Sabrina & Brycen (SM Promo 246)

Trainer Supporter

Sabrina & Brycen ナツメ&ハチク Natsume & Hachiku

Illus. Ryuta Fuse English expansion SM Black Star Promos English card no. SM246 Japanese expansion S-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 142/S-P

Sabrina & Brycen (Japanese: ナツメ&ハチク Natsume & Hachiku) is a TAG TEAM Supporter card. It is one of the SM Black Star Promos.

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

Search your deck for up to 2 basic 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, you may also search for up to 3 Pokémon of different types in this way.

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.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn (before your attack).

Release information

This card was one of the SM Black Star Promos included in the Trainer's Toolkit 2021, released August 6, 2021. In Japan, it was one of two possible S-P Promotional cards that began to be distributed alongside participation prizes from October 10, 2020 at Pokémon Card Gym venues across Japan. Eligible events included the Gym Battle and New Battle and prizes were handed out for as long as stocks lasted. The Japanese print features the Pokémon Card Gym logo.

Trivia

This card was created in response to Bellelba & Brycen-Man that was banned in the Standard format. As such, it features the Sun & Moon Series layout despite its release during the Sword & Shield Series. The Japanese print retains the regulation mark of the banned card, which ensured its rotation at the end of the 2020-2021 season. Due to the belated release of the card outside Japan, it did not become legal until August 20, 2021 and was therefore only legal in the Standard format for 21 days before the new season began on September 10.

Origin

Sabrina is a Gym Leader in Kanto, while Brycen is a Gym Leader in Unova; both appear as actors in Pokéstar Studios films. The card artwork shows them reciting lines from scripts while two of their costumes (Bellelba's and Brycen-Man's, respectively) can be seen hanging on a rack in the background.

References

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