Rare Candy (EX Sandstorm 88)

Trainer

Rare Candy ふしぎなアメ Mysterious Candy

Great Encounters print Illus. Ryo Ueda English expansion EX Sandstorm Rarity English card no. 88/100 Japanese expansion Miracle of the Desert Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 050/053 Expansion EX Emerald Rarity English card no. 83/106 English expansion EX Holon Phantoms Rarity English card no. 90/110 Japanese expansion Holon Phantom Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 048/052 Expansion POP Series 5 Rarity English card no. 7/17 English expansion Great Encounters Rarity English card no. 102/106 Japanese expansion Moonlit Pursuit Dawn Dash Japanese Rarity Expansion POP Series 8 Rarity English card no. 10/17 Expansion Unleashed Rarity English card no. 82/95 Japanese Deck Kit Leafeon vs Metagross Expert Deck Japanese Deck Metagross Deck Japanese card no. 009/014 Japanese expansion Reviving Legends Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 071/080

Rare Candy (Japanese: ふしぎなアメ Mysterious Candy) is a Trainer card (Item card in Japan). It was first released in EX Sandstorm as a Trainer card.

Card text

EX Sandstorm print

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

(Prism Star) Rule You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

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VSTAR Power

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.)

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Unleashed print

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

(Prism Star) Rule You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

{{{ruletext}}}

VSTAR Power

Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 1 or Stage 2 card that evolves from that Pokémon in your hand, put that card on the Basic Pokémon. (This counts as evolving that Pokémon.) (If you choose a Stage 2 Pokémon in your hand, put that Pokémon on the Basic Pokémon instead of on a Stage 1 Pokémon.)

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Release information

This card was first released in the EX Sandstorm expansion with artwork by Ryo Ueda. It was reprinted in the EX Emerald expansion with the same art, and in the EX Holon Phantoms and POP Series 5 sets with new artwork by the same artist. Another artwork also by Ryo Ueda was used in Great Encounters expansion, originating from the Moonlit Pursuit and Dawn Dash expansion, and later reprinted in POP Series 8.

Rare Candy was later reclassified in Japan as an Item card during the HeartGold & SoulSilver Series, though the English Trainer cards did not adopt this naming convention until after this card's latest print. Unleashed featured new artwork by Noriko Hotta, and the Japanese Reviving Legends expansion featured yet another new illustration by Shizurow.

According to an errata issued alongside Black and White, the card now reads "Choose 1 of your Basic Pokémon in play. If you have a Stage 2 card in your hand that evolves from that Pokémon, put that card on the Basic Pokémon. (This counts as evolving that Pokémon.) You can't use this card during your first turn or on a Basic Pokémon that was put into play this turn."

Gallery

EX Sandstorm print Illus. Ryo Ueda	EX Holon Phantoms print Illus. Ryo Ueda	Great Encounters print Illus. Ryo Ueda
File:025395 T FUSHIGINAAME.jpg Unleashed print Illus. Noriko Hotta	File:025709 T FUSHIGINAAME.jpg Reviving Legends print Illus. Shizurow	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Trivia

This card's effect is similar to Pokémon Breeder of the Base Set. This card is one of the first to require common knowledge of Pokémon in general, as opposed to observable knowledge on the cards themselves (in this case, of the evolution families of Pokémon).

Origin

Rare Candy is an item in the Pokémon games that increases the level of the Pokémon it is given to by 1.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.