Japan · 2019
This page covers all 1156 Japanese cards of 2019, in twelve products on eleven release days: 70 on 11 January, 69 on 1 February, 116 on 1 March, 69 on 5 April, 69 on 26 April, 115 on 31 May, 80 on 5 July, 75 on 2 August, 117 on 6 September, 226 on 4 October, and 75 + 75 on 6 December — two packs sold as a pair, kept apart and never merged. Four things arrive this year. Character Rare appears on 2 August — twelve cards where a Trainer is drawn into the same picture as their Pokémon. Prism Star leaves on 4 October, with seventeen reprints and no new ◇ in either language afterwards. Tag Team finishes what it started in 2018, and on 26 April it prints three Pokémon on one card for the first time: 300 HP, one Basic. And on 6 December GX is gone entirely — 26 Pokémon V and 8 VMAX replace 199 prints of GX, with a new RRR rarity reserved for VMAX alone. What does not arrive: 0 Pokémon-EX, 0 Mega Evolution and 0 BREAK cards are printed in 2019 at all. The English edition of 2019 is 1140 cards across seven products — 196, 18, 234, 258, 69, 94 and 271 — and 739 of these 1156 cards are printed in English inside the year. 150 wait for February 2020 (December’s two Sword & Shield halves, and three cards from July), 220 are reprints of cards English had already printed, and 47 never cross at all.
Twelve products, 1,156 cards, and the year GX is retired — V, VMAX and the first Character Rare
On 6 December the GX card stops being printed. Sword and Shield are sold on the same morning as two 75-card packs, and neither contains a single GX: instead 26 Pokémon V and 8 VMAX, with a new RRR symbol used on nothing but VMAX. The swap is total — 199 GX prints in the year, and every one of them is in a pack released before December. 46 Zacian V at 220 in Sword is the first card of the new order and the one the next format is built on; 46 Snorlax VMAX at 340 HP in Shield is the tallest body printed in 2019. The old vocabulary does not vanish quietly either: 29 Mewtwo & Mew-GX copies any attack in the discard pile and is in every list from June, 54 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX is 280, and 65 Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX is 280 with three names on it.
The numbers flatten out and then turn over. 1156 cards in twelve products, 199 GX prints from 59 names, 118 of them Tag Team from 28 names, 26 Pokémon V from 12 names and 8 VMAX from 4, 12 Character Rare, 17 Prism Star, 19 Ultra Beast prints from 11 names, 255 Trainers, 15 Energy and 97 artists. The tallest body is 340 HP and the highest damage number in the year is 270, on 69 Dragonite-GX. Three products break the shape of the year: October’s Tag All Stars is 226 cards — 173 numbered and 53 secrets, sold at 500 yen for eleven cards a pack in a box of ten; August’s Dream League is 49 numbered cards and 26 above them, the highest secret ratio of the year; and December is two packs in one morning, 150 cards that never overlap. The main expansion is still 150 yen for five cards and a box of thirty — until December, when the tax goes up and the price with it.
Every card below is the Japanese printing, with its Japanese scan, its Japanese name as printed, and its attack text in English.
Cards are grouped by the product they were sold in, in release order. December’s two halves were sold as a pair on the same morning; they sit next to each other and are never merged.
This page documents 1,156 main-series cards across twelve products on eleven release dates in 2019. It covers cards printed in Japan only; printings for other editions are tracked separately.
| Publication edition | Japanese edition |
|---|---|
| Products | 12 |
| Cards | 1,156 |
| Release dates | 11 (2019-01-11 – 2019-12-06) |
| Series codes | SM9a, SM9b, SM10, SM10a, SM10b, SM11, SM11a, SM11b … |
| Card faces on record | all 1,156 |
| Latest release on record | 2019-12-06 |
SM9a · Night Unison (2019-01-11, 70 cards) · SM9b · Full Metal Wall (2019-02-01, 69 cards) · SM10 · Double Blaze (2019-03-01, 116 cards) · SM10a · GG End (2019-04-05, 69 cards) · SM10b · Sky Legend (2019-04-26, 69 cards) · SM11 · Miracle Twin (2019-05-31, 115 cards) · SM11a · Remix Bout (2019-07-05, 80 cards) · SM11b · Dream League (2019-08-02, 75 cards) · SM12 · Alter Genesis (2019-09-06, 117 cards) · SM12a · TAG TEAM GX: Tag All Stars (2019-10-04, 226 cards) · S1W · Sword (2019-12-06, 75 cards) · S1H · Shield (2019-12-06, 75 cards).
How many main-series cards does this page record for 2019?1,156 cards across twelve products, an average of 96.3 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?11 release dates, from 2019-01-11 to 2019-12-06.
Do these Japanese cards have English-edition counterparts?1,109 of 1,156 cards (95.9%) carry a mapping to an English-edition card; the remaining 47 are Japanese-only printings or not yet paired.
How many of these 1,156 cards are shown with a card face?All 1,156 cards have a card face on record. 18 of those faces are marked as a scan from another print run rather than the original printing.
Night Unison (SM9a), 55 numbered cards. 16 Dedenne-GX is the card that decides the year’s first half — 160 HP on a Basic, discard your hand and draw six — and it is printed here, in January, in a 70-card pack. 31 Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX is 260, 25 Greninja & Zoroark-GX 250, 02 Venomoth-GX 200. 45 Pokégear 3.0 and 55 Guzma are the two Trainers every deck runs. 65 of the 70 land in English on 3 May and one more in Shiny Vault on 23 August; three are reprints and one never crosses.
Team Up (sm9), 196 cards — 181 numbered and fifteen secrets. English’s cut of October’s Dark Order and December’s Tag Bolt, and the product where Tag Team finally reaches the west: 160 Magikarp & Wailord-GX brings 300 HP, 001 Celebi & Venusaur GX and 120 Eevee & Snorlax GX bring 270. 134 Black Market ◇ and 158 Wondrous Labyrinth ◇ are two of its four Prism Stars, and 10 Shaymin ◇ is back. 173 of its 196 cards have no Japanese printing at all this year — Team Up is where English finally receives the 2018 catalogue, and the other 23 are 2019 reprints of cards English printed here first, not one of them a new card from Japan.
Full Metal Wall (SM9b), 54 numbered cards. 01 Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX and 29 Lucario & Melmetal-GX are both 260, and 48 Green’s Exploration is the Supporter that draws two from an empty hand. 52 Beast Ring and 53 Metal Frying Pan are the two Items that hold the Metal and Ultra Beast decks together. 62 of the 69 land in Unbroken Bonds on 3 May, 2 never print in English.
Double Blaze (SM10), 95 numbered cards. Three Tag Teams at 270 in one set: 07 Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 29 Muk & Alolan Muk-GX and 42 Marshadow & Machamp-GX. 87 Welder attaches two Fire Energy and draws three, which is what makes the Fire decks of the year work, and 83 Fire Crystal, 88 Red’s Challenge and 91 Triple Acceleration Energy feed it. 56 Honchkrow-GX at 210 and 69 Persian-GX at 200 are the two GX under the headline. 105 of the 116 reach English on 3 May, one more in Shiny Vault on 23 August — three weeks later, because the gap between editions collapses this year.
Detective Pikachu (det1), 18 cards — the smallest product on any page of this almanac, and the only one whose illustrations are credited to a film studio: MPC Film, not a TCG illustrator, drew every card in it. It is a movie tie-in sold in boxes beside the film, eight commons, six rares and four Ultra Rares, and it shares no card with any Japanese product of the year. It is counted in the 1,140 English cards and it changes nothing about the format.
GG End (SM10a), 54 numbered cards. 32 Garchomp & Giratina-GX is 270 and 08 Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX 260, but the card that lasts is 46 Reset Stamp — the opponent shuffles their hand away and draws down to the number of Prizes they have taken, which turns a lost game into a won one. 47 Karate Belt and 50 Giant Hearth are the other two the format keeps. 64 of the 69 reach English in Unified Minds on 2 August.
Sky Legend (SM10b), 56 numbered cards. 35 Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX prints three Pokémon on one card for the first time anywhere — one Basic, three names, 300 HP — and it is the highest-HP Tag Team of the year. 01 Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX is 270, 34 Naganadel-GX 210, and the pack prints 44 Normalium Z: Tackle and 45 Flyinium Z: Air Slash, two Z-Moves as Item cards. English takes 56 of the 69 — 55 into Unified Minds, and the 300 HP card into Hidden Fates on 23 August instead; 2 never cross.
Unbroken Bonds (sm10), 234 cards — 214 numbered and twenty secrets. The first of English’s two 200-plus sets this year, and the one that folds three Japanese products into one: 65 cards of January’s Night Unison, 62 of February’s Full Metal Wall and 105 of March’s Double Blaze, all on the same morning. Thirty-eight Ultra Rare prints and twenty-six Tag Teams — a Tag Team count only Cosmic Eclipse goes past this year — and 057 Dedenne GX arrives here four months after Japan. 232 of its 234 cards come from Japan’s 2019 output — no other English set this year is that close to the Japanese one.
Miracle Twin (SM11), 94 numbered cards. 29 Mewtwo & Mew-GX at 270 is the best card of the year — it copies any attack belonging to a Pokémon in your discard pile — and 54 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX at 280 is the biggest Tag Team. 69 Dragonite-GX prints 270 damage, the highest number in 2019, and 11 Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX at 250 is the cheapest of the three to attack with. 110 of the 115 arrive in Unified Minds on 2 August.
Remix Bout (SM11a), 64 numbered cards. 01 Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 08 Charizard & Braixen-GX and 16 Blastoise & Piplup-GX are all 270 HP — the three Kanto starters on three Tag Team cards in one pack. 52 Great Catcher is the gust card that replaces Guzma, and 56 Professor Oak’s Setup, 58 Roller Skater, 61 Acro Bike and 63 Lady are the draw engine around it. 67 reach English in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November, 3 wait for 2020 and 2 never cross.
Dream League (SM11b) in Japan and Unified Minds (sm11) in English, the same morning. Dream League is 49 numbered cards and 26 above them — the highest secret ratio of any 2019 pack — and it invents Character Rare: twelve cards at 050–061 where a Trainer is drawn into the same picture as their Pokémon. 20 Solgaleo & Lunala-GX and 36 Reshiram & Zekrom-GX are both 270, 03 Vileplume-GX 240, 41 Silvally-GX 210. Unified Minds is 258 cards, folding GG End, Sky Legend and Miracle Twin into one set: 64 of GG End, 55 of Sky Legend and 110 of Miracle Twin land inside it, 230 of its 258. Dream League, printed the same morning, waits for Cosmic Eclipse in November instead — all 75 of its cards go there, not here.
Hidden Fates (sm115, 69 cards) with Shiny Vault (sma, 94 cards) — a boxed product, not a booster, and the only shiny cards printed in either language this year. Hidden Fates itself is 68 numbered cards and one secret, with 009 Charizard GX and the three-Pokémon Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno GX at 044 — the card April’s Sky Legend printed in Japan. Shiny Vault numbers SV1–SV94: 86 shiny cards, 39 of them GX, from SV49 Charizard-GX down to six shiny Supporters, plus four SV91–SV94 gold Tapu GX. 93 of its 94 cards are shiny reprints of cards Japan printed in earlier years — it is a reprint product sold as a tin, not a set with new cards in it.
Alter Genesis (SM12), 95 numbered cards, the last ordinary Sun & Moon booster. 65 Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX and 66 Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX are both 280 — the two biggest Tag Teams of the year — and 73 Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX at 240 is the third. It is also the pack that prints two Trainers on one card for the first time: 87 Guzma & Hala, 88 Cynthia & Caitlin, 89 Mallow & Lana and 90 Red & Blue. 113 of the 117 arrive in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November.
Tag All Stars (SM12a), 226 cards — 173 numbered and 53 secrets, the largest product of the year and the last Sun & Moon set printed anywhere. Seventeen Prism Star cards are reprinted together and the ◇ is never printed again in either language; nine basic Energy cards get full-art printings; seven gold cards, all of them Tag Team. Fifty-four of the numbered cards carry no rarity symbol on the face — a reprint proof — and 31 cards never print in English. 500 yen for eleven cards a pack and ten packs a box is the highest pack price of the year.
Cosmic Eclipse (sm12), 271 cards — 236 numbered and 35 secrets. English’s largest set of the year and the last of the Sun & Moon era, folding July’s Remix Bout, August’s Dream League and September’s Alter Genesis into one: 67, 75 and 113 of them. Twenty-nine Tag Teams, nineteen GX, forty-three Ultra Rare prints and thirty-five secrets — and the twelve Character Rares of Dream League arrive here, the first time the frame appears in English. 266 of its 271 cards come from Japan’s 2019 output; the other five are cards English had already printed.
Sword (S1W) and Shield (S1H), 75 cards each, sold as a pair. GX ends here: neither pack contains one. 26 Pokémon V and 8 VMAX replace it, and a new rarity — RRR, Triple Rare — is printed on VMAX and nothing else. 46 Zacian V at 220 in Sword becomes the card the next format is built on, 46 Snorlax VMAX at 340 in Shield is the tallest body of the year, and 35 Stonjourner VMAX at 330 and 15 Lapras VMAX at 320 follow. 59 Professor’s Research and 59 Marnie are the Supporters that survive the change. 72 of Sword’s 75 and all 75 of Shield’s reach English on 7 February 2020.
The first product of 2019, and one of the year’s two smallest boxes. Fifty-five numbered cards plus fifteen secrets — eight full-art (056–063), four Hyper Rare (064–067) and three gold (068–070) — 70 kinds in all, 14 of them GX and 8 of those Tag Team. 25 Greninja & Zoroark-GX is 250 HP and 31 Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX is 260, the highest HP in the pack; 02 Venomoth-GX is 200 and 16 Dedenne-GX is 160 — a Basic that discards the hand and draws six, and the card every deck in the format ends up running. 43 Electromagnetic Radar, 45 Pokégear 3.0, 49 Janine, 50 Koga’s Trap, 51 Lt. Surge’s Strategy and 55 Guzma are the Trainers. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box, and 65 of these 70 cards reach English inside Unbroken Bonds on 3 May, one more in Shiny Vault on 23 August, three as reprints and one never.
2019-01-11. 70 cards — 52 Pokémon, 18 Trainers and no Energy cards, 14 of them GX and 8 Tag Team; 24 commons, 16 uncommons, 11 rares, 4 Double Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 11 Fairy, 9 Darkness, 8 Grass, 8 Lightning, 7 Water, 4 Fighting, 4 Colourless and 1 Psychic; 43 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 5.
The January mini-set, and the pack Dedenne-GX is printed in. Fifty-five numbered cards, then eight full-art (056–063), four rainbow (064–067) and three gold (068–070) — 70 kinds, 14 of them GX and 8 of those Tag Team. 25 Greninja & Zoroark-GX is 250 HP and 31 Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX is 260, the highest in the pack; 02 Venomoth-GX is 200 and 16 Dedenne-GX is 160. Dedenne-GX discards your hand and draws six, on a Basic, and from January it is the card that makes a bad hand playable. 43 Electromagnetic Radar, 45 Pokégear 3.0, 49 Janine, 50 Koga’s Trap, 51 Lt. Surge’s Strategy and 55 Guzma are the rest. English takes 66 of the 70: 65 land in Unbroken Bonds on 3 May and one in Hidden Fates in August; one card has never printed in English.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Venonat, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Radar Eyes has no printed damage for a Grass, and Flop is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP and one 20-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest body in the pack, and the one that gets evolved rather than played. kirisAki.
Venomoth-GX, 200 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Shinobi Mastery is 110 and climbs for a Grass and two Colourless, and Ten-Card Return GX is 60 for a Colourless. 200 HP on a Stage 1 is the biggest Grass body in the pack, and its GX attack is the one that turns a lost board around. 5ban Graphics.
Bellsprout, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Razor Leaf is 20 for a Grass. 50 HP, one attack, one Grass: the whole Bellsprout line in the pack exists to reach 5. Ken Sugimori.
Weepinbell, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Burning Venom has no printed damage for a Grass, and Ram is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that costs nothing of its type — the middle stage that pays for itself. otumami.
Victreebel, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Reactive Poison is 10 and climbs for a Grass, and Gastro Acid is 90 for a Grass and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with a 90-damage attack: the Grass line’s payoff, and the only Stage 2 in the pack that survives a turn. Anesaki Dynamic.
Grubbin, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Electrical Signal has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Corkscrew Punch is 30 for three Colourless. Two attacks, neither of them good, on a 60 HP Basic — Grubbin is here for the line and not for itself. Yuka Morii.
Venomoth-GX, 200 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Shinobi Mastery is 110 and climbs for a Grass and two Colourless, and Ten-Card Return GX is 60 for a Colourless. The full-art printing of 002. The first of the pack’s two Venomoth-GX full arts, and the only one drawn as a CG render: 200 HP on a Stage 1 that reaches 110 for two. 5ban Graphics.
Venomoth-GX, 200 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Shinobi Mastery is 110 and climbs for a Grass and two Colourless, and Ten-Card Return GX is 60 for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 002 — 200 HP on a Stage 1, in the rarest frame the pack offers.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Tentacool, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Bubble Jutsu is 10 and climbs for a Colourless. Ten damage that climbs for a single Colourless: the cheapest attack in the pack, on a 60 HP body. Shin Nagasawa.
Tentacruel, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Wicked Tentacles has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Wrap is 60 for three Colourless. 100 HP, retreat 1, and a three-Energy 60: the Tentacool line’s whole value is that it retreats for one. Shigenori Negishi.
Goldeen, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Elegant Swim is 10 for a Water. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack for one Water — Seaking’s whole line costs one Energy a turn. Naoyo Kimura.
Seaking, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Enhanced Horn is 30 per heads on a coin flip for a Water. Thirty damage per heads for a single Water: the cheapest scaling attack in the set. Midori Harada.
Kyurem, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Call Forth Cold has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Hail Prison is 110 for two Water and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic for two Water attacks, with 110 damage at the top of it — the only non-GX Basic in January that hits that hard. Anesaki Dynamic.
Froakie, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Quick Attack is 10 and climbs for a Colourless. Ten damage that climbs, for a single Colourless. Froakie costs nothing to attack with and everything to keep alive. Kyoko Umemoto.
Frogadier, 80 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Afterimage Strike is 20 for a Colourless. 20 damage for one Colourless on an 80 HP Stage 1: the cheapest link in the Greninja line, and the one nobody removes. Satoshi Shirai.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Pikachu, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Pika Ball is 30 for a Lightning and a Colourless. 70 HP and 30 damage for a Lightning and a Colourless. The Pikachu in this pack is a body, not a threat. nagimiso.
Raichu, 120 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Never Give Up has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Head Bolt is 110 for two Lightning and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with 110 damage at the top: the Raichu is the reason the Pikachu line is worth two cards. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Dedechange
Dedenne-GX, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Static Shock is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tingly Return GX is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dedechange — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 6 cards. The card this pack exists for. The Ability Dedechange discards your hand and draws six the moment it lands on the Bench, on a 160 HP Basic, once a turn — from January onward it is the card that makes a bad hand playable, and it stays in the format for two years. PLANETA Igarashi.
Ability Battery
Charjabug, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Pierce is 60 for three Colourless; the Ability Battery — once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach this card from your hand to 1 of your Vikavolt or Vikavolt-GX as a Special Energy card. An 80 HP Stage 1 that can be attached to another Pokémon as an Energy source instead of attacking: the cheapest way to accelerate in the pack. Sekio.
Ability Stealthy Body
Vikavolt, 150 HP, Lightning, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Electricannon is 120 and climbs for three Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Stealthy Body — if there is any Stadium card in play, this Pokémon has no Weakness. 150 HP on a Stage 2 with 120 damage that climbs — and no Weakness at all while a Stadium is in play, which is the whole reason to run the line. Hasuno.
Zeraora, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Crushing Claw is 20 for a Lightning, and Discharge is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Lightning and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with 50 damage per heads: the cheapest scaling attack on a Lightning Basic in the pack. kawayoo.
Ability Dedechange
Dedenne-GX, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Static Shock is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tingly Return GX is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dedechange — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 6 cards. The full-art printing of 016. 160 HP, and the card the whole first half of the year runs: the full art keeps the plain background of the regular print and changes only the crop. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Dedechange
Dedenne-GX, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Static Shock is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tingly Return GX is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dedechange — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 6 cards. The rainbow printing of 016. The most valuable card in January, and the one every player was opening packs for.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Resetting Hole
Marshadow, 80 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Red Knuckles is 10 and climbs for a Colourless; the Ability Resetting Hole — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is on your Bench, you may discard any Stadium card in play. 80 HP and a 10-damage attack that climbs, with an Ability that discards cards while it sits on the Bench: it exists to be left there. chibi.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Wooper, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Mud Bomb is 30 for two Water. 70 HP, both attacks cost two Water, and neither is a Water Pokémon — the Wooper line is a Fighting body that pays Water. tetsuya koizumi.
Quagsire, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Water Gun is 20 for a Water, and Surf is 120 for three Water. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with 120 damage for three Water: the best damage-per-Energy in the pack’s Fighting half. kirisAki.
Ability Free Flight
Gligar, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Shinobi Strike is 30 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Free Flight — if this Pokémon has no Energy attached to it, it has no Retreat Cost. 60 HP with retreat 2 that becomes free when it has no Energy attached — the cheapest pivot in the pack. Ken Sugimori.
Gliscor, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Collect has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Poison Jab is 70 for three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with 70 damage for three Colourless: no type restriction at all, which is what makes it playable in any deck. Mizue.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. 250 HP on a Basic, 30 damage that climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and a GX attack that costs one of each: the first 250 HP Tag Team of the year, and the cheapest to attack with of the four in this pack. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Carvanha, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 10 for a Darkness. 60 HP, 10 damage for one Darkness. The cheapest body in the Dark line. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Ability Greedy Evolution
Sharpedo, 110 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Bad Fangs is 60 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Greedy Evolution — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may look at the top 6 cards of your deck and attach any number of Darkness Energy cards you find there to this Pokémon. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with 60 damage that climbs, and an Ability that fires the moment it evolves: the reason Carvanha is in the pack. Tomokazu Komiya.
Greninja, 130 HP, Darkness, Stage 2, no retreat cost — Bring Down has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Mist Slash is 70 for two Darkness. 130 HP on a Stage 2 with retreat 0 and 70 damage for two Darkness: the Greninja nobody builds around, and the one that never gets stuck. Yusuke Ohmura.
Inkay, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Perplex has no printed damage for a Darkness. 60 HP and a Darkness attack with no printed damage: Inkay exists to be evolved during the first two turns. Naoyo Kimura.
Malamar, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Hypnotic Reign has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Dark Pressure is 80 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with 80 damage for a Darkness and two Colourless — the cheapest way to turn an Inkay into a threat. Yusuke Ohmura.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 025. 250 HP on the first of two full arts, rendered rather than painted, with the pair shown against a flat field. 5ban Graphics.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 025 — two treatments of the same 250 HP card in one pack. kodama.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 025. 250 HP in the rainbow finish, and the only rainbow in the pack on a Tag Team with two names.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX, 260 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Fairy Song has no printed damage for a Colourless, Kaleidostorm is 150 for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Magical Miracle GX is 200 for three Fairy. 260 HP on a Basic, the highest in the pack, with a GX attack and two attacks that cost three. The Fairy half of January’s Tag Team pair. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Clefairy, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Double Slap is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless. 60 HP and 10 damage per heads for one Colourless: the cheapest coin flip in the pack. 0313.
Clefable, 110 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Moon-Watching Dance is 10 and climbs for a Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with 10 damage that climbs for one Colourless: the Clefable line pays nothing to attack. Suwama Chiaki.
Togepi, 50 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Daunt is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP, 10 damage for one Colourless. The cheapest Togepi ever printed is also the one that reaches 36. Sekio.
Togetic, 80 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Energy Present has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Magical Shot is 30 for a Fairy and a Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with 30 damage for a Fairy and a Colourless: the middle stage that pays for the line. sui.
Ability Fairy Feast
Togekiss, 140 HP, Fairy, Stage 2, retreat 1 — one attack, Magical Shot is 70 for a Fairy and a Colourless; the Ability Fairy Feast — once during your turn (before your attack), you may heal 30 damage from each of your Fairy Pokémon. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that heals 30 from every Fairy Pokémon you have in play: the reason the Fairy half of the pack works at all. Kagemaru Himeno.
Spritzee, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — Nap has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Fairy Wind is 10 for a Fairy. 60 HP, a free attack and a 10-damage attack — Spritzee is a two-turn clock on its own. MAHOU.
Aromatisse, 90 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Pungent Aroma has no printed damage for a Fairy, and Miraculous Cologne is 30 for two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 that attacks for one Fairy and then for two Colourless: the cheapest link in the Fairy line. Saya Tsuruta.
Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX, 260 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Fairy Song has no printed damage for a Colourless, Kaleidostorm is 150 for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Magical Miracle GX is 200 for three Fairy. The full-art printing of 031. 260 HP and the first of two full arts: the pair fills the frame edge to edge in the CG style. 5ban Graphics.
Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX, 260 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Fairy Song has no printed damage for a Colourless, Kaleidostorm is 150 for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Magical Miracle GX is 200 for three Fairy. The second full-art printing of 031. The second of the two, hand-drawn, and the only version where the two Pokémon are given separate light. Atsuko Nishida.
Gardevoir & Sylveon-GX, 260 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Fairy Song has no printed damage for a Colourless, Kaleidostorm is 150 for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Magical Miracle GX is 200 for three Fairy. The rainbow printing of 031 — 260 HP, the highest on any card in the pack.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Rattata, 30 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 30 for a Colourless. 30 HP for one Colourless and 30 damage for another: the thinnest body in the pack. Eri Yamaki.
Raticate, 70 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Escaping Incisors is 70 for two Colourless. 70 HP on a Stage 1 with 70 damage for two Colourless — Raticate hits exactly as hard as it is fragile. Shigenori Negishi.
Lickitung, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Lick is 30 for two Colourless. 90 HP and 30 damage for two Colourless: the first half of the only 130 HP Stage 1 in the pack. Yukiko Baba.
Lickilicky, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Eat Up is 40 for two Colourless, and Tonguenado is 60 per heads on a coin flip for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with retreat 4 and 60 damage per heads: the heaviest Colourless body in the pack, priced at four to retreat. sui.
18 cards · listed in original order.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Electromagnetic Radar — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard two cards, take two Lightning Pokémon-GX out of the deck. The Item that makes the Lightning deck of the year possible, printed here in January before Electropower arrives in the same pack. Yoshinobu Saito.
Put a card from your opponent’s discard pile into their hand.
Surprise Box — Put a card from your opponent’s discard pile into their hand. Put a card from the opponent’s discard pile back into their hand — the one Item in the pack that helps the other player, and the reason it costs nothing. Ryo Ueda.
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Pokégear 3.0 — Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Seven cards off the top, one Supporter into hand. The cheapest way to find a Supporter in the format, and it is in every deck from January to November. Studio Bora Inc..
Prevent all effects of your opponent’s Abilities done to the Pokémon this card is attached to. Remove any such existing effects.
Stealthy Hood — Prevent all effects of your opponent’s Abilities done to the Pokémon this card is attached to. Remove any such existing effects. A Tool that blanks the opponent’s Abilities against the holder — the answer to Dedechange and to every Ability printed in the previous two years. Ryo Ueda.
Prevent all damage done to the Fairy Pokémon this card is attached to by attacks from your opponent’s Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX.
Fairy Charm Lightning — Prevent all damage done to the Fairy Pokémon this card is attached to by attacks from your opponent’s Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX. A Tool for Fairy Pokémon that blanks damage from Lightning attackers: the Fairy half of the pack gets its own answer. Toyste Beach.
Prevent all damage done to the Fairy Pokémon this card is attached to by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX that have Abilities.
Fairy Charm Ability — Prevent all damage done to the Fairy Pokémon this card is attached to by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX that have Abilities. The same Tool one step further: it blanks damage from Pokémon with an Ability, which in 2019 is most of them. Toyste Beach.
Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Janine — Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Four cards off the top, two into hand. The cheapest Supporter in the pack, and the one that never misses. Ken Sugimori.
Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned.
Koga’s Trap — Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned. Confuse and Poison the Active Pokémon from a Supporter slot: the cheapest disruption in the pack. Megumi Mizutani.
You can play this card only if you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent. During this turn, you can play 3 Supporter cards (including this card).
Lt. Surge’s Strategy — You can play this card only if you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent. During this turn, you can play 3 Supporter cards (including this card). Playable only from behind on Prizes, and it lets you play two Supporters in one turn — the card that makes a lost game winnable. Megumi Mizutani.
During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Electropower — During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). Lightning attacks do 30 more this turn, and it stacks: the card that turns 16 Dedenne-GX and 14 Pikachu into a deck. Ayaka Yoshida.
Discard a Special Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon.
Enhanced Hammer — Discard a Special Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. Discard a Special Energy from the opponent’s board — the cheapest answer to Triple Acceleration Energy before it is even printed. Yoshinobu Saito.
Heal all damage from 1 of your Pokémon. Then, discard all Energy attached to that Pokémon.
Max Potion — Heal all damage from 1 of your Pokémon. Then, discard all Energy attached to that Pokémon. Heal everything, then lose every Energy on it. The Item that resets a Tag Team to full HP. Toyste Beach.
Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. If you do, switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Guzma — Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. If you do, switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Switch the opponent’s Benched Pokémon into the Active spot and then switch your own: the gust card every deck in the format runs for the next two years. Masakazu Fukuda.
Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Janine — Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. The full-art printing of 049, the cheapest Supporter in the pack. Hideki Ishikawa.
Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned.
Koga’s Trap — Your opponent’s Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned. The full-art printing of 050. A Supporter promoted to full art, by a different artist from the regular card — the only version drawn rather than rendered. TOKIYA.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Electromagnetic Radar — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The gold printing of 043, the Item that finds Lightning Pokémon-GX.
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Pokégear 3.0 — Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. The gold printing of 045, the cheapest Supporter search in the format.
Basic Grass Pokémon and Basic Lightning Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) take 30 less damage from the opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Aether Paradise Conservation Area — Basic Grass Pokémon and Basic Lightning Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) take 30 less damage from the opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The gold printing of a Stadium, not a Pokémon: Basic Grass and Basic Lightning Pokémon take 30 less damage while it is in play, which is the only card in the pack that helps both players.
February’s pack, and the one built around Metal. Fifty-four numbered cards plus fifteen secrets (eight full-art, four Hyper Rare, three gold) — 69 kinds, 14 GX and 8 of those Tag Team. 01 Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX at 260 and 29 Lucario & Melmetal-GX at 260 are the two on the box, with 10 Blastoise-GX at 240 and 43 Celesteela-GX at 200, an Ultra Beast. 48 Green’s Exploration searches out two cards when your hand holds no Supporter, and 52 Beast Ring, 53 Metal Frying Pan, 54 Acerola and 50 Power Plant are the rest of what the pack gives a deck. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box. Sixty-two of these 69 cards are inside Unbroken Bonds on 3 May; two never print in English.
2019-02-01. 69 cards — 53 Pokémon, 16 Trainers and no Energy cards, 14 of them GX, 8 Tag Team and 5 Ultra Beast; 23 commons, 16 uncommons, 11 rares, 4 Double Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 13 Metal, 10 Grass, 8 Water, 8 Fighting, 7 Psychic and 7 Colourless; 41 artists worked on it and Kouki Saitou drew 3.
February’s mini-set, and the one that hands Metal its two Tag Team cards. Fifty-four numbered cards, eight full-art (055–062), four rainbow (063–066) and three gold (067–069). 01 Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX and 29 Lucario & Melmetal-GX are both 260 HP, 10 Blastoise-GX is 240 and 43 Celesteela-GX is 200 on an Ultra Beast. 48 Green’s Exploration is the Supporter that draws two when your hand holds no other Supporter, 52 Beast Ring is the acceleration that makes Ultra Beast decks turn, and 53 Metal Frying Pan, 54 Acerola, 50 Power Plant and 51 Ultra Ball fill out the list. Sixty-two of the 69 reach English in Unbroken Bonds, five are reprints of cards English had already printed, and two never print in English.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX, 260 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Jet Punch is 30 for a Grass, Elegant Sole is 190 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Beast Game GX is 50 for a Grass. The pack’s headline Tag Team and the only Grass card above 130 HP: 260 HP, two attacks that both cost Grass, and a GX attack that mills the opponent’s hand rather than the board. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Pupate
Caterpie, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Hook is 10 for two Colourless; the Ability Pupate — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. The cheapest body in the pack at 40 HP, and the only one whose Ability is a coin flip that can pull its own evolution out of the deck — the whole line is built on gambling. Shibuzoh..
Ability Emerge
Metapod, 70 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Bug Bite is 30 for a Grass and two Colourless; the Ability Emerge — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. The same coin-flip Ability as Caterpie, one stage later: 70 HP and a 30-damage attack that costs two Colourless on top of its Grass. Shigenori Negishi.
Butterfree, 130 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 1 — Triple Charge has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Solar Beam is 70 for a Grass and two Colourless. The payoff of the three-card line, and the only Stage 2 in the pack that charges Energy instead of spending it — Triple Charge needs no Energy at all. Midori Harada.
Tangela, 80 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Tangle Drag has no printed damage for a Grass, and Gentle Slap is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP with a switch-forcing attack for a single Grass: Tangela exists to drag something out of the opponent’s Bench before the line evolves. Naoyo Kimura.
Tangrowth, 130 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Bind Down is 30 for a Grass, and Chlorowhip is 90 for three Colourless. 130 HP and a 90-damage attack for three Colourless, which is why Tangrowth can be played in a deck that runs no Grass Energy at all. kodama.
Kartana, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, no retreat cost — Big Cut is 10 and climbs for a Grass, and False Swipe has no printed damage for a Grass and two Colourless. 70 HP on an Ultra Beast with a 10-damage attack that climbs on a coin flip, and a second attack that leaves the target at 10 HP instead of taking a Prize. Shin Nagasawa.
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX, 260 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Jet Punch is 30 for a Grass, Elegant Sole is 190 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Beast Game GX is 50 for a Grass. The full-art printing of 001. The first of two full-art printings of 001, and the one drawn as a CG render rather than a painting — the two versions share no linework at all. aky CG Works.
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX, 260 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Jet Punch is 30 for a Grass, Elegant Sole is 190 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Beast Game GX is 50 for a Grass. The second full-art printing of 001, hand-drawn and the only place the pair is shown with both Pokémon in the same frame on a plain background. kirisAki.
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX, 260 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Jet Punch is 30 for a Grass, Elegant Sole is 190 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Beast Game GX is 50 for a Grass. The rainbow printing of 001: same art as the full-art version, pushed to a single texture across the whole card.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Squirtle, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Bubble is 10 for a Water. 60 HP, one Water attack, 10 damage: the smallest card in the pack, and the one the whole Metal-side Squirtle line is built to replace. tetsuya koizumi.
Ability Solid Shell
Wartortle, 70 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Aqua Slash is 60 for two Water; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 20 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The middle stage of the Blastoise line, and the only card in the pack that hands out the 20-damage reduction that Blastoise-GX then doubles. Hiroki Asanuma.
Ability Solid Shell
Blastoise-GX, 240 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Rocket Splash is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Giant Geyser GX has no printed damage for a Water; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 240 HP on a Stage 2 with a 30-damage shield and a GX attack that attaches five Water Energy at once — the pack’s second Tag Team-scale body. sadaji.
Slowpoke, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Growl has no printed damage for a Water, and Tail Whap is 20 for two Colourless. 70 HP and a 20-damage attack that costs two Colourless, so Slowpoke can be played in a deck with no Water at all. Kouki Saitou.
Slowbro, 120 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Yawn has no printed damage for a Water, and Three Strikes is 100 per heads on a coin flip for a Water and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 100-damage attack that scales with the cards in hand — Slowbro is the pack’s slowest and most conditional hitter. Ken Sugimori.
Pyukumuku, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Call for Family has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Surprise Fist is 60 and climbs for a Water and two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that fetches two Basic Pokémon and a second that adds 60 for each damage counter on it: a body that gets stronger the closer it is to being Knocked Out. Asako Ito.
Ability Solid Shell
Blastoise-GX, 240 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Rocket Splash is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Giant Geyser GX has no printed damage for a Water; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The full-art printing of 010, by the same artist who drew the regular card, so the two differ in crop and finish rather than in drawing. sadaji.
Ability Solid Shell
Blastoise-GX, 240 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Rocket Splash is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Giant Geyser GX has no printed damage for a Water; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The rainbow printing of 010, and the only card in the pack where the shell is printed in the same gold as the border.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Ekans, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Glare has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tail Smack is 20 for a Psychic and a Colourless. 70 HP, a Paralysis attack for one Colourless, and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest way in the pack to stop the opponent’s Active Pokémon from attacking. Yumi.
Arbok, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Wrap is 30 for a Colourless, and Heavy Choke is 50 and climbs for a Psychic and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 50-damage attack that climbs when the target is already damaged — Arbok finishes what Ekans started. Yukiko Baba.
Zubat, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Bite is 10 for a Psychic, and Venoshock is 20 and climbs for two Colourless. 50 HP, the lowest in the pack, and a 10-damage attack: Zubat is here for the Crobat line and for nothing else. Sekio.
Golbat, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Bite is 20 for a Psychic, and Leech Life is 40 for three Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 that heals itself for half the damage it deals, which is the only reason the line survives long enough to reach its Stage 2. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Sound Veil
Crobat, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, no retreat cost — one attack, Severe Poison is 60 for three Colourless; the Ability Sound Veil — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may prevent all effects of your opponent’s attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon until the end of your opponent’s next turn. 130 HP and the Ability that makes the line worth playing: played down to evolve, Crobat blanks every effect of the opponent’s attacks against it for a full turn. Anesaki Dynamic.
Drowzee, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Hypnosis has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Psypunch is 30 for a Psychic and two Colourless. 70 HP, a Sleep attack for a single Psychic, and a 30-damage follow-up: Drowzee is the cheapest status card in the pack. Miki Tanaka.
Ability Hypnotic Pendulum
Hypno, 110 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Stir the Brain is 30 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Hypnotic Pendulum — when your opponent’s Active Pokémon is Knocked Out, flip a coin. 110 HP and an Ability that takes the choice of new Active Pokémon away from the opponent — Hypno wins games on the coin flip, not on its 30 damage. sui.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Sandshrew, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Collect has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Rolling Tackle is 30 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 70 HP with a search attack for one Colourless and a 30-damage attack: Sandshrew is the pack’s answer to a slow opening hand. Sekio.
Sandslash, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Continuous Scratch is 30 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless, and Sand Tomb is 90 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that repeats for each heads, plus a 90-damage attack that locks the target in place. Shigenori Negishi.
Geodude, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — Defense Curl has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Rock Throw is 40 for three Colourless. 70 HP, no attack that costs Fighting, and a 40-damage Rock Throw for three Colourless: the Geodude line in this pack is deliberately off-type. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Graveler, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Rolling Rocks is 50 for three Colourless, and Double-Edge is 90 for a Fighting and three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 90-damage attack that also deals 20 to itself — the line’s middle stage pays for its damage in HP. Ayaka Yoshida.
