Pokémon Research Lab (Unified Minds 205)

Trainer Stadium

Pokémon Research Lab ポケモンけんきゅうじょ Pokémon Lab

Illus. aky CG Works English expansion Unified Minds Rarity English card no. 205/236 Japanese expansion Miracle Twin Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 089/094

Pokémon Research Lab (Japanese: ポケモンけんきゅうじょ Pokémon Lab) is a Stadium card. It is part of the Unified Minds expansion.

Card text

All prints

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

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.

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.

This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card.

Trivia

• This card was banned from the Gym Leader Challenge format starting November 1, 2023, due to giving the player the ability to achieve quick domination, especially in Colorless decks. By putting Pokémon like Aerodactyl from Team Up and Archen onto the Bench in this way, the player would evolve the latter into Archeops from Silver Tempest, accelerate Energy by using its Ability, and do at least 180 damage as early as the second turn, enough to Knock Out almost any Pokémon.^[1]

Origin

The illustration depicts the experimental lab of the Cinnabar Lab, a facility located on Cinnabar Island, as it appears in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!. The card's effect references that fossils can be revived here.

References

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