Pokémon Trader (Base Set 77)

Trainer

Pokémon Trader ポケモン交換おじさん Pokémon Exchange Man Team Plasma

Illus. Ken Sugimori English expansion Base Set Rarity English card no. 77/102 Japanese expansion Expansion Pack Japanese Rarity Expansion Base Set 2 Rarity English card no. 106/130 Card GB set Evolution Card GB ID B43 Card GB 2 set Legendary Power Card GB 2 ID B58 Expansion Legendary Collection Rarity English card no. 103/110

Pokémon Trader (Japanese: ポケモン交換おじさん Pokémon Exchange Man) is a Trainer card. It is part of the Base Set.

Card text

All prints

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

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Trade 1 of the Basic Pokémon or Evolution cards in your hand for 1 of the Basic Pokémon or Evolution cards from your deck. Show both cards to your opponent. Shuffle your deck afterward.

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 reprinted in the Base Set 2 and Legendary Collection reprint sets, which were only released outside of Japan.

Trivia

Origin

The Pokémon games feature characters who will trade one of their Pokémon to the player in exchange for another. In Pokémon Red and Blue and their remakes Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, one of the first of these trades is for a Farfetch'd, as featured in the illustration.

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