Golem, 180 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 4 — Steamroller is 100 for three Colourless, and Heavy Slam is 180, reduced by something on the card for a Fighting and three Colourless. 180 HP, the largest non-GX body in the pack, and a 180-damage attack that shrinks for each damage counter already on it. Kyoko Umemoto.
Hitmontop, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Finishing Combo has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Spinning Attack is 50 for two Colourless. 90 HP with an attack that grows for each of your Benched Pokémon and a 50-damage follow-up: Hitmontop is the pack’s Bench-scaling card. Tomokazu Komiya.
Riolu, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Feint is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP, one attack, 10 damage for a single Colourless: the cheapest card in the pack, and the one that exists only to reach Lucario. Mizue.
Ability Wall of Stone
Stakataka, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — one attack, Top Down is 110 for two Fighting and a Colourless; the Ability Wall of Stone — if your opponent has 3 or fewer Prize cards remaining, this Pokémon’s maximum HP is 200. 120 HP that becomes 200 once the opponent is down to three Prizes — the Ultra Beast that gets bigger exactly when the game gets shorter. nagimiso.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 260 HP, two attacks and a GX attack that turns every Metal Pokémon into a wall: the pack is named after this card’s GX attack. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Alolan Diglett, 50 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ram is 10. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for no Energy at all: the only card in the pack that attacks for free. Atsuko Nishida.
Ability Hair Wall
Alolan Dugtrio, 80 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Hammer In is 40 for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Hair Wall — your Metal Pokémon take 10 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 80 HP and the Ability that gives every Metal Pokémon in play 10 points of damage reduction, which stacks with every other shield in the pack. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Aron, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Rigidify has no printed damage for a Metal, and Metal Claw is 20 for a Metal and a Colourless. 60 HP, a self-protection attack for a single Metal and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Aggron line. Ken Sugimori.
Lairon, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Rigidify has no printed damage for a Metal, and Headbutt is 70 for two Metal and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 that repeats Aron’s protection and adds a 70-damage Headbutt for two Metal. Suwama Chiaki.
Aggron, 170 HP, Metal, Stage 2, retreat 4 — Extra-Tight Press is 80 for a Metal and two Colourless, and Giga Impact is 160 for a Metal and three Colourless. 170 HP on a Stage 2 with a 160-damage attack that costs four Energy, and a 80-damage attack that stops the target from retreating. Satoshi Shirai.
Lucario, 130 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Low Sweep is 40 for a Colourless, and Rush Up is 60 and climbs for two Metal. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack for a single Colourless and a 60-damage attack that climbs for two Metal: the non-GX half of the Lucario pair. Midori Harada.
Ability Fast-Flight Configuration
Genesect, 130 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Splitting Beam is 30 for a Metal and two Colourless; the Ability Fast-Flight Configuration — if your opponent has any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX in play, this Pokémon has no Retreat Cost. 130 HP on a Basic with an Ability that makes it free to retreat the moment the opponent shows a Pokémon-GX — the pack’s escape hatch. Anesaki Dynamic.
Meltan, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Steel Melt is 10 and climbs for a Metal. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack that adds 10 for each Metal Energy attached: the smallest card in the pack that can grow. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Metal Eater
Melmetal, 150 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 4 — one attack, Heavy Impact is 130 for a Metal and three Colourless; the Ability Metal Eater — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Metal Pokémon from your hand. 150 HP on a Stage 1 that heals 100 damage a turn by discarding a Metal Pokémon from hand — the pack’s only repeatable healing. Kouki Saitou.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The first full-art printing of 029, done as a CG render against the regular card’s painted background. 5ban Graphics.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 029, by the artist who also drew 028 in this pack — the only hand-drawn version of the pair. nagimiso.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 029, the pack’s namesake card in its highest regular finish.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Spearow, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Glide is 10 for a Colourless, and Speed Dive is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack for one Colourless and a 20-damage attack for two: the fastest card in the pack to attack. tetsuya koizumi.
Fearow, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Drill Run Double is 70 for two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a single 70-damage attack that hits twice in a row if the coin is kind — the pack’s cheapest Stage 1 attacker. kawayoo.
Glameow, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Boing Boing Tail has no printed damage for three Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that searches for a Pokémon and a second that costs three Colourless for nothing but confusion: Glameow is a search card wearing a cat. sowsow.
Purugly, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Stray Cat Dash is 30 for two Colourless, and Lunge Out is 80 for three Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack for three Colourless, and a 30-damage attack that switches the target out. Tomokazu Komiya.
Ability Force Canceler
Celesteela-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Power Cyclone is 110 for three Colourless, and Discovery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Force Canceler — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, prevent all effects of your opponent’s GX attacks, including damage, done to your Pokémon. 200 HP on a Basic whose Ability shuts off every GX attack aimed at your side while it is Active — the pack’s answer to the Tag Teams it prints. PLANETA Igarashi.
Ability Force Canceler
Celesteela-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Power Cyclone is 110 for three Colourless, and Discovery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Force Canceler — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, prevent all effects of your opponent’s GX attacks, including damage, done to your Pokémon. The full-art printing of 043, and the only version of the card where the Ultra Beast fills the frame instead of sitting in a landscape. aky CG Works.
Ability Force Canceler
Celesteela-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Power Cyclone is 110 for three Colourless, and Discovery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Force Canceler — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, prevent all effects of your opponent’s GX attacks, including damage, done to your Pokémon. The rainbow printing of 043, and the only Ultra Beast in the pack to reach the rainbow tier.
16 cards · listed in original order.
Devolve 1 of your evolved Pokémon by shuffling any number of Evolution cards on it into your deck. (That Pokémon can’t evolve this turn.)
Devolution Spray Z — Devolve 1 of your evolved Pokémon by shuffling any number of Evolution cards on it into your deck. (That Pokémon can’t evolve this turn.). Devolve one of your own evolved Pokémon and take back any number of Evolution cards: the pack’s way of re-using an Ability that only triggers on evolution. Toyste Beach.
If you have exactly 6 Prize cards remaining, and if your opponent’s Active Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX is Knocked Out by damage from an attack of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to, take 1 more Prize card.
Beast Bringer — If you have exactly 6 Prize cards remaining, and if your opponent’s Active Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX is Knocked Out by damage from an attack of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to, take 1 more Prize card. A Tool for Ultra Beasts that pays an extra Prize when the opponent’s Active Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out while you still have all six Prizes. Ayaka Yoshida.
If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Metal Core Barrier — If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). A Tool that cuts 70 damage off every attack for a single turn and then discards itself — the largest single-turn shield in the pack. Studio Bora Inc..
During this turn, damage from your Ultra Beasts’ attacks isn’t affected by any effects on your opponent’s Active Pokémon.
Ultra Forest Kartenvoy — During this turn, damage from your Ultra Beasts’ attacks isn’t affected by any effects on your opponent’s Active Pokémon. One turn of ignoring everything on the opponent’s Active Pokémon: the card that makes Stakataka and Celesteela hit through every shield. Masakazu Fukuda.
You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Green’s Exploration — You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Trainers out of the deck for free, provided you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play — the pack’s cheapest search, and the strictest. Naoki Saito.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 Metal Energy cards from your hand. Shuffle a Trainer card from your discard pile into your deck.
Molayne — You can play this card only if you discard 2 Metal Energy cards from your hand. Shuffle a Trainer card from your discard pile into your deck. Discard two Metal Energy to shuffle a Trainer back from the discard pile: the pack’s only way to get a used Supporter into the deck again. Ken Sugimori.
Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play (both yours and your opponent’s) have no Abilities.
Power Plant — Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play (both yours and your opponent’s) have no Abilities. A Stadium that switches off every Ability on every Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play, both sides included. aky CG Works.
Discard 2 cards from your hand. (If you can’t discard 2 cards, you can’t play this card.) Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Ultra Ball — Discard 2 cards from your hand. (If you can’t discard 2 cards, you can’t play this card.) Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. The reprint that every deck in the format runs: discard two cards, take any Pokémon. Its presence here is what makes the pack playable. Ryo Ueda.
You can play this card only if your opponent has exactly 3 or 4 Prize cards remaining. Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Ultra Beasts. Then, shuffle your deck.
Beast Ring — You can play this card only if your opponent has exactly 3 or 4 Prize cards remaining. Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Ultra Beasts. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Basic Energy onto one Ultra Beast, but only while the opponent sits on exactly three or four Prizes — a card that has to be timed. 5ban Graphics.
The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 30 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance) and has no Weakness.
Metal Frying Pan — The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 30 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance) and has no Weakness. A Tool that cuts 30 damage and removes Weakness entirely, which is what turns a Metal Pokémon into a wall against Fire. Ryo Ueda.
Put 1 of your Pokémon that has any damage counters on it and all cards attached to it into your hand.
Acerola — Put 1 of your Pokémon that has any damage counters on it and all cards attached to it into your hand. Return a damaged Pokémon and every card attached to it to your hand: the pack’s only way to undo a Knock Out before it happens. Hideki Ishikawa.
You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Green’s Exploration — You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 048. A Supporter promoted to full art, which in this era happened to very few Trainer cards — the artwork is the card’s whole reason to exist. Naoki Saito.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 Metal Energy cards from your hand. Shuffle a Trainer card from your discard pile into your deck.
Molayne — You can play this card only if you discard 2 Metal Energy cards from your hand. Shuffle a Trainer card from your discard pile into your deck. The full-art printing of 049, one of only two Supporters in the pack to get the treatment. Masakazu Fukuda.
If you have exactly 6 Prize cards remaining, and if your opponent’s Active Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX is Knocked Out by damage from an attack of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to, take 1 more Prize card.
Beast Bringer — If you have exactly 6 Prize cards remaining, and if your opponent’s Active Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX is Knocked Out by damage from an attack of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to, take 1 more Prize card. The gold printing of 045. 045 in gold, with the Tool’s text set on a dark panel: one of three gold cards that close the pack.
If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Metal Core Barrier — If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The gold printing of 046. 046 in gold. The card itself is a single-turn shield, which makes the gold version the most-played of the three in this finish.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may put 2 Metal Energy cards from their discard pile into their hand.
Mt. Coronet — Once during each player’s turn, that player may put 2 Metal Energy cards from their discard pile into their hand. A gold Stadium that puts two Metal Energy from the discard pile back into the hand every turn. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–054.
March’s main expansion, and the one that lines up the year’s Tag Team headliners. Ninety-five numbered cards plus twenty-one secrets (twelve full-art, six Hyper Rare, three gold) — 116 kinds. 07 Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 29 Muk & Alolan Muk-GX and 42 Marshadow & Machamp-GX all sit at 270 HP, with 56 Honchkrow-GX at 210, 66 Whimsicott-GX at 190 and 69 Persian-GX at 200 behind them. 83 Fire Crystal, 84 Dusk Stone, 87 Welder, 88 Red’s Challenge, 92 Fiery Flint, 94 Kiawe and 95 Cynthia carry the Trainer line, with 91 Triple Acceleration Energy as the one Special Energy. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box, and 105 of the 116 arrive in Unbroken Bonds on 3 May, one more in Shiny Vault on 23 August, four as reprints and six never.
2019-03-01. 116 cards — 93 Pokémon, 21 Trainers and 2 Energy, 21 of them GX, 12 Tag Team and 1 Ultra Beast; 43 commons, 32 uncommons, 14 rares, 6 Double Rares, 12 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 6 Hyper Rares; 16 Fire, 16 Psychic, 16 Fighting, 14 Colourless, 9 Darkness, 8 Water, 7 Fairy, 6 Grass and 1 Lightning; 63 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 6.
The March main expansion, and the one with three 270 HP Tag Teams in it. Ninety-five numbered cards, twelve full-art (096–107), six rainbow (108–113) and three gold (114–116) — 116 kinds. 07 Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 29 Muk & Alolan Muk-GX and 42 Marshadow & Machamp-GX are all 270, and 56 Honchkrow-GX at 210, 66 Whimsicott-GX at 190 and 69 Persian-GX at 200 sit under them. 87 Welder attaches two Fire Energy and draws three, 83 Fire Crystal, 88 Red’s Challenge, 92 Fiery Flint, 94 Kiawe, 95 Cynthia and 91 Triple Acceleration Energy are the rest of the engine. 105 of the 116 reach English in Unbroken Bonds on 3 May, and one more in Shiny Vault on 23 August — three weeks after Japan, because the two edition dates collapse this year.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Oddish, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Stun Spore has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Seed Bomb is 20 for a Grass and a Colourless. 50 HP and a Paralysis attack for a single Colourless: the version of Oddish that stalls rather than attacks. 0313.
Oddish, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Hook is 10 for a Grass. The same Pokémon at 60 HP with a 10-damage Grass attack and no second move — the pack prints two Oddish and gives neither of them a reason to be played over the other. Asako Ito.
Ability Irresistible Aroma
Gloom, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Drool is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Irresistible Aroma — once during your turn (before your attack), if your opponent’s Bench isn’t full, you may flip a coin. 80 HP and an Ability that fills the opponent’s Bench for them, which is the wrong direction until you remember what 035 and 029 do with a crowded Bench. Anesaki Dynamic.
Ability Varied Pollen
Vileplume, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Giant Bloom is 90 for two Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Varied Pollen — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 140 HP and the Ability that hands out any Special Condition on a coin flip: Vileplume is the pack’s status engine rather than its Grass attacker. Suwama Chiaki.
Venonat, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psybeam is 10 for a Grass. 60 HP, one attack, 10 damage for a Grass: Venonat is here for the Venomoth line and nothing else. Yuka Morii.
Venomoth, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Assassin Flight has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Poison Powder is 30 for a Grass. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that does nothing but Confuse and a 30-damage follow-up — the cheapest disruption in the pack’s Grass section. Mina Nakai.
16 cards · listed in original order.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. 270 HP on a Basic, a 230-damage attack for four Energy and a GX attack that grows with the Energy behind it: the card the whole expansion is built around. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Growlithe, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Live Coal is 10 for a Fire, and Combustion is 30 for two Fire. 80 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Fire: the cheapest start to the Arcanine line, and the one that gets evolved immediately. tetsuya koizumi.
Arcanine, 140 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Grand Flame is 120 for three Fire, and Heat Tackle is 190 for four Fire. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 190-damage attack that costs four Fire, which is exactly the kind of number Welder and Kiawe exist to pay for. Shin Nagasawa.
Darumaka, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Flame Charge is 10 for a Colourless, and Flop is 20 for two Colourless. 80 HP with both attacks costing Colourless, so Darumaka can be played in any deck — the only card in the pack that needs no Fire at all. Yuka Morii.
Darmanitan, 130 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Find Wildfire has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Flare Blitz is 110 for two Fire. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that fetches Fire Energy and a 110-damage Flare Blitz for two: the pack’s cheapest real attacker. Midori Harada.
Volcanion, 120 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Flare Starter has no printed damage for a Fire, and High-Heat Blast is 50 and climbs for two Fire. 120 HP on a Basic that attaches Fire Energy on entry and then hits for 50 plus whatever is behind it — the pack’s accelerator. Satoshi Shirai.
Litten, 50 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Singe has no printed damage for a Fire. 50 HP and a Burn attack for a single Fire: the smaller of the pack’s two Litten, and the one that only exists to be evolved. 0313.
Litten, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Big Bite is 60 for a Fire and two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a 60-damage follow-up for three: the Litten that is worth playing on its own. Atsuko Nishida.
Torracat, 80 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Fire Fang is 20 for a Fire. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack for a single Fire — the middle of the line, and nothing more. tetsuya koizumi.
Ability Strong Cheer
Incineroar, 160 HP, Fire, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Flamethrower is 90 for a Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Strong Cheer — your Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability adds 30 to every attack your side makes: the biggest non-GX body in the pack’s Fire section. Misa Tsutsui.
Salandit, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Grass Fire is 10 for a Fire. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for a Fire: the smallest card in the pack, printed only to reach 018. Yusuke Ohmura.
Ability Roast Reveal
Salazzle, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Combustion is 60 for a Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Roast Reveal — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. 100 HP on a Stage 1 that trades a Fire Energy for three cards every turn — the pack’s cheapest draw engine, and the reason its Fire decks run so few Supporters. hatachu.
Blacephalon, 120 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Blazer is 10 and climbs for a Fire, and Fireball Circus is 50 per heads on a coin flip for three Fire. 120 HP on an Ultra Beast with an attack that grows for each Energy attached and a second that flips a coin per Energy: the pack’s Fire finisher that isn’t a GX. kawayoo.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. The full-art printing of 007. The first of the pack’s two full-art printings of 007, done as a CG render: the version that keeps the painting’s composition but none of its brushwork. aky CG Works.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. The second full-art printing of 007, hand-drawn and the only one of the two where the two Pokémon are lit as if they were in the same space. Ryota Murayama.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. The rainbow printing of 007, the pack’s headline card in its highest regular finish.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Round ’n’ Round
Poliwag, 50 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Watering is 10 for a Water; the Ability Round ’n’ Round — you can use this Ability only if you go second. 50 HP with an Ability that only works if you go second, and a 10-damage attack: the pack’s only card that rewards losing the coin flip. Midori Harada.
Poliwag, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Call for Family has no printed damage for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that searches out two Basics — the version of Poliwag that sets up rather than attacks. Shibuzoh..
Poliwhirl, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Bubble is 20 for a Water, and Knuckle Punch is 40 for two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack for two Colourless: the line’s middle stage, and the only one that doesn’t need Water. Yukiko Baba.
Poliwrath, 150 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Knuckle Punch is 50 for two Colourless, and Swirly Rush is 90 and climbs for a Water and two Colourless. 150 HP on a Stage 2 with a 90-damage attack that climbs on a coin flip, and a 50-damage attack that costs nothing of its type. Akira Komayama.
Seel, 80 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Horn Attack is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP with a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: Seel is the cheapest body in the pack that can hit without its own Energy type. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Dewgong, 120 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Tail Whap is 60 for two Colourless, and Dual Blizzard has no printed damage for three Colourless. 120 HP and an attack that hits both of the opponent’s Benched Pokémon — the only spread damage in the pack’s Water section. Kagemaru Himeno.
Krabby, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Stampede is 10 for a Colourless, and Vice Grip is 20 for a Water and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack for one Colourless and a 20-damage attack for a Water: the cheapest card in the pack to get going. Sekio.
Kingler, 130 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Bubble Beam is 80 for a Water and two Colourless, and Massive Rend is 130 for a Water and three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 130-damage attack for four Energy — the pack’s biggest non-GX Water hit. Shigenori Negishi.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Stunfisk, 110 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 3 — Raging Thunder is 30 for a Colourless, and Electric Trap is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 110 HP on a Lightning Basic whose second attack scales with the opponent’s Bench, which is what the pack’s stall cards are for. sowsow.
16 cards · listed in original order.
Muk & Alolan Muk-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 4 — Severe Poison has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless, Poison Absorption is 120 for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Nasty Goo Mix GX has no printed damage. 270 HP on a Basic, and the GX attack costs nothing at all: the pack’s second Tag Team, built to poison and then absorb the poison back as damage. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Swelling Spite
Gastly, 40 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Will-O-Wisp is 20 for two Colourless; the Ability Swelling Spite — when this Pokémon is Knocked Out, search your deck for up to 2 Haunter and put them onto your Bench. 40 HP, the lowest in the pack, with an Ability that replaces itself with two Haunter when it is Knocked Out — the line is designed to be sacrificed. chibi.
Gastly, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Smog has no printed damage for a Psychic. 60 HP and a Poison attack for a single Psychic: the second Gastly, and the one that starts the line without giving up a Bench slot. MAHOU.
Haunter, 70 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Sinister Fog has no printed damage for a Psychic. 70 HP on a Stage 1 whose only attack Confuses and poisons nothing — Haunter is a bridge, not a card. Miki Tanaka.
Ability Shadow Pain
Gengar, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, no retreat cost — one attack, Twilight Poison is 70 for three Colourless; the Ability Shadow Pain — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may put 6 damage counters on your opponent’s Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in any way you like. 130 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that drops six damage counters anywhere across the opponent’s Pokémon-GX: the pack’s anti-Tag Team card. so-taro.
Koffing, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Foul Odor has no printed damage for a Colourless. 70 HP and an attack that poisons for a single Colourless: the cheapest way into the Weezing line. Mizue.
Ability Detention Gas
Weezing, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Splattering Sludge is 40 for two Colourless; the Ability Detention Gas — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Basic Pokémon between turns. 120 HP on a Stage 1 that puts a damage counter on every Basic Pokémon the opponent has between turns — the pack’s slowest and most patient card. OOYAMA.
Ability Mind Report
Mewtwo, 120 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Psyshock is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Mind Report — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may put a Supporter card from your discard pile on top of your deck. 120 HP on a Basic with an Ability that recycles a Supporter from the discard pile onto the top of the deck: the pack’s quietest engine. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Bench Barrier
Mew, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psypower has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Bench Barrier — prevent all damage done to your Benched Pokémon by your opponent’s attacks. 60 HP on a Basic whose Ability blanks all damage to your Bench — the pack’s answer to every spread attack printed beside it. sui.
Misdreavus, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ominous Eyes has no printed damage for a Psychic. 60 HP and an attack that Confuses for a single Psychic: the smallest card in the pack’s Psychic section. Miki Tanaka.
Ability Mysterious Message
Mismagius, 110 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Hypnoblast is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Mysterious Message — once during your turn (before your attack), you may draw cards until you have 7 cards in your hand. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an Ability that draws to seven cards and Knocks itself Out to do it — the boldest card in the pack. sui.
Espurr, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ear Kinesis has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a second attack that Confuses: the cheapest way to use 068. HYOGONOSUKE.
Meowstic, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Perplexing Eyes is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 that also has Caturday, plus a 70-damage attack: the line’s payoff, and one of only two cards in the pack that use the Ability well. Saya Tsuruta.
Muk & Alolan Muk-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 4 — Severe Poison has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless, Poison Absorption is 120 for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Nasty Goo Mix GX has no printed damage. The first full-art printing of 029, rendered rather than painted, with both Muk filling the frame edge to edge. 5ban Graphics.
Muk & Alolan Muk-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 4 — Severe Poison has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless, Poison Absorption is 120 for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Nasty Goo Mix GX has no printed damage. The second full-art printing of 029, and the only version of the card drawn rather than rendered. Masakazu Fukuda.
Muk & Alolan Muk-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 4 — Severe Poison has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless, Poison Absorption is 120 for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Nasty Goo Mix GX has no printed damage. The rainbow printing of 029, and the only card in the pack where both Muk are printed entirely in texture.
16 cards · listed in original order.
Marshadow & Machamp-GX, 270 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Revenge is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless, Hundred-Blows Impact is 160 for two Fighting and a Colourless, and Acme of Heroism GX is 200 for two Fighting and a Colourless. 270 HP on a Basic with a 160-damage attack and a GX attack that hits for 200 without a drawback: the pack’s third Tag Team, and its most straightforward. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Underground Work
Diglett, 50 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Hook is 10 for a Fighting; the Ability Underground Work — if you discard this Pokémon with the effect of Giovanni’s Exile, discard the top card of your opponent’s deck. 50 HP with a 10-damage attack and an Ability that only fires when it is discarded by 085 — the pack’s strangest piece of design. Kouki Saitou.
Dugtrio, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Home Ground is 30 and climbs for a Fighting. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that grows while the Stadium in play is your own — a card that needs 089 or 090 to be worth its slot. Akira Komayama.
Cubone, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Focus Energy has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Beat is 10 for a Colourless. 60 HP with an Energy-search attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest body in the pack’s Fighting section. Mizue.
Marowak, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Bone Rush is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fighting, and Assault Boom is 70 and climbs for three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that flips a coin per Fighting Energy — the pack’s cheapest way to scale damage off the board. kirisAki.
Rhyhorn, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Push Down is 20 for a Fighting. 80 HP and a 20-damage attack that switches the target out: the smaller of the pack’s two Rhyhorn, and the more disruptive one. sowsow.
Rhyhorn, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — Horn Attack is 30 for two Colourless, and Boulder Crush is 80 for a Fighting and three Colourless. 90 HP with a 30-damage attack for two Colourless and an 80-damage attack for four: the Rhyhorn that actually attacks. otumami.
Rhydon, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Dirty Work has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Horn Attack is 90 for a Fighting and three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that discards a card from the opponent’s hand and a 90-damage follow-up. kirisAki.
Rhyperior, 170 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 4 — Hefty Cannon is 90 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Break Ground is 160 for a Fighting and three Colourless. 170 HP on a Stage 2 with a 160-damage attack for four Energy — the pack’s largest non-GX Fighting body. kawayoo.
Ability Bratty Kick
Tyrogue, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Bratty Kick — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack at all: its Ability puts three damage counters anywhere on the opponent’s side on a coin flip, and ends your turn doing it. Mina Nakai.
Landorus, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Power Cyclone is 60 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with an attack that hits any Pokémon the opponent has and a 60-damage follow-up — the pack’s sniper. Hasuno.
Crabrawler, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — Corkscrew Punch is 20 for two Colourless, and Knuckle Blast is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and two Colourless. 80 HP with a 20-damage attack for two Colourless and a 30-damage attack that climbs for three: the cheapest way into the Crabominable line. Akira Komayama.
Crabominable, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Fight Alone is 30 and climbs for two Colourless, and Magnum Punch is 80 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack for three and a second that hits harder the fewer Pokémon you have in play. Tomokazu Komiya.
Marshadow & Machamp-GX, 270 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Revenge is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless, Hundred-Blows Impact is 160 for two Fighting and a Colourless, and Acme of Heroism GX is 200 for two Fighting and a Colourless. The first full-art printing of 042, in the CG style the pack uses for half of its full arts. 5ban Graphics.
Marshadow & Machamp-GX, 270 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Revenge is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless, Hundred-Blows Impact is 160 for two Fighting and a Colourless, and Acme of Heroism GX is 200 for two Fighting and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 042, hand-drawn: the only version where Marshadow is visible as a separate figure. You Iribi.
Marshadow & Machamp-GX, 270 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Revenge is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless, Hundred-Blows Impact is 160 for two Fighting and a Colourless, and Acme of Heroism GX is 200 for two Fighting and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 042, by the same finish rules as every other rainbow in the pack.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Murkrow, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Astonish has no printed damage for a Darkness. 70 HP and a single attack that Confuses: the cheapest card in the pack’s Darkness section, printed to reach 056. 0313.
Ability Ruler of the Night
Honchkrow-GX, 210 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Feather Storm is 90 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Unfair GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Ruler of the Night — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent can’t play any Pokémon Tool, Special Energy, or Stadium cards from their hand. 210 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability locks the opponent out of Tools, Special Energy and Stadiums while it is Active — the pack’s control card. sadaji.
Ability Building Spite
Spiritomb, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Anguish Cry is 10 and climbs for a Darkness; the Ability Building Spite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put 1 damage counter on this Pokémon. 60 HP with an Ability that damages itself every turn, and an attack that grows with the damage on it: the pack’s only self-damaging engine. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Intimidating Fang
Sandile, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Gnaw is 10 for a Darkness; the Ability Intimidating Fang — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent’s Active Pokémon’s attacks do 20 less damage (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 60 HP and an Ability that cuts 20 damage off the opponent’s Active attacks — the cheapest shield in the pack. Yuka Morii.
Sandile, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Grandiose Fangs is 30 for three Colourless. 70 HP with a 30-damage attack for three Colourless: the Sandile that attacks rather than defends. Akira Komayama.
Krokorok, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Bite is 20 for a Darkness, and Corner is 50 for three Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that stops the target from retreating: the middle of the line, and the one that holds things in place. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Krookodile, 150 HP, Darkness, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Chomp Chomp Panic is 50 per heads on a coin flip for three Colourless, and Crunch is 100 for a Darkness and three Colourless. 150 HP on a Stage 2 with a 50-damage attack that repeats per heads and a 100-damage Crunch for four — the pack’s biggest Darkness body. Anesaki Dynamic.
Ability Ruler of the Night
Honchkrow-GX, 210 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Feather Storm is 90 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Unfair GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Ruler of the Night — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent can’t play any Pokémon Tool, Special Energy, or Stadium cards from their hand. The full-art printing of 056, by the same artist as the regular card, so the two differ in framing rather than in drawing. sadaji.
Ability Ruler of the Night
Honchkrow-GX, 210 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Feather Storm is 90 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Unfair GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Ruler of the Night — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent can’t play any Pokémon Tool, Special Energy, or Stadium cards from their hand. The rainbow printing of 056, and the only rainbow in the pack on a Stage 1 GX rather than a Basic.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Jigglypuff, 70 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Ball Roll is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that rolls per heads for two Colourless: the cheapest way into the Wigglytuff line. Yumi.
Wigglytuff, 110 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Orb Polish has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sleepy Ball is 80 for three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that searches and a 80-damage attack for three: the pack’s only Fairy card above 100 HP that isn’t a GX. miki kudo.
Ability Excitable Draw
Cleffa, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Excitable Draw — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and an Ability that shuffles your hand away and draws six on a coin flip, ending your turn: the pack’s cheapest gamble. Shibuzoh..
Cottonee, 50 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Expand is 10 for a Fairy. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Fairy: the smallest card in the pack, and the way into 066. Ken Sugimori.
Ability Fluffy Cotton
Whimsicott-GX, 190 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Energy Blow is 10 and climbs for a Fairy, and Toy Box GX has no printed damage for a Fairy; the Ability Fluffy Cotton — if any damage is done to this Pokémon by attacks, flip a coin. 190 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability can blank any damage on a coin flip, and whose GX attack fills the Bench with whatever the deck has — the pack’s smallest GX and its most annoying. PLANETA Igarashi.
Ability Fluffy Cotton
Whimsicott-GX, 190 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Energy Blow is 10 and climbs for a Fairy, and Toy Box GX has no printed damage for a Fairy; the Ability Fluffy Cotton — if any damage is done to this Pokémon by attacks, flip a coin. The full-art printing of 066, rendered rather than painted, and the only version of the card that shows the GX attack’s whole board. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Fluffy Cotton
Whimsicott-GX, 190 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Energy Blow is 10 and climbs for a Fairy, and Toy Box GX has no printed damage for a Fairy; the Ability Fluffy Cotton — if any damage is done to this Pokémon by attacks, flip a coin. The rainbow printing of 066, the smallest GX in the pack to reach the tier.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Meowth, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tail Whap is 30 for two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest card in the pack that benefits from 068. Shibuzoh..
Ability Gathering of Cats
Persian, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, no retreat cost — one attack, Claw Slash is 90 for three Colourless; the Ability Gathering of Cats — ignore all Energy in the attack costs of each of your Pokémon in play that has the Caturday attack. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability removes the Energy cost from every Caturday attack you have in play — the card the pack’s three cat cards were printed for. nagimiso.
Ability Cat Walk
Persian-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Vengeance is 10 and climbs for three Colourless, and Slash Back GX is 150 for three Colourless; the Ability Cat Walk — once during your turn (before your attack), if 1 of your Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 cards and put them into your hand. 200 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability searches out two cards whenever one of your Pokémon-GX was Knocked Out last turn: the pack’s recovery engine. PLANETA Igarashi.
Doduo, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Peck is 10 for a Colourless, and Double Peck is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage attack that repeats per heads: the cheapest start to the Dodrio line. kodama.
Dodrio, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Tri Attack is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless, and Accelerating Stab is 90 for two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack that flips per heads and a 90-damage follow-up for two Colourless. Misa Tsutsui.
Porygon, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Digicharge has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sharp Point is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP with an attack that attaches Energy from the deck and a 10-damage follow-up: the smaller of the pack’s two Porygon. Ayaka Yoshida.
Porygon, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Quick Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ram is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that draws a card and a 20-damage follow-up: the Porygon that cycles. Suwama Chiaki.
Porygon2, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Double Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Spinning Attack is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that draws two cards — the only card in the pack that draws without a condition. sowsow.
Ability Crazy Code
Porygon-Z, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Tantrum is 120 for three Colourless; the Ability Crazy Code — as often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Special Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. 130 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches any number of Special Energy from hand each turn: the card that makes 091 worth playing. Misa Tsutsui.
Ability Lazy Eating
Snorlax, 150 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — one attack, Big Counter is 60 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Lazy Eating — between turns, heal 10 damage from this Pokémon. 150 HP on a Basic with an Ability that heals 10 damage between turns, and a 60-damage attack that grows when the opponent has more Prizes. kanahei.
Ability Playhouse Heal
Happiny, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Playhouse Heal — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability heals 60 damage from any of your Pokémon on a coin flip, and ends your turn to do it. Eri Yamaki.
Chatot, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Mimic has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tone-Deaf is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that copies the opponent’s last attack and a 10-damage follow-up — the cheapest disruptive card in the pack. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Cat Walk
Persian-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Vengeance is 10 and climbs for three Colourless, and Slash Back GX is 150 for three Colourless; the Ability Cat Walk — once during your turn (before your attack), if 1 of your Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 cards and put them into your hand. The full-art printing of 069, in the CG style — the only version where the Persian is shown full-length rather than cropped. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Cat Walk
Persian-GX, 200 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Vengeance is 10 and climbs for three Colourless, and Slash Back GX is 150 for three Colourless; the Ability Cat Walk — once during your turn (before your attack), if 1 of your Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 cards and put them into your hand. The rainbow printing of 069, the last of the pack’s six rainbow cards.
21 cards · listed in original order.
Each player switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. (Your opponent switches first. If a player does not have a Benched Pokémon, he or she doesn’t switch Pokémon.)
Escape Rope — Each player switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. (Your opponent switches first. If a player does not have a Benched Pokémon, he or she doesn’t switch Pokémon.). Both players switch their Active Pokémon, and the opponent has to move first: the Item that undoes a stall without giving up a turn. Toyste Beach.
Look at the top 3 cards of your opponent’s deck and choose 1 of them. Your opponent shuffles the other cards back into their deck. Then, put the card you chose on top of their deck.
Chip-Chip Ice Axe — Look at the top 3 cards of your opponent’s deck and choose 1 of them. Your opponent shuffles the other cards back into their deck. Then, put the card you chose on top of their deck. Look at the top three of the opponent’s deck and choose which one they draw next — the pack’s only card that touches the opponent’s deck. Yoshinobu Saito.
Discard 2 cards from your hand. (If you can’t discard 2 cards, you can’t play this card.) Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Ultra Ball — Discard 2 cards from your hand. (If you can’t discard 2 cards, you can’t play this card.) Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Discard two to search any Pokémon: a reprint here at the lower rarity, which is what makes the pack’s GX lines reachable at all. 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.)
Rare Candy — 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.). Skip a stage on any Basic in play: the reprint that lets the pack’s Stage 2 lines exist in a format this fast. Toyste Beach.
Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Fire Crystal — Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. Three Fire Energy back from the discard pile for no cost at all — the card that makes the pack’s 190 and 230 damage attacks repeatable. Yoshinobu Saito.
Search your deck for a Mismagius, Honchkrow, Chandelure, or Aegislash, including Pokémon-GX, that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon in play, and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. You can use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.
Dusk Stone — Search your deck for a Mismagius, Honchkrow, Chandelure, or Aegislash, including Pokémon-GX, that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon in play, and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. You can use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn. Evolve straight into Mismagius, Honchkrow, Chandelure or Aegislash on the first turn: the Item that solves the pack’s two Stage 1 GX lines. Ryo Ueda.
Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them.
Giovanni’s Exile — Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them. Discard up to two of your own undamaged Benched Pokémon: the pack’s oddest cost, and the trigger for 043. Megumi Mizutani.
Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokémon, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Fan Club — Search your deck for up to 2 Basic Pokémon, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Two Basic Pokémon out of the deck for one card — the cheapest setup Item in the pack. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Welder — Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards. Attach two Fire Energy from hand and draw three: the single most important card in the pack, and the reason its Fire decks need so little else. Hitoshi Ariga.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Red’s Challenge — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard two cards to search anything at all — the pack’s unconditional search, printed at the higher rarity. Megumi Mizutani.
The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead.
Martial Arts Dojo — The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead. A Stadium that adds 10 damage to non-Ultra Beast attacks, or 40 when the attacker is behind on Prizes: the pack’s answer to a losing board. 5ban Graphics.
Whenever either player switches their Poisoned Active Pokémon with 1 of their Benched Pokémon with the effect of a Trainer card, the new Active Pokémon is now affected by that Special Condition.
Dust Island — Whenever either player switches their Poisoned Active Pokémon with 1 of their Benched Pokémon with the effect of a Trainer card, the new Active Pokémon is now affected by that Special Condition. A Stadium that passes a Special Condition on to whichever Pokémon is switched in — a card that only works with 079 and 085. Ryo Ueda.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 4 Fire Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Fiery Flint — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 4 Fire Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard two cards for up to four Fire Energy in hand — the pack’s cheapest way to load a hand for 087. Yoshinobu Saito.
Choose 1: • Put a Pokémon from your discard pile into your hand. • Shuffle 3 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck.
Rescue Stretcher — Choose 1: • Put a Pokémon from your discard pile into your hand. • Shuffle 3 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck. A Pokémon back from the discard pile, or three shuffled into the deck: the pack’s only recovery Item. Yoshinobu Saito.
Search your deck for up to 4 Fire Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. Your turn ends.
Kiawe — Search your deck for up to 4 Fire Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. Your turn ends. Four Fire Energy onto one Pokémon and your turn ends: the pack’s biggest single acceleration, and the reason its GX attacks land on turn two. Masakazu Fukuda.
Shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw 6 cards.
Cynthia — Shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw 6 cards. Shuffle your hand away and draw six with no condition attached — the reprint that holds every deck in the format together. Hideki Ishikawa.
Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them.
Giovanni’s Exile — Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them. The full-art printing of 085. A Supporter promoted to full art, drawn by the artist who also did the regular 085: the two look like two panels of the same scene. TOKIYA.
Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Welder — Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards. The full-art printing of 087, by the same artist as the regular card — the pack’s most-played Supporter in its rarest regular finish. Hitoshi Ariga.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Red’s Challenge — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 088, and the only version of the card drawn rather than rendered. Naoki Saito.
Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Fire Crystal — Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. The gold printing of 083. 083 in gold, with the Fire Crystal printed as a single object against an empty field — one of three gold cards that close the pack.
Between turns, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX (both yours and your opponent’s).
Shrine of Punishment — Between turns, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX (both yours and your opponent’s). A gold Stadium that puts a damage counter on every Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play between turns. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–095.
2 cards · listed in original order.
This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card.
Triple Acceleration Energy — This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card. Three Colourless Energy on an Evolution Pokémon, discarded at the end of the turn: the pack’s only Special Energy, and the one 075 exists for. 5ban Graphics.
This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card.
Triple Acceleration Energy — This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card. The gold printing of 091. 091 in gold: the pack’s only Special Energy, and the only gold card here that is not a Trainer or a Stadium.
Early April’s pack, and it belongs to the Dragon line. Fifty-four numbered cards plus fifteen secrets (eight full-art, four Hyper Rare, three gold) — 69 kinds, 14 GX, 8 of them Tag Team. 32 Garchomp & Giratina-GX is 270 and 08 Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX is 260, with 04 Heatran-GX at 190 and 30 Mawile-GX at 170. 46 Reset Stamp puts the opponent down to one card, 47 Karate Belt, 50 Giant Hearth, 52 Nest Ball and 54 Tate & Liza are the support around it. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box. Sixty-four of the 69 land in Unified Minds on 2 August, none of them left behind.
