as often as you like each turn, which is the engine the whole Fire side of this set runs on. Heat Crash is 80 for two Fire and two Colourless. Note there is no Poké-Power on the card: this set replaced them with Abilities. 5ban Graphics.
Pansear, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless; Live Coal is 30 for a Fire and two Colourless. match.
Simisear, 90 HP, Fire, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Flame Burst is 20 for one Fire and throws 20 at two of their Benched Pokémon without applying Weakness or Resistance, so it is really a 60-damage attack spread across three targets; Fury Swipes is 40 per heads on three coins. Shin Nagasawa.
Reshiram, 130 HP, Fire, Basic, rare, retreat 2 — Outrage is 20 for two Colourless and 10 more for each damage counter on Reshiram, so it hits hardest when it is nearly dead; Blue Flare is 120 for two Fire and a Colourless and costs two Fire Energy off the card. The full-art version is at 055. 5ban Graphics.
English scan
Reshiram, 130 HP, Fire, Basic, super rare, retreat 2 — the full-art printing of 013, same card: Outrage at 20 for two Colourless and 10 more per damage counter, Blue Flare at 120 for two Fire and a Colourless which costs two Fire Energy. Numbered 055/053. 5ban Graphics.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Basculin, 80 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Flail is 10 per damage counter on Basculin; Final Gambit is 80 for a Water and two Colourless and hits Basculin for 80 itself if both coins come up tails. match. English's Basculin is a different card — 70 HP, in Black & White — so this one has no English printing.
Ducklett, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack, and it is the smallest in the set: Water Gun is 10 for a single Water. Kagemaru Himeno.
Swanna, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Feather Dance costs a Colourless and adds 40 to Swanna's next attack; Aqua Ring is 40 for a Water and a Colourless and switches Swanna out afterwards, so the dance can be set up again from the Bench. Naoyo Kimura.
Cubchoo, 70 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Powder Snow is 10 for a Water and puts the Defending Pokémon to sleep on heads; Rest costs two Colourless, heals 60 and puts Cubchoo to sleep, which is a full heal that also costs you a turn. sui.
Beartic, 130 HP, Water, Stage 1, rare, retreat 3 — Sheer Cold is 50 for a Water and two Colourless and the Defending Pokémon cannot attack at all next turn, which is a lock rather than damage; Icicle Crash is 80 for two Water and two Colourless and ignores Resistance. Kouki Saitou. English's Beartic is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Blitzle, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Stomp is 10 for a single Colourless and 10 more on heads; the coin is the whole card. Kagemaru Himeno.
Zebstrika, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Rear Kick is 30 for one Colourless; Electrispark is 70 for three Lightning and drops 10 on every Benched Pokémon they have, which is how this deck finishes a weakened Bench without attacking it. Masakazu Fukuda.
Emolga, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, free retreat — Thundershock is 10 for a Lightning and Paralyzes on heads; Acrobatics is 10 for two Colourless and 20 more per heads on two coins. Free retreat on a Basic with a Paralysis attack is why it shows up in decks that only want a pivot. Kouki Saitou.
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Pikachu, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, ultra rare, retreat 1 — the secret card, numbered 056/053 and the only non-Generation-V Pokémon in the entire set. Energize attaches a Lightning Energy out of the discard pile; Thunderbolt is 80 for a Lightning and two Colourless and discards all Energy on Pikachu. Kouki Saitou.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Munna, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Hypnosis costs a Colourless and puts them to sleep; Dream Eater is 60 for two Psychic and does nothing at all if the Defending Pokémon is awake. The pair only works in that order. Atsuko Nishida.
Musharna, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Hypnotic Ray is 20 for one Psychic and sleeps them in the same attack, which fixes the ordering problem Munna has; Dream Eater is then 90 for two Psychic. Masakazu Fukuda.
Woobat, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Gust is 10 for a single Colourless. MAHOU.
