Energy Charge (Neo Genesis 85)

Trainer

Energy Charge エネルギーチャージ Energy Charge Team Plasma

Illus. Keiji Kinebuchi English expansion Neo Genesis Rarity English card no. 85/111 Japanese expansion Gold, Silver, to a New World... Japanese Rarity Japanese expansion Pokémon VS Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 138/141 English expansion Expedition Base Set Rarity English card no. 147/165 Japanese expansion Base Expansion Pack Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 051/128 Expansion EX Deoxys Rarity English card no. 86/107 Japanese Half Deck Deoxys Constructed Starter Deck Japanese card no. 009/015 Japanese Half Deck Rayquaza Constructed Starter Deck Japanese card no. 009/015

Energy Charge (known as Power Charge in Expedition Base Set) (Japanese: エネルギーチャージ Energy Charge) is a Trainer card. It was first released as part of the Neo Genesis expansion.

Card text

Neo Genesis print

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

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Flip a coin. If heads, shuffle up to 2 Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck.

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.

Expedition Base Set print

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

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Flip a coin. If heads, shuffle 2 Energy cards from your discard pile into your deck (1 if you have only 1).

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.

EX Deoxys print

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

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Flip a coin. If heads, search your discard pile for 2 Energy cards (1 if there is only 1), show them to your opponent, and shuffle them into your deck.

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 originally released in the Neo Genesis expansion, originating from the Gold, Silver, to a New World... expansion in Japan. In Japan, it was reprinted in the Pokémon VS expansion, Base Expansion Pack, and the Rayquaza and Deoxys Constructed Starter Decks. It was included in the Expedition Base Set under the name Power Charge and the EX Deoxys expansion under the original name.

Due to the fact that this card's name and, at the time of Power Charge's original Expedition Base Set release, effect slightly differed from Power Charge, it was ruled that "Energy Charge" and "Power Charge" were not the same card in the English-language printings. French, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish prints of Power Charge still bore the name Energy Charge however. A similar situation would later affect Moo-Moo Milk from Neo Genesis and Moomoo Milk from HeartGold & SoulSilver, where slight differences in name and effect resulted in a ruling saying they were two different cards.

Trivia

Origin

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