2019-04-05. 69 cards — 54 Pokémon, 15 Trainers and no Energy cards, 14 of them GX and 8 Tag Team; 23 commons, 16 uncommons, 11 rares, 4 Double Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 10 Fighting, 8 Fire, 8 Lightning, 8 Dragon, 8 Colourless, 6 Psychic, 4 Metal, 1 Grass and 1 Darkness; 42 artists worked on it and Anesaki Dynamic drew 4.
Early April’s mini-set, and the one whose best card waits four months for English. Fifty-four numbered cards, eight full-art (055–062), four rainbow (063–066) and three gold (067–069). 32 Garchomp & Giratina-GX is 270 and 08 Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX is 260, with 04 Heatran-GX at 190 and 30 Mawile-GX at 170. 46 Reset Stamp cuts the opponent’s hand to one card and becomes the most-played Item of the format, 47 Karate Belt adds 30 damage to a Pokémon with no Energy on it, and 45 Tag Switch, 50 Giant Hearth, 52 Nest Ball, 53 Rotom Dex and 54 Tate & Liza are the support. Sixty-four of the 69 reach English in Unified Minds on 2 August; five are cards English had already printed.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Karrablast, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Take Down is 20 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 20-damage attack that hurts it back for two Colourless: the smallest card in the pack, printed only to reach 031. Ken Sugimori.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Magmar, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Smoke Bomb is 10 for a Fire. 80 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Fire: the cheapest start to the Magmortar line. Hiroki Asanuma.
Magmortar, 130 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Smoke Bomb is 50 for two Colourless, and Flamethrower is 120 for a Fire and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 120-damage attack for three: the pack’s biggest non-GX Fire hit, and a card that needs 050 to get there. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Ability Burning Road
Heatran-GX, 190 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Steaming Stomp is 130 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Hot Burn GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire; the Ability Burning Road — once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from your Bench to become your Active Pokémon, you may move any number of Fire Energy from your other Pokémon to it. 190 HP on a Basic with a 130-damage attack and an Ability that moves Fire Energy onto it when it becomes Active — the pack’s Fire pivot. PLANETA Tsuji.
Litwick, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Find a Friend has no printed damage for a Fire. 60 HP and an attack that searches a Pokémon for a single Fire: the cheapest way into the Chandelure line. sowsow.
Lampent, 80 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Fireworks is 40 for a Fire. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack for a single Fire — the middle of the line, and the only card in it that attacks early. Sachiko Adachi.
Chandelure, 140 HP, Fire, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Spirit Burner is 10 and climbs for a Fire. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with a 10-damage attack that grows for each Energy attached, which is what 050 and 004 are for. kirisAki.
Ability Burning Road
Heatran-GX, 190 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Steaming Stomp is 130 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Hot Burn GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire; the Ability Burning Road — once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from your Bench to become your Active Pokémon, you may move any number of Fire Energy from your other Pokémon to it. The full-art printing of 004, rendered rather than painted — the only version where the lava is drawn as a flat field. ConceptLab.
Ability Burning Road
Heatran-GX, 190 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Steaming Stomp is 130 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Hot Burn GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire; the Ability Burning Road — once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from your Bench to become your Active Pokémon, you may move any number of Fire Energy from your other Pokémon to it. The rainbow printing of 004: the pack’s Fire GX in its highest regular finish.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX, 260 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Tandem Shock is 80 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless, and Lightning Ride GX is 150 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless. 260 HP on a Basic with an 80-damage attack that climbs per heads and a GX attack that hits harder the more Energy is behind it — the pack’s second Tag Team. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Pikachu, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Tail Whap is 10 for a Colourless, and Electric Ball is 50 for a Lightning and two Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest Pikachu in the pack, and the one that only exists to be evolved. Misa Tsutsui.
Alolan Raichu, 110 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Electro Rain has no printed damage for a Lightning, and Electric Ball is 90 for a Lightning and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 that attaches Lightning Energy from the deck and then hits for 90 — the pack’s quiet accelerator. Kouki Saitou.
Stunfisk, 90 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Trap Bolt is 30 and climbs for a Fighting. 90 HP and a 30-damage attack that costs Fighting rather than Lightning: the only off-type card in the pack’s Lightning section. MAHOU.
Thundurus, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Thunderous Gale is 20 and climbs for two Colourless, and Raging Thunder is 120 for two Lightning and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 120-damage attack for three and a 20-damage attack that climbs — the pack’s plainest big hitter. Anesaki Dynamic.
Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX, 260 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Tandem Shock is 80 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless, and Lightning Ride GX is 150 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 008. The first of two full-art printings of 008, in the CG style the pack uses for most of its full arts. ConceptLab.
Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX, 260 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Tandem Shock is 80 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless, and Lightning Ride GX is 150 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 008, hand-drawn, and the only version where the two Raichu are shown as separate figures. tetsuya koizumi.
Raichu & Alolan Raichu-GX, 260 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Tandem Shock is 80 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless, and Lightning Ride GX is 150 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 008, and the only rainbow in the pack on a card with a coin-flip attack.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Alolan Marowak, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Spirit Smash has no printed damage, and Bone Beatdown is 60 for a Psychic and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that needs no Energy at all and a 60-damage follow-up: the cheapest attacker in the pack. Masakazu Fukuda.
Drifloon, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ram is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the smallest card in the pack, printed to reach 015. ryoma uratsuka.
Ability Tag Transport
Drifblim, 100 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Spinning Attack is 70 for three Colourless; the Ability Tag Transport — once during your turn (before your attack), you may switch your Active TAG TEAM Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability switches a Tag Team out of the Active spot for free — the pack’s support card, not its attacker. Mizue.
Ability Dimension Breach
Giratina, 130 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Fade to Black is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Dimension Breach — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard a Special Energy from your opponent’s Active Pokémon. 130 HP on a Basic whose Ability discards a Special Energy off the opponent’s Active Pokémon — the pack’s answer to 091 and every other Special Energy in the format. Misa Tsutsui.
Munna, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Future Sight has no printed damage for a Colourless. 60 HP and an attack that looks at the top of the deck for one Colourless: the cheapest way into the Musharna line. Shibuzoh..
Musharna, 100 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Rest Well has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Zen Headbutt is 50 for a Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that puts the opponent to Sleep and a 50-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest stall. Misa Tsutsui.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Cubone, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Growl has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Bonemerang is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 60 HP with a Paralysis attack and a 20-damage attack that repeats per heads: the cheapest body in the pack’s Fighting section. otumami.
Meditite, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Spirited Headbutt is 40 for a Fighting. 60 HP and a 40-damage attack for a single Fighting — the largest single-type hit on a 60 HP body in the pack. Mina Nakai.
Medicham, 110 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Pure Power has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Master Strike is 60 and climbs for two Fighting. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an Ability that adds 20 to its own attacks and a 60-damage follow-up that climbs. Shigenori Negishi.
Gible, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Stampede is 10 for a Fighting, and Headbutt Bounce is 30 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Garchomp line. Asako Ito.
Gabite, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Corkscrew Punch is 20 for a Fighting, and Sharp Scythe is 40 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack for two: the middle stage, and the only card in the line that hits for its own type cheaply. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Ability Avenging Aura
Garchomp, 150 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, no retreat cost — one attack, Over Slice is 80 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless; the Ability Avenging Aura — if you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, this Pokémon’s attacks do 80 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 150 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that adds 80 damage while you are behind on Prizes — the pack’s comeback card. Akira Komayama.
Riolu, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Kick is 20 for a Fighting. 60 HP and a single 20-damage attack: the cheapest way into 026, and the only Riolu in the pack. AKIRA EGAWA.
Ability Tag Coach
Lucario, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Mach Cross is 90 for a Fighting and two Colourless; the Ability Tag Coach — your TAG TEAM Pokémon take 20 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability cuts 20 damage off every Tag Team you have in play — the pack’s other support card. kirisAki.
Meloetta, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Tag Cheer has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Shooting Star Pirouette is 30 and climbs for two Colourless. 90 HP on a Basic with an attack that adds 30 to your Tag Team’s attacks and a 30-damage follow-up: a cheerleader with a stat line. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Cellular Companions
Zygarde, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Boost Fang is 20 for a Fighting; the Ability Cellular Companions — as long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, your Zygarde’s and Zygarde-GX’s attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 90 HP on a Basic whose Ability adds 20 to your Zygarde’s attacks while it sits on the Bench: the pack’s only card that works from the Bench. Shigenori Negishi.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Hoopa, 130 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Evil Admonition is 10 and climbs for a Colourless, and Mind Shock is 80 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 10-damage attack that grows with the opponent’s hand and an 80-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest hand-disruption. Ayaka Yoshida.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Captivating Wink
Mawile-GX, 170 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Wily Bite is 10 and climbs for a Metal and a Colourless, and Big Eater GX has no printed damage for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Captivating Wink — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may have your opponent reveal their hand and put any number of Basic Pokémon you find there onto their Bench. 170 HP on a Basic GX whose Ability fills the opponent’s Bench for them and whose GX attack eats Energy off their Active Pokémon — the pack’s oddest GX. 5ban Graphics.
Escavalier, 130 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Discerning Spear is 80 for a Metal, and Iron Lance is 90 for a Metal and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 90-damage attack for three: the payoff of the Karrablast line, and the only Metal card in the pack that isn’t a GX. Satoshi Shirai.
Ability Captivating Wink
Mawile-GX, 170 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Wily Bite is 10 and climbs for a Metal and a Colourless, and Big Eater GX has no printed damage for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Captivating Wink — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may have your opponent reveal their hand and put any number of Basic Pokémon you find there onto their Bench. The full-art printing of 030, rendered, with the GX attack’s box filling the lower third of the card. ConceptLab.
Ability Captivating Wink
Mawile-GX, 170 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Wily Bite is 10 and climbs for a Metal and a Colourless, and Big Eater GX has no printed damage for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Captivating Wink — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may have your opponent reveal their hand and put any number of Basic Pokémon you find there onto their Bench. The rainbow printing of 030, the smallest GX in the pack to reach the tier.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. 270 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 160-damage attack that climbs and a GX attack that discards the opponent’s whole hand: the pack is named after this card. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Latias, 120 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 1 — Energy Arrow is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Psychic, and Speed Wing is 100 for two Fire and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 20-damage attack that repeats per Energy and a 100-damage follow-up for two Fire: the pack’s oddest cost. chibi.
Ability Unnerve
Axew, 60 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 20 for a Fire and a Metal; the Ability Unnerve — whenever your opponent plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Pokémon. 60 HP and an Ability that blanks every Item and Supporter aimed at it — the smallest card in the pack with a real defensive use. Yukiko Baba.
Fraxure, 90 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Guard Press is 30 for two Colourless, and Guillotine is 70 for a Fire, a Metal and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 70-damage attack for three: the middle of the Haxorus line, and the one that pays for itself. tetsuya koizumi.
Ability Grind Up
Haxorus, 150 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Powerful Axe is 10 and climbs for a Fire and a Metal; the Ability Grind Up — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard any Stadium card in play. 150 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability discards the Stadium in play to attach three Energy from hand at once — the card that makes 050 a cost rather than a gift. Anesaki Dynamic.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. The first full-art printing of 032, rendered: the pack’s star card in the style that flattens its background entirely. aky CG Works.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. The second full-art printing of 032, hand-drawn, and the only version where both Dragons are lit from the same direction. Anesaki Dynamic.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. The rainbow printing of 032, the pack’s namesake card in its highest regular finish.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Kangaskhan, 130 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — Double Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tag Impact is 50 per heads on a coin flip for four Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with an attack that draws two cards and a 50-damage attack that repeats for each Tag Team you have in play. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Bidoof, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — Tackle is 10 for a Colourless, and Hyper Fang is 60 for three Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 60-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Bibarel line. Sekio.
Ability Unaware
Bibarel, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Amnesia is 60 for three Colourless; the Ability Unaware — prevent all effects of your opponent’s attacks, except damage, done to this Pokémon. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability blanks every non-damage effect of the opponent’s attacks — the pack’s quietest wall. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Snack Search
Munchlax, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Snack Search — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability puts a card from the discard pile on top of the deck on a coin flip, and ends your turn to do it. sowsow.
Pidove, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Glide is 10 for a Colourless, and Flap is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Unfezant line. ryoma uratsuka.
Tranquill, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Glide is 20 for a Colourless, and Air Slash is 40 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack for two Colourless — the middle stage, and nothing more. Sekio.
Unfezant, 140 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 1 — Gust is 40 for a Colourless, and Downburst is 90 for three Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with a 90-damage attack for three: the pack’s largest non-GX Colourless body. Shin Nagasawa.
Tornadus, 120 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Knuckle Punch is 20 for a Colourless, and Thunderous Tornado is 80 for three Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with an 80-damage attack for three: the pack’s plainest Colourless hitter. Anesaki Dynamic.
15 cards · listed in original order.
Move up to 2 Energy from 1 of your TAG TEAM Pokémon to another of your Pokémon.
Tag Switch — Move up to 2 Energy from 1 of your TAG TEAM Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. Move two Energy from one Tag Team to another Pokémon: the Item that pays for the pack’s four Tag Team GX attacks. Yoshinobu Saito.
Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards.
Reset Stamp — Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards. The opponent shuffles their hand away and draws one card per remaining Prize — the most-played card in the pack, and the reason the format slows down. sadaji.
If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less.
Karate Belt — If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less. A Tool that cuts a Fighting off every attack the holder makes while you are behind on Prizes: the pack’s cheapest comeback. Yoshinobu Saito.
Move up to 3 damage counters from 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon to another of their Pokémon.
Grimsley — Move up to 3 damage counters from 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon to another of their Pokémon. Move up to three damage counters from one of the opponent’s Pokémon to another — the pack’s only way to finish a Pokémon it cannot reach. kodama.
Draw 2 cards. If your Active Pokémon is a TAG TEAM Pokémon, draw 2 more cards.
Coach Trainer — Draw 2 cards. If your Active Pokémon is a TAG TEAM Pokémon, draw 2 more cards. Draw two, or four if your Active Pokémon is a Tag Team: the Supporter the pack was designed around. nagimiso.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck.
Giant Hearth — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck. A Stadium that trades a card for two Fire Energy in hand every turn, for both players — the engine behind 004 and 007. 5ban Graphics.
Each player switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. (Your opponent switches first. If a player does not have a Benched Pokémon, he or she doesn’t switch Pokémon.)
Escape Rope — Each player switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. (Your opponent switches first. If a player does not have a Benched Pokémon, he or she doesn’t switch Pokémon.). Both players switch their Active Pokémon, with the opponent moving first: the reprint that undoes a stall. Toyste Beach.
Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.
Nest Ball — Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck. Put a Basic straight onto the Bench from the deck: the cheapest setup card in the pack. Ryo Ueda.
After counting your Prize cards, shuffle them into your deck. Then, take that many cards from the top of your deck and put them face down as your Prize cards.
Rotom Dex — After counting your Prize cards, shuffle them into your deck. Then, take that many cards from the top of your deck and put them face down as your Prize cards. Shuffle your Prizes back into the deck and take the same number off the top — the pack’s only way to reset a bad Prize spread. aky CG Works.
Choose 1: •Shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw 5 cards. •Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Tate & Liza — Choose 1: •Shuffle your hand into your deck. Then, draw 5 cards. •Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Shuffle your hand away for five cards, or switch your Active Pokémon out: the pack’s only double-purpose Supporter. You Iribi.
Move up to 3 damage counters from 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon to another of their Pokémon.
Grimsley — Move up to 3 damage counters from 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon to another of their Pokémon. The full-art printing of 048. A Supporter promoted to full art, by the same artist as the regular 048 — the two differ only in finish and framing. kodama.
Draw 2 cards. If your Active Pokémon is a TAG TEAM Pokémon, draw 2 more cards.
Coach Trainer — Draw 2 cards. If your Active Pokémon is a TAG TEAM Pokémon, draw 2 more cards. The full-art printing of 049, by the same artist as the regular card. nagimiso.
Move up to 2 Energy from 1 of your TAG TEAM Pokémon to another of your Pokémon.
Tag Switch — Move up to 2 Energy from 1 of your TAG TEAM Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. The gold printing of 045. 045 in gold, with the Energy symbols printed as the only colour on the card — one of three gold cards that close the pack.
Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards.
Reset Stamp — Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards. The gold printing of 046. 046 in gold. The card resets the opponent’s hand, which makes this the most valuable of the pack’s three gold cards in play.
If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less.
Karate Belt — If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less. The gold printing of 047. 047 in gold: the Tool that cuts a Fighting off every attack while you are behind on Prizes.
Late April’s pack, and the one that prints three Pokémon on one card for the first time. Fifty-six numbered cards plus thirteen secrets — 69 kinds. 35 Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX is 300 HP: three names, one Basic, the highest-HP Tag Team of the year and the first three-name card printed anywhere. 01 Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX is 270, 34 Naganadel-GX is 210 as an Ultra Beast, and 19 Keldeo-GX is 170. The pack also prints two Z-Moves as Item cards — 44 Normalium Z: Tackle and 45 Flyinium Z: Air Slash — plus 46 U-Turn Board, 48 Jessie & James, 53 Lillie and 54 Lusamine. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax. Fifty-six cards land in Unified Minds on 2 August, but the 300 HP card does not — it arrives in Hidden Fates on 23 August, in a box rather than a booster.
2019-04-26. 69 cards — 53 Pokémon, 16 Trainers and no Energy cards, 14 of them GX, 8 Tag Team and 5 Ultra Beast; 23 commons, 16 uncommons, 11 rares, 4 Double Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 12 Colourless, 11 Grass, 9 Water, 8 Psychic, 5 Fire, 4 Lightning and 4 Dragon; 40 artists worked on it and Mizue drew 4.
Late April’s mini-set, and the first product anywhere to print three Pokémon on one card. Fifty-four numbered cards, eight full-art (055–062), four rainbow (063–066) and three gold (067–069) — 69 kinds. 35 Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX is 300 HP: three names, one Basic and the tallest body in the year, and it appears in this pack before it appears in any other. 01 Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX is 270, 34 Naganadel-GX is 210 as an Ultra Beast, 19 Keldeo-GX is 170. The pack also prints 44 Normalium Z: Tackle and 45 Flyinium Z: Air Slash, two Z-Moves as Item cards, plus 46 U-Turn Board, 48 Jessie & James, 53 Lillie, 54 Lusamine and 50 Recycle Energy. English splits it: 55 cards land in Unified Minds on 2 August and the 300 HP three-Pokémon card goes to Hidden Fates on 23 August instead — one card, two products.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Super Growth has no printed damage, Calming Hurricane is 150 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Tropical Hour GX is 200 for three Grass. 270 HP on a Grass Basic with a free attack that accelerates, a 150-damage attack and a 200-damage GX attack — the pack’s first Tag Team and its cheapest to use. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Dwebble, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Dig Claws is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the smallest card in the pack, printed to reach 003. kawayoo.
Ability Shell Armor
Crustle, 120 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Fury Cutter is 50 and climbs for a Grass and two Colourless; the Ability Shell Armor — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-point shield and a 50-damage attack that climbs: the pack’s cheapest wall. Tomokazu Komiya.
Fomantis, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Sweet Scent has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Leafage is 10 for a Grass. 70 HP with an attack that does nothing but heal the opponent’s status and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Lurantis line. Yuka Morii.
Lurantis, 110 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Petal Blizzard has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sol Slice is 50 and climbs for a Grass. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that adds 30 to its own damage and a 50-damage follow-up that climbs — the pack’s cheapest scaling attacker. AKIRA EGAWA.
Bounsweet, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Splash is 10 for a Grass, and Spinning Attack is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the smallest body in the pack’s Grass section. Mizue.
Steenee, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Double Slap is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless, and Leaf Step is 60 for a Grass and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that flips per heads and a 60-damage follow-up for three: the middle of the Tsareena line. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Queenly Reward
Tsareena, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, High Jump Kick is 90 for a Grass and two Colourless; the Ability Queenly Reward — once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Grass Energy card from your discard pile to your Active Pokémon. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that recycles Grass Energy from the discard pile onto the Active Pokémon every turn — the line’s only reason to exist. kirisAki.
Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Super Growth has no printed damage, Calming Hurricane is 150 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Tropical Hour GX is 200 for three Grass. The first of two full-art printings of 001, rendered rather than painted, with the GX attack box covering the lower half. ConceptLab.
Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Super Growth has no printed damage, Calming Hurricane is 150 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Tropical Hour GX is 200 for three Grass. The second full-art printing of 001, hand-drawn: the only version where the Rowlet and the Exeggutor are lit as one scene. Naoyo Kimura.
Rowlet & Alolan Exeggutor-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Super Growth has no printed damage, Calming Hurricane is 150 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Tropical Hour GX is 200 for three Grass. The rainbow printing of 001, the pack’s Grass Tag Team in its highest regular finish.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Numel, 90 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 4 — Tackle is 10 for a Colourless, and Flamethrower is 80 for a Fire and three Colourless. 90 HP with a 10-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s cheapest route to a big Fire number. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Camerupt, 140 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Tackle is 50 for two Colourless, and Strong Flare is 150 for a Fire and three Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 150-damage attack for four Energy — the largest non-GX Fire hit in the pack. Masakazu Fukuda.
Victini, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Victory Sign has no printed damage for a Fire, and Flare is 20 for a Fire. 70 HP with an Ability that searches any card for a single Fire and a 20-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest search engine, on a 70 HP body. Mizue.
Fletchinder, 80 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Flame Charge is 20 for a Fire. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack for a single Fire: the middle of the Talonflame line, and nothing more. Mina Nakai.
Talonflame, 130 HP, Fire, Stage 2, no retreat cost — Heat Wave is 40 for a Fire, and Flare Raid is 100 for a Fire and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 2 with a 40-damage attack that hits the whole Bench and a 100-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s only spread card. SATOSHI NAKAI.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Snorunt, 50 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Icicle is 20 for a Water. 50 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Water: the smallest card in the pack, printed to reach 015. Naoyo Kimura.
Froslass, 80 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Spiteful Sigh is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Water, and Icy Wind is 40 for a Water. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack that grows with the opponent’s hand and a 40-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest hand reading. Mizue.
Snover, 90 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 4 — one attack, Powder Snow is 10 for a Water. 90 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Water: the cheapest start to the Abomasnow line. otumami.
Abomasnow, 140 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Quick Freeze is 70 for a Water and two Colourless, and Wild Tackle is 140 for two Water and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 140-damage attack that also damages it: the pack’s biggest Water hit that isn’t a GX. Shin Nagasawa.
Cryogonal, 90 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Frozen Lock is 10 for a Water. 90 HP on a Basic with a 10-damage attack that stops the target from retreating — the pack’s cheapest lock. Ken Sugimori.
Ability Pure Heart
Keldeo-GX, 170 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Sonic Edge is 110 for two Water and a Colourless, and Resolute Blade GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Pure Heart — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX. 170 HP on a Basic GX with an Ability that blanks every effect of the opponent’s Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX attacks against it: the pack’s hardest card to Knock Out. 5ban Graphics.
Tapu Fini, 120 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Razor Fin is 20 for a Water, and Nature Wave is 100 for two Water and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack and a 100-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s plainest Water attacker. Hasuno.
Ability Pure Heart
Keldeo-GX, 170 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Sonic Edge is 110 for two Water and a Colourless, and Resolute Blade GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Pure Heart — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX. The full-art printing of 019, rendered, and the only version of the card where the water fills the whole frame. ConceptLab.
Ability Pure Heart
Keldeo-GX, 170 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Sonic Edge is 110 for two Water and a Colourless, and Resolute Blade GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Pure Heart — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX. The rainbow printing of 019, and the only rainbow in the pack on a card whose Ability blanks the opponent’s attacks.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Magnemite, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Supersonic has no printed damage for a Lightning. 60 HP and a Paralysis attack for a single Lightning: the cheapest way into the Magnezone line. sowsow.
Magneton, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Lightning Ball is 20 for a Lightning, and Tri Attack is 40 per heads on a coin flip for three Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 40-damage attack that flips per heads: the middle stage, and the only one that hits for Colourless. Yumi.
Ability Double Type
Magnezone, 160 HP, Lightning, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Magnetic Bolt is 120 for a Lightning and two Colourless; the Ability Double Type — as long as this Pokémon is in play, it is Lightning and Metal type. 160 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that makes it Lightning and Metal at once — the only card in the pack that changes its own type. Shin Nagasawa.
Xurkitree, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Three Mirrors is 30 and climbs for a Lightning, and Signal Beam is 50 for two Lightning. 120 HP on an Ultra Beast with a 30-damage attack that climbs and a 50-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest Ultra Beast. Satoshi Shirai.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Ekans, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tail Whap is 30 for two Colourless. 60 HP and a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Arbok line, and the only Ekans in the pack. Masakazu Fukuda.
Ability Last Pattern
Arbok, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Rocket Tail is 50 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Last Pattern — if this Pokémon is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, discard 2 random cards from your opponent’s hand. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability discards two of the opponent’s cards when it is Knocked Out: a card that pays you back for losing it. kirisAki.
Koffing, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tackle is 20 for a Colourless. 60 HP and a 20-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest way into the Weezing line. Saya Tsuruta.
Ability Surrender Now
Weezing, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Tackle is 40 for a Colourless; the Ability Surrender Now — once during your turn, if this Pokémon is discarded with the effect of Jessie & James, you may have your opponent discard a card from their hand. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability only fires when 048 discards it — the pack’s strangest two-card combination. Hideki Ishikawa.
Ability Secret Territory
Uxie, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psyshot is 30 for three Colourless; the Ability Secret Territory — if you have Mesprit and Azelf in play, apply Weakness for each Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) as ×4 instead. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability quadruples Weakness for every Pokémon in play once Mesprit and Azelf are beside it — the pack’s most conditional card. kodama.
Mesprit, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — First Contact has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Mumble is 20 for a Psychic. 60 HP with an attack that searches a Pokémon for a Psychic and a 20-damage follow-up: the middle of the lake trio. Sekio.
Azelf, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psypower has no printed damage for a Colourless. 70 HP and an attack that puts a card from the deck into the hand for one Colourless: the smallest of the three, and the one that sets the others up. Mizue.
Poipole, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Belt is 10 for a Colourless, and Last Scene is 50 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless. 70 HP on an Ultra Beast with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up that grows: the cheapest way into 034. Shin Nagasawa.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Druddigon, 120 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — Drag Off has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Dragon Tail is 100 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire, a Water and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Dragon Basic with an attack that drags a Benched Pokémon out and a 100-damage follow-up that flips per heads. hatachu.
Ability Ultra Conversion
Naganadel-GX, 210 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Venom Shot has no printed damage for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Injection GX has no printed damage for a Lightning; the Ability Ultra Conversion — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard an Ultra Beast card from your hand. 210 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability turns an Ultra Beast in hand into three cards: the pack’s draw engine, and the only GX that evolves. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Ultra Conversion
Naganadel-GX, 210 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Venom Shot has no printed damage for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Injection GX has no printed damage for a Lightning; the Ability Ultra Conversion — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard an Ultra Beast card from your hand. The full-art printing of 034, rendered, with the Ultra Beast shown against a flat field rather than a landscape. ConceptLab.
Ability Ultra Conversion
Naganadel-GX, 210 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Venom Shot has no printed damage for a Psychic and three Colourless, and Injection GX has no printed damage for a Lightning; the Ability Ultra Conversion — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard an Ultra Beast card from your hand. The rainbow printing of 034, the only evolving GX in the pack to reach the tier.
12 cards · listed in original order.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 300 HP, the highest-HP Tag Team of the year, on a single Basic with three names on it — the pack’s headline card and the first of its kind anywhere. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Lickitung, 100 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Heavy Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tongue Slap is 40 for three Colourless. 100 HP with an attack that draws two cards and a 40-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest draw in the pack’s Colourless section. tetsuya koizumi.
Lickilicky, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Rollout is 40 for a Colourless, and Licks Go Crazy is 90 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up for three — the pack’s plainest Colourless body above 100 HP. Suwama Chiaki.
Hoothoot, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Air Slash is 30 for two Colourless. 60 HP and a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Noctowl line. Misa Tsutsui.
Noctowl, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Blindside has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Slashing Claw is 60 for two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that hits a Benched Pokémon and a 60-damage follow-up for two — the pack’s cheapest sniper. Tomokazu Komiya.
Ability Hearing
Audino, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Drain Slap is 30 for two Colourless; the Ability Hearing — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may draw a card. 90 HP on a Basic whose Ability draws a card every turn while it is Active: the pack’s quietest engine, and the cheapest one to switch on. sui.
Fletchling, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Flap is 10 for a Colourless. 60 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the smallest card in the pack’s bird line. Saya Tsuruta.
Type: Null, 100 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Smash Kick is 20 for a Colourless, and Quick Blow is 30 and climbs for two Colourless. 100 HP with a 20-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up that climbs: the cheapest start to the Silvally line. tetsuya koizumi.
Silvally, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Avenging Heart is 30 and climbs for two Colourless, and Air Slash is 120 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that grows when you are behind on Prizes and a 120-damage follow-up for three. Eske Yoshinob.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The full-art printing of 035. The first of two full-art printings of 035, in the CG style — the version that keeps all three birds in one frame. 5ban Graphics.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 035, hand-drawn, and the only version where the three birds are given separate light. HYOGONOSUKE.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 035, and the tallest card in the pack at 300 HP in its highest regular finish.
16 cards · listed in original order.
If the Pokémon this card is attached to has the Tackle attack, it can use the GX attack on this card. (You still need the necessary Energy to use this attack.) ColorlessColorlessColorlessColorless Barreling Blitz GX 200+ Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 40 more damage for each heads. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
Normalium Z: Tackle — If the Pokémon this card is attached to has the Tackle attack, it can use the GX attack on this card. (You still need the necessary Energy to use this attack.) ColorlessColorlessColorlessColorless Barreling Blitz GX 200+ Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 40 more damage for each heads. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.). A Tool that gives any Pokémon with the Tackle attack a GX attack: the pack’s way of turning a common card into a threat. 5ban Graphics.
If the Pokémon this card is attached to has the Air Slash attack, it can use the GX attack on this card. (You still need the necessary Energy to use this attack.) ColorlessColorlessColorlessColorless Speeding Skystrike GX 180 Prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon during your opponent’s next turn. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)
Flyinium Z: Air Slash — If the Pokémon this card is attached to has the Air Slash attack, it can use the GX attack on this card. (You still need the necessary Energy to use this attack.) ColorlessColorlessColorlessColorless Speeding Skystrike GX 180 Prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon during your opponent’s next turn. (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.). A Tool that gives any Pokémon with the Air Slash attack a GX attack, and one that blanks the opponent’s next turn entirely. aky CG Works.
The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
U-Turn Board — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. A Tool that cuts the Retreat Cost to nothing and returns to the hand when it is discarded — the pack’s cheapest way out of the Active spot. sadaji.
Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon that have a Retreat Cost of exactly 4, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Poké Maniac — Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon that have a Retreat Cost of exactly 4, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search up to three Pokémon with a Retreat Cost of exactly four: the pack’s narrowest search, and the one that finds 035. Hitoshi Ariga.
Each player discards 2 cards from their hand. Your opponent discards first.
Jessie & James — Each player discards 2 cards from their hand. Your opponent discards first. Both players discard two cards, the opponent first: the pack’s cheapest hand disruption, and the trigger for 028. Megumi Mizutani.
Pokémon with 40 HP or less remaining (both yours and your opponent’s) can’t attack.
Blizzard Town — Pokémon with 40 HP or less remaining (both yours and your opponent’s) can’t attack. A Stadium that stops any Pokémon with 40 HP or less left from attacking at all — the pack’s only way to finish a game without damage. Ryo Ueda.
This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
Recycle Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. A Special Energy that returns to the hand whenever it is discarded, which makes it free fuel for every discarding cost in the pack.
Search your deck for a Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Net Ball — Search your deck for a Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search a Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy: the pack’s cheapest support for its Grass line. Ryo Ueda.
Look at your face-down Prize cards and put 1 of them into your hand. Then, shuffle this Gladion into your remaining Prize cards and put them back face down. If you didn’t play this Gladion from your hand, it does nothing.
Gladion — Look at your face-down Prize cards and put 1 of them into your hand. Then, shuffle this Gladion into your remaining Prize cards and put them back face down. If you didn’t play this Gladion from your hand, it does nothing. Look at your face-down Prizes and take one, then shuffle this card into them: the pack’s only way to fix a Prize spread. Mana Ibe.
Draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand. If it’s your first turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand.
Lillie — Draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand. If it’s your first turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand. Draw to six cards, or to eight on the first turn: the pack’s cheapest Supporter, and the reason its Stage 2 lines are playable. Mana Ibe.
Put 2 in any combination of Supporter and Stadium cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Lusamine — Put 2 in any combination of Supporter and Stadium cards from your discard pile into your hand. Two Supporters or Stadiums back from the discard pile: the pack’s only recovery Supporter. Mana Ibe.
Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon that have a Retreat Cost of exactly 4, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Poké Maniac — Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon that have a Retreat Cost of exactly 4, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 047. A Supporter promoted to full art, by the same artist as the regular 047. Hitoshi Ariga.
Each player discards 2 cards from their hand. Your opponent discards first.
Jessie & James — Each player discards 2 cards from their hand. Your opponent discards first. The full-art printing of 048, by the same artist as the regular card — the only Supporter in the pack drawn as a scene rather than a portrait. Megumi Mizutani.
The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
U-Turn Board — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. The gold printing of 046. 046 in gold, the Tool that returns to the hand whenever it is discarded.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for a basic Energy card, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck.
Viridian Forest — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for a basic Energy card, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck. A gold Stadium that lets either player trade a card in hand for a Basic Energy every turn. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–054.
This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
Recycle Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. The gold printing of 050. 050 in gold: the only Special Energy in the pack that comes back to the hand instead of going to the discard pile.
May’s main expansion, and it contains the single best card of the year. Ninety-four numbered cards plus twenty-one secrets — 115 kinds. 29 Mewtwo & Mew-GX at 270 HP copies the attacks of Pokémon in your discard pile, and from June onward it is in every list that can hold it. 54 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX is 280, the highest HP in the pack, and 69 Dragonite-GX prints 270 damage with Sky Judgment, the highest damage number of 2019. 11 Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX is 250, 45 Aerodactyl-GX 210, 34 Latios-GX 170. 85 Misty’s Favor, 87 Blue’s Tactics, 89 Pokémon Research Lab and 94 Sightseer are the Trainers. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, and 110 of the 115 arrive in Unified Minds on 2 August.
2019-05-31. 115 cards — 95 Pokémon, 20 Trainers and no Energy cards, 21 of them GX and 12 Tag Team; 42 commons, 32 uncommons, 14 rares, 6 Double Rares, 12 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 6 Hyper Rares; 19 Psychic, 14 Water, 13 Fighting, 11 Darkness, 10 Grass, 9 Dragon, 9 Colourless, 7 Lightning and 3 Fairy; 56 artists worked on it and Midori Harada drew 5.
May’s main expansion, and it contains both the best card and the highest damage number of 2019. Ninety-four numbered cards, twelve full-art (095–106), six rainbow (107–112) and three gold (113–115). 29 Mewtwo & Mew-GX at 270 copies the attacks of Pokémon in the discard pile — Perfection — and it is the card the whole year is measured against. 54 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX is 280, the highest HP on any Tag Team this year, and 69 Dragonite-GX prints 270 damage with Sky Judgment, the highest number printed on any card in 2019. 11 Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX is 250, 45 Aerodactyl-GX 210, 34 Latios-GX 170. 85 Misty’s Favor, 87 Blue’s Tactics, 89 Pokémon Research Lab, 91 Pal Pad and 94 Sightseer are the Trainers; 110 of the 115 arrive in Unified Minds on 2 August.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Yanma, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Tackle is 10 for a Colourless, and Cutting Wind is 20 for two Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Yanmega line. Eri Yamaki.
Yanmega, 120 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Tackle is 50 for two Colourless, and Air Slash is 100 for three Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose attacks cost nothing but Colourless: the pack’s cheapest way to hit for 100. Hitoshi Ariga.
Celebi, 80 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Time Spiral has no printed damage for a Grass, and Mind Bend is 20 for a Grass. 80 HP with a damaging attack and a utility attack that both cost a single Grass: the pack’s cheapest card that does two jobs. Megumi Mizutani.
Shroomish, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Poison Powder has no printed damage for a Grass. 60 HP and a Poison attack for a single Grass: the cheapest way into 010. Ken Sugimori.
Sewaddle, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Multiply has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Gnaw is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP with an attack that copies a Basic from the deck and a 10-damage follow-up: the Sewaddle that sets up. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Swaddling Leaves
Sewaddle, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Surprise Attack is 20 for a Grass; the Ability Swaddling Leaves — this Pokémon takes 10 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 50 HP with a 20-damage attack and a 10-point shield: the Sewaddle that defends. Shigenori Negishi.
Ability Swaddling Leaves
Swadloon, 70 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Bug Bite is 10 for a Colourless; the Ability Swaddling Leaves — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 70 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-point shield and a 10-damage attack: the middle of the Leavanny line, and the cheapest wall in the pack. Shibuzoh..
Ability Blanket Weaver
Leavanny, 120 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 1 — one attack, Razor Leaf is 70 for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Blanket Weaver — your Grass Pokémon take 40 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 120 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability gives every Grass Pokémon you have 40 points of damage reduction — the card the whole line was printed for. Kagemaru Himeno.
Foongus, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Spore has no printed damage for a Colourless. 40 HP and a Sleep attack for one Colourless: the lowest HP in the pack. Ken Sugimori.
Ability Bursting Spores
Amoonguss, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Venoshock is 20 and climbs for two Colourless; the Ability Bursting Spores — whenever you play a Pokémon that has the Spore attack from your hand during your turn, you may leave your opponent’s Active Pokémon Asleep and Poisoned. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability puts the opponent to Sleep and poisons them whenever a Spore attacker arrives — a two-card combination in a single line. Midori Harada.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX, 250 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Ditch and Splash is 40 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Thrilling Times GX is 10 and climbs for two Water. 250 HP on a Water Basic with a 40-damage attack that repeats per heads and a GX attack that grows with the cards in hand — the pack’s smallest Tag Team. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Mermaid’s Call
Lapras, 110 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Surf is 90 for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Mermaid’s Call — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put a Misty’s Favor card from your discard pile into your hand. 110 HP on a Basic whose Ability returns 085 from the discard pile every turn: the pack’s quietest two-card engine. Kagemaru Himeno.
Finneon, 50 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gust is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Lumineon line. sui.
Lumineon, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, no retreat cost — one attack, Neon Trickery is 50 for two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 50-damage attack for two Colourless — the pack’s plainest Water body. Sekio.