Swoobat, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Attract costs a Colourless and makes their next attack flip for it, failing on tails; Heart Stamp is 40 for a Psychic and a Colourless. Kouki Saitou.
Gothita, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Hypnotic Gaze costs a Colourless and puts them to sleep; Double Slap is 20 per heads on two coins for two Colourless. MAHOU.
Gothorita, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Double Slap is 20 per heads on two coins for a single Colourless; Psybeam is 20 for a Psychic and a Colourless and Confuses. Atsuko Nishida.
Ability Magic Room
Gothitelle, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, rare, retreat 2 — the Ability Magic Room stops the opponent playing any Item card from hand while Gothitelle is Active, which is the first hard lock on Items in the game and the reason this card was feared. Madkinesis is 30 for three Colourless and 20 more for each Psychic Energy on Gothitelle. Kagemaru Himeno. English's Gothitelle is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Roggenrola, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Harden costs a Colourless and cancels any attack that would do 40 or less to it next turn, which walls most of the format's opening attacks; Headbutt is 40 for a Fighting and two Colourless. Kagemaru Himeno.
Boldore, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Smack Down is 20 for a Fighting and a Colourless and does 60 more flat if the Defending Pokémon has Fighting Resistance, a clause that exists for exactly one reason; Power Gem is 80 for two Fighting and two Colourless. Kouki Saitou.
Drilbur, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Hone Claws costs a Colourless and adds 30 to every attack Drilbur makes next turn, so the small Scratch at 10 becomes 40 if you spend the turn setting it up. match.
Excadrill, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, rare, retreat 2 — Metal Claw is 30 for one Colourless, so it works off any Energy; Drill Run is 80 for three Fighting and strips an Energy off the Defending Pokémon, which is the same damage as the era's big attacks plus a tempo hit. 5ban Graphics.
Sawk, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 1 — two attacks and nothing else. Low Sweep is 20 for one Fighting; Beatdown is 40 for two, which is the highest damage any common Basic in this pack does on two Energy. Naoki Saito.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Scraggy, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Headbutt is 10 for a single Colourless. Masakazu Fukuda.
Scrafty, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Spit Acid is 20 for one Darkness, Burns, and Paralyzes as well on heads; High Jump Kick is 70 for two Darkness and a Colourless with no drawback. Shin Nagasawa.
Vullaby, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, uncommon, retreat 1 — one attack. Surprise Attack is 20 for a Darkness and does nothing at all on tails, so it is a 50-50 card. Kagemaru Himeno.
Mandibuzz, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Blindside costs one Darkness and puts 50 on any of their Pokémon that already carries damage, Bench included, which turns every scratch into a knockout; Punishment is 40 for a Darkness and two Colourless and 60 more against a Stage 2. Kouki Saitou.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Klink, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 2 — one attack. Bind is 10 for one Metal and Paralyzes on heads. Masakazu Fukuda.
Klang, 80 HP, Metal, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Bind is 10 for a Metal and Paralyzes on heads; Gear Grind is 60 per heads on two coins for a Metal and two Colourless, so it is either nothing, 60 or 120. Naoki Saito.
Ability Shift Gear
Klinklang, 140 HP, Metal, Stage 2, rare, retreat 3 — the Ability Shift Gear moves a Metal Energy off one of your Pokémon onto another as often as you like each turn, which effectively relocates the whole Energy line; Gear Grind is 80 per heads on two coins. 5ban Graphics.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Pidove, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Quick Attack is 10 for a Colourless and 10 more on heads. Masakazu Fukuda.
Tranquill, 70 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Gust is 20 for one Colourless; Quick Attack is 20 for two and 30 more on heads. Kouki Saitou.
Unfezant, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, common, retreat 1 — a Stage 2 printed at common, which is the only one in either pack. Fly is 50 for two Colourless and flips for everything: tails is nothing, heads is a full shield; Cutting Wind is 70 for three Colourless and never misses. Kagemaru Himeno.
Minccino, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Tail Slap is 10 per heads on two coins for a single Colourless. sui.