Basculin, 80 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Swarming Bites has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tackle is 20 for a Colourless. 80 HP with an attack that damages every Pokémon the opponent has and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest spread card in the pack. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Tirtouga, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Shell Attack is 20 for a Fighting, and Boulder Crush is 60 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 that costs Fighting rather than Water, with a 60-damage follow-up for three. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Ancient Custom
Carracosta, 160 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Aqua Impact is 80 and climbs for a Fighting and two Colourless; the Ability Ancient Custom — pokémon Tool cards attached to your opponent’s Pokémon have no effect. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability blanks every Tool attached to the opponent’s Pokémon: the pack’s answer to 084 and every other Tool. Kouki Saitou.
Dewpider, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Rain Splash is 10 for a Water, and Bite is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the smallest card in the pack’s Water section. Atsuko Nishida.
Araquanid, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Tangle Drag has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sticky Web is 80 for a Water and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that drags a Benched Pokémon out and an 80-damage follow-up for three. Misa Tsutsui.
Wimpod, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Sand Attack is 10 for a Water. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Water: the cheapest way into 021. Tomokazu Komiya.
Ability Emergency Exit
Golisopod, 140 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 4 — one attack, First Impression is 120 and climbs for a Water and three Colourless; the Ability Emergency Exit — if this Pokémon has 2 or fewer Energy attached to it, it has no Retreat Cost. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 120-damage attack that grows and an Ability that makes it free to retreat while it has two Energy or fewer — the pack’s hit-and-run card. Masakazu Fukuda.
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX, 250 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Ditch and Splash is 40 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Thrilling Times GX is 10 and climbs for two Water. The full-art printing of 011. The first of two full-art printings of 011, rendered rather than painted, with both Pokémon given the same flat light. ConceptLab.
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX, 250 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Ditch and Splash is 40 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Thrilling Times GX is 10 and climbs for two Water. The second full-art printing of 011, hand-drawn, and the only version where the two are shown as separate figures on one card. Miki Tanaka.
Slowpoke & Psyduck-GX, 250 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Ditch and Splash is 40 per heads on a coin flip for two Water, and Thrilling Times GX is 10 and climbs for two Water. The rainbow printing of 011, the pack’s Water Tag Team in its highest regular finish.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Joltik, 40 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Jolt has no printed damage for a Colourless. 40 HP and an attack that Paralyses for a single Colourless: the cheapest card in the pack’s Lightning section. Midori Harada.
Galvantula, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Live Wire has no printed damage for a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 whose single attack costs nothing at all — the cheapest body in the pack’s Lightning section. Yumi.
Tynamo, 30 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Wild River has no printed damage for a Colourless. 30 HP, the lowest in the pack, with an attack that costs a single Colourless and prints no damage. Mina Nakai.
Tynamo, 40 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Generate Electricity has no printed damage for a Lightning. 40 HP with an attack that attaches Lightning Energy from the deck: the Tynamo that sets up rather than attacks. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Eelektrik, 90 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Overspark is 30 per heads on a coin flip for a Lightning. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that repeats for each Lightning Energy attached — the middle of the Eelektross line. Midori Harada.
Ability Electric Swamp
Eelektross, 150 HP, Lightning, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Hover Over is 130 for a Lightning and three Colourless; the Ability Electric Swamp — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is in your hand and you have at least 4 Lightning Energy cards in play, you may play this Pokémon onto your Bench. 150 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability lets it come down from the hand for free once four Lightning Energy are in play: the pack’s only Stage 2 that cheats itself into play. Shigenori Negishi.
Tapu Koko, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Electro Ball is 30 for a Lightning, and Nature Dive is 100 and climbs for two Lightning and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack and a 100-damage attack that climbs: the pack’s cheapest Lightning attacker above 100 HP. Shin Nagasawa.
19 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. 270 HP on a Basic whose Ability copies any attack from a Pokémon-GX on your Bench or in the discard pile: the pack’s headline card, and the most open-ended card printed in 2019. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Exeggcute, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Leech Seed is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Exeggutor line. otumami.
Exeggutor, 140 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Mind Bend is 30 for a Colourless, and Full Clean is 180 for two Psychic and a Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 180-damage attack for three that shuffles everything attached to it away — the pack’s biggest non-GX hit and its steepest cost. kirisAki.
Ability Ominous Posture
Jynx, 80 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Attract Smack is 30 for a Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Ominous Posture — once during your turn (before your attack), you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. 80 HP on a Basic whose Ability moves a damage counter from one of your Pokémon to another every turn: the pack’s cheapest way to fix its own board. sowsow.
Ability Peppy Pick
Wynaut, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Peppy Pick — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability shuffles a random card out of the opponent’s hand on a coin flip, and ends your turn to do it. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Power Bind
Latios-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, no retreat cost — Tag Purge is 120 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Clear Vision GX has no printed damage for a Psychic; the Ability Power Bind — if you have 4 or fewer Pokémon in play, this Pokémon can’t attack. 170 HP on a Basic GX with an Ability that stops it from attacking unless you have five Pokémon in play: the pack’s most conditional GX. Yoshinobu Saito.
Skorupi, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Knock Off has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Bug Bite is 40 for three Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that discards a Tool from the opponent’s Pokémon and a 40-damage follow-up: the cheapest way into the Drapion line. Ken Sugimori.
Elgyem, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psybeam is 10 for a Psychic. 60 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Beheeyem line. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Beheeyem, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Psypunch is 20 for a Psychic, and Mysterious Noise is 90 for three Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 90-damage attack for three Colourless — the pack’s cheapest big number off-type. Kyoko Umemoto.
Honedge, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Lucky Find has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Pierce is 20 for a Psychic. 50 HP with an attack that searches a card and a 20-damage follow-up: the Honedge that sets up. MAHOU.
Honedge, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Slashing Cutter is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the Honedge that attacks. Suwama Chiaki.
Doublade, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Slashing Cutter is 30 for a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack for one Colourless: the middle of the Aegislash line. Akira Komayama.
Ability Durable Blade
Aegislash, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Trash Slash is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless; the Ability Durable Blade — if this Pokémon is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. 130 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability puts it back into your hand when it is Knocked Out — the pack’s only card that refuses to stay discarded. Eske Yoshinob.
Necrozma, 130 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Barrier Attack is 30 for two Colourless, and Special Laser is 100 and climbs for two Psychic and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 100-damage attack that climbs and a 30-damage attack that prevents damage to it: the pack’s cheapest two-mode attacker. Masakazu Fukuda.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. The full-art printing of 029. The first of two full-art printings of 029, in the CG style — the version that puts the two Mew in the same frame. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. The second full-art printing of 029, hand-drawn, and the only version where the copied attacks are suggested by the background. sui.
Ability Power Bind
Latios-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, no retreat cost — Tag Purge is 120 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Clear Vision GX has no printed damage for a Psychic; the Ability Power Bind — if you have 4 or fewer Pokémon in play, this Pokémon can’t attack. The full-art printing of 034, rendered, with the GX attack box covering the lower half of the frame. ConceptLab.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. The rainbow printing of 029, the pack’s headline card in the finish every deck wanted.
Ability Power Bind
Latios-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, no retreat cost — Tag Purge is 120 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Clear Vision GX has no printed damage for a Psychic; the Ability Power Bind — if you have 4 or fewer Pokémon in play, this Pokémon can’t attack. The rainbow printing of 034, the only rainbow in the pack on a card whose Ability restricts its own attacks.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Onix, 110 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — one attack, Bedrock Press is 20 for a Fighting. 110 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Fighting: the cheapest start to the Steelix line. Hitoshi Ariga.
Steelix, 170 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Ground Stream is 20 for a Fighting, and Gigaton Shake is 220 for a Fighting and four Colourless. 170 HP on a Stage 1 with a 220-damage attack for five Energy — the pack’s biggest non-GX hit. Ayaka Yoshida.
Ability Primal Winds
Aerodactyl-GX, 210 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Boulder Crush is 120 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Wild Dive GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fighting; the Ability Primal Winds — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent’s Basic Pokémon’s attacks cost Colorless more. 210 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability makes every Basic the opponent has pay an extra Colourless to attack — the pack’s tax collector. PLANETA Igarashi.
Heracross, 100 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Turn the Tables has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tackle is 70 for three Colourless. 100 HP with an attack that copies the opponent’s last attack and a 70-damage follow-up for three. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Breloom, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Spore has no printed damage for a Grass, and Pre-Dawn Strike is 30 and climbs for a Grass. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose attacks cost Grass rather than Fighting: the pack’s only off-type Stage 1 in the Fighting section. Atsuko Nishida.
Relicanth, 90 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Deep Sea Boring has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Water Pulse is 30 for two Colourless. 90 HP with a free utility attack and a 30-damage follow-up for two: the cheapest way to find something in the pack. Yuka Morii.
Drilbur, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Dig Claws is 20 for a Fighting. 70 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Fighting: the cheapest start to the Excadrill line. Ken Sugimori.
Excadrill, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Rototiller has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Slash is 90 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose first attack attaches Energy from the deck and whose second hits for 90. Kyoko Umemoto.
Archen, 80 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Endeavor is 20 and climbs for a Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack that climbs when it is damaged — the cheapest way into the Archeops line. 0313.
Archeops, 130 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 1 — U-turn is 40 for a Colourless, and Hyper Beam is 80 for a Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 2 with a 40-damage attack that switches it out and an 80-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest way to keep a Stage 2 alive. Hasuno.
Terrakion, 140 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — Cavern Counter is 50 and climbs for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Boulder Crush is 110 for two Fighting and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Basic with a 50-damage attack that grows when you are behind on Prizes and a 110-damage follow-up for four. Anesaki Dynamic.
Ability Primal Winds
Aerodactyl-GX, 210 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Boulder Crush is 120 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Wild Dive GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fighting; the Ability Primal Winds — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent’s Basic Pokémon’s attacks cost Colorless more. The full-art printing of 045, rendered: the only version where the fossil Pokémon is shown against the sky rather than stone. ConceptLab.
Ability Primal Winds
Aerodactyl-GX, 210 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Boulder Crush is 120 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Wild Dive GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Fighting; the Ability Primal Winds — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent’s Basic Pokémon’s attacks cost Colorless more. The rainbow printing of 045, and the only rainbow here that shows a fossil Pokémon.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX, 280 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 4 — Greedy Crush is 210 for four Darkness and a Colourless, and Gigafall GX is 250 for four Darkness and a Colourless. 280 HP on a Darkness Basic with a 210-damage attack and a 250-damage GX attack — the tallest Tag Team in the pack, and the only one with Mega in its name. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Sableye, 80 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Mirror Gem is 10 for a Darkness. 80 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Darkness: the cheapest way into the Drapion line’s support card. Suwama Chiaki.
Drapion, 140 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Cross Poison is 50 per heads on a coin flip for three Colourless, and Slicing Blade is 120 for two Darkness and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 50-damage attack that flips per heads and a 120-damage follow-up for four. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Purrloin, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Cleaning Up has no printed damage for a Colourless. 70 HP and an attack that discards a Tool from the opponent’s Pokémon: the cheapest way into the Liepard line. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Liepard, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Scratch is 40 for a Darkness, and Shadow Scratch is 90 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s plainest Darkness body. sui.
Scraggy, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Swagger has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Whap Down is 50 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that Confuses and a 50-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Scrafty line. Yumi.
Scrafty, 110 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Turf Raid is 20 and climbs for two Colourless, and Headbang is 70 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack that grows with your Bench and a 70-damage follow-up for three. Akira Komayama.
Yveltal, 130 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Blow Through is 20 and climbs for a Darkness, and Shadow Impact is 120 for two Darkness and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack that climbs and a 120-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s biggest non-GX Darkness hit. sui.
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX, 280 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 4 — Greedy Crush is 210 for four Darkness and a Colourless, and Gigafall GX is 250 for four Darkness and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 054. The first of two full-art printings of 054, rendered, and the largest single image in the pack. 5ban Graphics.
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX, 280 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 4 — Greedy Crush is 210 for four Darkness and a Colourless, and Gigafall GX is 250 for four Darkness and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 054, hand-drawn: the only version where the two Pokémon are lit separately. chibi.
Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX, 280 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 4 — Greedy Crush is 210 for four Darkness and a Colourless, and Gigafall GX is 250 for four Darkness and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 054, the tallest card in the pack to reach the tier.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Dratini, 60 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Agility is 10 for a Lightning. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a Paralysis rider: the cheapest start to the Dragonite line. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Ability Aqua Lift
Dratini, 60 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Jump On is 10 and climbs for two Colourless; the Ability Aqua Lift — if this Pokémon has any Water Energy attached to it, it has no Retreat Cost. 60 HP with an attack that climbs and an Ability that makes it free to retreat while Water Energy is attached: the Dratini that gets out of the way. Sekio.
Dragonair, 100 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Tail Whap is 20 for a Colourless, and Destructive Whirlpool is 70 for a Water, a Lightning and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 70-damage attack for four Energy: the middle of the Dragonite line, and the only stage that costs two types. sowsow.
Ability Hurricane Charge
Dragonite, 160 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Dragon Impact is 170 for a Water, a Lightning and two Colourless; the Ability Hurricane Charge — once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Water Energy card, a Lightning Energy card, or 1 of each from your hand to your Pokémon in any way you like. 160 HP on a Stage 2 with a 170-damage attack and an Ability that attaches Water and Lightning from hand every turn — the non-GX half of the pack’s Dragonite pair. Misa Tsutsui.
Dragonite-GX, 250 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Dragon Claw is 130 for a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, Sky Judgment is 270 for five Colourless, and Mach Delivery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 250 HP on a Stage 2 GX with a 270-damage attack: the largest damage number printed anywhere in 2019, and the pack’s Dragon finisher. PLANETA Igarashi.
Noibat, 60 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Air Slash is 50 for a Psychic and a Darkness. 60 HP and a 50-damage attack that costs a Psychic and a Darkness: the cheapest start to the Noivern line. 0313.
Noivern, 120 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Boomburst has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Dragon Pulse is 120 for a Psychic, a Darkness and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that hits the whole Bench and a 120-damage follow-up for three. Shin Nagasawa.
Dragonite-GX, 250 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Dragon Claw is 130 for a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, Sky Judgment is 270 for five Colourless, and Mach Delivery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The full-art printing of 069, rendered, and the pack’s 270-damage attack in its most detailed framing. ConceptLab.
Dragonite-GX, 250 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Dragon Claw is 130 for a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, Sky Judgment is 270 for five Colourless, and Mach Delivery GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 069, the pack’s 270-damage GX in its highest regular finish.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Cottonee, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Dust Gathering has no printed damage for a Colourless. 60 HP and an attack that gathers nothing but draws a card: the cheapest way into the Whimsicott line. Asako Ito.
Ability Prowl
Whimsicott, 80 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, no retreat cost — one attack, Gust is 40 for a Colourless; the Ability Prowl — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability searches any card when it evolves — the pack’s cheapest search, on a card nobody expects it from. Shibuzoh..
Dedenne, 70 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Return is 20 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 20-damage attack that returns the target to the opponent’s hand: the cheapest way to undo an evolution. Saya Tsuruta.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Tauros, 110 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Call for Family has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Berserker Tackle is 60 for two Colourless. 110 HP with a free setup attack and a 60-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest card that both searches and attacks. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Slakoth, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — Lazy Howl has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Hang Down is 20 for two Colourless. 50 HP with an attack that does nothing but put the opponent to Sleep and a 20-damage follow-up: the Slakoth that stalls. miki kudo.
Slakoth, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Scratch is 30 for two Colourless, and Boundless Power is 60 for three Colourless. 70 HP with a 30-damage attack and a 60-damage follow-up for three: the Slakoth that attacks. tetsuya koizumi.
Vigoroth, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Roar has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Slash is 70 for three Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that forces a switch and a 70-damage follow-up for three. Midori Harada.
Ability Counterattack
Slaking, 180 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 4 — one attack, Dynamic Swing is 100 and climbs for four Colourless; the Ability Counterattack — if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and is damaged by an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put 4 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon. 180 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability puts four damage counters on whatever damages it — the pack’s best retaliator, and its largest non-GX Colourless body. Akira Komayama.
Yungoos, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Cavernous Chomp is 30 for two Colourless. 70 HP and a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Gumshoos line. Shigenori Negishi.
Gumshoos, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Alert Headbutt is 90 for two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 90-damage attack for two Colourless — the pack’s cheapest Stage 1 above 90 damage. Midori Harada.
Oranguru, 120 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Sage’s Riddle has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Gentle Slap is 80 for three Colourless. 120 HP with a free utility attack and an 80-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s cheapest non-GX body above 100 HP that needs no Energy type. Naoki Saito.
Ability Drowsing
Komala, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Snooze has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Drowsing — if this Pokémon remains Asleep between turns, put 6 damage counters on your opponent’s Active Pokémon. 90 HP on a Basic whose Ability drops six damage counters on the opponent’s Active Pokémon if it stays Asleep — a card that needs 088 to work. Miki Tanaka.
20 cards · listed in original order.
Heal 50 damage from your Active Pokémon-GX.
Great Potion — Heal 50 damage from your Active Pokémon-GX. Heal 50 damage from your Active Pokémon-GX: the pack’s only healing Item, and the one that keeps its Tag Teams alive a turn longer. Yoshinobu Saito.
Flip 2 coins. For each heads, search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Stadium Nav — Flip 2 coins. For each heads, search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Flip two coins for up to two Stadiums: the pack’s only way to find 088 or 089 on demand. Yoshinobu Saito.
Play this card as if it were a 60-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), you may discard this card from play. This card can’t retreat.
Unidentified Fossil — Play this card as if it were a 60-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), you may discard this card from play. This card can’t retreat. A 60 HP Colourless Basic that exists only to be evolved: the Item half of the pack’s fossil line. Toyste Beach.
If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and takes 180 or more damage from an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put 10 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.
Giant Bomb — If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and takes 180 or more damage from an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put 10 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon. A Tool that puts ten damage counters on whatever hits the holder for 180 or more — the pack’s hardest punishment for a big attack. Studio Bora Inc..
Search your deck for up to 3 Supporter cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Misty’s Favor — Search your deck for up to 3 Supporter cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Up to three Supporters out of the deck in one card: the pack’s most efficient search, and the reason 012 exists. Hideki Ishikawa.
Remove all effects of attacks on you and each of your Pokémon.
Channeler — Remove all effects of attacks on you and each of your Pokémon. Remove every effect of every attack on you and your Pokémon: the pack’s only answer to Special Conditions and to 069. TOKIYA.
At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand.
Blue’s Tactics — At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand. Draw to eight cards at the end of the turn instead of immediately — the pack’s only delayed draw, and the only one that survives a Reset Stamp. Megumi Mizutani.
If a Pokémon is Asleep, its owner flips 2 coins instead of 1 for that Special Condition between turns. If either of them is tails, that Pokémon is still Asleep.
Slumbering Forest — If a Pokémon is Asleep, its owner flips 2 coins instead of 1 for that Special Condition between turns. If either of them is tails, that Pokémon is still Asleep. A Stadium that makes Asleep Pokémon flip two coins to wake up: the card 080 was printed for. Ryo Ueda.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may search their deck for up to 2 Pokémon that evolve from Unidentified Fossil, put those Pokémon onto their Bench, and shuffle their deck. If a player searches their deck in this way, their turn ends.
Pokémon Research Lab — Once during each player’s turn, that player may search their deck for up to 2 Pokémon that evolve from Unidentified Fossil, put those Pokémon onto their Bench, and shuffle their deck. If a player searches their deck in this way, their turn ends. A Stadium that puts both fossil evolutions straight onto the Bench, ending the turn to do it — the pack’s fossil line without the Stage 1. aky CG Works.
This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness.
Weakness Guard Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness. A Special Energy that removes the holder’s Weakness entirely: the pack’s cheapest way to survive a bad matchup.
Shuffle 2 Supporter cards from your discard pile into your deck.
Pal Pad — Shuffle 2 Supporter cards from your discard pile into your deck. Two Supporters back from the discard pile into the deck: the pack’s cheapest recycling, and the one that makes 085 repeatable. Toyste Beach.
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Pokégear 3.0 — Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Look at the top seven for a Supporter: the pack’s most reliable search Item, at the higher rarity. Studio Bora Inc..
Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Mysterious Treasure — Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard a card to search any Psychic or Dragon Pokémon: the Item that makes 029 and 069 consistent. Eske Yoshinob.
You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card.
Sightseer — You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card. Discard any number of cards and draw to five: the pack’s cheapest way to turn a dead hand into a live one. Naoki Saito.
Search your deck for up to 3 Supporter cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Misty’s Favor — Search your deck for up to 3 Supporter cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 085, by the same artist as the regular card — the pack’s best Supporter in its rarest regular finish. Hideki Ishikawa.
Remove all effects of attacks on you and each of your Pokémon.
Channeler — Remove all effects of attacks on you and each of your Pokémon. The full-art printing of 086, by the same artist as the regular card. TOKIYA.
At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand.
Blue’s Tactics — At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand. The full-art printing of 087, and the only version of the card drawn against a landscape. Naoki Saito.
Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Cherish Ball — Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search any Pokémon-GX out of the deck for no cost at all — the only gold card in the pack that is a search Item rather than a reprint.
If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and takes 180 or more damage from an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put 10 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon.
Giant Bomb — If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. If the Pokémon this card is attached to is your Active Pokémon and takes 180 or more damage from an opponent’s attack (even if this Pokémon is Knocked Out), put 10 damage counters on the Attacking Pokémon. The gold printing of 084. 084 in gold, with the bomb printed as a single object against an empty field.
This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness.
Weakness Guard Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness. The gold printing of 090. 090 in gold: the only gold card in the pack that is a Special Energy.
July’s pack, and it puts the three Kanto starters on three Tag Team cards at once. Sixty-four numbered cards plus sixteen secrets (nine full-art, four Hyper Rare, three gold) — 80 kinds, 15 GX and 12 of those Tag Team. 01 Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 08 Charizard & Braixen-GX and 16 Blastoise & Piplup-GX are all 270 HP. 40 Alolan Persian-GX is 200, and the pack carries two Ultra Beasts in 31 Blacephalon and 46 Guzzlord. 52 Great Catcher, 56 Professor Oak’s Setup, 58 Roller Skater, 61 Acro Bike and 63 Lady are the Trainers. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box. Sixty-seven of the 80 reach English in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November; three wait for February 2020.
2019-07-05. 80 cards — 60 Pokémon, 20 Trainers and no Energy cards, 15 of them GX, 12 Tag Team and 2 Ultra Beast; 28 commons, 21 uncommons, 11 rares, 4 Double Rares, 9 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 11 Fire, 10 Grass, 10 Water, 10 Darkness, 9 Psychic, 7 Fighting and 3 Colourless; 50 artists worked on it and Shin Nagasawa drew 4.
July’s mini-set, and the one that puts all three Kanto starters on Tag Team cards. Sixty-four numbered cards, nine full-art (065–073), four rainbow (074–077) and three gold (078–080) — 80 kinds, 15 GX and 12 of those Tag Team. 01 Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 08 Charizard & Braixen-GX and 16 Blastoise & Piplup-GX are all 270 HP, which makes this the only pack this year where three Tag Team cards share one number. 40 Alolan Persian-GX is 200, and 31 Blacephalon and 46 Guzzlord are the two Ultra Beasts. 52 Great Catcher is the gust card that replaces Guzma in the next format, 56 Professor Oak’s Setup, 58 Roller Skater, 61 Acro Bike, 62 Escape Board and 63 Lady are beside it. Sixty-seven reach English in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November, three wait for February 2020, and two never cross.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Shining Vine
Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Forest Dump is 160 for a Grass and three Colourless, and Solar Plant GX has no printed damage for three Colourless; the Ability Shining Vine — once during your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, when you attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. 270 HP on a Grass Basic with a 160-damage attack and an Ability that drags the opponent’s Bench around whenever Grass Energy lands on it — the first of the pack’s three starter pairings. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Tangela, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Toxic has no printed damage for a Grass. 70 HP and a Poison attack for a single Grass: the cheapest start to the Tangrowth line. otumami.
Tangrowth, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Grass Knot is 10 and climbs for a Grass, and Slam is 80 per heads on a coin flip for a Grass and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 10-damage attack that grows with the opponent’s board and an 80-damage follow-up that flips per heads. nagimiso.
Heracross, 130 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Lunge Out is 20 for a Grass, and Riled Horn is 50 and climbs for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Grass Basic with a 20-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s biggest non-GX Grass body. Satoshi Shirai.
Tropius, 120 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Synthesis has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Leaf Drain is 50 for a Grass and a Colourless. 120 HP with a free utility attack and a 50-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest Grass body that survives a turn. sowsow.
Deerling, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tackle is 20 for a Grass. 60 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Grass: the smallest card in the pack, printed to reach 007. Shibuzoh..
Ability Seasonal Blessings
Sawsbuck, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Bounce is 60 for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Seasonal Blessings — once during your turn (before your attack), you may draw a card. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability draws a card every turn without a condition — the pack’s cheapest engine, on a card nobody plays for its attack. sui.
Ability Shining Vine
Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Forest Dump is 160 for a Grass and three Colourless, and Solar Plant GX has no printed damage for three Colourless; the Ability Shining Vine — once during your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, when you attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. The full-art printing of 001. The first of two full-art printings of 001, rendered rather than painted, with the GX attack box filling the lower third. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Shining Vine
Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Forest Dump is 160 for a Grass and three Colourless, and Solar Plant GX has no printed damage for three Colourless; the Ability Shining Vine — once during your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, when you attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. The second full-art printing of 001, hand-drawn: the only version where the two Pokémon are lit as a single scene. Yuka Morii.
Ability Shining Vine
Venusaur & Snivy-GX, 270 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 3 — Forest Dump is 160 for a Grass and three Colourless, and Solar Plant GX has no printed damage for three Colourless; the Ability Shining Vine — once during your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, when you attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. The rainbow printing of 001, the first of the pack’s three starter Tag Teams in its highest regular finish.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Charizard & Braixen-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Brilliant Flare is 180 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Crimson Flame Pillar GX has no printed damage for a Fire. 270 HP on a Fire Basic with a 180-damage attack for four Energy: the second of the three starter pairings, and the hardest-hitting of them. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ponyta, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Minor Errand-Running has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Flare is 10 for a Fire. 70 HP with a free utility attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Rapidash line. Uta.
Rapidash, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Overrun is 30 for a Fire, and Flame Tail is 60 for a Fire and a Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack for two: the pack’s plainest Fire body. Misa Tsutsui.
Entei, 130 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Rally Back is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, and Fire Mane is 100 for two Fire and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack that grows when the opponent has taken Prizes and a 100-damage follow-up for three. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Victory Heal
Victini, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Combustion is 30 for a Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Victory Heal — once during your turn (before your attack), you may heal 20 damage from 1 of your Benched Pokémon. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability heals 20 damage from the Bench every turn — the pack’s cheapest support card. Saya Tsuruta.
Tepig, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Live Coal is 10 for a Fire, and Rollout is 40 for a Fire and two Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 40-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Emboar line. Mina Nakai.
Pignite, 110 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Tackle is 30 for a Fire and a Colourless, and Heat Crash is 60 for a Fire and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack and a 60-damage follow-up for three: the middle stage, and the only one that attacks early. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Explosive Fire Dance
Emboar, 170 HP, Fire, Stage 2, retreat 4 — one attack, Heat Blast is 160 for a Fire and three Colourless; the Ability Explosive Fire Dance — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may look at the top 8 cards of your deck and attach any number of basic Energy cards you find there to your Pokémon in any way you like. 170 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability looks at the top eight cards and attaches every basic Energy among them — the pack’s biggest accelerator. kawayoo.
Charizard & Braixen-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Brilliant Flare is 180 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Crimson Flame Pillar GX has no printed damage for a Fire. The full-art printing of 008. The first of two full-art printings of 008, in the CG style the pack uses for most of its full arts. 5ban Graphics.
Charizard & Braixen-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Brilliant Flare is 180 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Crimson Flame Pillar GX has no printed damage for a Fire. The second full-art printing of 008, hand-drawn, and the only version where the flames are painted rather than rendered. Kagemaru Himeno.
Charizard & Braixen-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Brilliant Flare is 180 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Crimson Flame Pillar GX has no printed damage for a Fire. The rainbow printing of 008, and the only rainbow here where the Fire type shows through the texture.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX, 270 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Splash Maker is 150 for two Water and a Colourless, and Bubble Launcher GX is 100 and climbs for two Water and a Colourless. 270 HP on a Water Basic with a 150-damage attack and a GX attack that grows: the third of the three starter pairings. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Psyduck, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless, and Confusion Wave is 20 for a Water and a Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Golduck line. sui.
Golduck, 110 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Scratch is 30 for a Colourless, and Energy Loop is 80 for a Water and a Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack for two: the pack’s cheapest Stage 1 that hits for 80. Shigenori Negishi.
Wailmer, 120 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Wave Splash is 30 for two Colourless. 120 HP and a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Wailord line, on a body big enough to sit still. Tomokazu Komiya.
Wailord, 200 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Heavy Impact is 90 for a Water and two Colourless, and Hydro Splash is 140 for two Water and two Colourless. 200 HP on a Stage 1 with a 140-damage attack for four — the largest non-GX body in the pack. Kyoko Umemoto.
Kyogre, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — High Water has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Swirling Waves is 130 for two Water and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a free utility attack and a 130-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest non-GX Water hit. kawayoo.
Ability Whirlpool Suction
Phione, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Rain Splash is 10 for a Water; the Ability Whirlpool Suction — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is on your Bench, you may have your opponent switch their Active Pokémon with 1 of their Benched Pokémon. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability switches the opponent’s Active Pokémon and then puts itself on the bottom of the deck — the pack’s cheapest one-shot disruption. AKIRA EGAWA.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX, 270 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Splash Maker is 150 for two Water and a Colourless, and Bubble Launcher GX is 100 and climbs for two Water and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 016. The first of two full-art printings of 016, rendered, with both Pokémon given the same flat light. 5ban Graphics.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX, 270 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Splash Maker is 150 for two Water and a Colourless, and Bubble Launcher GX is 100 and climbs for two Water and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 016, hand-drawn: the only version where the water is painted. Akira Komayama.
Blastoise & Piplup-GX, 270 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Splash Maker is 150 for two Water and a Colourless, and Bubble Launcher GX is 100 and climbs for two Water and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 016, the third of the three starter pairings in the same finish.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Spiritborne Evolution
Duskull, 40 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ominous Eyes has no printed damage for a Psychic; the Ability Spiritborne Evolution — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard 3 cards from your hand. 40 HP with an Ability that discards three cards to evolve it on the spot: the pack’s cheapest way to cheat a Stage 2 into play. ryoma uratsuka.
Dusclops, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Disable is 20 for a Psychic. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack for a single Psychic: the middle of the Dusknoir line. Suwama Chiaki.
Ability Grim Marking
Dusknoir, 160 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Psych Up is 60 for a Psychic; the Ability Grim Marking — if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon and is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, put 4 damage counters on your opponent’s Pokémon in any way you like. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability drops four damage counters on the opponent’s side when it is Knocked Out — the pack’s best retaliator. Eske Yoshinob.
Rotom, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Cycle Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Energy Assist has no printed damage for a Psychic. 70 HP whose two attacks both cost a single Colourless and print no damage: the pack’s cheapest utility Basic. Mina Nakai.
Phantump, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Mumble is 10 for a Colourless, and Spooky Shot is 20 for a Psychic and a Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Trevenant line. miki kudo.
Trevenant, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Perplexing Forest is 20 for a Colourless, and Shadow Impact is 120 for a Psychic and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 120-damage follow-up for three — the pack’s biggest non-GX Psychic hit. Shin Nagasawa.
Dhelmise, 130 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — Seaweed Grab has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Buster Swing is 100 for two Psychic and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a free utility attack and a 100-damage follow-up for three. Midori Harada.
Marshadow, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Shadow Imitation has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. 60 HP on a Basic whose only attack costs two and copies the opponent’s last attack — the pack’s cheapest answer to a big attacker. 0313.
Blacephalon, 110 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Fireworks Bomb has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. 110 HP on an Ultra Beast whose single attack costs a Psychic and a Colourless and prints no damage: the pack’s strangest card. Hasuno.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Groudon, 130 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Drought has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Trembling Ground is 130 for two Fighting and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a free utility attack and a 130-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s biggest non-GX Fighting hit. Shin Nagasawa.
Throh, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Reverse Shoulder Throw is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack that climbs: the pack’s cheapest scaling attacker. Ken Sugimori.
Pancham, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Punch is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Pangoro line. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Pangoro, 130 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Light Punch is 40 for a Colourless, and Magnum Punch is 90 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 whose attacks cost nothing but Colourless: the pack’s cheapest way to hit for 90. Shin Nagasawa.
Crabrawler, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — Jab is 10 for a Colourless, and Confront is 30 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Crabominable line. Miki Tanaka.
Ability Solid Shell
Crabominable, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — one attack, Freezing Punch is 80 and climbs for two Fighting and a Colourless; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 30 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 140 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack that climbs and the same 30-point shield the pack gives its Metal cards. tetsuya koizumi.
Passimian, 110 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Spike Draw is 20 for a Fighting, and Seismic Toss is 70 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack that draws and a 70-damage follow-up for three. Masakazu Fukuda.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Alolan Meowth, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — Swagger has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Hook is 20 for two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that Confuses and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Alolan Persian line. Sekio.
Ability Smug Face
Alolan Persian-GX, 200 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Claw Slash is 120 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Stalking Claws GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and two Colourless; the Ability Smug Face — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s TAG TEAM Pokémon and Ultra Beasts, and by your opponent’s Pokémon that have any Special Energy attached to them. 200 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability blanks every effect of attacks from Tag Teams, Ultra Beasts and anything carrying Special Energy — the pack’s hardest card to touch. 5ban Graphics.
Alolan Grimer, 80 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Melt is 10 for a Colourless, and Nasty Goo is 20 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Alolan Muk line. Sekio.
Alolan Muk, 140 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Panic Poison is 20 for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Sludge Bomb is 110 for two Darkness and a Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack that poisons and a 110-damage follow-up for three. MAHOU.
Absol, 100 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — Ominous News has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Dirty Throw is 70 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 100 HP with a free utility attack and a 70-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest way to look at the opponent’s hand. Mizue.
Pawniard, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — Bag Slash has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sting is 20 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 60 HP with a free utility attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Bisharp line. Ken Sugimori.
Bisharp, 120 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Corner is 30 for a Colourless, and Slashing Strike is 80 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that stops retreating and an 80-damage follow-up for two. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Guzzlord, 150 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 4 — Mountain Munch has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Red Banquet is 120 for two Darkness and two Colourless. 150 HP on an Ultra Beast with a utility attack for a single Darkness and a 120-damage follow-up for four — the largest non-GX Darkness body in the pack. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Smug Face
Alolan Persian-GX, 200 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Claw Slash is 120 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Stalking Claws GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and two Colourless; the Ability Smug Face — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s TAG TEAM Pokémon and Ultra Beasts, and by your opponent’s Pokémon that have any Special Energy attached to them. The full-art printing of 040, rendered, and the only card in the pack whose full art is a Stage 1 GX. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Smug Face
Alolan Persian-GX, 200 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Claw Slash is 120 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Stalking Claws GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and two Colourless; the Ability Smug Face — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s TAG TEAM Pokémon and Ultra Beasts, and by your opponent’s Pokémon that have any Special Energy attached to them. The rainbow printing of 040, the only rainbow in the pack on a Stage 1 GX.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Zangoose, 100 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Corkscrew Punch is 10 for a Colourless, and Brutal Edge is 20 and climbs for two Colourless. 100 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up that climbs: the pack’s cheapest Colourless scaling card. tetsuya koizumi.
Stufful, 80 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Continuous Tumble is 10 and climbs for two Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack that repeats per heads for two: the cheapest start to the Bewear line. Shigenori Negishi.
Ability Carry and Run
Bewear, 120 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Lariat is 120 for three Colourless; the Ability Carry and Run — as long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, your Active Pokémon’s Retreat Cost is ColorlessColorless less. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 120-damage attack for three and an Ability that cuts two Colourless off your Active Pokémon’s Retreat Cost — the pack’s cheapest way out. Akira Komayama.
20 cards · listed in original order.
Put 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Energy Retrieval — Put 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. Two basic Energy back from the discard pile: the Item that keeps the pack’s 270 HP Tag Teams attacking. Toyste Beach.
Move a basic Energy card attached to 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon.
Energy Switch — Move a basic Energy card attached to 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. Move a basic Energy from one of your Pokémon to another: the pack’s cheapest way to fix a spread of Energy. Ryo Ueda.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX with their Active Pokémon.
Great Catcher — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX with their Active Pokémon. Discard two cards to drag the opponent’s Benched Pokémon-GX into the Active spot: the pack’s most important Item, and the one every deck in the format runs. Studio Bora Inc..
Switch 1 of your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Switch — Switch 1 of your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Switch your Active Pokémon with a Benched one for no cost at all — the simplest card in the pack. Ryo Ueda.
Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Communication — Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Trade a Pokémon in hand for a Pokémon in the deck: the pack’s cheapest way to fix a stuck evolution line. Ayaka Yoshida.
Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Janine — Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Look at the top four and take two: the pack’s most efficient Supporter. Ken Sugimori.
Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon of different types and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.
Professor Oak’s Setup — Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon of different types and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck. Up to three Basic Pokémon of different types straight onto the Bench: the pack’s fastest setup card. Megumi Mizutani.
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 shuffles his or her hand into his or her deck and draws 4 cards.
Judge — 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 shuffles his or her hand into his or her deck and draws 4 cards. Both players shuffle their hands away and draw four: the pack’s cheapest way to cut a full hand down to size. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Discard a card from your hand. If you do, draw 2 cards. If you discarded an Energy card in this way, draw 2 more cards.
Roller Skater — Discard a card from your hand. If you do, draw 2 cards. If you discarded an Energy card in this way, draw 2 more cards. Discard a card to draw two, or four if the discarded card is Energy — the pack’s cheapest way to turn a spare Energy into cards. Yusuke Ohmura.
This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness.
Weakness Guard Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness. A Special Energy that removes the holder’s Weakness: the pack’s cheapest way to survive a bad matchup.
This card provides Colorless Energy. When you attach this card from your hand to a Pokémon, draw a card.
Draw Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. When you attach this card from your hand to a Pokémon, draw a card. A Special Energy that draws a card when it is attached — the only Energy in the pack that replaces itself.
Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card.
Acro Bike — Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card. Look at the top two and keep one: the pack’s cheapest way to dig without losing a card. Toyste Beach.
The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less, and it can retreat even if it’s Asleep or Paralyzed.
Escape Board — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less, and it can retreat even if it’s Asleep or Paralyzed. A Tool that cuts a Colourless off the Retreat Cost and lets the holder retreat while Asleep or Paralyzed — the pack’s best escape. Toyste Beach.
Search your deck for up to 4 basic Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Lady — Search your deck for up to 4 basic Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Up to four basic Energy out of the deck in one card: the pack’s biggest single search. kirisAki.
Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Welder — Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards. Attach two Fire Energy and draw three: a reprint of 087 from the March set, and the card that makes 008 land on turn two. Hitoshi Ariga.
Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon of different types and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.
Professor Oak’s Setup — Search your deck for up to 3 Basic Pokémon of different types and put them onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 056. A Supporter promoted to full art, by an artist who does not appear on any other card in the pack. Nabana Kensaku.
Discard a card from your hand. If you do, draw 2 cards. If you discarded an Energy card in this way, draw 2 more cards.
Roller Skater — Discard a card from your hand. If you do, draw 2 cards. If you discarded an Energy card in this way, draw 2 more cards. The full-art printing of 058, by the artist who also drew 003 — the only Supporter here drawn against a landscape. nagimiso.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX with their Active Pokémon.
Great Catcher — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX with their Active Pokémon. The gold printing of 052. 052 in gold, the Item that drags a Benched Pokémon-GX into the Active spot.
The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead.
Martial Arts Dojo — The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead. A gold Stadium that adds 10 damage to non-Ultra Beast attacks, or 40 when the attacker is behind on Prizes. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–064.
This card provides Colorless Energy. When you attach this card from your hand to a Pokémon, draw a card.
Draw Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. When you attach this card from your hand to a Pokémon, draw a card. The gold printing of 060. 060 in gold: the only gold card in the pack that is a Special Energy.
August’s pack, and the first one to print Character Rare cards. Forty-nine numbered cards plus twenty-six secrets — twelve Character Rare (050–061), seven full-art, four Hyper Rare and three gold — 75 kinds. The CHR frame, a Trainer and a Pokémon drawn into one picture, starts here. 20 Solgaleo & Lunala-GX and 36 Reshiram & Zekrom-GX are both 270, 03 Vileplume-GX is 240 and 41 Silvally-GX is 210. 43 Lillie’s Poké Doll, 45 N’s Resolve, 47 Rosa and 49 Lillie’s Full Force are the Trainers. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box, and all 75 cards reach English in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November — the only product this year where nothing is left out.
2019-08-02. 75 cards — 61 Pokémon, 14 Trainers and no Energy cards, 12 of them GX, 6 Tag Team and 12 Character Rare; 22 commons, 16 uncommons, 7 rares, 4 Double Rares, 12 Character Rares, 7 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 14 Psychic, 12 Water, 8 Colourless, 6 Lightning, 6 Fighting, 5 Grass, 4 Fire, 3 Dragon, 2 Metal and 1 Fairy; 52 artists worked on it and Ken Sugimori drew 3.
August’s mini-set, and the product that invents Character Rare. Forty-nine numbered cards and twenty-six above them: twelve Character Rare at 050–061, then seven full-art (062–068), four Hyper Rare (069–072) and three gold (073–075). A Character Rare is a Trainer drawn into the same picture as the Pokémon they are known for — the frame that runs through the rest of the Sword & Shield era starts here, in a 49-card pack. 20 Solgaleo & Lunala-GX and 36 Reshiram & Zekrom-GX are both 270, 03 Vileplume-GX is 240 and 41 Silvally-GX is 210. 43 Lillie’s Poké Doll, 45 N’s Resolve, 47 Rosa, 48 Clay and 49 Lillie’s Full Force are the Supporters. All 75 cards reach English in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November — the only product this year that loses nothing.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Oddish, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Sweet Scent has no printed damage for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that puts the opponent to Sleep for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Vileplume line. Yumi.
Gloom, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Sleep Powder is 20 for a Grass. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack for a single Grass: the middle stage, and the only card in the line that attacks. sui.
Ability Fragrant Flower Garden
Vileplume-GX, 240 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Massive Bloom is 180, reduced by something on the card for a Grass and a Colourless, and Allergic Explosion GX is 50 for a Grass; the Ability Fragrant Flower Garden — once during your turn (before your attack), you may heal 30 damage from each of your Pokémon. 240 HP on a Stage 2 GX whose Ability heals 30 from every Pokémon you have each turn — the pack’s only GX that is a support card first and an attacker second. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Fragrant Flower Garden
Vileplume-GX, 240 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Massive Bloom is 180, reduced by something on the card for a Grass and a Colourless, and Allergy Explosion GX is 50 for a Grass; the Ability Fragrant Flower Garden — once during your turn (before your attack), you may heal 30 damage from each of your Pokémon. The full-art printing of 003, by the same artist as the regular card — the only GX in the pack whose full art is not a redraw. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Fragrant Flower Garden
Vileplume-GX, 240 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Massive Bloom is 180, reduced by something on the card for a Grass and a Colourless, and Allergy Explosion GX is 50 for a Grass; the Ability Fragrant Flower Garden — once during your turn (before your attack), you may heal 30 damage from each of your Pokémon. The rainbow printing of 003, the only Stage 2 GX in the pack to reach the tier.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Slugma, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Singe has no printed damage for a Fire. 80 HP and a Burn attack for a single Fire: the cheapest start to the Magcargo line. Ken Sugimori.
Magcargo, 120 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Stomp Off has no printed damage for a Fire, and Flamethrower is 80 for a Fire and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and an 80-damage follow-up for two. Miki Tanaka.
Torkoal, 110 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Fire Fling has no printed damage for a Fire, and Kindle is 100 for three Fire. 110 HP on a Basic with a 100-damage attack for three: the pack’s biggest non-GX Fire hit. 0313.
Torkoal, 110 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Fire Fling has no printed damage for a Fire, and Kindle is 100 for three Fire. Character Rare — the same card as 006, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 006, and one of twelve in the pack that started the whole rarity — a new drawing rather than a reprint, with the Trainer written into the scene. Ryota Murayama.
12 cards · listed in original order.
Sneasel, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Agility is 10 for a Darkness. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack that costs Darkness rather than Water: the cheapest start to the Weavile line. ryoma uratsuka.
Weavile, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Nasty Plot has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Slashing Claw is 110 for two Darkness and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and a 110-damage follow-up for three — the pack’s biggest non-GX hit on a 90 HP body. MAHOU.
Piplup, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Bubble Hold is 80 for three Water. 60 HP with a single 80-damage attack for three Water: the pack’s most extreme ratio of damage to HP. Suwama Chiaki.
Prinplup, 80 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Water Drip is 20 for a Water, and Direct Dive has no printed damage for three Water. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a free utility follow-up: the middle of the Empoleon line. Hasuno.
Empoleon, 160 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Recall has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Aquafall is 130 for two Colourless. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose two attacks both cost Colourless: the pack’s only Stage 2 that needs no Energy of its own type. Masakazu Fukuda.
Tympole, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Flail Around is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that prints a multiplier for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Seismitoad line. Asako Ito.
Ability Scatter
Wishiwashi, 180 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Hydro Splash is 130 for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Scatter — at the end of your opponent’s turn, if this Pokémon has any damage counters on it, flip a coin. 180 HP on a Basic with a 130-damage attack for three and an Ability that can shuffle it back into the deck when it is damaged — the pack’s biggest Water body. kawayoo.
Dewpider, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Ram is 20 for two Colourless, and Wave Splash is 40 for a Water and two Colourless. 60 HP with a 20-damage attack and a 40-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Araquanid line. Shibuzoh..
Araquanid, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Headstrike is 40 for two Colourless, and Liquidation is 80 for a Water and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack for three: the pack’s plainest Water body. Tomokazu Komiya.
Weavile, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Nasty Plot has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Slashing Claw is 110 for two Darkness and a Colourless. Character Rare — the same card as 008, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 008, drawn by the artist who also did 022 in the numbered set. nagimiso.
Piplup, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Bubble Hold is 80 for three Water. Character Rare — the same card as 009, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 009, and the only card in the pack whose Character Rare is of a 60 HP Basic with a single attack. Tomomi Kaneko.
Ability Scatter
Wishiwashi, 180 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Hydro Splash is 130 for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Scatter — at the end of your opponent’s turn, if this Pokémon has any damage counters on it, flip a coin. Character Rare — the same card as 013, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 013, the largest body in the pack to get the treatment at 180 HP. Misaki Hashimoto.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Pikachu, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Nuzzle has no printed damage for a Lightning, and Volt Tackle is 70 for two Lightning and a Colourless. 70 HP with a Paralysis attack and a 70-damage follow-up for three: the smallest Pikachu in the pack, and the one that gets a Character Rare. Naoyo Kimura.
Raichu, 120 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Nuzzle has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Powerful Spark is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Lightning. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a Paralysis attack and a 20-damage attack that repeats per heads. AKIRA EGAWA.
Magnemite, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Mirror Shot is 10 for a Lightning. 60 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Lightning: the cheapest start to the Magneton line. Suwama Chiaki.
Ability Call Signal
Magneton, 80 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Magnetic Blast is 50 for two Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Call Signal — once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for up to 3 Supporter cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability searches three Supporters and Knocks the Pokémon Out to do it — the pack’s boldest engine, and the one that sets up 047. Eske Yoshinob.
Pikachu, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Nuzzle has no printed damage for a Lightning, and Volt Tackle is 70 for two Lightning and a Colourless. Character Rare — the same card as 016, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 016, the most collected card in the pack and the reason the rarity took off. Hitoshi Ariga.
Magnemite, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Mirror Shot is 10 for a Lightning. Character Rare — the same card as 018, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 018, the smallest card in the pack to get a new drawing. Fumie Kittaka.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Solgaleo & Lunala-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Cosmic Burn is 230 for three Psychic and a Colourless, and Light of the Protector GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless. 270 HP on a Psychic Basic with a 230-damage attack for four: the highest printed damage in the pack, and one of two Tag Teams here that pair two Legendaries. Hideki Ishikawa.
Ability Blow-Away Bomb
Koffing, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Poison Gas is 10 for a Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Blow-Away Bomb — once during your turn, when you discard this Pokémon with the effect of Roxie, you may put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokémon. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and an Ability that only fires when 046 discards it: half of the pack’s strangest two-card combination. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Blow-Away Bomb
Weezing, 100 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Balloon Burst is 90 for a Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Blow-Away Bomb — once during your turn, when you discard this Pokémon with the effect of Roxie, you may put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokémon. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with the same Ability as 021 and a 90-damage attack: the other half of that combination. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Natu, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Future Sight has no printed damage for a Psychic. 60 HP and a free utility attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Xatu line. tetsuya koizumi.
Xatu, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Creepy Wind has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Life Drain has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a second attack that costs two Colourless and prints no damage. Anesaki Dynamic.
Ralts, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Teleport has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ram is 10 for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that switches it out and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Gallade line. Atsuko Nishida.
Kirlia, 80 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Hypnosis has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Spiral Kick is 20 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a Paralysis attack and a 20-damage follow-up for two. sowsow.
Ability Double Type
Gallade, 160 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Power Cyclone is 120 for two Colourless; the Ability Double Type — as long as this Pokémon is in play, it is Psychic and Fighting type. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability makes it Psychic and Fighting at once — the second card in the year that changes its own type. Misa Tsutsui.
Mimikyu, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Impersonation has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Mischievous Hands has no printed damage for a Psychic. 70 HP with an attack that copies the opponent’s last move and a second attack that costs nothing: the pack’s cheapest answer to anything. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Blow-Away Bomb
Koffing, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Poison Gas is 10 for a Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Blow-Away Bomb — once during your turn, when you discard this Pokémon with the effect of Roxie, you may put 1 damage counter on each of your opponent’s Pokémon. Character Rare — the same card as 021, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 021, by the artist who also drew 028 in the numbered set. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Double Type
Gallade, 160 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Power Cyclone is 120 for two Colourless; the Ability Double Type — as long as this Pokémon is in play, it is Psychic and Fighting type. Character Rare — the same card as 027, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 027, the only Stage 2 in the pack to get the treatment. Huang Tzu En.
Mimikyu, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Impersonation has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Mischievous Hands has no printed damage for a Psychic. Character Rare — the same card as 028, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 028, and the only one of the twelve where the Pokémon is drawn in disguise. You Iribi.
Solgaleo & Lunala-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Cosmic Burn is 230 for three Psychic and a Colourless, and Light of the Protector GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 020, rendered rather than painted, with both Legendaries in one frame. Hideki Ishikawa.
Solgaleo & Lunala-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Cosmic Burn is 230 for three Psychic and a Colourless, and Light of the Protector GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 020, the pack’s 230-damage attack in its highest regular finish.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Onix, 110 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — Dig Deep has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tail Smash is 100 for three Colourless. 110 HP with a free utility attack and a 100-damage follow-up for three: the pack’s cheapest way to hit for 100 without its own Energy type. otumami.
Drilbur, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — Rototiller has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Mud-Slap is 10 for a Fighting. 70 HP with a free utility attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Excadrill line. Suwama Chiaki.
Excadrill, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Eleventh Hour Tackle is 30 and climbs for a Fighting, and Drill Bazooka is 120 for a Fighting. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that climbs and a 120-damage follow-up for a single Fighting — the pack’s most efficient attacker. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Palpitoad, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Mini Earthquake is 60 for a Fighting. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack for a single Fighting: the middle of the Seismitoad line. Ken Sugimori.
Ability Bulldoze
Seismitoad, 160 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Tremulous Fist is 80 and climbs for a Fighting and three Colourless; the Ability Bulldoze — once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for a card, shuffle your deck, then put that card on top of it. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability puts any card from the deck on top of it every turn — the pack’s quietest setup engine. Shigenori Negishi.
Excadrill, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Eleventh Hour Tackle is 30 and climbs for a Fighting, and Drill Bazooka is 120 for a Fighting. Character Rare — the same card as 031, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 031, drawn by the artist who painted this pack’s three Tag Team GX cards. Mitsuhiro Arita.
2 cards · listed in original order.
Steelix, 170 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Thumping Fall is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless, and Iron Tail is 100 per heads on a coin flip for a Metal and three Colourless. 170 HP on a Stage 1 whose two attacks both print a multiplier: the pack’s biggest Metal body. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Steelix, 170 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Thumping Fall is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless, and Iron Tail is 100 per heads on a coin flip for a Metal and three Colourless. Character Rare — the same card as 034, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 034, the only Metal card in the pack to get a new drawing. Avec Yoko.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Reshiram & Zekrom-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Fabled Flarebolts is 90 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire and a Lightning, and Cross Break GX has no printed damage for two Fire and two Lightning. 270 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 90-damage attack that repeats per Energy and a GX attack that needs two types at once — the only card in the pack that asks for Fire and Lightning together. Naoki Saito.
Reshiram & Zekrom-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Fabled Flarebolts is 90 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire and a Lightning, and Cross Break GX has no printed damage for two Fire and two Lightning. The full-art printing of 036, and the only full art in the pack where the two Dragons are given separate light. Naoki Saito.
Reshiram & Zekrom-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Fabled Flarebolts is 90 per heads on a coin flip for a Fire and a Lightning, and Cross Break GX has no printed damage for two Fire and two Lightning. The rainbow printing of 036, and the only rainbow here that needs two Energy types to attack.
1 cards · listed in original order.
Clefairy, 50 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Doll Swap is 60 for three Colourless. 50 HP with a 60-damage attack for three Colourless: the pack’s cheapest way to threaten 60 on a tiny body. Mina Nakai.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Lillipup, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Baby-Doll Eyes has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tackle is 40 for three Colourless. 60 HP with a Paralysis attack and a 40-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Stoutland line. Sekio.
Herdier, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Work Up has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Headbutt Bounce is 60 for three Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and a 60-damage follow-up for three. Shigenori Negishi.
Ability Arf Arf Bark
Stoutland, 150 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Overrun is 110 for three Colourless; the Ability Arf Arf Bark — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may discard an Energy from your opponent’s Active Pokémon. 150 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability discards an Energy off the opponent’s Active Pokémon when it evolves and again when it is Knocked Out — the pack’s most persistent disruption. Masakazu Fukuda.
Type: Null, 110 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Air Slash is 50 for two Colourless. 110 HP with a 50-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Silvally line. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Ability Disk Reload
Silvally-GX, 210 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Brave Buddies is 50 and climbs for two Colourless, and Silver Knight GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Disk Reload — once during your turn (before your attack), you may draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. 210 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability draws to five cards every turn: the pack’s cheapest repeatable draw, and the reason the Silvally line exists. Megumi Mizutani.
Ability Arf Arf Bark
Stoutland, 150 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Overrun is 110 for three Colourless; the Ability Arf Arf Bark — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may discard an Energy from your opponent’s Active Pokémon. Character Rare — the same card as 039, drawn into a picture with its Trainer. The Character Rare printing of 039, and the last of the twelve that close the numbered set. Mizue.
Ability Disk Reload
Silvally-GX, 210 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Brave Buddies is 50 and climbs for two Colourless, and Silver Knight GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Disk Reload — once during your turn (before your attack), you may draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. The full-art printing of 041, by the same artist as the regular card. Megumi Mizutani.
Ability Disk Reload
Silvally-GX, 210 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Brave Buddies is 50 and climbs for two Colourless, and Silver Knight GX has no printed damage for two Colourless; the Ability Disk Reload — once during your turn (before your attack), you may draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. The rainbow printing of 041, the pack’s only Stage 1 GX in the finish.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Shuffle a Pokémon and a Pokémon Tool card from your discard pile into your deck.
Lana’s Fishing Rod — Shuffle a Pokémon and a Pokémon Tool card from your discard pile into your deck. Shuffle a Pokémon and a Tool back into the deck: the pack’s only Item that recovers two different card types at once. Eske Yoshinob.
Play this card as if it were a 30-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may discard all cards from it and put it on the bottom of your deck. This card can’t retreat. If this card is Knocked Out, your opponent can’t take any Prize cards for it.
Lillie’s Poké Doll — Play this card as if it were a 30-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may discard all cards from it and put it on the bottom of your deck. This card can’t retreat. If this card is Knocked Out, your opponent can’t take any Prize cards for it. A 30 HP Colourless Basic that gives up no Prize when it is Knocked Out and can be put back on the bottom of the deck — the pack’s only pure blocker. Studio Bora Inc..
The next time you flip any number of coins for the effect of an attack, Ability, or Trainer card this turn, choose heads or tails for the first coin flip.
Will — The next time you flip any number of coins for the effect of an attack, Ability, or Trainer card this turn, choose heads or tails for the first coin flip. Choose the first coin flip of the turn: the pack’s only card that makes 008 and 021 reliable. Ken Sugimori.
Discard the top 6 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are basic Energy cards, attach them to 1 of your Benched Dragon Pokémon.
N’s Resolve — Discard the top 6 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are basic Energy cards, attach them to 1 of your Benched Dragon Pokémon. Discard the top six and attach any basic Energy among them to a Benched Dragon Pokémon — the pack’s only acceleration built for 036. Ryuta Fuse.
Discard up to 2 Pokémon that aren’t Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX from your hand. Draw 3 cards for each card you discarded in this way.
Roxie — Discard up to 2 Pokémon that aren’t Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX from your hand. Draw 3 cards for each card you discarded in this way. Discard up to two non-GX Pokémon to draw three cards each: the pack’s cheapest draw, and the trigger for 021 and 022. Yusuke Ohmura.
You can play this card only if 1 of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Search your deck for a Pokémon, a Trainer card, and a basic Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Rosa — You can play this card only if 1 of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Search your deck for a Pokémon, a Trainer card, and a basic Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search a Pokémon, a Trainer and a basic Energy in one card, provided something of yours was Knocked Out last turn — the pack’s best recovery Supporter. Yusuke Ohmura.
Discard the top 7 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are Item cards, put them into your hand.
Clay — Discard the top 7 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are Item cards, put them into your hand. Discard the top seven and take every Item among them: the pack’s cheapest way to refill a hand with Items. Yusuke Ohmura.
Draw 4 cards. At the end of this turn, if you have 3 or more cards in your hand, shuffle cards from your hand into your deck until you have 2 cards in your hand.
Lillie’s Full Force — Draw 4 cards. At the end of this turn, if you have 3 or more cards in your hand, shuffle cards from your hand into your deck until you have 2 cards in your hand. Draw four, then put cards back down to two at the end of the turn: the pack’s only Supporter that takes its cards back. kodama.
Discard the top 6 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are basic Energy cards, attach them to 1 of your Benched Dragon Pokémon.
N’s Resolve — Discard the top 6 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are basic Energy cards, attach them to 1 of your Benched Dragon Pokémon. The full-art printing of 045, by a different artist from the regular card — the only Supporter in the pack to get two drawings. Mana Ibe.
You can play this card only if 1 of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Search your deck for a Pokémon, a Trainer card, and a basic Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Rosa — You can play this card only if 1 of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Search your deck for a Pokémon, a Trainer card, and a basic Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 047, and the most valuable Supporter in the pack in its rarest regular finish. kirisAki.
Draw 4 cards. At the end of this turn, if you have 3 or more cards in your hand, shuffle cards from your hand into your deck until you have 2 cards in your hand.
Lillie’s Full Force — Draw 4 cards. At the end of this turn, if you have 3 or more cards in your hand, shuffle cards from your hand into your deck until you have 2 cards in your hand. The full-art printing of 049, by an artist who does not appear on the regular card. Noriko Uono.
Shuffle a Pokémon and a Pokémon Tool card from your discard pile into your deck.
Lana’s Fishing Rod — Shuffle a Pokémon and a Pokémon Tool card from your discard pile into your deck. The gold printing of 042. 042 in gold, the Item that recovers a Pokémon and a Tool at once.
Play this card as if it were a 30-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may discard all cards from it and put it on the bottom of your deck. This card can’t retreat. If this card is Knocked Out, your opponent can’t take any Prize cards for it.
Lillie’s Poké Doll — Play this card as if it were a 30-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may discard all cards from it and put it on the bottom of your deck. This card can’t retreat. If this card is Knocked Out, your opponent can’t take any Prize cards for it. The gold printing of 043. 043 in gold: the only gold card in the pack that is printed as a Pokémon-shaped Item.
Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play (both yours and your opponent’s) have no Abilities.
Power Plant — Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play (both yours and your opponent’s) have no Abilities. A gold Stadium that switches off every Ability on every Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX in play. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–049.
September’s main expansion, and the last ordinary Sun & Moon booster. Ninety-five numbered cards plus twenty-two secrets (thirteen full-art, six Hyper Rare, three gold) — 117 kinds. 65 Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX is 280 HP, one of the two biggest Tag Teams of the year, and 66 Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX is 280 as well. Behind them 73 Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX at 240, 44 Flygon-GX at 240, 13 Volcarona-GX at 210 and 35 Oricorio-GX at 170. 83 Tag Call, 87 Guzma & Hala, 88 Cynthia & Caitlin, 89 Mallow & Lana and 90 Red & Blue are the five Tag Team Supporters — two Trainers on one card, the year’s other doubling — with 92 Cherish Ball and 95 Professor Elm’s Lecture. 162 yen is 150 plus 8% tax. 113 of the 117 arrive in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November.
2019-09-06. 117 cards — 97 Pokémon, 20 Trainers and no Energy cards, 21 of them GX, 12 Tag Team and 1 Ultra Beast; 43 commons, 32 uncommons, 14 rares, 6 Double Rares, 13 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 6 Hyper Rares; 14 Dragon, 13 Psychic, 13 Fighting, 13 Colourless, 11 Grass, 10 Water, 9 Fairy, 6 Fire, 5 Metal and 3 Lightning; 67 artists worked on it and Ken Sugimori drew 5.
September’s main expansion, and the last ordinary Sun & Moon booster printed in Japan. Ninety-five numbered cards, thirteen full-art (096–108), six rainbow (109–114) and three gold (115–117). 65 Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX is 280 HP and 66 Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX is 280 too — the two biggest Tag Teams of the year. 73 Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX is 240, 44 Flygon-GX 240, 13 Volcarona-GX 210, 35 Oricorio-GX 170. Four Tag Team Supporters are printed here — 87 Guzma & Hala, 88 Cynthia & Caitlin, 89 Mallow & Lana, 90 Red & Blue — two Trainers on one card, the year’s second doubling, alongside 83 Tag Call, 92 Cherish Ball, 93 Adventure Bag and 95 Professor Elm’s Lecture. 113 of the 117 arrive in Cosmic Eclipse on 1 November; four are cards English already had.
11 cards · listed in original order.
Sunkern, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Leech Seed is 10 for a Grass. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Grass: the smallest body in the pack, printed to reach 002. 0313.
Sunflora, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Solar Power has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Solar Beam is 80 for a Grass and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and an 80-damage follow-up for three. Yumi.
Lileep, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Confuse Ray has no printed damage for a Grass, and Seed Bomb is 60 for a Grass and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 that costs Grass but attacks for three: the first stage of the fossil line. Misa Tsutsui.
Ability Swaying Strangle
Cradily, 150 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Poison Tentacles is 110 for a Grass and two Colourless; the Ability Swaying Strangle — your opponent’s Pokémon that are affected by Special Conditions can’t retreat. 150 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability stops anything with a Special Condition from retreating — the pack’s cheapest lock, and the payoff for the fossil line. otumami.
Kricketot, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Collect has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Bug Bite is 10 for a Grass. 60 HP with a search attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Kricketune line. Ken Sugimori.
Kricketune, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Improvisational Performance is 30 and climbs for a Grass. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that climbs — the pack’s cheapest scaling Stage 1. Anesaki Dynamic.
Rowlet, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Hide and Seek has no printed damage for a Grass, and Tackle is 30 for two Colourless. 50 HP with an attack that searches and a 30-damage follow-up: the Rowlet that sets up. Yuka Morii.
Rowlet, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Skill Dive has no printed damage for a Grass. 60 HP with a single attack that prints no damage and costs a single Grass: the Rowlet that disrupts. Saya Tsuruta.
Dartrix, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Leafage is 20 for a Grass, and Wing Flick is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up for two: the middle of the Decidueye line. Akira Komayama.
Decidueye, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 1 — Skill Dive has no printed damage for a Grass, and Tracking Shot is 80 for two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with a free utility attack and an 80-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest Stage 2 attacker. kawayoo.
Ability Beast Boost
Buzzwole, 130 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Touchdown is 60 for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Beast Boost — this Pokémon’s attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon for each Prize card you have taken (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 130 HP on an Ultra Beast whose Ability adds 20 damage for each Prize already taken — the pack’s comeback card. Anesaki Dynamic.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Larvesta, 80 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Ram is 10 for a Colourless, and Combustion is 50 for two Fire and a Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Volcarona line. Midori Harada.
Ability Flaming Shot
Volcarona-GX, 210 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Backfire is 160 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Massive Heat Wave GX has no printed damage for a Fire; the Ability Flaming Shot — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. 210 HP on a Stage 1 GX whose Ability converts a Fire Energy into two damage counters on any target every turn — the pack’s cheapest repeated damage. Hiroyuki Yamamoto.
Litleo, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Tackle is 10 for a Fire, and Flame Tail is 20 for a Fire and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Pyroar line. HYOGONOSUKE.
Pyroar, 130 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Swirling Inferno is 70 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Heat Blast is 140 for three Fire and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 70-damage attack and a 140-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest non-GX Fire hit. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Ability Flaming Shot
Volcarona-GX, 210 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Backfire is 160 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Massive Heat Wave GX has no printed damage for a Fire; the Ability Flaming Shot — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. The full-art printing of 013, rendered rather than painted, with the moth filling the frame rather than sitting in a landscape. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Flaming Shot
Volcarona-GX, 210 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Backfire is 160 for two Fire and a Colourless, and Massive Heat Wave GX has no printed damage for a Fire; the Ability Flaming Shot — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. The rainbow printing of 013, the pack’s only Stage 1 GX in the finish.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Snowed In
Alolan Vulpix, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 10; the Ability Snowed In — as long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks (both yours and your opponent’s). 60 HP with an Ability that blanks all damage to it while it sits on the Bench — the pack’s cheapest way to protect a Bench sitter. nagimiso.
Snorunt, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Continuous Headbutt is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Water. 60 HP with an attack that prints a multiplier for a single Water: the cheapest start to the Glalie line. sowsow.
Glalie, 120 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Ice Fang is 30 for a Water, and Frosty Typhoon is 120 for a Water and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 120-damage attack for three: the pack’s plainest Water body. Uta.
Spheal, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Rollout is 10 for a Water, and Icy Snow is 20 for a Water and a Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the first of the pack’s two Spheal. sui.
Spheal, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Body Slam is 30 for a Water and two Colourless. 70 HP with a 30-damage attack for three: the second Spheal, and the one that survives a turn. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Sealeo, 100 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Rollout is 20 for a Water, and Ice Ball is 90 for a Water and three Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 90-damage attack for four: the middle of the Walrein line. miki kudo.
Walrein, 160 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 4 — Cold Snap is 60 for a Water, and Blizzard is 120 for a Water and three Colourless. 160 HP on a Stage 2 with a 120-damage attack for four: the pack’s biggest non-GX Water body. Ayaka Yoshida.
Ducklett, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Aerial Ace is 10 and climbs for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack that climbs for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Swanna line. Yumi.
Swanna, 110 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Tailwind has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Air Slash is 70 for two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and a 70-damage follow-up for two. Yukiko Baba.
Black Kyurem, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Frozen Wings is 30 for two Colourless, and Dazzling Blizzard is 100 and climbs for two Water and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack and a 100-damage attack that climbs for four: the pack’s biggest non-GX Water hit on a Basic. Kouki Saitou.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Chinchou, 60 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Scout has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Razor Fin is 10 for a Lightning. 60 HP with a search attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Lanturn line. Sekio.
Ability Blinking Lights
Lanturn, 110 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Swirling Flow is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Blinking Lights — as often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may look at the top card of your opponent’s deck. 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability lets you look at the top of the opponent’s deck as often as you like — the pack’s strangest information card. otumami.
Togedemaru, 80 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Call for Family has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Random Spark has no printed damage for a Lightning. 80 HP with a setup attack and a free attack that hits a random target — the cheapest disruptive Basic in the pack. sowsow.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Woobat, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Nasal Suction has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Air Cutter is 30 for a Psychic. 60 HP with a free utility attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Swoobat line. Shibuzoh..
Swoobat, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Supersonic has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Charming Stamp has no printed damage for a Psychic. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a Paralysis attack and a free follow-up: the pack’s cheapest stall. Tomokazu Komiya.
Golett, 90 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Return is 10 for a Psychic. 90 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Golurk line. Shigenori Negishi.
Golurk, 140 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Rock Tumble is 40 for a Psychic, and Fist of Antiquity is 160 for two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and a 160-damage follow-up for two Colourless: the pack’s cheapest big number. Ayaka Yoshida.
Skrelp, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Poison Breath has no printed damage for a Psychic. 60 HP and a Poison attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Dragalge line. sui.
Dragalge, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Poison Cultivation has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Sharp Fin is 40 for a Psychic. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 40-damage follow-up: the pack’s plainest Psychic body. Midori Harada.
Ability Dance of Tribute
Oricorio-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Razor Wing is 80 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Strafe GX is 100 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Dance of Tribute — once during your turn (before your attack), if any of your Pokémon were Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may draw 3 cards. 170 HP on a Basic GX whose Ability draws three when something of yours was Knocked Out — the pack’s cheapest recovery GX. aky CG Works.
Cosmog, 50 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ascension has no printed damage for a Psychic. 50 HP with an attack that evolves it on the spot: half of the pack’s Solgaleo and Lunala line. Mizue.
Ability Unaware
Cosmog, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Surprise Attack is 10 for a Colourless; the Ability Unaware — prevent all effects of your opponent’s attacks, except damage, done to this Pokémon. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and an Ability that blanks every non-damage effect aimed at it. Masakazu Fukuda.
Cosmoem, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — one attack, Stiffen has no printed damage for a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that does nothing but prevent damage to it: the middle of the line, and the cheapest wall. Aya Kusube.
Ability Blessing of the Moone
Lunala, 160 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Lunar Blast is 130 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Blessing of the Moone — once during your turn (before your attack), if you have Solgaleo in play, you may search your deck for up to 2 Energy cards and attach them to your Solgaleo or Lunala in any way you like. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches two Energy straight from the deck once Solgaleo is in play — the second half of the pack’s paired legendaries. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Dance of Tribute
Oricorio-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Razor Wing is 80 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Strafe GX is 100 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Dance of Tribute — once during your turn (before your attack), if any of your Pokémon were Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may draw 3 cards. The full-art printing of 035, rendered, and the only version where the dance is shown as motion across the whole card. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Dance of Tribute
Oricorio-GX, 170 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Razor Wing is 80 for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Strafe GX is 100 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Dance of Tribute — once during your turn (before your attack), if any of your Pokémon were Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn, you may draw 3 cards. The rainbow printing of 035, the only Basic GX in the pack to reach the tier.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Nosepass, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Draw Toward has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Zap Cannon is 50 for three Colourless. 80 HP with an attack that drags a Benched Pokémon out and a 50-damage follow-up for three. Anesaki Dynamic.
Trapinch, 50 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Nest Building has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sand Spray is 10 for a Fighting. 50 HP with an attack that searches a card and a 10-damage follow-up: the Trapinch that sets up. sowsow.
Trapinch, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Dig is 30 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 60 HP with a 30-damage attack for two: the Trapinch that attacks. Midori Harada.
Ability Obnoxious Whirring
Vibrava, 80 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Flap is 40 for a Fighting and a Colourless; the Ability Obnoxious Whirring — whenever your opponent plays a Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Pokémon. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability blanks every Supporter aimed at it — the middle of the Flygon line, and the cheapest defence against disruption. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Ability Dusty Defense
Flygon-GX, 240 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Desert Hurricane is 120 and climbs for three Fighting, and Sonic Edge GX is 220 for three Fighting; the Ability Dusty Defense — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, all of your Pokémon take 30 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 240 HP on a Stage 2 GX whose Ability gives every Pokémon you have 30 points of damage reduction while it is Active — the pack’s only Stage 2 GX. 5ban Graphics.
Anorith, 90 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Bug Bite is 40 for two Colourless, and Claw Slash is 80 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up for three: the other half of the fossil line. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Armaldo, 150 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Ancient Blast is 20 and climbs for two Colourless, and Mach Claw is 100 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 150 HP on a Stage 2 with a 20-damage attack that climbs and a 100-damage follow-up for three. Ayaka Yoshida.
Rockruff, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Roar has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Rock Throw is 40 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that forces a switch and a 40-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Lycanroc line. Saya Tsuruta.
Ability Boiling Blood
Lycanroc, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Voltage Claw is 60 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Boiling Blood — if your opponent has any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX in play, this Pokémon’s attacks cost ColorlessColorlessColorless less. 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability cuts three Colourless off its attacks while the opponent has a Pokémon-GX in play — the pack’s cheapest discount. so-taro.
Sandygast, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — Astonish is 10 for a Fighting, and Hook is 20 for two Colourless. 80 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Palossand line. Yukiko Baba.
Palossand, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Guard Press is 80 for three Colourless, and Earthquake is 150 for a Fighting and three Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack and a 150-damage follow-up that hits your own side too. OOYAMA.
Ability Dusty Defense
Flygon-GX, 240 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Desert Hurricane is 120 and climbs for three Fighting, and Sonic Edge GX is 220 for three Fighting; the Ability Dusty Defense — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, all of your Pokémon take 30 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The full-art printing of 044, rendered, with the GX attack box covering the lower third. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Dusty Defense
Flygon-GX, 240 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Desert Hurricane is 120 and climbs for three Fighting, and Sonic Edge GX is 220 for three Fighting; the Ability Dusty Defense — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, all of your Pokémon take 30 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The rainbow printing of 044, the pack’s only Stage 2 GX in the finish.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Alolan Sandshrew, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Run Around has no printed damage, and Metal Claw is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a free attack and a 20-damage follow-up for two: the cheapest start to the Alolan Sandslash line. ryoma uratsuka.
Alolan Sandslash, 120 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Curve Strike is 30, and Reinforced Needle is 60 and climbs for a Metal and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 60-damage follow-up that climbs for three. Hasuno.
Mawile, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Dual Calling has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Dark Clamp is 20 for a Colourless. 70 HP with a setup attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest way to find a Tool. kodama.
Probopass, 130 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Hard Press is 60 for three Colourless, and Triple Nose is 80 and climbs for a Metal and three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up that climbs for four. Masakazu Fukuda.
Ability Armor of the Sunne
Solgaleo, 170 HP, Metal, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Sol Fangs is 180 for two Metal and two Colourless; the Ability Armor of the Sunne — if you have Lunala in play, your Solgaleo and Lunala take 50 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 170 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability cuts 50 damage off every Solgaleo and Lunala you have while its partner is in play — the pack’s paired legendary in its non-GX form. Misa Tsutsui.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Ultimate Ray is 150 for a Water, a Metal and a Colourless, and Altered Creation GX has no printed damage for a Metal. 280 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 150-damage attack for three types and a GX attack that costs a single Metal — the pack’s headline card, and one of its two tallest bodies. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Violent Appetite
Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Jet Pierce is 180 for a Psychic, a Darkness and a Colourless, and Chaotic Order GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Violent Appetite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Pokémon from your hand. 280 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 180-damage attack and an Ability that heals 60 by discarding a Pokémon from hand — the pack’s second 280 HP Tag Team. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Drampa, 120 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 1 — Dragon Claw is 20 for a Colourless, and Dragon Arcana is 70 and climbs for three Colourless. 120 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 20-damage attack and a 70-damage follow-up that climbs for three. Naoki Saito.
Jangmo-o, 60 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Raging Claws is 20 and climbs for a Lightning and a Fighting. 60 HP with an attack that climbs for two types: the first of the pack’s two Jangmo-o. AKIRA EGAWA.
Jangmo-o, 70 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — Gnaw is 10 for a Fighting, and Dragon Headbutt is 50 for a Lightning, a Fighting and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the Jangmo-o that attacks. Tomokazu Komiya.
Ability Fighter’s Roar
Hakamo-o, 80 HP, Dragon, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Dragonslice is 30 for a Lightning and a Fighting; the Ability Fighter’s Roar — if your opponent’s Active Pokémon is a Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX, this Pokémon can evolve during the turn you play it. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability lets it evolve on the turn it is played when the opponent’s Active Pokémon is a GX — the pack’s only shortcut through a stage. Ryuta Fuse.
Kommo-o, 160 HP, Dragon, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Shout of Power is 60 for a Fighting, and Scaly Uppercut is 90 and climbs for a Lightning and a Fighting. 160 HP on a Stage 2 with a 60-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up that climbs: the payoff of the Kommo-o line. hatachu.
Ability Ultra Burst
Ultra Necrozma, 110 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Luster of Downfall is 170 for a Psychic and a Metal; the Ability Ultra Burst — this Pokémon can’t attack unless your opponent has 2 or fewer Prize cards remaining. 110 HP on a Dragon Basic whose Ability stops it from attacking until the opponent is down to two Prizes — the pack’s most conditional card, and its only 170 damage that comes with a lock on itself. Hasuno.
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Ultimate Ray is 150 for a Water, a Metal and a Colourless, and Altered Creation GX has no printed damage for a Metal. The full-art printing of 065. The first of two full-art printings of 065, in the CG style — the version that keeps all three Pokémon in one frame. 5ban Graphics.