Cinccino, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Tail Slap is 20 per heads on two coins; Do the Wave is 20 for every Pokémon on your Bench for two Colourless, and on a wide Bench it outdamages anything else a Colourless card can do here. Kagemaru Himeno.
Bouffalant, 100 HP, Colourless, Basic, uncommon, retreat 2 — Revenge is 20 for two Colourless and 70 more if any of your Pokémon was knocked out last turn, so it is a Basic that hits 90 the turn after a loss; Head Charge is 80 for four Colourless and 20 back on tails. Kouki Saitou.
Tornadus, 110 HP, Colourless, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — Energy Wheel costs a Colourless and moves an Energy off the Bench onto Tornadus; Hurricane is 80 for three Colourless and moves a basic Energy back down, so the card runs on a two-Energy loop and never needs a third attachment. The full-art is at 054. 5ban Graphics. English printed this one only in Emerging Powers, as that set's 98.
English scan
Tornadus, 110 HP, Colourless, Basic, super rare, retreat 1 — the full-art printing of 047, same card: Energy Wheel for a Colourless to pull an Energy up from the Bench, and Hurricane at 80 for three Colourless which pushes a basic Energy back down. Numbered 054/053, outside the 53-card set. 5ban Graphics.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Put 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Energy Retrieval, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — two basic Energy cards from the discard pile back to hand for no cost and no flip. Kent Kanetsuna.
Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon.
Crushing Hammer, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — flip a coin and discard an Energy off one of their Pokémon. A coin is the whole card, and it is the cheapest Energy denial printed in this era. 5ban Graphics.
Reveal a Pokémon in your hand and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Communication, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — put a Pokémon from hand on top of the deck to search out another one, which converts a spare Pokémon into the one you actually need. 5ban Graphics.
Heal all damage from 1 of your Pokémon. Then, discard all Energy attached to that Pokémon.
Max Potion, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — heal every damage counter off one of your Pokémon, then throw away all Energy on it. On a Stage 2 with four Energy attached the price is real; on a freshly evolved one it is free. 5ban Graphics.
Flip a coin. If heads, put a card from your discard pile on top of your deck.
Recycle, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — flip a coin, and on heads a card from the discard pile goes back on top of the deck. Ryo Ueda.
Discard your hand and draw 7 cards.
Professor Juniper, Trainer (Supporter), uncommon — discard your hand and draw 7. The first Supporter in the BW era to be worth building around, and the reason hand-size decks changed shape in 2011. Ken Sugimori.
The other half of the same day, and not a variant — a different pack. Five cards to a pack, 150 yen plus tax (158 with), twenty packs to a box. Its fifty-three numbered cards share not a single card with Black Collection: the two packs split Unova between them, and the one card they have in common is the secret Pikachu at 056, identical in both. Where Black gets Tornadus, this pack gets Thundurus — 054 is the full-art version of 019 — and 055 is the full-art Zekrom of 020. All six Trainers are reprints of cards the game already had: Revive, Great Ball, Full Heal, PlusPower, Pokémon Catcher, Cheren. The fine detail of the seal ratio was never published, so it is not stated here.
2010-12-17. 56 cards — 50 Pokémon, 6 Trainers and 0 Energy; 25 commons, 21 uncommons, 7 rares, 2 full-art cards, 1 secret card; Grass 8, Colourless 8, Lightning 7, Psychic 7, Water 6, Fighting 6, Darkness 4, Fire 2 and Metal 2; 14 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 16.
The other half of the same day, and it is not a variant — it is a different pack. White Collection's fifty-three numbered cards share no card at all with Black Collection: the two packs split Unova between them, and the only card either has in common is the secret Pikachu at 056/053. Zekrom is here at 020 and gets the full-art treatment at 055; Thundurus is at 019 with its own full-art at 054. The three Abilities in this pack are Serperior's Royal Heal, Samurott's Shell Armor and Reuniclus's Damage Swap — the same replacement of Poké-Powers, in a pack whose Trainer line is six more reprints: Revive, Great Ball, Full Heal, PlusPower, Pokémon Catcher, Cheren. Forty-eight species again, all fifth-generation, and the same absence of LEGEND, Lv.X and ☆. Between the two packs the year's last release covers 95 species with one overlap.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Snivy, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack, and it is a coin: Leaf Blade is 10 for a Grass and a Colourless, and 30 more on heads. 5ban Graphics.
Servine, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Wring Out is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and, on heads, Paralyzes and strips an Energy off the Defending Pokémon in the same flip. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Royal Heal
Serperior, 130 HP, Grass, Stage 2, rare, retreat 1 — the Ability Royal Heal heals 10 off every one of your Pokémon between turns, which is a free Max Potion spread across the board every single turn; Leaf Tornado is 60 for a Grass and a Colourless and redistributes your Grass Energy however you want. 5ban Graphics.
Pansage, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless; Vine Whip is 30 for a Grass and two Colourless. sui.
Simisage, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, common, retreat 2 — Seed Bomb is 30 for one Grass; Fury Swipes is 40 per heads on three coins, so the ceiling is 120 and the floor is nothing. Masakazu Fukuda.
Petilil, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Magical Leaf is 10 for a Grass and 10 more plus a 10 heal on heads, which is the only healing a 50 HP Basic here gets. Kagemaru Himeno.
Lilligant, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Petal Dance is 30 per heads on three coins for one Grass and Confuses Lilligant afterwards; Leaf Storm is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless and heals 20 off every Grass Pokémon you have. Atsuko Nishida.
Maractus, 90 HP, Grass, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Constant Rattle costs one Grass and pays 10, 30 or 60 depending on how many of three coins come up heads; Giga Drain is 50 for three Grass and heals back exactly what it dealt. Kouki Saitou.
2 cards · listed in original order.
Darumaka, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Singe costs one Fire and Burns without doing damage; Rollout is 20 for two Colourless, so the card can attack before a Fire Energy shows up. Masakazu Fukuda.
Darmanitan, 120 HP, Fire, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Fire Fang is 20 for a Fire and a Colourless and Burns in the same attack; Thrash is 70 for a Fire and two Colourless, 20 more on heads and 20 back on Darmanitan on tails. Naoki Saito.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Oshawott, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Razor Shell is 20 for a Water and a Colourless and 20 more on heads. 5ban Graphics.
Dewott, 80 HP, Water, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — one attack, and it scales with the Energy: Aqua Tail is 30 for two Colourless and flips a coin for each Water Energy on Dewott, adding 10 per heads. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Shell Armor
Samurott, 140 HP, Water, Stage 2, rare, retreat 2 — the Ability Shell Armor shaves 20 off every attack that hits it, which stacks badly for the opponent with its 140 HP; Hydro Pump is 70 for three Colourless and 10 more for each Water Energy attached. 5ban Graphics.
Panpour, 60 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless; Water Gun is 30 for a Water and two Colourless. Atsuko Nishida.
Simipour, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Scald is 20 for one Water and Burns; Fury Swipes is 40 per heads on three coins for three Colourless. Kagemaru Himeno.
Alomomola, 100 HP, Water, Basic, common, retreat 3 — Water Pulse is 20 for a Water and a Colourless and puts them to sleep; Hydro Pump is 40 for three Colourless and grows by 10 per Water Energy on it, so the same card is a sleeper and a finisher. Naoyo Kimura.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Joltik, 30 HP, Lightning, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack, and 30 HP is the lowest in either pack. Leech Life is 10 for a Colourless and heals back what it dealt. Masakazu Fukuda.
Galvantula, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Electroweb is 20 for one Lightning and stops the Defending Pokémon retreating next turn, which is how this deck traps something it can then pick off; Leech Life is 40 for two Colourless. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Thundurus, 110 HP, Lightning, Basic, rare, retreat 1 — Charge costs a Colourless and pulls a Lightning Energy straight out of the deck onto Thundurus; Disaster Volt is 80 for two Lightning and a Colourless and discards an Energy off it. The full-art is at 054. 5ban Graphics. English printed this one only in Emerging Powers, as that set's 97.