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Ultimate Ray is 150 for a Water, a Metal and a Colourless, and Altered Creation GX has no printed damage for a Metal. The second full-art printing of 065, hand-drawn, and the only version where the three are given separate light. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Violent Appetite
Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Jet Pierce is 180 for a Psychic, a Darkness and a Colourless, and Chaotic Order GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Violent Appetite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Pokémon from your hand. The full-art printing of 066. The first of two full-art printings of 066, rendered: one of the two tallest cards in the pack in the style that flattens its background. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Violent Appetite
Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Jet Pierce is 180 for a Psychic, a Darkness and a Colourless, and Chaotic Order GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Violent Appetite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Pokémon from your hand. The second full-art printing of 066, hand-drawn, and the only version where the two Ultra Beasts are shown as separate figures. Aya Kusube.
Arceus & Dialga & Palkia-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Ultimate Ray is 150 for a Water, a Metal and a Colourless, and Altered Creation GX has no printed damage for a Metal. The rainbow printing of 065, the pack’s headline card in its highest regular finish.
Ability Violent Appetite
Naganadel & Guzzlord-GX, 280 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Jet Pierce is 180 for a Psychic, a Darkness and a Colourless, and Chaotic Order GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Violent Appetite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Pokémon from your hand. The rainbow printing of 066, the second of the pack’s two 280 HP Tag Teams.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Alolan Ninetales, 110 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Rubbish Blizzard is 10 per heads on a coin flip. 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose only attack prints a multiplier and costs nothing: the pack’s cheapest attacking Fairy card. Eri Yamaki.
Ability Growing Up
Azurill, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Growing Up — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability attaches a basic Energy from the discard pile on a coin flip, and ends your turn to do it. Asako Ito.
Flabébé, 30 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Floral Invitation has no printed damage for a Colourless. 30 HP, the lowest in the pack, with a search attack for one Colourless. tetsuya koizumi.
Flabébé, 40 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Petal Blizzard has no printed damage for a Fairy. 40 HP with an attack that prints no damage for a single Fairy: the second of the pack’s two Flabébé. Atsuko Nishida.
Ability Flower Picking
Floette, 70 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Magical Shot is 30 for a Fairy and a Colourless; the Ability Flower Picking — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may choose a random card from your opponent’s hand. 70 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability shuffles a random card out of the opponent’s hand when it evolves — the pack’s cheapest hand disruption. miki kudo.
Ability Flower Picking
Florges, 130 HP, Fairy, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Petal Dance is 60 per heads on a coin flip for a Fairy and a Colourless; the Ability Flower Picking — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may choose 2 random cards from your opponent’s hand. 130 HP on a Stage 2 with the same Ability, doubled: two random cards out of the opponent’s hand every time it evolves. Akira Komayama.
Swirlix, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Cotton Guard is 10 for a Fairy. 60 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Fairy: the cheapest start to the Slurpuff line. MAHOU.
Slurpuff, 110 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Olfactory Enchantment has no printed damage for a Fairy, and Sweet Panic is 110 for a Fairy. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 110-damage follow-up for a single Fairy — the pack’s most efficient attacker. Kyoko Umemoto.
Sylveon, 110 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Moonblast is 30 for a Fairy, and Beloved Pulse is 80 and climbs for a Fairy and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up that climbs for three. Naoyo Kimura.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX, 240 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Jumping Balloon is 60 and climbs for three Colourless, and Puffy Smashers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 240 HP on a Colourless Basic with a 60-damage attack that climbs and a GX attack that costs nothing — the pack’s smallest Tag Team and its cheapest to use. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Eevee, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Lead has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Bite is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that searches and a 20-damage follow-up: the pack’s cheapest way to find a Pokémon. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Ability Scampering Tail
Aipom, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tail Smack is 20 for two Colourless; the Ability Scampering Tail — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put the top card of your opponent’s deck on the bottom of their deck without looking at it. 60 HP with a 20-damage attack and an Ability that cycles the top of the opponent’s deck to the bottom — the pack’s cheapest way to change a draw. Miki Tanaka.
Ambipom, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Nice-Nice Catch has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Bye-Bye Throw is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 60-damage follow-up that prints a multiplier. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Teddiursa, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless, and Slash is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Ursaring line. kodama.
Ursaring, 140 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Hammer In is 50 for two Colourless, and Heavy Hold is 120 for four Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 120-damage attack for four: the pack’s largest non-GX Colourless hit. Hiroki Asanuma.
Rufflet, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Fury Attack is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that prints a multiplier for a single Colourless: the cheapest start to the Braviary line. Ken Sugimori.
Braviary, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Clutch is 30 for a Colourless, and Aero Fall is 140 for four Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack and a 140-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest non-GX Colourless body. chibi.
Helioptile, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Tail Whip has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Rear Kick is 30 for three Colourless. 60 HP with a free attack and a 30-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Heliolisk line. Sekio.
Heliolisk, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Parabolic Counter is 30 and climbs for a Colourless, and Zap Kick is 80 for three Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that climbs and an 80-damage follow-up for three. Kyoko Umemoto.
Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX, 240 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Jumping Balloon is 60 and climbs for three Colourless, and Puffy Smashers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The full-art printing of 073. The first of two full-art printings of 073, in the CG style the pack uses for most of its full arts. aky CG Works.
Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX, 240 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Jumping Balloon is 60 and climbs for three Colourless, and Puffy Smashers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 073, hand-drawn: the only version where the balloon is painted rather than rendered. Shibuzoh..
Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff-GX, 240 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Jumping Balloon is 60 and climbs for three Colourless, and Puffy Smashers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 073, the smallest Tag Team in the pack in the same finish as the largest.
20 cards · listed in original order.
Search your deck for up to 2 TAG TEAM cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Tag Call — Search your deck for up to 2 TAG TEAM cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Tag Team cards out of the deck in one Item: the pack’s most important search, and the one every Tag Team deck in the format runs. Toyste Beach.
Play this card as if it were a 60-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), you may discard this card from play. This card can’t retreat.
Unidentified Fossil — Play this card as if it were a 60-HP Colorless Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn (before your attack), you may discard this card from play. This card can’t retreat. A 60 HP Colourless Basic that exists only to be evolved: the Item half of the pack’s fossil line. Toyste Beach.
The Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX this card is attached to gets -100 HP, and when it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card.
Island Challenge Amulet — The Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX this card is attached to gets -100 HP, and when it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card. A Tool that cuts 100 HP off a Pokémon-GX and takes a Prize off the opponent when it is Knocked Out — the pack’s oddest trade. sadaji.
The attacks of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to do 10 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon for each Prize card you have taken (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Beastite — The attacks of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to do 10 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon for each Prize card you have taken (before applying Weakness and Resistance). A Tool that adds 10 damage to an Ultra Beast’s attacks for each Prize already taken: the card 011 was printed for. inose yukie.
Search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, you may also search for a Pokémon Tool card and a Special Energy card in this way.
Guzma & Hala — Search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, you may also search for a Pokémon Tool card and a Special Energy card in this way. A Stadium out of the deck, or a Stadium, a Tool and a Special Energy for two discarded cards — the pack’s most flexible Supporter. Ken Sugimori.
Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand. You can’t choose Cynthia & Caitlin or a card you discarded with the effect of this card. When you play this card, you may discard another card from your hand. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Cynthia & Caitlin — Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand. You can’t choose Cynthia & Caitlin or a card you discarded with the effect of this card. When you play this card, you may discard another card from your hand. If you do, draw 3 cards. A Supporter back from the discard pile, or that plus three cards for one discarded card — the pack’s cheapest recovery. Ken Sugimori.
Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, heal 120 damage from the Pokémon you moved to your Bench.
Mallow & Lana — Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, heal 120 damage from the Pokémon you moved to your Bench. Switch your Active Pokémon out, or that plus 120 healing for two discarded cards. Ken Sugimori.
Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. (You can’t use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.) When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to the Pokémon you evolved in this way.
Red & Blue — Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. (You can’t use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.) When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to the Pokémon you evolved in this way. Evolve a Pokémon-GX straight out of the deck, or that plus two Energy attached for two discarded cards — the pack’s only Supporter that evolves. Megumi Mizutani.
Whenever either player plays a Stadium card from their hand, discard that Stadium card after discarding this one. (The new Stadium card has no effect.)
Chaotic Swell — Whenever either player plays a Stadium card from their hand, discard that Stadium card after discarding this one. (The new Stadium card has no effect.). A Stadium that discards any Stadium played after it, and itself — the pack’s answer to 088 and to every Stadium in the format. Ryo Ueda.
Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Cherish Ball — Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search any Pokémon-GX for no cost at all — the pack’s cheapest search, and the card that makes 065 land on turn two. Ryo Ueda.
Search your deck for up to 2 Pokémon Tool cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Adventure Bag — Search your deck for up to 2 Pokémon Tool cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Tools out of the deck in one card: the pack’s cheapest way to find 085 and 086. Yoshinobu Saito.
Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Communication — Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Trade a Pokémon in hand for a Pokémon in the deck: a reprint of 054 from July, at the same rarity. Studio Bora Inc..
Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon with 60 HP or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Professor Elm’s Lecture — Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon with 60 HP or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Up to three Pokémon with 60 HP or less out of the deck: the pack’s setup card, and the one that finds the whole Kommo-o line. nagimiso.
Search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, you may also search for a Pokémon Tool card and a Special Energy card in this way.
Guzma & Hala — Search your deck for a Stadium card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, you may also search for a Pokémon Tool card and a Special Energy card in this way. The full-art printing of 087. A Supporter promoted to full art, and the only card in the pack whose full art is a Stadium search. Junsei Kuninobu.
Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand. You can’t choose Cynthia & Caitlin or a card you discarded with the effect of this card. When you play this card, you may discard another card from your hand. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Cynthia & Caitlin — Put a Supporter card from your discard pile into your hand. You can’t choose Cynthia & Caitlin or a card you discarded with the effect of this card. When you play this card, you may discard another card from your hand. If you do, draw 3 cards. The full-art printing of 088, by an artist who appears on no other card in the pack. Sakiko Maeda.
Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, heal 120 damage from the Pokémon you moved to your Bench.
Mallow & Lana — Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, heal 120 damage from the Pokémon you moved to your Bench. The full-art printing of 089, and the only Supporter full art in the pack drawn by an artist who also painted a GX card this year. kirisAki.
Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. (You can’t use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.) When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to the Pokémon you evolved in this way.
Red & Blue — Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX that evolves from 1 of your Pokémon and put it onto that Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. (You can’t use this card during your first turn or on a Pokémon that was put into play this turn.) When you play this card, you may discard 2 other cards from your hand. If you do, search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to the Pokémon you evolved in this way. The full-art printing of 090, by an artist who otherwise works in the pack’s character illustrations. Hitoshi Ariga.
Search your deck for up to 2 TAG TEAM cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Tag Call — Search your deck for up to 2 TAG TEAM cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The gold printing of 083. 083 in gold, the Item that finds two Tag Team cards at once.
The Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX this card is attached to gets -100 HP, and when it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card.
Island Challenge Amulet — The Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX this card is attached to gets -100 HP, and when it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card. The gold printing of 085. 085 in gold: the Tool that trades 100 HP for a Prize.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck.
Giant Hearth — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck. A gold Stadium that lets either player trade a card in hand for two Fire Energy every turn. No regular printing of it appears among this pack’s 001–095.
October’s High Class Pack — the largest product of the year, and the last Sun & Moon set printed at all. 173 numbered cards plus fifty-three secrets: thirty-seven full-art (174–210), nine Hyper Rare (211–219) and seven gold (220–226), 226 kinds in total. The seven gold cards are all Tag Team GX, and nine of the full-arts are basic Energy (202–210). Seventeen Prism Star cards are reprinted together here, and it is the last time the ◇ is printed anywhere in either language. Fifty-four of the numbered cards carry no rarity symbol on the face at all — that is how a reprint card is printed. 550 yen is 500 plus 10% tax, eleven cards to a pack and ten packs to a box — the only pack this year that is not five or ten cards. Thirty-one cards never print in English; twenty arrive in 2019, and the other 175 are reprints of cards English already had.
2019-10-04. 226 cards — 148 Pokémon, 66 Trainers and 12 Energy, 53 of them GX, 32 Tag Team, 17 Prism Star and 5 Ultra Beast; 16 commons, 31 uncommons, 33 rares, 22 Double Rares, 17 Prism Stars, 37 full-art cards, 7 gold cards, 9 Hyper Rares; 24 Psychic, 20 Colourless, 17 Darkness, 15 Grass, 14 Fire, 14 Water, 14 Metal, 13 Lightning, 8 Fairy, 5 Fighting and 4 Dragon; 68 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 32.
The largest product of the year and the last Sun & Moon set of all. 173 numbered cards plus fifty-three secrets: thirty-seven full-art (174–210), nine Hyper Rare (211–219) and seven gold (220–226), and all seven gold cards are Tag Team. Nine of the full-arts are basic Energy (202–210) — a first for the era — and seventeen Prism Star cards are reprinted through the numbered set, which is the last time the ◇ is printed in either language. Fifty-four of the numbered cards carry no rarity symbol at all: that is how a reprint card is printed, and this page shows them blank rather than inventing a rarity. 102 Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX at 300 and 52 Mewtwo & Mew-GX at 270 are back, 16 Reshiram & Charizard-GX and 67 Marshadow & Machamp-GX at 270 with them. Thirty-one cards never print in English; twenty arrive in 2019 and 175 are reprints of cards English already had.
15 cards · listed in original order.
Pheromosa & Buzzwole-GX, 260 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Jet Punch is 30 for a Grass, Elegant Sole is 190 for two Grass and a Colourless, and Beast Game GX is 50 for a Grass. The Grass Tag Team returning from SM9b: 260 HP, two Grass attacks and a GX attack that costs a single Grass — the cheapest GX attack in the pack. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Paras, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Scratch is 10 for a Colourless, and Slash is 20 for a Grass and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: one of the few entirely new cards in a pack built almost entirely from reprints. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Panic Spores
Parasect, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Mysterious Powder is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Panic Spores — put 2 damage counters on your opponent’s Confused Pokémon between turns. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability adds two damage counters to the opponent’s Confused Pokémon every checkup — the new half of the Paras line. Satoshi Shirai.
Hoppip, 40 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tackle is 20 for a Grass. 40 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Grass: the cheapest body in the pack. kawayoo.
Ability Floral Path to the Sky
Skiploom, 60 HP, Grass, Stage 1, no retreat cost — one attack, Tackle is 30 for a Grass; the Ability Floral Path to the Sky — once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for Jumpluff, put this Pokémon and all cards attached to it in the Lost Zone, and put that Jumpluff in its place. 60 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability replaces it with a Jumpluff from the deck and sends it to the Lost Zone — the only card in the pack that skips a stage by removing itself. Hitoshi Ariga.
Jumpluff, 70 HP, Grass, Stage 2, no retreat cost — one attack, Lost March is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Grass. 70 HP on a Stage 2 with a 20-damage attack that repeats per card in the Lost Zone — the payoff for the Jumpluff line, and the pack’s cheapest scaling card. Masakazu Fukuda.
Ability Fresh Squeezed
Shuckle, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Energy Drink has no printed damage for a Grass; the Ability Fresh Squeezed — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 3 basic Energy cards and discard them. 60 HP on a Basic whose Ability discards up to three basic Energy from the deck when it arrives — a card that fills the discard pile rather than the board. Masakazu Fukuda.
Treecko, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Find a Friend has no printed damage for a Grass. 60 HP with a search attack for a single Grass: the start of the pack’s Treecko line. Tomokazu Komiya.
Ability Sunshine Grace
Grovyle, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Slicing Blade is 40 for two Grass; the Ability Sunshine Grace — once during your turn (before your attack), you may search your deck for a Grass Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability searches a Grass Pokémon every turn without a cost — the middle stage, and the reason the line works. Ayaka Yoshida.
Sceptile-GX, 230 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 1 — Mach Cut is 60 for a Grass, Leaf Cyclone is 130 for two Grass, and Jungle Heal GX has no printed damage for a Grass. 230 HP on a Stage 2 GX with a 130-damage attack and a GX attack that heals — the only Stage 2 GX in the pack, and the only new Grass GX. Yoshinobu Saito.
Shaymin ◇, 80 HP, Grass, Basic, no retreat cost — one attack, Flower Storm is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Grass. 80 HP on a Prism Star with a 30-damage attack that repeats per heads: one of seventeen Prism Stars here, and one of the last ever printed. kawayoo.
Bounsweet, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Splash is 10 for a Grass, and Spinning Attack is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: a reprint of the SM10b Bounsweet. Mizue.
Steenee, 90 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Double Slap is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless, and Leaf Step is 60 for a Grass and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that repeats per heads and a 60-damage follow-up: the same card as SM10b, printed again. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Queenly Reward
Tsareena, 140 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, High Jump Kick is 90 for a Grass and two Colourless; the Ability Queenly Reward — once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Grass Energy card from your discard pile to your Active Pokémon. 140 HP on a Stage 2 with an Ability that recycles Grass Energy from the discard pile: the payoff of the Bounsweet line, unchanged from SM10b. kirisAki.
Kartana, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, no retreat cost — Big Cut is 10 and climbs for a Grass, and False Swipe has no printed damage for a Grass and two Colourless. 70 HP on an Ultra Beast with a 10-damage attack that climbs and a second attack that leaves the target at 10 HP: the SM9b Kartana, back again. Shin Nagasawa.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. 270 HP on a Fire Basic with a 230-damage attack: the SM10 headline card, reprinted here with the highest printed damage in the pack. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Vulpix, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tail Whip has no printed damage for a Colourless. 60 HP with a Paralysis attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the new Ninetales line. Ken Sugimori.
Ability Nine Temptations
Ninetales, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Flame Tail is 90 for a Fire and two Colourless; the Ability Nine Temptations — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability trades two Fire Energy for a forced switch — the only new Fire card in the pack with a real Ability. You Iribi.
Ability Power Cheer
Flareon, 110 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Flamethrower is 90 for a Fire and two Colourless; the Ability Power Cheer — the attacks of your Pokémon-GX in play that evolve from Eevee do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability gives every Eevee-evolving Pokémon-GX 30 more damage — one third of the pack’s Eevee support trio. AKIRA EGAWA.
Victini, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Victory Sign has no printed damage for a Fire, and Flare is 20 for a Fire. 70 HP with an Ability that searches any card for a single Fire and a 20-damage follow-up: the SM10b Victini, back in print. Mizue.
Victini ◇, 90 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Infinity is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Fire. 90 HP on a Prism Star with a 20-damage attack that repeats per heads — the second of the pack’s seventeen Prism Stars. Shin Nagasawa.
Volcanion, 120 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Flare Starter has no printed damage for a Fire, and High-Heat Blast is 50 and climbs for two Fire. 120 HP on a Basic with an accelerator attack and a 50-damage follow-up: the SM10 Volcanion, unchanged. Hasuno.
Litten, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Big Bite is 60 for a Fire and two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a 60-damage follow-up: the SM10 Litten, reprinted. Atsuko Nishida.
Torracat, 80 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Fire Fang is 20 for a Fire. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack for a single Fire: the middle of the Incineroar line, as printed in March. tetsuya koizumi.
Ability Strong Cheer
Incineroar, 160 HP, Fire, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Flamethrower is 90 for a Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Strong Cheer — your Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 160 HP on a Stage 2 with the Ability that adds 30 to every attack your side makes — the SM10 Incineroar, and the pack’s biggest non-GX Fire body. Misa Tsutsui.
Salandit, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Live Coal is 10 for a Fire. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack for a single Fire: the SM10 Salandit, back. Yusuke Ohmura.
Ability Roast Reveal
Salazzle, 100 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Combustion is 60 for a Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Roast Reveal — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. 100 HP on a Stage 1 that trades a Fire Energy for three cards: the SM10 Salazzle, and the pack’s cheapest draw engine. hatachu.
Blacephalon-GX, 180 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 2 — Bursting Burn has no printed damage for a Fire, Mind Blown is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Fire, and Burst GX has no printed damage for a Fire. 180 HP on a Fire Basic GX with a 50-damage attack that repeats per Energy and a free GX attack — the pack’s only new Fire GX, and its cheapest GX attack to use. 5ban Graphics.
Reshiram & Charizard-GX, 270 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 3 — Outrage is 30 and climbs for a Fire and a Colourless, Flare Strike is 230 for three Fire and a Colourless, and Double Blaze GX is 200 and climbs for three Fire. The gold printing of 016: the pack’s highest-damage card in the finish that closes the set. aky CG Works.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Squirtle, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Bubble is 10 for a Water. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack for a single Water: the SM9b Squirtle, reprinted. tetsuya koizumi.
Ability Solid Shell
Wartortle, 70 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Aqua Slash is 60 for two Water; the Ability Solid Shell — this Pokémon takes 20 less damage from attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 70 HP on a Stage 1 with the 20-point shield: the SM9b Wartortle, unchanged. Hiroki Asanuma.
Ability Powerful Squall
Blastoise, 160 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Hydro Tackle is 150 for three Water; the Ability Powerful Squall — once during your turn (before your attack), you may look at the top 6 cards of your deck and attach any number of Water Energy cards you find there to your Pokémon in any way you like. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches Water Energy from the top six cards of the deck — the new Blastoise, and the pack’s strongest Water accelerator. Hitoshi Ariga.
Ability Secret Alleyway
Alolan Vulpix, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 20 for two Colourless; the Ability Secret Alleyway — if you have any Fairy Pokémon in play, this Pokémon has no Retreat Cost. 60 HP on a Basic whose Ability makes it free to retreat while a Fairy Pokémon is in play: the new Alolan Vulpix, and a reprint in all but name. Naoyo Kimura.
Ability Vitality Cheer
Vaporeon, 110 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Refreshing Rain is 60 for a Water and two Colourless; the Ability Vitality Cheer — your Pokémon-GX in play that evolve from Eevee get +60 HP. 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability gives every Eevee-evolving Pokémon-GX 60 more HP — the second of the pack’s Eevee support trio. sui.
Ability Blizzard Veil
Articuno, 110 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Cold Cyclone is 70 for two Water; the Ability Blizzard Veil — as long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, whenever your opponent plays a Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to your Benched Water Pokémon. 110 HP on a Basic whose Ability protects your Benched Water Pokémon from Supporters while it is Active — the new Articuno. Yusuke Ohmura.
White Kyurem, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — Field Crush is 30 for two Colourless, and Freezing Flames is 80 and climbs for two Water and a Colourless. 130 HP with a 30-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up that climbs: one of the pack’s few entirely new Water cards. Hitoshi Ariga.
Ability Pure Heart
Keldeo-GX, 170 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Sonic Edge is 110 for two Water and a Colourless, and Resolute Blade GX is 50 per heads on a coin flip for two Water and a Colourless; the Ability Pure Heart — prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to this Pokémon by your opponent’s Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX. 170 HP on a Basic GX with an Ability that blanks every effect of the opponent’s GX attacks: the SM10b Keldeo-GX, unchanged. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Jet Geyser
Volcanion ◇, 160 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Sauna Blast is 100 for three Water; the Ability Jet Geyser — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Water Energy card from your hand. 160 HP on a Prism Star with a 100-damage attack and an Ability that trades a Water Energy for a forced switch — the pack’s only Prism Star with an Ability. Naoki Saito.
Ability Meet Up
Wishiwashi, 30 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Water Gun is 20 for a Water; the Ability Meet Up — your Wishiwashi-GX in play get +20 HP, and their attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 30 HP on a Basic whose Ability gives every Wishiwashi-GX 20 more HP and 20 more damage — the cheapest support card in the pack, and the one 39 was printed for. Kouki Saitou.
Wishiwashi-GX, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — School Storm is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Water and a Colourless, and Massive Catch GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic GX with a 20-damage attack that repeats per Wishiwashi on your Bench: the pack’s only GX that wants a crowd. sadaji.
Tapu Fini, 120 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Razor Fin is 20 for a Water, and Nature Wave is 100 for two Water and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack and a 100-damage follow-up: the SM10b Tapu Fini, back. Hasuno.
Wishiwashi-GX, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — School Storm is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Water and a Colourless, and Massive Catch GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The full-art printing of 039, by the same artist as the regular card. sadaji.
Wishiwashi-GX, 130 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — School Storm is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Water and a Colourless, and Massive Catch GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 039, the pack’s smallest GX in its highest regular finish. sadaji.
13 cards · listed in original order.
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX, 240 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 3 — Full Blitz is 150 for three Lightning, and Tag Bolt GX is 200 for three Lightning. 240 HP on a Lightning Basic with a 150-damage attack and a 200-damage GX attack for three Energy — one of the pack’s few new Tag Teams, and its cheapest to fuel. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Speed Cheer
Jolteon, 100 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Head Bolt is 70 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Speed Cheer — the attacks of your Pokémon-GX in play that evolve from Eevee cost Colorless less. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability cuts a Colourless off every Eevee-evolving Pokémon-GX attack — the third of the pack’s Eevee support trio. Uta.
Zapdos, 110 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Thunderous Assault is 10 and climbs for a Lightning. 110 HP on a Basic with a 10-damage attack that climbs: one of the pack’s new Lightning cards, and the only one whose attack name is still recorded in Japanese. Misa Tsutsui.
Raikou, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Lost Voltage is 30 and climbs for a Lightning and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack that climbs: the new Raikou, and the pack’s cheapest Lightning scaling card. nagimiso.
Blitzle, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Flop is 10 for a Lightning, and Zap Kick is 20 for a Lightning and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the start of the pack’s new Zebstrika line. Miki Tanaka.
Ability Sprint
Zebstrika, 110 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Head Bolt is 60 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Sprint — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard your hand and draw 4 cards. 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability discards your hand to draw four — the pack’s cheapest way to fix a hand, and the card that makes the line worth playing. Misa Tsutsui.
Stunfisk, 110 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 3 — Raging Thunder is 30 for a Colourless, and Electric Trap is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 110 HP with a 30-damage attack and a 30-damage attack that repeats per heads: the SM10 Stunfisk, reprinted. sowsow.
Ability Dedechange
Dedenne-GX, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Static Shock is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tingly Return GX is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dedechange — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 6 cards. 160 HP on a Basic GX whose Ability discards your hand and draws six when it arrives — the SM9a Dedenne-GX, and the most-played card in the pack. PLANETA Igarashi.
Ability Dance of the Ancients
Tapu Koko ◇, 130 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Mach Bolt is 120 for two Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dance of the Ancients — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is on your Bench, you may choose 2 of your Benched Pokémon and attach a Lightning Energy card from your discard pile to each of them. 130 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability attaches Lightning Energy from the discard pile to two Benched Pokémon — the pack’s best Prism Star. Kouki Saitou.
Zeraora, 120 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Crushing Claw is 20 for a Lightning, and Discharge is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Lightning and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack and a 50-damage attack that repeats per heads: the SM9a Zeraora, back. kawayoo.
Ability Thunderclap Zone
Zeraora-GX, 190 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Plasma Fists is 160 for two Lightning and a Colourless, and Full Voltage GX has no printed damage for a Lightning; the Ability Thunderclap Zone — each of your Pokémon that has any Lightning Energy attached to it has no Retreat Cost. 190 HP on a Basic GX whose Ability makes every Pokémon with Lightning Energy free to retreat — the pack’s only new Lightning GX. PLANETA Otani.
Ability Dedechange
Dedenne-GX, 160 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Static Shock is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tingly Return GX is 50 for a Lightning and a Colourless; the Ability Dedechange — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard your hand and draw 6 cards. The full-art printing of 048, and the only version of the pack’s most-played card drawn as a portrait rather than a scene. kanahei.
Pikachu & Zekrom-GX, 240 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 3 — Full Blitz is 150 for three Lightning, and Tag Bolt GX is 200 for three Lightning. The gold printing of 041, the pack’s 240 HP Tag Team in the highest finish. 5ban Graphics.
24 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. 270 HP on a Psychic Basic whose Ability copies any attack from a Pokémon-GX on your Bench or in the discard pile — the SM11 headline card, and the pack’s most open-ended card. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Trevenant & Dusknoir-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — ナイトウォッチャー is 150 for three Psychic, and ペイルムーンGX has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. 270 HP on a Psychic Basic with a 150-damage attack for three Psychic and a GX attack for a Psychic and a Colourless — one of the pack’s new Tag Teams. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Mind Report
Mewtwo, 120 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Psyshock is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Mind Report — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may put a Supporter card from your discard pile on top of your deck. 120 HP on a Basic with an Ability that recycles a Supporter onto the top of the deck: the SM10 Mewtwo, unchanged. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Bench Barrier
Mew, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psypower has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Bench Barrier — prevent all damage done to your Benched Pokémon by attacks. 60 HP on a Basic whose Ability blanks all damage to your Bench: the SM10 Mew, and the cheapest defensive Ability in the pack. sui.
Natu, 40 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Lost March is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 40 HP with a 20-damage attack that repeats per card in the Lost Zone: the SM11b Natu, back, and the cheapest body in the pack. Anesaki Dynamic.
Ability Distortion Door
Giratina, 130 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Shadow Impact is 130 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Distortion Door — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is in your discard pile, you may put it onto your Bench. 130 HP on a Basic whose Ability brings it back from the discard pile and drops two damage counters on the Bench — the SM10a Giratina, and the pack’s only card that plays itself from the discard pile. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Chaotic Star
Giratina ◇, 160 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Crisis Dive is 160 for four Psychic; the Ability Chaotic Star — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may attach 2 Psychic Energy cards from your hand to it. 160 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability attaches two Psychic Energy when it arrives, with a 160-damage attack for four — the pack’s biggest Prism Star. Masakazu Fukuda.
Espurr, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ear Kinesis has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack: the SM10 Espurr, reprinted. HYOGONOSUKE.
Meowstic, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Perplexing Eyes is 70 for a Psychic and two Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with the Caturday attack and a 70-damage follow-up: the SM10 Meowstic, back. Saya Tsuruta.
Inkay, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Hypnosis has no printed damage for a Psychic. 60 HP with a Sleep attack for a single Psychic: the SM9a Inkay, reprinted. sowsow.
Ability サイコリチャージ
Malamar, 90 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Psychic Sphere is 60 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability サイコリチャージ. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack and an Ability that is still recorded in Japanese — the SM9a Malamar, and one of the most-played cards of the year. You Iribi.
Ability Shadow Box
Mimikyu, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Tail Trickery is 20 for two Colourless; the Ability Shadow Box — pokémon-GX that have any damage counters on them (both yours and your opponent’s) have no Abilities. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability switches off every Ability on a damaged Pokémon-GX — the SM11b Mimikyu, and the pack’s cheapest answer to the Tag Teams beside it. Yuka Morii.
Ability Resetting Hole
Marshadow, 80 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Red Knuckles is 10 and climbs for a Colourless; the Ability Resetting Hole — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is on your Bench, you may discard any Stadium card in play. 80 HP on a Basic whose Ability discards itself and any Stadium in play — the SM9a Marshadow, unchanged. chibi.
Poipole, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Eye Opener has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Peck is 20 for two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that looks at the opponent’s hand and a 20-damage follow-up: the SM10b Poipole, back. Hitoshi Ariga.
Ability Charging Up
Naganadel, 130 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Turning Point is 80 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Charging Up — once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon. 130 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability attaches a basic Energy from the discard pile every turn — the SM10b Naganadel, and the pack’s cheapest accelerator. Shin Nagasawa.
Espeon & Deoxys-GX, 260 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Psychic Club is 10 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Cross Division GX has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. The first of two full-art printings of Espeon & Deoxys-GX, a Tag Team whose only printings in this pack are the full arts. 5ban Graphics.
Espeon & Deoxys-GX, 260 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Psychic Club is 10 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Cross Division GX has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. The second full-art printing of Espeon & Deoxys-GX, hand-drawn, and the only version where the two are given separate light. Hasuno.
Trevenant & Dusknoir-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — ナイトウォッチャー is 150 for three Psychic, and ペイルムーンGX has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 053. The first of two full-art printings of 053, rendered, with both Ghost-types filling the frame. 5ban Graphics.
Trevenant & Dusknoir-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — ナイトウォッチャー is 150 for three Psychic, and ペイルムーンGX has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. The second full-art printing of 053, and the only version drawn as a single continuous image rather than a composition of two figures. PLANETA Tsuji.
Ability Psychic Zone
Jirachi-GX, 160 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Star Search has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Star Shield GX is 100 for three Psychic; the Ability Psychic Zone — don’t apply Psychic Weakness when Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) take damage from attacks. The full-art printing of Jirachi-GX, a GX whose only printing in this pack is the full art. 5ban Graphics.
Espeon & Deoxys-GX, 260 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — Psychic Club is 10 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless, and Cross Division GX has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless. The rainbow printing of Espeon & Deoxys-GX, and the only rainbow in the pack on a card that was never printed at a lower finish here. 5ban Graphics.
Trevenant & Dusknoir-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — ナイトウォッチャー is 150 for three Psychic, and ペイルムーンGX has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 053, the pack’s new Psychic Tag Team in the finish. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Psychic Zone
Jirachi-GX, 160 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Star Search has no printed damage for a Psychic, and Star Shield GX is 100 for three Psychic; the Ability Psychic Zone — don’t apply Psychic Weakness when Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) take damage from attacks. The rainbow printing of Jirachi-GX, the only rainbow on a GX whose only other print is a full art. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Perfection
Mewtwo & Mew-GX, 270 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Miraculous Duo GX is 200 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Perfection — this Pokémon can use the attacks of any Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX on your Bench or in your discard pile. The gold printing of 052, the pack’s most open-ended card in its highest finish. 5ban Graphics.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Marshadow & Machamp-GX, 270 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Revenge is 30 and climbs for a Fighting and a Colourless, Hundred-Blows Impact is 160 for two Fighting and a Colourless, and Acme of Heroism GX is 200 for two Fighting and a Colourless. 270 HP on a Fighting Basic with a 160-damage attack and a 200-damage GX attack: the SM10 Tag Team, unchanged. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Bratty Kick
Tyrogue, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Bratty Kick — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability drops three damage counters anywhere on the opponent’s side and ends your turn — the SM10 Tyrogue, reprinted. Mina Nakai.
Landorus, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Power Cyclone is 60 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with an attack that hits any target and a 60-damage follow-up: the SM10 Landorus, back. Hasuno.
Ability Princess’s Cheers
Diancie ◇, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Diamond Rain is 90 for three Fighting; the Ability Princess’s Cheers — as long as this Pokémon is on your Bench, your Fighting Pokémon’s attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 120 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability adds 20 damage to every Fighting attack you make from the Bench — the pack’s cheapest support Prism Star. kawayoo.
Ability Wall of Stone
Stakataka, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 4 — one attack, Top Down is 110 for two Fighting and a Colourless; the Ability Wall of Stone — if your opponent has 3 or fewer Prize cards remaining, this Pokémon’s maximum HP is 200. 120 HP that becomes 200 once the opponent is down to three Prizes: the SM9b Stakataka, reprinted. Hiroki Asanuma.
17 cards · listed in original order.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. 250 HP on a Darkness Basic with a 30-damage attack that climbs and a GX attack for two Energy: the SM9a Tag Team, back in print. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Sneasel, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Slash is 30 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 30-damage attack for two: the SM11b Sneasel, reprinted. sui.
Weavile, 90 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Icy Wind is 10 for a Colourless, and Evil Admonition is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Darkness. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage attack that repeats per heads: the SM11b Weavile, unchanged. Misa Tsutsui.
Ability Dark Ambition
Absol, 100 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Shadow Seeker is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and two Colourless; the Ability Dark Ambition — if your opponent’s Active Pokémon is a Basic Pokémon, its Retreat Cost is Colorless more. 100 HP on a Basic whose Ability makes the opponent’s Basic Active Pokémon pay a Colourless to retreat — the SM11a Absol, back. nagimiso.
Ability Building Spite
Spiritomb, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Anguish Cry is 10 and climbs for a Darkness; the Ability Building Spite — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put 1 damage counter on this Pokémon. 60 HP on a Basic whose Ability damages itself every turn — the SM10 Spiritomb, reprinted. Kagemaru Himeno.
Ability Nightmare Star
Darkrai ◇, 160 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Abyssal Sleep is 120 for four Darkness; the Ability Nightmare Star — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may attach 2 Darkness Energy cards from your hand to it. 160 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability attaches two Darkness Energy when it arrives, with a 120-damage attack for four — the pack’s most expensive Prism Star to use. Naoki Saito.
Zorua, 60 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Hide in Shadows has no printed damage for a Darkness. 60 HP with an attack that hides it from harm for a single Darkness: the start of the pack’s new Zoroark line. Naoyo Kimura.
Zoroark, 110 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Taunt has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Night Punishment is 20 per heads on a coin flip for a Darkness and two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 20-damage attack that repeats per cards in hand — the pack’s only new Zoroark. Masakazu Fukuda.
Yveltal, 110 HP, Darkness, Basic, no retreat cost — Derail is 30 for a Darkness, and Clutch is 60 for two Darkness. 110 HP on a Basic with a 30-damage attack and a 60-damage follow-up: the SM11 Yveltal, reprinted at a lower HP than the year’s earlier print. Misa Tsutsui.
Hoopa, 130 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Evil Admonition is 10 and climbs for a Colourless, and Mind Shock is 80 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Basic with a 10-damage attack that climbs and an 80-damage follow-up: the SM10a Hoopa, back. Ayaka Yoshida.
Ability Scar Charge
Incineroar-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Stage 2, retreat 3 — Crushing Punch is 130 for three Colourless, and Darkest Tornado GX is 10 and climbs for three Colourless; the Ability Scar Charge — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put 3 damage counters on this Pokémon. 250 HP on a Darkness Stage 2 GX whose Ability puts three damage counters on itself to search three Darkness Energy — the pack’s only Stage 2 GX that pays in HP. 5ban Graphics.
Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, 270 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Black Lance is 150 for two Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Moon GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The first of two full-art printings of Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, and one of the pack’s nine new Tag Teams. 5ban Graphics.
Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, 270 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Black Lance is 150 for two Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Moon GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The second full-art printing of Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, hand-drawn: the only version where the moon is painted rather than rendered. so-taro.
Ability Shadow Connection
Weavile-GX, 200 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Claw Slash is 130 for two Darkness and a Colourless, and Nocturnal Maneuvers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Shadow Connection — as often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move a basic Darkness Energy from 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. The full-art printing of Weavile-GX, the pack’s only Stage 1 GX, and the only version of the card that exists here. aky CG Works.
Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, 270 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Black Lance is 150 for two Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Moon GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of Umbreon & Darkrai-GX, and the only rainbow in the pack on a Darkness Tag Team. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Shadow Connection
Weavile-GX, 200 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Claw Slash is 130 for two Darkness and a Colourless, and Nocturnal Maneuvers GX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability Shadow Connection — as often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may move a basic Darkness Energy from 1 of your Pokémon to another of your Pokémon. The rainbow printing of Weavile-GX, the pack’s only Stage 1 GX in the finish. aky CG Works.
Greninja & Zoroark-GX, 250 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Dark Pulse is 30 and climbs for a Darkness and a Colourless, and Dark Union GX has no printed damage for a Darkness and a Colourless. The gold printing of 072, and the only gold card here on a Tag Team from the year’s first set. 5ban Graphics.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 260 HP on a Metal Basic with a 150-damage attack and the GX attack the year’s February pack was named after: the SM9b Tag Team, unchanged. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Alolan Diglett, 50 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ram is 10. 50 HP with a 10-damage attack that costs nothing: the SM9b Alolan Diglett, reprinted. Atsuko Nishida.