Zekrom, 130 HP, Lightning, Basic, rare, retreat 2 — Outrage is 20 for two Colourless and 10 more per damage counter on Zekrom; Bolt Strike is 120 for two Lightning and a Colourless and deals 40 to Zekrom itself, so the card pays in HP for its damage. The full-art is at 055. 5ban Graphics.
English scan
Thundurus, 110 HP, Lightning, Basic, super rare, retreat 1 — the full-art printing of 019, same card: Charge for a Colourless to pull a Lightning Energy out of the deck, and Disaster Volt at 80 for two Lightning and a Colourless which discards an Energy off Thundurus. Numbered 054/053. 5ban Graphics.
English scan
Zekrom, 130 HP, Lightning, Basic, super rare, retreat 2 — the full-art printing of 020, same card: Outrage at 20 for two Colourless and 10 more per damage counter, Bolt Strike at 120 for two Lightning and a Colourless which deals 40 to Zekrom itself. Numbered 055/053. 5ban Graphics.
English scan
Pikachu, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, ultra rare, retreat 1 — the secret card, numbered 056/053, and the second of the two Pikachu in this double pack: the same card in both, art different. Energize attaches a Lightning Energy from the discard pile; Thunderbolt is 80 for a Lightning and two Colourless and discards all Energy on Pikachu. Kouki Saitou.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Venipede, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Poison Sting costs one Psychic and Poisons on heads; Tackle is 20 for two Colourless. Kouki Saitou. English never printed this card: its Venipede is a different one, in Black & White.
Whirlipede, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 3 — Venoshock is 10 for one Psychic and 60 more if the Defending Pokémon is already Poisoned, which is the payoff the Venipede at 021 exists for; Steamroller is 40 for three Colourless and ignores Resistance. Shin Nagasawa. English's Whirlipede is a different card.
Scolipede, 150 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, uncommon, retreat 3 — Steamroller is 60 for three Colourless and ignores Resistance; Poison Claws is 80 for two Psychic and two Colourless and Poisons, which re-arms the Venoshock line. A 150 HP Stage 2 printed at uncommon. Masakazu Fukuda.
Sigilyph, 90 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Reflect costs one Psychic and knocks 40 off everything aimed at Sigilyph next turn; Telekinesis costs a Psychic and two Colourless and does 50 to any one of their Pokémon, ignoring Weakness and Resistance, so it reaches the Bench. Midori Harada. English's Sigilyph is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
Solosis, 30 HP, Psychic, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Cell Culture costs one Psychic and fetches another Solosis straight onto the Bench, which is how the line rebuilds itself; Rollout is 20 for a Psychic and a Colourless. MAHOU.
Duosion, 60 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Recover costs a Colourless, discards an Energy and heals everything, so with two Energy on it Duosion is effectively unkillable for a turn; Rollout is 30 for a Psychic and a Colourless. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Damage Swap
Reuniclus, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, rare, retreat 2 — the Ability Damage Swap moves a damage counter anywhere on your side as often as you like each turn, which lets you stack damage onto one Pokémon and heal the rest; Psywave is 30 for three Psychic and 10 more per Energy on the Defending Pokémon. 5ban Graphics.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Timburr, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Low Kick is 10 for a Colourless; Pound is 20 for a Fighting and a Colourless. Masakazu Fukuda.
Gurdurr, 80 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Bulk Up is 20 for one Colourless and adds 20 to everything Gurdurr does next turn, so 20 now buys 80 later; Pound is 60 for two Fighting and a Colourless. Naoki Saito.