Ability Hair Wall
Alolan Dugtrio, 80 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Hammer In is 40 for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Hair Wall — your Metal Pokémon take 10 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). 80 HP on a Stage 1 with the Ability that cuts 10 damage off every Metal Pokémon you have: the SM9b Alolan Dugtrio, back. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Magnemite, 60 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Searching Magnet has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tackle is 10 for a Metal. 60 HP with a search attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the SM10b Magnemite, reprinted. MAHOU.
Magneton, 90 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Ram is 20 for a Metal, and Zap Cannon is 80 for two Metal and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up: the SM10b Magneton, back. kirisAki.
Ability マグネサーキット
Magnezone, 150 HP, Metal, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Zap Cannon is 130 for three Metal and a Colourless; the Ability マグネサーキット. 150 HP on a Stage 2 with a 130-damage attack and an Ability whose name is still recorded in Japanese — the SM10b Magnezone, and the only Stage 2 here that changes its own type. Yoshinobu Saito.
Ability Captivating Wink
Mawile-GX, 170 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Wily Bite is 10 and climbs for a Metal and a Colourless, and Big Eater GX has no printed damage for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Captivating Wink — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may have your opponent reveal their hand and put any number of Basic Pokémon you find there onto their Bench. 170 HP on a Basic GX whose Ability fills the opponent’s Bench for them — the SM10a Mawile-GX, unchanged. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Stellar Wish
Jirachi, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Slap is 30 for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Stellar Wish — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may look at the top 5 cards of your deck, reveal a Trainer card you find there, and put it into your hand. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability looks at the top five cards for a Trainer every turn — the pack’s most-played new card, and the reason its Item count is so high. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Wish Upon a Star
Jirachi ◇, 80 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Perish Dream is 10 for three Colourless; the Ability Wish Upon a Star — if you took this Pokémon as a face-down Prize card during your turn and your Bench isn’t full, before you put it into your hand, you may put it onto your Bench and take 1 more Prize card. 80 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability lets it come off a Prize card and take another — the pack’s strangest Prism Star, and its cheapest. Kouki Saitou.
Meltan, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Steel Melt is 10 and climbs for a Metal. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack that climbs: the SM9b Meltan, reprinted. Kouki Saitou.
Ability Metal Eater
Melmetal, 150 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 4 — one attack, Heavy Impact is 130 for a Metal and three Colourless; the Ability Metal Eater — once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Metal Pokémon from your hand. 150 HP on a Stage 1 that heals 100 damage a turn by discarding a Metal Pokémon: the SM9b Melmetal, back. TOKIYA.
Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The full-art printing of Melmetal-GX, rendered, and the only Metal Tag Team in the pack. sadaji.
Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The rainbow printing of Melmetal-GX, the pack’s only Metal Tag Team in the finish. sadaji.
Lucario & Melmetal-GX, 260 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — Steel Fist is 50 for two Colourless, Heavy Impact is 150 for two Metal and two Colourless, and Full Metal Wall GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The gold printing of 083, the Metal Tag Team that gave the February pack its name. 5ban Graphics.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. 270 HP on a Dragon Basic with a 160-damage attack and a GX attack that discards the opponent’s hand: the SM10a Tag Team, unchanged. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Stormy Winds
Rayquaza-GX, 180 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Dragon Break is 30 per heads on a coin flip for a Grass, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Tempest GX has no printed damage for a Grass; the Ability Stormy Winds — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard the top 3 cards of your deck. 180 HP on a Dragon Basic GX whose Ability discards the top three cards to attach Energy — the pack’s only new Dragon GX. 5ban Graphics.
Ultra Necrozma-GX, 190 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 2 — Photon Geyser is 20 and climbs for a Psychic and a Metal, and Sky-Scorching Light GX has no printed damage for a Psychic and a Metal. 190 HP on a Dragon Basic GX with a 20-damage attack that climbs and a GX attack for a Psychic and a Metal — the pack’s only GX that needs two types to fire. PLANETA Otani.
Garchomp & Giratina-GX, 270 HP, Dragon, Basic, retreat 3 — Linear Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, Calamitous Slash is 160 and climbs for a Psychic, a Fighting and a Colourless, and GG End GX has no printed damage for two Psychic and a Fighting. The gold printing of 099, and the only gold card in the pack whose GX attack discards the opponent’s hand. aky CG Works.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX, 240 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Rolling Panic is 120 and climbs for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Supreme Puff GX has no printed damage for two Fairy. 240 HP on a Fairy Basic with a 120-damage attack that climbs and a GX attack for two Fairy — the pack’s only three-name Tag Team, and its cheapest GX attack to use. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ability Mysterious Guidance
Alolan Ninetales-GX, 200 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Snowy Wind is 70 for a Fairy and a Colourless, and Sublimation GX has no printed damage for a Fairy and a Colourless; the Ability Mysterious Guidance — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 Item cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. 200 HP on a Fairy Stage 1 GX whose Ability searches two Items when it evolves — the pack’s only new Fairy GX. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Excitable Draw
Cleffa, 60 HP, Fairy, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Excitable Draw — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability shuffles your hand away and draws six on a coin flip, ending your turn — the SM10 Cleffa, reprinted. Shibuzoh..
Cottonee, 40 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Lost March is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 40 HP with a 20-damage attack that repeats per card in the Lost Zone: the cheapest body in the pack, and the SM10 Cottonee back in print. Pani Kobayashi.
Whimsicott, 70 HP, Fairy, Stage 1, no retreat cost — Sneaky Pocket has no printed damage for a Fairy, and Lost March is 20 per heads on a coin flip for two Colourless. 70 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a Lost Zone scaling attack: the SM11 Whimsicott, reprinted at a lower HP than the August print. Yumi.
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX, 240 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Rolling Panic is 120 and climbs for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Supreme Puff GX has no printed damage for two Fairy. The full-art printing of 094. The first of two full-art printings of 094, the pack’s only three-name Tag Team. 5ban Graphics.
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX, 240 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Rolling Panic is 120 and climbs for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Supreme Puff GX has no printed damage for two Fairy. The second full-art printing of 094, and the only version drawn entirely in a single line weight. 0313.
Togepi & Cleffa & Igglybuff-GX, 240 HP, Fairy, Basic, retreat 2 — Rolling Panic is 120 and climbs for two Fairy and a Colourless, and Supreme Puff GX has no printed damage for two Fairy. The rainbow printing of 094, and the only rainbow in the pack on a three-name card. 5ban Graphics.
20 cards · listed in original order.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. 300 HP on a single Basic with three names on it: the SM10b card, reprinted here as the tallest body in the pack. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Pidgey, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Collect has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Gust is 20 for two Colourless. 50 HP with a search attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the start of the pack’s new Pidgeotto line. Shigenori Negishi.
Ability Air Mail
Pidgeotto, 60 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Gust is 30 for two Colourless; the Ability Air Mail — once during your turn (before your attack), you may look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. 60 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability looks at the top two cards and takes one — the pack’s cheapest repeatable draw, and the card that made this line worth printing. Mizue.
Meowth, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tail Whap is 30 for two Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the SM10 Meowth, reprinted. Shibuzoh..
Ability Gathering of Cats
Persian, 100 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, no retreat cost — one attack, Claw Slash is 90 for three Colourless; the Ability Gathering of Cats — ignore all Energy in the attack costs of each of your Pokémon in play that has the Caturday attack. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability removes the Energy cost from every Caturday attack you have in play — the SM10 Persian, back. tetsuya koizumi.
Kangaskhan, 130 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — Fast Evolution has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Mega Punch is 80 for three Colourless. 130 HP with a setup attack and an 80-damage follow-up, both still recorded in Japanese: the SM10a Kangaskhan, reprinted. Mizue.
Ability Almighty Evolution
Ditto ◇, 40 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — the Ability Almighty Evolution — once during your turn (before your attack), you may put any Stage 1 card from your hand onto this Pokémon to evolve it. 40 HP on a Prism Star whose Ability evolves it with any Stage 1 from hand — the pack’s cheapest way to skip a stage, and its lowest HP. kirisAki.
Eevee, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Follow My Tail has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Tackle is 10 for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that searches a Pokémon and a 10-damage follow-up: the SM12 Eevee, reprinted at the centre of the pack’s Eevee line. Hasuno.
Porygon, 50 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Digicharge has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Sharp Point is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP with an Energy-attaching attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the SM10 Porygon, back. Ayaka Yoshida.
Porygon2, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Double Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Spinning Attack is 30 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that draws two cards: the SM10 Porygon2, unchanged. sowsow.
Ability Crazy Code
Porygon-Z, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Tantrum is 120 for three Colourless; the Ability Crazy Code — as often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Special Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. 130 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches any number of Special Energy from hand each turn — the SM10 Porygon-Z, and the card 170 was printed for. Misa Tsutsui.
Glameow, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Caturday has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Boing Boing Tail has no printed damage for three Colourless. 60 HP with the Caturday attack and a free follow-up: the SM9b Glameow, reprinted. sowsow.
Ability Snack Search
Munchlax, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, no retreat cost — the Ability Snack Search — once during your turn (before your attack), you may flip a coin. 60 HP and no attack: its Ability puts a card from the discard pile on top of the deck on a coin flip: the SM10a Munchlax, back. sowsow.
Ability Hearing
Audino, 90 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Drain Slap is 30 for two Colourless; the Ability Hearing — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, you may draw a card. 90 HP on a Basic whose Ability draws a card every turn while it is Active: the SM10b Audino, unchanged. sui.
Pikipek, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Send Back has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Peck is 20 for two Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that forces a switch and a 20-damage follow-up: the start of the pack’s new Trumbeak line. Suwama Chiaki.
Ability Mountain Pass
Trumbeak, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Peck is 30 for two Colourless; the Ability Mountain Pass — once during your turn (before your attack), if this Pokémon is in your hand, you may reveal it. 80 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability looks at the top of the opponent’s deck and sends itself to the Lost Zone — the only card in the pack that pays a cost in the Lost Zone for information. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability かくせいDNA
Eevee-GX, 160 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — ブーストダッシュ is 100 for three Colourless, and ハッピーメーカーGX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability かくせいDNA. The first of two full-art printings of Eevee-GX, and the centre of the pack’s Eevee line: three of its Supporters exist to serve this card. aky CG Works.
Ability かくせいDNA
Eevee-GX, 160 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — ブーストダッシュ is 100 for three Colourless, and ハッピーメーカーGX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability かくせいDNA. The second full-art printing of Eevee-GX, hand-drawn, and the only version where the three Eevee supports are hinted at in the background. Q-rais.
Ability かくせいDNA
Eevee-GX, 160 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — ブーストダッシュ is 100 for three Colourless, and ハッピーメーカーGX has no printed damage for a Colourless; the Ability かくせいDNA. The rainbow printing of Eevee-GX, the card the pack’s three Eevee Supporters were printed for, in the finish that closes the tier. aky CG Works.
Moltres & Zapdos & Articuno-GX, 300 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 3 — Trinity Burn is 210 for a Fire, a Water, a Lightning and a Colourless, and Sky Legends GX has no printed damage for a Colourless. The gold printing of 102: the tallest body in the pack in the finish that closes it, and the only 300 HP card printed in gold this year. 5ban Graphics.
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During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Electropower — During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). Thirty more damage for every Lightning attack this turn: the SM9a Electropower, reprinted here in its first art. Eske Yoshinob.
During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Electropower — During this turn, your Lightning Pokémon’s attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). The same card in a second printing, with different artwork — one of seven pairs in the pack where a single card is printed twice inside the numbered range. OOYAMA.
You may play 2 Custom Catcher cards at once. • If you played 1 card, draw cards until you have 3 cards in your hand. • If you played 2 cards, switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. (This effect works one time for 2 cards.)
Custom Catcher — You may play 2 Custom Catcher cards at once. • If you played 1 card, draw cards until you have 3 cards in your hand. • If you played 2 cards, switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon. (This effect works one time for 2 cards.). Draw to three cards, or play two at once to drag the opponent’s Benched Pokémon out: the pack’s only Item that gets better when you hold two. Toyste Beach.
Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card.
Acro Bike — Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card. Look at the top two and keep one: the SM11a Acro Bike, reprinted here. Toyste Beach.
Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card.
Acro Bike — Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Discard the other card. The second printing of the same card, with different artwork. OOYAMA.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Electromagnetic Radar — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard two to search two Lightning Pokémon-GX: the SM9a Electromagnetic Radar, back in print. Yoshinobu Saito.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Electromagnetic Radar — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for up to 2 in any combination of Lightning Pokémon-GX and Lightning Pokémon-EX, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The same card in its second art — one of the pack’s seven doubled Items. OOYAMA.
Search your deck for a Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Net Ball — Search your deck for a Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. A Basic Grass Pokémon or a Grass Energy out of the deck: the SM10b Net Ball, reprinted. Ryo Ueda.
You can play this card only if your opponent has exactly 3 or 4 Prize cards remaining. Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Ultra Beasts. Then, shuffle your deck.
Beast Ring — You can play this card only if your opponent has exactly 3 or 4 Prize cards remaining. Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Ultra Beasts. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Basic Energy onto an Ultra Beast, but only while the opponent sits on three or four Prizes: the SM9b Beast Ring, back. Toyste Beach.
Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Cherish Ball — Search your deck for a Pokémon-GX, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Any Pokémon-GX out of the deck for no cost: the SM11 Cherish Ball, reprinted and still the cheapest search in the pack. 5ban Graphics.
Search your deck for up to 2 Pokémon Tool cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Adventure Bag — Search your deck for up to 2 Pokémon Tool cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Tools out of the deck: the SM12 Adventure Bag, back. Yoshinobu Saito.
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Pokégear 3.0 — Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Look at the top seven for a Supporter: the SM9a Pokégear 3.0, reprinted. Studio Bora Inc..
Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.
Pokégear 3.0 — Look at the top 7 cards of your deck. Choose a Supporter card you find there, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. The same card in its second art. OOYAMA.
Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Communication — Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. Trade a Pokémon in hand for a Pokémon in the deck: the SM11a Pokémon Communication, back in print. Ayaka Yoshida.
Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Pokémon Communication — Choose 1 Pokémon in your hand, show it to your opponent, and put it on top of your deck. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. The same card in its second art. OOYAMA.
Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Fire Crystal — Put 3 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile into your hand. Three Fire Energy back from the discard pile: the SM10 Fire Crystal, reprinted. Yoshinobu Saito.
Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Mysterious Treasure — Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard a card to search any Psychic or Dragon Pokémon: the SM11 Mysterious Treasure, back. Eske Yoshinob.
Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Mysterious Treasure — Discard a card from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Psychic or Dragon Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The same card in its second art. OOYAMA.
Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards.
Reset Stamp — Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards. The opponent shuffles their hand away and draws one card per remaining Prize: the SM10a Reset Stamp, reprinted into the most-played Item of the format. sadaji.
Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards.
Reset Stamp — Your opponent shuffles their hand into their deck and draws a card for each of their remaining Prize cards. The same card in its second art. OOYAMA.
Put 2 cards from your hand in the Lost Zone. If you do, draw a card.
Lost Blender — Put 2 cards from your hand in the Lost Zone. If you do, draw a card. Two cards out of your hand and into the Lost Zone to draw one — the pack’s only card that uses the Lost Zone as a cost. 5ban Graphics.
If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Colorless less.
Counter Gain — If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Colorless less. A Tool that cuts a Colourless off every attack while you are behind on Prizes: the pack’s cheapest comeback. Toyste Beach.
If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less.
Karate Belt — If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost Fighting less. A Tool that cuts a Fighting off every attack while you are behind on Prizes: the SM10a Karate Belt, back. Yoshinobu Saito.
When the Psychic Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, put 4 damage counters on your opponent’s Pokémon in any way you like.
Spell Tag — When the Psychic Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, put 4 damage counters on your opponent’s Pokémon in any way you like. A Tool that puts four damage counters anywhere on the opponent’s side when the holder is Knocked Out — the pack’s best punishment for a trade. Ayaka Yoshida.
If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance).
Metal Core Barrier — If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of your opponent’s turn. The Metal Pokémon this card is attached to takes 70 less damage from your opponent’s attacks (after applying Weakness and Resistance). A Tool that cuts 70 damage off every attack for one turn: the SM9b Metal Core Barrier, reprinted. Studio Bora Inc..
The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
U-Turn Board — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is Colorless less. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. A Tool that cuts the Retreat Cost to nothing and returns to the hand when it is discarded: the SM10b U-Turn Board, back. sadaji.
You can’t play this card if you don’t have any Water or Metal Pokémon in play. Your opponent chooses 2 Benched Pokémon and shuffles the others, and all cards attached to them, into their deck.
Cyrus ◇ — You can’t play this card if you don’t have any Water or Metal Pokémon in play. Your opponent chooses 2 Benched Pokémon and shuffles the others, and all cards attached to them, into their deck. A Prism Star Supporter that leaves the opponent two Benched Pokémon and shuffles the rest away — the only Supporter in the pack with a Prism Star rule. Masakazu Fukuda.
Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon with 60 HP or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Professor Elm’s Lecture — Search your deck for up to 3 Pokémon with 60 HP or less, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Up to three Pokémon with 60 HP or less out of the deck: the SM12 Professor Elm’s Lecture, reprinted. Hideki Ishikawa.
You can play this card only if you have 4 or fewer other cards in your hand. Draw a card for each of your opponent’s Pokémon in play.
Erika’s Hospitality — You can play this card only if you have 4 or fewer other cards in your hand. Draw a card for each of your opponent’s Pokémon in play. Draw a card for each Pokémon the opponent has in play, provided your hand is small: the pack’s only new draw Supporter. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Search your deck for up to 3 Water Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 5 other cards from your hand. If you do, during this turn, your Water Pokémon can use their GX attacks even if you have used your GX attack.
Misty & Lorelei — Search your deck for up to 3 Water Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 5 other cards from your hand. If you do, during this turn, your Water Pokémon can use their GX attacks even if you have used your GX attack. Three Water Energy out of the deck, or that plus permission to use GX attacks for five discarded cards — the pack’s only Supporter that unlocks a GX attack twice. Megumi Mizutani.
You can play this card only if 1 of your Fairy Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Put 2 cards from your discard pile into your hand.
Diantha — You can play this card only if 1 of your Fairy Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Put 2 cards from your discard pile into your hand. Two cards back from the discard pile, provided one of your Fairy Pokémon was Knocked Out last turn: the pack’s cheapest recovery. Ken Sugimori.
You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card.
Sightseer — You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card. Discard any number of cards and draw to five: the SM11 Sightseer, back. Naoki Saito.
Choose a Pokémon Tool or Special Energy card attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon, or any Stadium card in play, and put it in the Lost Zone.
Faba — Choose a Pokémon Tool or Special Energy card attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon, or any Stadium card in play, and put it in the Lost Zone. Put a Tool, a Special Energy or a Stadium into the Lost Zone: the pack’s only card that removes something from the game entirely. take.
Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them.
Giovanni’s Exile — Discard up to 2 of your Benched Pokémon that have no damage counters on them and all cards attached to them. Discard up to two of your own undamaged Benched Pokémon: the SM10 Giovanni’s Exile, reprinted. Megumi Mizutani.
Discard 3 cards from the top of each player’s deck. When you play this card, you may discard 3 other cards from your hand. If you do, each player discards their Benched Pokémon until they have 3 Benched Pokémon. Your opponent discards first.
Bellelba & Brycen-Man — Discard 3 cards from the top of each player’s deck. When you play this card, you may discard 3 other cards from your hand. If you do, each player discards their Benched Pokémon until they have 3 Benched Pokémon. Your opponent discards first. Three cards off the top of each player’s deck, or that plus a Bench cut for three discarded cards — the pack’s only Supporter that hits both players. Hideki Ishikawa.
Search your deck for an Item card and a Lightning Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Volkner — Search your deck for an Item card and a Lightning Energy card, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. An Item and a Lightning Energy in one card: the pack’s cheapest way to set up a Lightning turn. Ken Sugimori.
You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Green’s Exploration — You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Trainers out of the deck when you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play: the SM9b Green’s Exploration, back. Naoki Saito.
You can play this card only if 1 of your Psychic Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Your opponent reveals their hand. Choose 2 cards you find there. Your opponent shuffles those cards into their deck.
Morty — You can play this card only if 1 of your Psychic Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent’s last turn. Your opponent reveals their hand. Choose 2 cards you find there. Your opponent shuffles those cards into their deck. The opponent reveals their hand and shuffles two cards back, provided one of your Psychic Pokémon was Knocked Out last turn — the pack’s cheapest hand attack. Ken Sugimori.
Search your deck for a Fairy Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck.
Mina — Search your deck for a Fairy Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. A Fairy Energy out of the deck and straight onto a Pokémon: the pack’s cheapest acceleration. Ken Sugimori.
Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Welder — Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards. Attach two Fire Energy and draw three: the SM10 Welder, reprinted into the format’s most important Supporter. Hitoshi Ariga.
Search your deck for up to 2 ◇ (Prism Star) cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Lisia — Search your deck for up to 2 ◇ (Prism Star) cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Two Prism Star cards out of the deck in one Supporter — the only card printed that searches the seventeen Prism Stars in this pack. Megumi Mizutani.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Red’s Challenge — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Discard two cards to search anything: the SM10 Red’s Challenge, back. Megumi Mizutani.
Between turns, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX (both yours and your opponent’s).
Shrine of Punishment — Between turns, put 1 damage counter on each Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX (both yours and your opponent’s). The Stadium that puts a damage counter on every Pokémon-GX and Pokémon-EX between turns, printed here at regular rarity after appearing only in gold in SM10. 5ban Graphics.
The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead.
Martial Arts Dojo — The attacks of non-Ultra Beast Pokémon that have any basic Fighting Energy attached to them (both yours and your opponent’s) do 10 more damage to the opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). If the attacking player has more Prize cards remaining than their opponent, those attacks do 40 more damage instead. The Stadium that adds 10 damage to non-Ultra Beast attacks, or 40 when the attacker is behind on Prizes: the SM10 Martial Arts Dojo, reprinted. 5ban Graphics.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck.
Giant Hearth — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for up to 2 Fire Energy cards, reveals them, and puts them into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck. A Stadium that trades a card for two Fire Energy every turn: the SM10a Giant Hearth, back. 5ban Graphics.
The attacks of Lightning Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) cost Lightning less. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card.
Thunder Mountain ◇ — The attacks of Lightning Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) cost Lightning less. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card. A Prism Star Stadium that makes every Lightning attack cost one less, and that ignores Item and Supporter effects — the pack’s best Prism Star for a fast deck. 5ban Graphics.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may put 2 Metal Energy cards from their discard pile into their hand.
Mt. Coronet — Once during each player’s turn, that player may put 2 Metal Energy cards from their discard pile into their hand. The Stadium that puts two Metal Energy back into the hand every turn, printed here at regular rarity after appearing only in gold in SM9b. Ryo Ueda.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for a basic Energy card, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck.
Viridian Forest — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a card from their hand. If they do, that player searches their deck for a basic Energy card, reveals it, and puts it into their hand. Then, that player shuffles their deck. The Stadium that trades a card for a Basic Energy every turn, printed here at regular rarity after appearing only in gold in SM10b. 5ban Graphics.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a Fire Energy card from their hand. If they do, they draw 3 cards. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card.
Heat Factory ◇ — Once during each player’s turn, that player may discard a Fire Energy card from their hand. If they do, they draw 3 cards. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card. A Prism Star Stadium that trades a Fire Energy for three cards every turn, and that ignores Item and Supporter effects — the pack’s strongest draw engine. 5ban Graphics.
When a Darkness Pokémon (yours or your opponent’s) that has any Darkness Energy attached to it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card.
Black Market ◇ — When a Darkness Pokémon (yours or your opponent’s) that has any Darkness Energy attached to it is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, that player takes 1 fewer Prize card. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card. A Prism Star Stadium that takes a Prize off the opponent when a Darkness Pokémon falls holding Darkness Energy — the pack’s only defensive Prism Star. 5ban Graphics.
Once during each player’s turn, that player may heal 60 damage and remove all Special Conditions from 1 of their Grass Pokémon. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card.
Life Forest ◇ — Once during each player’s turn, that player may heal 60 damage and remove all Special Conditions from 1 of their Grass Pokémon. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card. A Prism Star Stadium that heals 60 and clears every Special Condition from a Grass Pokémon every turn. 5ban Graphics.
The attacks of non-Fairy Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) cost Colorless more. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card.
Wondrous Labyrinth ◇ — The attacks of non-Fairy Pokémon (both yours and your opponent’s) cost Colorless more. Whenever any player plays an Item or Supporter card from their hand, prevent all effects of that card done to this Stadium card. A Prism Star Stadium that makes every non-Fairy attack cost a Colourless more — the pack’s only taxing Stadium. 5ban Graphics.
This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile.
Recycle Energy — This card provides Colorless Energy. If this card is discarded from play, put it into your hand instead of the discard pile. A Special Energy that returns to the hand whenever it is discarded: the SM10b Recycle Energy, reprinted.
The next time you flip any number of coins for the effect of an attack, Ability, or Trainer card this turn, choose heads or tails for the first coin flip.
Will — The next time you flip any number of coins for the effect of an attack, Ability, or Trainer card this turn, choose heads or tails for the first coin flip. A Supporter promoted to full art, and the only version of the card printed in this pack. Kazuma Koda.
You can play this card only if you have 4 or fewer other cards in your hand. Draw a card for each of your opponent’s Pokémon in play.
Erika’s Hospitality — You can play this card only if you have 4 or fewer other cards in your hand. Draw a card for each of your opponent’s Pokémon in play. The full-art printing of 146, the pack’s new draw Supporter in its rarest regular finish. kodama.
Search your deck for up to 3 Water Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 5 other cards from your hand. If you do, during this turn, your Water Pokémon can use their GX attacks even if you have used your GX attack.
Misty & Lorelei — Search your deck for up to 3 Water Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. When you play this card, you may discard 5 other cards from your hand. If you do, during this turn, your Water Pokémon can use their GX attacks even if you have used your GX attack. The full-art printing of 147, and the only full art in the pack drawn by an artist who also worked on its Tag Team GXs. Ryuta Fuse.
You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card.
Sightseer — You may discard any number of cards from your hand. Then, draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. If you can’t draw any cards in this way, you can’t play this card. The full-art printing of 149, by a different artist from the regular card. Naoki Saito.
At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand.
Blue’s Tactics — At the end of this turn, draw cards until you have 8 cards in your hand. The full-art printing of the SM11 Blue’s Tactics, a Supporter that delays its own draw until the end of the turn. TOKIYA.
Discard 3 cards from the top of each player’s deck. When you play this card, you may discard 3 other cards from your hand. If you do, each player discards their Benched Pokémon until they have 3 Benched Pokémon. Your opponent discards first.
Bellelba & Brycen-Man — Discard 3 cards from the top of each player’s deck. When you play this card, you may discard 3 other cards from your hand. If you do, each player discards their Benched Pokémon until they have 3 Benched Pokémon. Your opponent discards first. The full-art printing of 152, and the only full art in the pack whose subject is a pair of villains. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Look at the top 6 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Discard the other cards.
Hapu — Look at the top 6 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Discard the other cards. A Supporter promoted to full art: the only version of the card printed in this pack. Ryota Murayama.
You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Green’s Exploration — You can play this card only if you have no Pokémon with Abilities in play. Search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 154, and the only version of Green’s Exploration drawn rather than rendered. TOKIYA.
Discard up to 2 Pokémon that aren’t Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX from your hand. Draw 3 cards for each card you discarded in this way.
Roxie — Discard up to 2 Pokémon that aren’t Pokémon-GX or Pokémon-EX from your hand. Draw 3 cards for each card you discarded in this way. The full-art printing of the SM11b Roxie, the Supporter that pays for 021 and 022 in the August set. Jumpei Akasaka.
Search your deck for a Fairy Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck.
Mina — Search your deck for a Fairy Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 156, and the only full art in the pack whose subject is a single Energy attachment. Sanosuke Sakuma.
Discard the top 7 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are Item cards, put them into your hand.
Clay — Discard the top 7 cards of your deck. If any of those cards are Item cards, put them into your hand. The full-art printing of the SM11b Clay, the Supporter that mills seven cards for Items. Hideki Ishikawa.
Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.
Welder — Attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards. The full-art printing of 157, by the same artist as the regular card — the pack’s best Supporter in its rarest regular finish. Hitoshi Ariga.
You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Red’s Challenge — You can play this card only if you discard 2 other cards from your hand. Search your deck for a card and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. The full-art printing of 159, and the last of the pack’s thirteen Supporter full arts. TOKIYA.
12 cards · listed in original order.
This card provides Colorless Energy. While this card is attached to a Stage 2 Pokémon, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time. If you have 3 or more Stage 2 Pokémon in play, it provides every type of Energy but provides 4 Energy at a time.
Super Boost Energy ◇ — This card provides Colorless Energy. While this card is attached to a Stage 2 Pokémon, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time. If you have 3 or more Stage 2 Pokémon in play, it provides every type of Energy but provides 4 Energy at a time. A Prism Star Energy that provides every type at once, and four at once behind three Stage 2 Pokémon — the pack’s only Energy that scales.
This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card.
Triple Acceleration Energy — This card can only be attached to Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to 1 of your Pokémon, discard it at the end of the turn. This card provides ColorlessColorlessColorless Energy only while it is attached to an Evolution Pokémon. If this card is attached to anything other than an Evolution Pokémon, discard this card. Three Colourless Energy on an Evolution Pokémon, discarded at the end of the turn: the SM10 Triple Acceleration Energy, reprinted.
This card provides Colorless Energy. While this card is attached to an Ultra Beast, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time. The attacks of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Beast Energy ◇ — This card provides Colorless Energy. While this card is attached to an Ultra Beast, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time. The attacks of the Ultra Beast this card is attached to do 30 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). A Prism Star Energy that provides every type while attached to an Ultra Beast and adds 30 to its attacks — the pack’s only Energy built for one card type.
Grass Energy. A full-art basic Grass Energy: one of nine, one for each type, and the only place in the year where basic Energy was printed at this rarity.
Fire Energy. The full-art basic Fire Energy, and the one that pairs with the pack’s Welder and Fire Crystal.
Water Energy. The full-art basic Water Energy: one of nine, one for each type, printed at a rarity basic Energy almost never reaches.
Lightning Energy. The full-art basic Lightning Energy, and the only one of the nine whose type has a Tag Team in this same pack.
Psychic Energy. The full-art basic Psychic Energy, the type with the most Tag Teams in the pack.
Fighting Energy. The full-art basic Fighting Energy: one of nine, and the type the pack’s only Fighting Stage 2 is built on.
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 unless the Attacking Pokémon is Darkness or has Dark in its name. Darkness Energy provides Darkness Energy. (Doesn't count as a basic Energy card.)
Darkness Energy — 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 unless the Attacking Pokémon is Darkness or has Dark in its name. Darkness Energy provides Darkness Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.). The full-art basic Darkness Energy: one of nine, and the type that carries the pack’s Umbreon & Darkrai-GX.
Damage done by attacks to the Pokémon that Metal Energy is attached to is reduced by 10 (after applying Weakness and Resistance). Ignore this effect if the Pokémon that Metal Energy is attached to isn't Metal. Metal Energy provides Metal Energy. (Doesn't count as a basic Energy card.)
Metal Energy — Damage done by attacks to the Pokémon that Metal Energy is attached to is reduced by 10 (after applying Weakness and Resistance). Ignore this effect if the Pokémon that Metal Energy is attached to isn’t Metal. Metal Energy provides Metal Energy. (Doesn’t count as a basic Energy card.). The full-art basic Metal Energy: one of nine, and the type the pack’s two gold-tier Tag Teams share.
Fairy Energy. The full-art basic Fairy Energy, and the last of the nine.
6 December, and the first product of the Sword & Shield era: Pokémon V and VMAX start here. Sixty numbered cards plus fifteen secrets (eight full-art, four Hyper Rare, three gold) — 75 kinds, and not one GX card. Instead 13 V and 4 VMAX, with the new RRR Triple Rare reserved for VMAX alone. 46 Zacian V at 220 looks at the top three cards of its deck, attaches any Metal Energy it finds there and swings for 230, and becomes the card the whole 2020 format is built around. 35 Stonjourner VMAX is 330 and 15 Lapras VMAX is 320, with 04 Dhelmise V, 26 Wobbuffet V and 34 Stonjourner V all at 220 and 51 Cramorant V at 200. 52 Evolution Incense, 55 Rotom Bike, 56 Big Charm, 57 Air Balloon, 59 Professor’s Research and 60 Bede are the Trainers. 165 yen is the tax-inclusive price — the first product this year whose official price is quoted that way — five cards to a pack, thirty to a box. Seventy-two of the 75 reach English in Sword & Shield on 7 February 2020.
2019-12-06. 75 cards — 60 Pokémon, 15 Trainers and no Energy cards, 13 Pokémon V and 4 VMAX; 26 commons, 19 uncommons, 7 rares, 6 Double Rares, 2 Triple Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 10 Water, 9 Fighting, 9 Metal, 8 Grass, 7 Psychic, 6 Colourless, 4 Fire, 4 Darkness and 3 Lightning; 40 artists worked on it and 5ban Graphics drew 13.
6 December, the first Sword & Shield product, and the end of GX. Sixty numbered cards, eight full-art (061–068), four Hyper Rare (069–072) and three gold (073–075) — 75 kinds, not one GX card in it. Instead 13 Pokémon V and 4 VMAX, and a new rarity — RRR, Triple Rare, printed only on VMAX. 46 Zacian V at 220 looks at the top three cards of your deck, attaches any Metal Energy it finds there and swings for 230 — and becomes the card the 2020 format is built on; 35 Stonjourner VMAX is 330 and 15 Lapras VMAX 320, the two biggest bodies in the pack. 04 Dhelmise V, 26 Wobbuffet V and 34 Stonjourner V are all 220, 51 Cramorant V 200. 52 Evolution Incense, 55 Rotom Bike, 56 Big Charm, 57 Air Balloon, 59 Professor’s Research and 60 Bede are the Trainers. Seventy-two of the 75 reach English in Sword & Shield on 7 February 2020; three never cross.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Roselia, 70 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Absorb is 10 for a Grass. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Grass: the cheapest body in the pack, and the one that gets evolved rather than played. sowsow.
Roserade, 120 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Paralyze Poison is 30 for a Grass, and Mega Drain is 90 for a Grass and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that also poisons and a 90-damage follow-up for three. chibi.
Maractus, 110 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Zzzt is 20 for a Colourless, and Powerful Needles is 60 per heads on a coin flip for a Grass and a Colourless. 110 HP with a 20-damage attack and a 60-damage attack that prints a multiplier: the pack’s cheapest scaling Grass card. Atsuko Nishida.
Dhelmise V, 220 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Anchor Anger is 30 and climbs for a Grass, and Giga Hammer is 200 for two Grass and a Colourless. 220 HP on a Grass Basic V with a 200-damage attack for three Energy — the first V card in the set’s numbering, and one of the first Vs ever printed. Eske Yoshinob.
Grookey, 60 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Fury Swipes is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless. 60 HP with an attack that prints a multiplier for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Rillaboom line, and the first Grookey printed. Naoki Saito.
Thwackey, 100 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Taunt has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Double Hit is 60 per heads on a coin flip for two Grass and a Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a free utility attack and a 60-damage follow-up that prints a multiplier. Megumi Mizutani.
Ability Voltage Beat
Rillaboom, 170 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 3 — one attack, Hammer In is 140 for three Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Voltage Beat — once during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 Grass Energy cards and attach them to 1 of your Pokémon. 170 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches two Grass Energy from the deck every turn — the pack’s strongest accelerator, and the reason its Grass line exists. Anesaki Dynamic.
Dhelmise V, 220 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 2 — Anchor Anger has no printed damage for a Grass, and Giga Hammer is 200 for two Grass and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 004, by the same artist as the regular card — the first V full art in the year. Eske Yoshinob.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Salandit, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Smog has no printed damage for a Fire. 70 HP and a Poison attack for a single Fire: the cheapest start to the Salazzle line. SATOSHI NAKAI.
Salazzle, 120 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Searing Flame is 20 for a Fire, and Bright Flame is 120 for a Fire and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack that burns and a 120-damage follow-up for two. Tomokazu Komiya.
Sizzlipede, 70 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — Bite is 10 for a Colourless, and Combustion is 50 for a Fire and two Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Centiskorch line. Akira Komayama.
Centiskorch, 130 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Hundred Foot Flames has no printed damage for a Fire, and Searing Flame is 110 for a Fire and three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 110-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest non-V Fire hit. Anesaki Dynamic.
10 cards · listed in original order.
Krabby, 80 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Aqua Shower has no printed damage for a Water, and Vise Grip is 30 for a Water and a Colourless. 80 HP with a free attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Kingler line. ryoma uratsuka.
Kingler, 130 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Heavy Pincers is 40 for a Water, and Claw Rend is 90 and climbs for a Water and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up that climbs for three. tetsuya koizumi.
Lapras V, 210 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Body Surf has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ocean Loop is 210 for three Water and a Colourless. 210 HP on a Water Basic V with a free attack and a 210-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest number that is not on a VMAX. Hasuno.
Lapras VMAX, 320 HP, Water, VMAX, retreat 3 — one attack, G-Max Pump is 90 and climbs for three Colourless. 320 HP on a VMAX, the second-tallest in the pack, with a 90-damage attack that climbs for three Colourless — the first VMAX printed, and the one this pack is remembered for. 5ban Graphics.
Mantine, 110 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — Water Reserve has no printed damage for a Water, and Wave Splash is 60 for two Water. 110 HP with a free attack and a 60-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s plainest Water body. Jumpei Akasaka.
Sobble, 60 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Water Gun is 20 for a Water. 60 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Water: the cheapest start to the Inteleon line, and the first Sobble printed. Megumi Mizutani.
Ability Shady Dealings
Drizzile, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Water Drip is 30 for a Water and a Colourless; the Ability Shady Dealings — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may search your deck for a Trainer card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. 90 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability searches a Trainer card whenever it evolves — the pack’s cheapest engine. Naoki Saito.
Ability Shady Dealings
Inteleon, 160 HP, Water, Stage 2, retreat 1 — one attack, Aqua Bullet is 120 for a Water and a Colourless; the Ability Shady Dealings — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may search your deck for up to 2 Trainer cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. 160 HP on a Stage 2 with the same Ability, doubled: two Trainer cards out of the deck every time it evolves, plus a 120-damage attack. Kagemaru Himeno.
Lapras V, 210 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Body Surf has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ocean Loop is 210 for three Water and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 014, and the only V full art in the pack drawn as a single figure against water. 5ban Graphics.
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Lapras VMAX, 320 HP, Water, VMAX, retreat 3 — one attack, G-Max Pump is 90 and climbs for three Colourless. The rainbow printing of 015, the first VMAX in the year in its highest regular finish. 5ban Graphics.