Throh, 100 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 3 — Circle Throw is 30 for a Fighting and a Colourless and makes the opponent switch their Active out; Storm Throw is 80 for two Fighting and a Colourless and ignores Resistance, which is the biggest attack a common Basic in this pack has. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Sandile, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Sand Tomb is 10 for one Fighting and stops the Defending Pokémon retreating; Bite is 30 for a Fighting and two Colourless. Naoyo Kimura.
Krokorok, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Torment costs one Colourless and shuts off one chosen attack of the Defending Pokémon for a turn, which is a lock aimed at whatever their best move is; Bite is 50 for a Fighting and two Colourless. Kouki Saitou.
Krookodile, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, rare, retreat 3 — Torment is 30 for two Colourless and blanks one of their attacks; Krookoroll is 60 for two Fighting and two Colourless and 40 more if the target already carries damage, so it pairs with anything that spreads. Masakazu Fukuda.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Purrloin, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — two attacks, both plain. Scratch is 10 for a Colourless; Slash is 20 for two. Kagemaru Himeno.
Liepard, 80 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Taunt costs a Colourless and drags one of their Benched Pokémon up, which is a free Gust on a Stage 1; Sucker Punch is 30 for two Colourless and 30 more if any Darkness Energy is attached. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Zorua, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Lunge is 30 for two Colourless and nothing at all on tails. Kouki Saitou.
Zoroark, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, rare, retreat 1 — Nasty Plot costs a Darkness and tutors any card out of the deck; Foul Play costs two Colourless and copies one of the Defending Pokémon's attacks outright, which on a 100 HP Stage 1 means copying the biggest attack on the table. Naoki Saito.
2 cards · listed in original order.
Ferroseed, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, common, retreat 2 — one attack. Pin Missile is 10 per heads on four coins for a Metal and a Colourless, so it tops out at 40. Midori Harada. English never printed this card: its Ferroseed is a different one, in Emerging Powers.
Ferrothorn, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 2 — Steel Feelers is 30 per heads on three coins for a single Metal; Gyro Ball is 60 for a Metal and two Colourless and swaps both sides' Active Pokémon, which resets whatever they had set up. Shin Nagasawa. English's Ferrothorn is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Patrat, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — one attack. Hyper Fang is 30 for a single Colourless and does nothing on tails, so it is the cheapest coin-flip 30 in the pack. Masakazu Fukuda.
Watchog, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, common, retreat 1 — Confuse Ray costs two Colourless and Confuses; Hyper Fang is 60 for two Colourless and does nothing on tails. match.
Lillipup, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 1 — Collect costs a Colourless and draws a card; Tackle is 20 for two Colourless. sui.
Herdier, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Collect costs two Colourless and draws 3, which is a Supporter's worth of cards on a Stage 1; Bite is 50 for three Colourless. Midori Harada.
Stoutland, 140 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, uncommon, retreat 3 — Odor Sleuth costs two Colourless and flips three coins, taking a card out of the discard pile for each heads; Giga Impact is 90 for four Colourless and Stoutland cannot attack next turn, so it is a card that hits every other turn at best. match.
Audino, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, common, retreat 2 — Powerful Slap is 40 per heads, flipping one coin for each Energy on Audino, so it scales with attachment rather than with the opponent; Heal Pulse costs three Colourless and heals 50 off any of your Pokémon. Kagemaru Himeno. English's Audino is a different card, 80 HP, in Black & White.
Rufflet, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, uncommon, retreat 1 — Peck is 10 for a Colourless; Slash is 20 for two. Kouki Saitou. English's Rufflet is a different card, in Emerging Powers.
Braviary, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, uncommon, retreat 1 — Wing Attack is 40 for two Colourless; Brave Bird is 90 for three and deals 30 back to Braviary, which on 100 HP is a real cost. Masakazu Fukuda. English printed this one in Emerging Powers, as that set's 88.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Put a Basic Pokémon from your discard pile onto your Bench.
Revive, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — put a Basic Pokémon from the discard pile straight onto the Bench. In a set where the Bench is how you rebuild after a knockout, this is the cleanest recovery card printed here. 5ban Graphics.
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. You may reveal a Pokémon you find there and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Great Ball, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — dig the top 7, keep one Pokémon you find, shuffle the rest back. No coin, no cost. 5ban Graphics.
Remove all Special Conditions from your Active Pokémon.
Full Heal, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — clear every Special Condition off your Active Pokémon, which undoes Paralysis in the same turn it landed. 5ban Graphics.
During this turn, your Pokémon’s attacks do 10 more damage to the Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
PlusPower, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — this turn your attacks do 10 more to the Active Pokémon, which is exactly the number that turns a 90 into a knockout on a 100 HP body. 5ban Graphics.
Flip a coin. If heads, switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with his or her Active Pokémon.
Pokémon Catcher, Trainer (Goods), uncommon — flip a coin and, on heads, drag one of their Benched Pokémon into the Active spot. The card that ended the era of sitting behind a wall, and it defines the next two years of the game. 5ban Graphics. English printed it in Emerging Powers, as that set's 95.
Draw 3 cards.
Cheren, Trainer (Supporter), uncommon — draw 3, no discard, no condition. The plainest Supporter in the set, and the one that fits any deck. Yusuke Ohmura.
Also released this year: English edition.
Call of Legends, English only. The set with no Japanese parent: the twelve Lost Link cards Triumphant could not fit are printed here, four months late and in a set of their own. It is the last HGSS set ever printed.
Black & White, 115 cards — English's BW1, four months after Japan. It is not the Japanese pair translated: of the 112 December cards, seventy-eight print here as the same card, four print here as a different card of the same species, and thirty wait for Emerging Powers in August — fourteen of them as the same card, sixteen as another one. The secret Pikachu survives both editions unchanged, as 115/114.
Red Collection, 72 cards. Japan's second BW set, and the point at which the LEGEND mechanic — two cards, one Pokémon — is gone for good rather than merely set aside.
What 2010 ends is the two-card Pokémon, and it ends it twice over. LEGEND was gone after July; in December the pack itself was rebuilt around one card per Pokémon, five cards to a pack, and a rule layer — Abilities — that does not need a partner. Across the five releases the year prints fourteen LEGEND halves and 112 cards of the format that replaced them, and the two halves never meet on a card.
Release dates and product identities are connected to the Japanese edition release register by set code. Sources are printed per product so a reader can check the claim without trusting this page alone. Unmatched products say so instead of borrowing another edition’s citation.
l2 verified_secondaryll verified_secondaryl3 verified_secondarybw1b verified_secondarybw1w verified_secondaryAll 314 cards of the five Japanese releases are listed, and none of them is reconstructed from a list of names. The counts match the card database that holds the Japanese scans: 81 in February, 40 in April, 81 in July and 56 + 56 in December. The February and July counts include one card printed past the end of its own set — Alph Lithograph at 081/080 — which is why those two sets show 81 cards against a numbered run of 80. Each December pack adds three instead of one: fifty-three numbered cards, two full-art reprints at 054 and 055, and the secret Pikachu at 056, so 56 cards against a numbered run of 53.
The two halves of the year were documented from opposite directions, and the difference is visible on every card. The 202 LEGEND-era cards had to be read off their English twins, because no Japanese database covers that era — HP, type, stage, retreat cost, attacks, ability and illustrator all come from the English print of the same card, paired one card at a time by name first and then by an image fingerprint, with a hard cutoff: a weak match is recorded as no match, never as a guess. The 112 December cards are first-hand. A Japanese listing of each card gives type, HP, retreat cost, illustrator, the attacks with their Japanese text, and the Japanese rules text of every Trainer, so none of that is translated back from English. English is used there for two things only: the official English card name, and the answer to is this the same card or a different one with the same name.