3 cards · listed in original order.
Yamper, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — Roar has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Static Shock is 10 for a Lightning. 70 HP with an attack that forces a switch and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Boltund line. Akira Komayama.
Boltund, 130 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Big Bite is 50 for two Colourless, and Fighting Fangs is 90 and climbs for a Lightning and two Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 50-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up that climbs for three. Misa Tsutsui.
Pincurchin, 80 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Shocking Needles is 30 per heads on a coin flip for two Lightning. 80 HP with an attack that prints a multiplier for two Lightning: the pack’s cheapest Lightning card. Akira Komayama.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Gastly, 60 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Fade Out is 20 for a Psychic. 60 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Gengar line. Taira Akitsu.
Haunter, 70 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Nightmare is 20 for a Colourless, and Spooky Shot is 40 for a Psychic and a Colourless. 70 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 40-damage follow-up for two: the middle of the line. HYOGONOSUKE.
Ability Life Shaker
Gengar, 110 HP, Psychic, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Hypnoblast is 90 for two Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Life Shaker — as often as you like during your turn, you may move 1 damage counter from 1 of your Psychic Pokémon to another of your Psychic Pokémon. 110 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability moves a damage counter across your Psychic Pokémon as often as you like — the pack’s cheapest way to fix its own board. Eri Yamaki.
Wobbuffet V, 220 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — Gritty Comeback has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Shadow Bind is 70 for two Psychic. 220 HP on a Psychic Basic V with a free attack and a 70-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest V to attack with. Ayaka Yoshida.
Sinistea, 30 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Teatime has no printed damage for a Colourless. 30 HP, the lowest in the pack, with a single free attack: the first Sinistea printed. Saya Tsuruta.
Polteageist, 60 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Teatime has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Poltergeist is 50 per heads on a coin flip for a Psychic and a Colourless. 60 HP on a Stage 1 with the same free attack and a 50-damage attack that prints a multiplier — the pack’s cheapest disruption. Shin Nagasawa.
Wobbuffet V, 220 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 3 — Gritty Comeback has no printed damage for two Colourless, and Shadow Bind is 70 for two Psychic. The full-art printing of 026, by the same artist as the regular card. Ayaka Yoshida.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Sudowoodo, 100 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Double Draw has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Flail is 10 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless. 100 HP with an attack that draws two cards and a 10-damage attack that prints a multiplier: the pack’s cheapest draw on a body. Yukiko Baba.
Baltoy, 70 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Beam is 10 for a Colourless, and Sand Spray is 30 for two Fighting. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up for two Fighting: the cheapest start to the Claydol line. Uta.
Claydol, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Psybeam is 30 for a Colourless, and Explosion is 200 for two Fighting. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack and a 200-damage Explosion that Knocks it Out — the pack’s biggest non-V number and its steepest price. Tomokazu Komiya.
Clobbopus, 60 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Bind is 20 for a Fighting. 60 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Fighting: the cheapest start to the Grapploct line. Mina Nakai.
Grapploct, 130 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Octolock has no printed damage for two Fighting, and Tough Swing is 130 for two Fighting and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that stops the target from retreating and a 130-damage follow-up for three. Shin Nagasawa.
Stonjourner V, 220 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Guard Press is 40 for a Fighting, and Mega Kick is 150 for three Fighting. 220 HP on a Fighting Basic V with a 40-damage attack that prevents damage to it and a 150-damage follow-up for three. 5ban Graphics.
Stonjourner VMAX, 330 HP, Fighting, VMAX, retreat 3 — Stone Gift has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Max Rockfall is 200 for three Fighting. 330 HP on a VMAX, the tallest body in Sword, with a 200-damage attack for three Fighting — the second VMAX in the pack and the biggest card in it. 5ban Graphics.
Stonjourner V, 220 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Guard Press is 40 for a Fighting, and Mega Kick is 150 for three Fighting. The full-art printing of 034, rendered rather than painted, with the stone body filling the frame. 5ban Graphics.
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Stonjourner VMAX, 330 HP, Fighting, VMAX, retreat 3 — Stone Gift has no printed damage for a Fighting, and Max Rockfall is 200 for three Fighting. The rainbow printing of 035, the tallest card in Sword in the same finish. 5ban Graphics.
4 cards · listed in original order.
Croagunk, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — Stampede is 10 for a Colourless, and Lunge Out is 30 for a Darkness and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Toxicroak line. otumami.
Ability More Poison
Toxicroak, 110 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Poison Claws is 70 for a Darkness and two Colourless; the Ability More Poison — put 2 more damage counters on your opponent’s Poisoned Pokémon during Pokémon Checkup. 110 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability adds two damage counters to the opponent’s Poisoned Pokémon every checkup — the pack’s cheapest way to make poison matter. Ryuta Fuse.
Nickit, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Instigate has no printed damage for a Darkness. 70 HP and a free attack for a single Darkness: the cheapest start to the Thievul line. kirisAki.
Thievul, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Thief is 20 for a Darkness, and Darkness Fang is 90 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up for three. Kouki Saitou.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Galarian Meowth, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Hone Claws has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Slash is 30 for a Metal and a Colourless. 70 HP with a free utility attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Galarian Perrserker line. kirisAki.
Ability Steely Spirit
Galarian Perrserker, 120 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Metal Claw is 70 for two Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Steely Spirit — your Metal Pokémon’s attacks do 20 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). 120 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability adds 20 damage to every Metal attack you make — the pack’s quietest support card, and 046’s best friend. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Ferroseed, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Rollout is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Ferrothorn line. Yuka Morii.
Ferrothorn, 130 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Triple Smash is 30 per heads on a coin flip for a Colourless, and Energy Slap is 100 for two Metal and a Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that prints a multiplier and a 100-damage follow-up for three. Midori Harada.
Ability Snap Trap
Galarian Stunfisk, 120 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Damage Rush is 30 and climbs for a Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Snap Trap — if this Pokémon is in the Active Spot and is damaged by an opponent’s attack (even if it is Knocked Out), discard an Energy from the Attacking Pokémon. 120 HP on a Basic whose Ability discards an Energy off whatever damages it — the pack’s cheapest punishment for an attack. Kouki Saitou.
Corviknight, 170 HP, Metal, Stage 2, retreat 2 — Peck is 50 for a Colourless, and Iron Wings is 130 for a Metal and two Colourless. 170 HP on a Stage 2 with a 130-damage attack for three: the pack’s largest non-V Metal body. Shin Nagasawa.
Ability Intrepid Sword
Zacian V, 220 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Brave Blade is 230 for three Metal; the Ability Intrepid Sword — once during your turn, you may look at the top 3 cards of your deck and attach any number of Metal Energy cards you find there to this Pokémon. 220 HP on a Metal Basic V whose Ability attaches Metal Energy from the top of the deck and ends your turn — the card that made this pack the most opened of the year. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Intrepid Sword
Zacian V, 220 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Brave Blade is 230 for three Metal; the Ability Intrepid Sword — once during your turn, you may look at the top 3 cards of your deck and attach any number of Metal Energy cards you find there to this Pokémon. The full-art printing of 046, and the most valuable card in the pack in its rarest regular finish. 5ban Graphics.
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Ability Intrepid Sword
Zacian V, 220 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Brave Blade is 230 for three Metal; the Ability Intrepid Sword — once during your turn, you may look at the top 3 cards of your deck and attach any number of Metal Energy cards you find there to this Pokémon. The gold printing of 046, and the only card in the pack that exists at three different finishes. 5ban Graphics.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Minccino, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — an unnamed attack has no printed damage for a Colourless, and an unnamed attack has no printed damage for two Colourless. 70 HP with two attacks that both cost Colourless: the cheapest start to the Cinccino line. Sekio.
Ability Make Do
Cinccino, 90 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Energy Assist is 40 for a Colourless; the Ability Make Do — you must discard a card from your hand in order to use this Ability. 90 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability discards a card to draw two — the pack’s cheapest repeatable draw. sui.
Rookidee, 60 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Flap is 10 for a Colourless, and Glide is 30 for two Colourless. 60 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Corviknight line. Akira Komayama.
Corvisquire, 80 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Pluck is 20 for a Colourless, and Drill Peck is 50 for two Colourless. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up for two. Anesaki Dynamic.
Cramorant V, 200 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Beak Catch has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Spit Shot has no printed damage for three Colourless. 200 HP on a Colourless Basic V with two attacks that both cost nothing and print nothing: the pack’s cheapest V to use and its strangest stat line. aky CG Works.
Cramorant V, 200 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Beak Catch has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Spit Shot has no printed damage for three Colourless. The full-art printing of 051, by the same artist as the regular card. aky CG Works.
15 cards · listed in original order.
Search your deck for an Evolution Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
Evolution Incense — Search your deck for an Evolution Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck. Search any Evolution Pokémon out of the deck: the Item that makes the pack’s Stage 2 lines consistent. Ryo Ueda.
Heal 120 damage from 1 of your Pokémon that has at least 2 Energy attached. If you healed any damage in this way, discard 2 Energy from it.
Hyper Potion — Heal 120 damage from 1 of your Pokémon that has at least 2 Energy attached. If you healed any damage in this way, discard 2 Energy from it. Heal 120 damage from a Pokémon with two Energy attached, then discard two Energy from it — the pack’s biggest single heal. Ryo Ueda.
Choose 1 or both: • Shuffle up to 2 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck. • Shuffle up to 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck.
Ordinary Rod — Choose 1 or both: • Shuffle up to 2 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck. • Shuffle up to 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck. Two Pokémon or two basic Energy back from the discard pile, or both: the pack’s only recovery Item. 5ban Graphics.
Draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand. Your turn ends.
Rotom Bike — Draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand. Your turn ends. Draw to six cards, then end your turn: the pack’s cheapest burst of cards, at the cost of the turn. 5ban Graphics.
The Pokémon this card is attached to gets +30 HP.
Big Charm — The Pokémon this card is attached to gets +30 HP. A Tool that adds 30 HP to whatever carries it — the pack’s cheapest way to push a V out of range. inose yukie.
The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is ColorlessColorless less.
Air Balloon — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is ColorlessColorless less. A Tool that cuts two Colourless off the Retreat Cost: the pack’s cheapest escape, and the one every deck in the format ran. Yoshinobu Saito.
At the end of each turn, if the Pokémon this card is attached to is affected by any Special Conditions, it recovers from all of them, and discard this card.
Lum Berry — At the end of each turn, if the Pokémon this card is attached to is affected by any Special Conditions, it recovers from all of them, and discard this card. A Tool that clears every Special Condition at the end of each turn and then discards itself. Yoshinobu Saito.
Professor’s Research. The Supporter that every deck in the format runs, printed here at the higher rarity: the card that resets a hand and refills it in one action. Yusuke Ohmura.
Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Bede — Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Attach a basic Energy from hand to a Benched Pokémon: the pack’s cheapest acceleration, and the one that sets up 035. Naoki Saito.
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Professor’s Research. The full-art printing of 059. A Supporter promoted to full art, and the only card in the pack whose full art is a draw Supporter. kirisAki.
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Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Bede — Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. The full-art printing of 060, by the same artist as the regular card. Naoki Saito.
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Professor’s Research. The rainbow printing of 059: a Supporter in the rainbow tier, which in this era happened to almost no Trainer cards. kirisAki.
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Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon.
Bede — Attach a basic Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. The rainbow printing of 060, the second of the pack’s two Supporters in the finish. Naoki Saito.
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Choose 1 or both: • Shuffle up to 2 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck. • Shuffle up to 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck.
Ordinary Rod — Choose 1 or both: • Shuffle up to 2 Pokémon from your discard pile into your deck. • Shuffle up to 2 basic Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck. The gold printing of 054. 054 in gold, the Item that recovers Pokémon and Energy at once. 5ban Graphics.
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The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is ColorlessColorless less.
Air Balloon — The Retreat Cost of the Pokémon this card is attached to is ColorlessColorless less. The gold printing of 057. 057 in gold: the Tool that cuts two Colourless off the Retreat Cost. Yoshinobu Saito.
The other half of the 6 December morning, and a different set of cards — the two are never merged. Sixty numbered cards plus fifteen secrets, 75 kinds, 13 V, 4 VMAX, no GX at all. 46 Snorlax VMAX heads the pack at 340 HP, with 20 Morpeko VMAX at 300, 44 Zamazenta V at 230, 06 Torkoal V at 210 and 45 Snorlax V at 220; 25 Indeedee V at 180, 19 Morpeko V and 36 Sableye V at 170. 52 Quick Ball, 53 Rare Candy, 54 Metal Saucer, 59 Marnie and 58 Team Yell Grunt are the Trainers, and 60 Aurora Energy is the only new Special Energy of the year. 165 yen, tax included, five cards to a pack, thirty to a box, and all 75 cards reach English in Sword & Shield on 7 February 2020 — the only Japanese product this year that loses nothing in translation.
2019-12-06. 75 cards — 60 Pokémon, 14 Trainers and 1 Energy, 13 Pokémon V and 4 VMAX; 26 commons, 19 uncommons, 7 rares, 6 Double Rares, 2 Triple Rares, 8 full-art cards, 3 gold cards, 4 Hyper Rares; 9 Colourless, 8 Metal, 7 Water, 7 Fighting, 7 Darkness, 6 Lightning, 6 Psychic, 5 Grass and 5 Fire; 36 artists worked on it and kirisAki drew 6.
The other half of the same morning, and a different 75 cards. Sold beside Sword and never merged with it: sixty numbered cards, eight full-art (061–068), four Hyper Rare (069–072) and three gold (073–075). 46 Snorlax VMAX at 340 HP is the tallest body printed anywhere in 2019, 20 Morpeko VMAX is 300, 44 Zamazenta V 230, 06 Torkoal V 210, 45 Snorlax V 220, 25 Indeedee V 180, 19 Morpeko V and 36 Sableye V both 170. 52 Quick Ball, 53 Rare Candy, 54 Metal Saucer, 55 Sitrus Berry, 59 Marnie and 58 Team Yell Grunt are the Trainers, and 60 Aurora Energy is the only new Special Energy of the year. All 75 cards reach English in Sword & Shield on 7 February 2020 — the only Japanese product in 2019 that loses nothing at all.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Blipbug, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Gnaw is 20 for a Grass. 50 HP and a 20-damage attack for a single Grass: the cheapest body in the pack, and the one that gets evolved rather than played. nagimiso.
Dottler, 70 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Reflect has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Ram is 30 for a Grass and a Colourless. 70 HP on a Stage 1 with an attack that prevents damage to it and a 30-damage follow-up: the middle of the Orbeetle line. Misa Tsutsui.
Ability Bug's Radar
Orbeetle, 130 HP, Grass, Stage 2, retreat 1 — one attack, Brainwave is 90 and climbs for a Grass and a Colourless; the Ability Bug’s Radar — once during your turn, you may look at the top 3 cards of your opponent’s deck and put them back in any order. 130 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability rearranges the top three cards of the opponent’s deck every turn — the pack’s cheapest way to fix an opponent’s draw. Hitoshi Ariga.
Gossifleur, 50 HP, Grass, Basic, retreat 1 — Call for Family has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Razor Leaf is 10 for a Grass. 50 HP with a setup attack and a 10-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Eldegoss line. Saya Tsuruta.
Eldegoss, 80 HP, Grass, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Blessing of Fluff has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Leafage is 30 for a Grass. 80 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the pack’s plainest Grass body. Kagemaru Himeno.
5 cards · listed in original order.
Torkoal V, 210 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 4 — Combustion Pillar is 90 and climbs for two Fire and a Colourless, and Steam Crush is 120 for three Fire and a Colourless. 210 HP on a Fire Basic V with a 90-damage attack that climbs and a 120-damage follow-up for four — the pack’s first V. Ayaka Yoshida.
Scorbunny, 60 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ember is 30 for a Fire. 60 HP and a 30-damage attack for a single Fire: the cheapest start to the Cinderace line, and the first Scorbunny printed. kirisAki.
Raboot, 90 HP, Fire, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Flame Charge is 20 for a Fire, and Magnum Kick is 70 for two Fire and a Colourless. 90 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 70-damage follow-up for three: the middle of the line. Mizue.
Ability Libero
Cinderace, 170 HP, Fire, Stage 2, retreat 1 — one attack, Flare Striker is 190 for two Fire and a Colourless; the Ability Libero — once during your turn, when this Pokémon moves from your Bench to the Active Spot, you may attach up to 2 Fire Energy cards from your discard pile to it. 170 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability attaches two Fire Energy from the discard pile whenever it becomes Active — the pack’s biggest non-V Fire body and its best accelerator. Kouki Saitou.
Torkoal V, 210 HP, Fire, Basic, retreat 4 — Combustion Pillar has no printed damage for two Fire and a Colourless, and Steam Crush is 120 for three Fire and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 006, by the same artist as the regular card — the first V full art in the pack. Ayaka Yoshida.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Goldeen, 70 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Horn Attack is 10 for a Colourless. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Seaking line. Suwama Chiaki.
Seaking, 110 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Ripping Horn has no printed damage for a Water, and Pierce is 50 for two Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 50-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest Water disruption. Shibuzoh..
Ability Poison Point
Qwilfish, 90 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Venoshock is 10 and climbs for a Colourless; the Ability Poison Point — if this Pokémon is in the Active Spot and is damaged by an opponent’s attack (even if it is Knocked Out), the Attacking Pokémon is now Poisoned. 90 HP on a Basic whose Ability poisons whatever damages it — the pack’s cheapest punishment for an attack. Midori Harada.
Chewtle, 80 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 2 — Bite is 30 for two Colourless, and Water Gun is 50 for a Water and two Colourless. 80 HP with a 30-damage attack and a 50-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Drednaw line. Mina Nakai.
Drednaw, 130 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Vise Bite is 60 and climbs for a Water and two Colourless, and Jaw Lock is 130 for a Water and three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack that climbs and a 130-damage follow-up for four. Hitoshi Ariga.
Snom, 50 HP, Water, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Ram is 10 for a Colourless. 50 HP and a 10-damage attack for one Colourless: the lowest HP in the pack, printed to reach 016. Mina Nakai.
Ability Ice Dance
Frosmoth, 90 HP, Water, Stage 1, retreat 2 — one attack, Aurora Beam is 30 for a Water and a Colourless; the Ability Ice Dance — as often as you like during your turn, you may attach a Water Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Benched Water Pokémon. 90 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability attaches Water Energy to your Benched Pokémon as often as you like — the pack’s strongest accelerator, and the one this set is remembered for. Kagemaru Himeno.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Chinchou, 70 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, an unnamed attack has no printed damage for two Colourless. 70 HP with a single attack that costs two Colourless and prints no damage: the smallest card in the pack’s Lightning section. Sumiyoshi Kizuki.
Lanturn, 120 HP, Lightning, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Ram is 30 for a Colourless, and Strobe Shock is 90 for a Lightning and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack and a 90-damage follow-up for three. Naoyo Kimura.
Morpeko V, 170 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Spark is 20 for a Colourless, and Electro Wheel is 150 for two Lightning and a Colourless. 170 HP on a Lightning Basic V with a 20-damage attack and a 150-damage follow-up for three. 5ban Graphics.
Morpeko VMAX, 300 HP, Lightning, VMAX, retreat 1 — one attack, Max Discharge is 180 for two Lightning and a Colourless. 300 HP on a VMAX with a 180-damage attack for three — the pack’s second VMAX, and its cheapest to use. 5ban Graphics.
Morpeko V, 170 HP, Lightning, Basic, retreat 2 — Spark is 20 for a Colourless, and Electro Wheel is 150 for two Lightning and a Colourless. The full-art printing of 019, rendered rather than painted, with the GX-style frame filled edge to edge. 5ban Graphics.
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Morpeko VMAX, 300 HP, Lightning, VMAX, retreat 1 — one attack, Max Discharge is 180 for two Lightning and a Colourless. The rainbow printing of 020, the pack’s smaller VMAX in its highest regular finish. 5ban Graphics.
6 cards · listed in original order.
Galarian Ponyta, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Psy Bolt is 10 for a Psychic. 70 HP and a 10-damage attack for a single Psychic: the cheapest start to the Galarian Rapidash line. Saya Tsuruta.
Ability Pastel Veil
Galarian Rapidash, 100 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 1 — one attack, Psychic is 30 and climbs for a Psychic and a Colourless; the Ability Pastel Veil — your Pokémon recover from all Special Conditions and can’t be affected by any Special Conditions. 100 HP on a Stage 1 whose Ability makes your side immune to every Special Condition — the pack’s cheapest counter to poison and sleep. You Iribi.
Munna, 70 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 1 — Moonlight has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Psychic Sphere is 30 for a Psychic and a Colourless. 70 HP with a free attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Musharna line. Asako Ito.
Musharna, 120 HP, Psychic, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Sleepy Pulse has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Super Hypnoblast is 10 and climbs for a Psychic and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a free attack and a 10-damage follow-up that climbs: the pack’s cheapest Psychic scaling card. MAHOU.
Ability Watch Over
Indeedee V, 180 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Psychic is 10 and climbs for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Watch Over — once during your turn, you may heal 20 damage from your Active Pokémon. 180 HP on a Psychic Basic V whose Ability heals 20 from your Active Pokémon every turn — the pack’s cheapest support V. 5ban Graphics.
Ability Watch Over
Indeedee V, 180 HP, Psychic, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Psychic has no printed damage for a Psychic and two Colourless; the Ability Watch Over — once during your turn, you may heal 20 damage from your Active Pokémon. The full-art printing of 025, by the same artist as the regular card. 5ban Graphics.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Hitmonlee, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Low Sweep is 40 for two Colourless, and Coordinated Strike is 80 and climbs for two Fighting and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Basic with a 40-damage attack and an 80-damage follow-up that climbs for three. Shigenori Negishi.
Hitmonchan, 120 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 1 — Coordinated Beatdown is 20 and climbs for a Fighting, and Mach Cross is 60 for two Fighting. 120 HP on a Basic with a 20-damage attack that climbs and a 60-damage follow-up for two. Shigenori Negishi.
Rhyhorn, 100 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 3 — Horn Attack is 10 for a Colourless, and Hammer In is 30 for a Fighting and a Colourless. 100 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 30-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Rhyperior line. Sekio.
Rhydon, 120 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Horn Drill is 50 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Rock Slide is 100 for two Fighting and two Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 50-damage attack and a 100-damage follow-up for four. KEIICHIRO ITO.
Rhyperior, 190 HP, Fighting, Stage 2, retreat 4 — Rock Tumble is 90 for a Fighting and two Colourless, and Bedrock Shake is 120 for two Fighting and two Colourless. 190 HP on a Stage 2 with a 90-damage attack and a 120-damage follow-up for four — the pack’s biggest non-V Fighting body. Satoshi Shirai.
Silicobra, 80 HP, Fighting, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Sand Attack has no printed damage for a Colourless. 80 HP and a free attack for one Colourless: the cheapest start to the Sandaconda line. Misa Tsutsui.
Sandaconda, 140 HP, Fighting, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Coil is 10 for a Colourless, and Skull Bash is 100 for a Fighting and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with a 10-damage attack and a 100-damage follow-up for three. Kouki Saitou.
7 cards · listed in original order.
Ability Headbutt Tantrum
Galarian Zigzagoon, 70 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Surprise Attack is 30 for a Darkness and a Colourless; the Ability Headbutt Tantrum — when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may put 1 damage counter on 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. 70 HP on a Basic whose Ability drops a damage counter anywhere on the opponent’s side the moment it is played — the pack’s cheapest piece of spread. kirisAki.
Galarian Linoone, 100 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Night Slash is 20 for a Darkness, and Hammer In is 70 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 100 HP on a Stage 1 with a 20-damage attack and a 70-damage follow-up for three. nagimiso.
Ability Untamed Shout
Galarian Obstagoon, 160 HP, Darkness, Stage 2, retreat 2 — one attack, Obstruct is 90 for a Darkness and a Colourless; the Ability Untamed Shout — when you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon during your turn, you may put 3 damage counters on 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon. 160 HP on a Stage 2 whose Ability puts three damage counters anywhere on the opponent’s side when it evolves — the pack’s biggest single piece of spread, and it stacks with 033. Kouki Saitou.
Sableye V, 170 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Lode Search has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Crazy Claws is 10 and climbs for two Darkness. 170 HP on a Darkness Basic V with a free attack and a 10-damage follow-up that climbs for two — the pack’s cheapest V to attack with. Eske Yoshinob.
Skorupi, 80 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Poison Sting has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Slashing Claw is 50 for a Darkness and two Colourless. 80 HP with a Poison attack and a 50-damage follow-up for three: the cheapest start to the Drapion line. sowsow.
Drapion, 140 HP, Darkness, Stage 1, retreat 3 — Hard Press is 80 for a Darkness and two Colourless, and Toxic Strike is 130 for two Darkness and two Colourless. 140 HP on a Stage 1 with an 80-damage attack and a 130-damage follow-up for four: the pack’s biggest non-V Darkness hit. Masakazu Fukuda.
Sableye V, 170 HP, Darkness, Basic, retreat 2 — Lode Search has no printed damage for a Darkness, and Crazy Claws has no printed damage for two Darkness. The full-art printing of 036, and the only full art in the pack whose attack box is left almost entirely empty. Eske Yoshinob.
8 cards · listed in original order.
Mawile, 90 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Find a Friend has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Crunch is 40 for a Metal and a Colourless. 90 HP with a setup attack and a 40-damage follow-up for two: the pack’s cheapest way to find a Pokémon. AKIRA EGAWA.
Pawniard, 70 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 1 — Cut Up is 10 for a Colourless, and Metal Claw is 20 for a Metal and a Colourless. 70 HP with a 10-damage attack and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Bisharp line. Motofumi Fujiwara.
Bisharp, 120 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Charge Order is 30 and climbs for a Colourless, and Slicing Blade is 60 for a Metal and a Colourless. 120 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that climbs and a 60-damage follow-up for two. kawayoo.
Cufant, 100 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 3 — one attack, Stomp is 20 and climbs for two Metal. 100 HP with a 20-damage attack that climbs for two Metal: the cheapest start to the Copperajah line. kirisAki.
Copperajah, 190 HP, Metal, Stage 1, retreat 4 — Dig Drain is 60 for two Metal, and Muscular Nose is 220 for three Metal. 190 HP on a Stage 1 with a 60-damage attack and a 220-damage follow-up for three Metal — the biggest printed number in the pack that is not on a VMAX. Hitoshi Ariga.
Ability Dauntless Shield
Zamazenta V, 230 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Assault Tackle is 130 for two Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Dauntless Shield — prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon VMAX. 230 HP on a Metal Basic V whose Ability blanks all damage from the opponent’s VMAX — the pack’s answer to the cards it printed beside it. aky CG Works.
Ability Dauntless Shield
Zamazenta V, 230 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Assault Tackle is 130 for two Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Dauntless Shield — prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon VMAX. The full-art printing of 044, and the most valuable card in the pack in its rarest regular finish. aky CG Works.
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Ability Dauntless Shield
Zamazenta V, 230 HP, Metal, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Assault Tackle is 130 for two Metal and a Colourless; the Ability Dauntless Shield — prevent all damage done to this Pokémon by attacks from your opponent’s Pokémon VMAX. The gold printing of 044, and the only card in the pack that exists at three different finishes. aky CG Works.
9 cards · listed in original order.
Snorlax V, 220 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Swallow is 60 for three Colourless, and Falling Down is 170 for four Colourless. 220 HP on a Colourless Basic V with a 60-damage attack and a 170-damage follow-up for four: the lower half of the pack’s tallest line. Masakazu Fukuda.
Snorlax VMAX, 340 HP, Colourless, VMAX, retreat 4 — one attack, G-Max Fall is 60 and climbs for three Colourless. 340 HP on a VMAX, the tallest body printed in 2019, with a 60-damage attack that climbs for three Colourless — the card every deck in the format had to answer. aky CG Works.
Hoothoot, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — Send Back has no printed damage for a Colourless, and Wing Attack is 20 for two Colourless. 70 HP with an attack that forces a switch and a 20-damage follow-up: the cheapest start to the Noctowl line. Yumi.
Noctowl, 110 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 1 — Wing Attack is 40 for two Colourless, and Carry Off has no printed damage for three Colourless. 110 HP on a Stage 1 with a 40-damage attack and a free follow-up: the pack’s cheapest utility Stage 1. kawayoo.
Ability Primate Wisdom
Oranguru, 120 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 2 — one attack, Whap Down is 70 for three Colourless; the Ability Primate Wisdom — once during your turn, you may switch a card from your hand with the top card of your deck. 120 HP on a Basic whose Ability swaps a card in hand for the top card of the deck every turn — the pack’s cheapest way to fix a hand. Shigenori Negishi.
Wooloo, 70 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 1 — one attack, Expand is 30 for two Colourless. 70 HP and a 30-damage attack for two Colourless: the cheapest start to the Dubwool line, and the first Wooloo printed. Mitsuhiro Arita.
Dubwool, 130 HP, Colourless, Stage 1, retreat 2 — Cotton Guard is 30 for a Colourless, and Double-Edge is 120 for three Colourless. 130 HP on a Stage 1 with a 30-damage attack that prevents damage to it and a 120-damage follow-up for three. You Iribi.
Snorlax V, 220 HP, Colourless, Basic, retreat 4 — Swallow is 60 for three Colourless, and Falling Down is 170 for four Colourless. The full-art printing of 045, by the same artist as the regular card. aky CG Works.
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Snorlax VMAX, 340 HP, Colourless, VMAX, retreat 4 — one attack, G-Max Fall is 60 and climbs for three Colourless. The rainbow printing of 046, the tallest card printed in 2019 in the same finish. aky CG Works.
14 cards · listed in original order.
Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Pokémon. Show that Pokémon to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other revealed cards back into your deck. (If you don't reveal a Pokémon, shuffle all the revealed cards back into your deck.)
Quick Ball — Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Pokémon. Show that Pokémon to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other revealed cards back into your deck. (If you don’t reveal a Pokémon, shuffle all the revealed cards back into your deck.). Reveal cards until a Pokémon appears and take it: the pack’s most important Item, and the one every deck in the format ran four of. sadaji.
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.)
Rare Candy — 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.). Skip a stage on any Basic in play: the reprint that makes the pack’s Stage 2 lines playable. Yoshinobu Saito.
Attach a Metal Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Metal Pokémon.
Metal Saucer — Attach a Metal Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Metal Pokémon. Attach a Metal Energy from the discard pile to a Benched Metal Pokémon: the Item that makes 044 and the pack’s Metal line turn. Toyste Beach.
At the end of each turn, if the Pokémon this card is attached to has 3 or more damage counters on it, heal 30 damage from it and discard this card.
Sitrus Berry — At the end of each turn, if the Pokémon this card is attached to has 3 or more damage counters on it, heal 30 damage from it and discard this card. A Tool that heals 30 damage at the end of any turn in which the holder has three damage counters — the pack’s cheapest sustain. Yoshinobu Saito.
The attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to do 10 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).
Vitality Band — The attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to do 10 more damage to your opponent’s Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance). A Tool that adds 10 damage to every attack the holder makes: the cheapest way to push a 170-damage attack into Knock Out range. Toyste Beach.
Attach Lucky Egg to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn't already have a Pokémon Tool attached to it. If that Pokémon is Knocked Out, discard this card. When the Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent's attack, draw cards until you have 7 cards in your hand.
Lucky Egg — Attach Lucky Egg to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn’t already have a Pokémon Tool attached to it. If that Pokémon is Knocked Out, discard this card. When the Pokémon this card is attached to is Knocked Out by damage from an opponent’s attack, draw cards until you have 7 cards in your hand. A Tool that draws to seven cards when the holder is Knocked Out — the pack’s only card that pays out on a loss. Studio Bora Inc..
Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon into their hand.
Team Yell Grunt — Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon into their hand. Put an Energy attached to one of the opponent’s Pokémon back into their hand: the pack’s cheapest way to undo an acceleration. nagimiso.
Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards.
Marnie — Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards. Both players put their hands on the bottom of the deck, and you draw five against their four: the pack’s strongest disruption, and the reason it is printed twice. kirisAki.
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Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon into their hand.
Team Yell Grunt — Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon into their hand. The full-art printing of 058. A Supporter promoted to full art, and the only card in the pack whose full art shows a group rather than a single figure. nagimiso.
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Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards.
Marnie — Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards. The full-art printing of 059, by the same artist as the regular card — the pack’s best Supporter in its rarest regular finish. kirisAki.
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Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent's Pokémon into their hand.
Team Yell Grunt — Put an Energy attached to 1 of your opponent’s Pokémon into their hand. The rainbow printing of 058: a Supporter in the rainbow tier, which in this era happened to almost no Trainer cards. nagimiso.
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Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards.
Marnie — Each player shuffles their hand and puts it on the bottom of their deck. If either player put any cards on the bottom of their deck in this way, you draw 5 cards, and your opponent draws 4 cards. The rainbow printing of 059, the second of the pack’s two Supporters in the finish. kirisAki.
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Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Pokémon. Show that Pokémon to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other revealed cards back into your deck. (If you don't reveal a Pokémon, shuffle all the revealed cards back into your deck.)
Quick Ball — Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Pokémon. Show that Pokémon to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other revealed cards back into your deck. (If you don’t reveal a Pokémon, shuffle all the revealed cards back into your deck.). The gold printing of 052. 052 in gold, the Item that finds any Pokémon in the deck. sadaji.
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Attach a Metal Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Metal Pokémon.
Metal Saucer — Attach a Metal Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Metal Pokémon. The gold printing of 054. 054 in gold: the Item that attaches Metal Energy from the discard pile. Toyste Beach.
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You can attach this card to 1 of your Pokémon only if you discard another card from your hand. As long as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time.
Aurora Energy — You can attach this card to 1 of your Pokémon only if you discard another card from your hand. As long as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides every type of Energy but provides only 1 Energy at a time. A Special Energy that provides every type at once, at the cost of another card from hand — the only Energy in the pack that can pay for 046’s attack.
Also released this year: English edition.
Sword & Shield (swsh1), 216 cards — English’s cut of December’s pair, and the product where 147 of this year’s Japanese cards finally arrive: 72 from Sword, all 75 from Shield, and the three cards from July’s Remix Bout that were held back for the new era. The first English set with no GX in it at all, and the first with VMAX and RRR in it.
Rebel Clash (swsh2), and the year the format is rebuilt around V. The Character Rare frame that Dream League invented in August 2019 carries forward into every Sword & Shield set from here, and the Prism Star ◇ is never printed again — October’s Tag All Stars is its last appearance in either language.
What 2019 settles is that the mechanic, not the card, is the product. GX runs for three years and then stops between one morning and the next: 199 GX prints in this year, 0 after 6 December, and the replacement is not a bigger GX but a different shape — a Basic that gives up two Prizes, then a VMAX that gives up three. The year also finishes two other stories: Tag Team, which goes from two names to three on one card and 300 HP on 26 April, and Prism Star, which ends with seventeen reprints in October and no new card afterwards. The third thing it starts is the cheapest idea of the three: a Trainer and a Pokémon drawn into one picture, twelve cards in a 49-card pack in August, which is the frame every set for the next four years is sold on. The price of a main pack does not move until December — 150 yen for five cards and a box of thirty — and then the tax rises and 165 yen is the first price of the new era.
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.
SM9a verified_secondarySM9b verified_secondarySM10 verified_secondarySM10a verified_secondarySM10b verified_secondarySM11 verified_secondarySM11a verified_secondarySM11b verified_secondarySM12 verified_secondarySM12a verified_secondaryS1W verified_secondaryS1H verified_secondaryAll 1156 cards of the twelve 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: 70 in January, 69 in February, 116 in March, 69 in April, 69 in late April, 115 in May, 80 in July, 75 in August, 117 in September, 226 in October and 75 + 75 in December. 249 of them print past the end of their own set and are shown as printed rather than normalised — every one is a full-art, gold, Hyper Rare or, in one case, a Character Rare card.
The Japanese printing is the first-hand source here. Type, HP, retreat cost, illustrator, every attack with its cost, and the rules text of every Ability are read from a Japanese listing of the card. English supplies two things only: the official English card name, and the verdict on whether the English printing is the same card. All 255 Trainers and 15 Energy cards carry the name printed on the Japanese card, and every Pokémon name was read from the card page rather than from a species list.
December’s pair is the source trap of the year and it is stated rather than hidden. Sword and Shield are listed as empty shells in the Japanese card database — the set exists, cards comes back empty, and a single card URL answers 404 — so the 150 cards were read from the Japanese card list instead, and that is where the type, the attacks and the illustrator come from. The same database also reports the two packs as 60 cards each; the printed sets are 60 numbered plus 15 secrets, 75 either way, and this page uses the 75.
54 cards carry no rarity at all, and that is the card, not a gap in the data. They are the reprints inside October’s Tag All Stars: a reprint card in that product is printed without a rarity symbol, so this page leaves the field empty rather than inventing one. It is the same rule as the shiny cards of 2018, which also print with no symbol.
The 17 Prism Star cards are the last of their kind, and the count comes from the printed name. The card database does not flag ◇ on any Japanese card at all; the symbol is part of the name as printed, so every one of these was read off the card name rather than from a field. All seventeen are reprints inside Tag All Stars, and no new ◇ is printed in either language after 4 October 2019.
The pairing verdict is stated for every card. 739 of the 1156 are printed in English inside 2019, 150 are printed in February 2020 — 72 of Sword, all 75 of Shield, and three cards of July’s Remix Bout — 220 are reprints of cards English had already printed, and 47 never printed in English at all. There are 9 ’same species, different card’ cases, marked as such rather than folded into the count: a card that is not the same card is not a printing. Japan prints 1156 cards in 2019 and English prints 1140, and the gap is a set of reprint and secret cards that never crossed rather than an error.
Two things are incomplete and are declared here. 42 Pokémon cards in this year carry no illustrator credit — they are all the GX and Tag Team secret printings of the numbered sets, where neither the card database nor the Japanese listing records an artist, and none has been guessed. And the December pair is counted as 2019 because it went on sale on 6 December 2019 in Japan, even though its English edition is a 2020 product: the same rule this site used for the 12-17 release of 2010.
Twelve products, 1156 cards, 199 GX prints from 59 names — 118 of them Tag Team from 28 names — and 26 Pokémon V plus 8 VMAX, with 138 full-art, 40 gold and 59 Hyper Rare as secrets, 12 Character Rare, 17 Prism Star, and 739 of the 1156 printed in English inside the year — with 150 following in 2020, 220 already printed, and 47 never following at all. 2019 is the year the mechanic changes rather than the card. GX is printed 199 times and then not at all: on the morning of 6 December two 75-card packs open with V, VMAX and a RRR symbol that only VMAX may wear, and the format that follows is built on how many Prizes you are willing to give away. The year also ends two other things cleanly — Tag Team goes out at 300 HP with three names on one card, and the Prism Star ◇ is reprinted seventeen times in October and never printed again. And it starts the cheapest idea of the three: a Trainer and their Pokémon drawn into one frame, twelve cards in a 49-card pack in August. The pack price holds at 150 yen for five cards all year, then the tax rises and it is 165 — the first number of the next era.