That last question is where the December packs differ from every earlier set on this site, and the answer is recorded card by card. Of the 112, seventy-eight are the same card in English's April 2011 Black & White, four are a different card of the same species in that same set, fourteen are the same card delayed to Emerging Powers in August 2011, and sixteen are another card of the same species in Emerging Powers. The method is deliberately strict: name, rarity tier, HP, number of attacks and the damage of each attack reduced to its digits — 20+ and 20 are the same attack, not two — plus at least one attack name that matches after normalising case and punctuation. Without that last condition, Whimsicott and Beartic both matched the wrong card: their damage lines coincide with an English card whose attacks are entirely different.
Three of the December cards are reconstructed from inside their own pack, and one from English, and it is marked as such. The full-art reprints at 054 and 055 carry only a name and a HP on the Japanese listing, so their attacks are taken from the ordinary version of the same card in the same pack — Tornadus 047 and Reshiram 013 in Black, Thundurus 019 and Zekrom 020 in White — which is what a full-art reprint is. The secret Pikachu is the same card in both packs, and the Japanese listing gives nothing but its HP, so its two attacks (Energize and Thunderbolt) are read off English Black & White 115/114, the card it becomes four months later. Nothing is invented to fill a gap; where nothing exists, the field stays empty.
The English side of 2010 does not follow the Japanese side's order, and this page does not pretend it does. February's set is split between Unleashed and Undaunted; July's is split between Undaunted and Triumphant, with two LEGEND pairs pulled forward into Undaunted so that they reached English one month after Japan rather than six. April's forty cards are the strangest case: twenty-eight were folded into Unleashed and Triumphant, and the other twelve were held back until Call of Legends on 9 February 2011 — Tangela, Tangrowth, Relicanth, Pachirisu, Mime Jr., Mr. Mime, Seviper, Snorlax, Zangoose, Research Record, Lost Remover and Lost World. Every one of the forty has an English printing somewhere; none of them has an English printing in a set called Lost Link.
One card has no English printing at all: Dodrio (057). February's set carries two Dodrio and English printed only one of them — Undaunted 011, which is 039/080. The other 80 cards all reach English, the two Special Energy cards included: they print as Darkness Energy and Metal Energy at Undaunted 079 and 080, and the only reason 080 needed a hand entry is that the source database labels both Japanese cards Darkness Energy. Dodrio 057's attack names are a plain translation, not an official one, because no official English text exists for that card.
Two data errors in the source were found by cropping the card faces, and both are corrected here rather than carried over. The database labels both of February's Special Energy cards as Darkness Energy — 079 is the Special Darkness Energy and 080 is the Special Metal Energy, which is what the card face says. And July's 025 is catalogued as Venonat when the card is ビリリダマ (Voltorb); the Pokédex number on the card, No.100, settles it. The scan is the authority in both cases, not the field. The December packs needed the same treatment in five places: every Japanese rarity was read off the card face rather than the listing (C, U, R, SR, UR — this era has no RR), two cards that genuinely pay no retreat cost were checked rather than assumed, four HP values were re-read, and one attack name in White Collection is Steel Feelers, not the database's spelling. Those letters are kept as they print. The archive does not translate this set's R into its own Holo Rare category, even though an R card is holofoil, because the card carries a letter and nothing else; that is also why the December packs add nothing to the holo figure in the header, which counts cards filed under the archive's older rarity names.
About the scans. All 314 card faces are full-size scans, each one shown here scaled down from that original, never enlarged from a smaller copy. Two of them are the exception worth naming: the Alph Lithograph in February and the one in July exist on the source only at 253×359, smaller than the 300-pixel floor this archive uses everywhere else, so they are the largest copies that exist rather than the size the rest of the page is held to. The artwork is identical to the card face either way; only the resolution is short. The December packs are all full size — the two secret Pikachus included, at 556×790.
Five releases, 314 cards, fourteen LEGEND halves — and a year that ends with the frame, the rules and the pack size all replaced in a single day. What 2010 does is use up the idea it inherited and then stop paying for it. The two-card Pokémon gets rearranged into three pairs in February, pushed into a forty-card subset in April, spent three pairs deep in July — and in December the game prints one card per Pokémon again, five to a pack, and does not look back for five years.