Energy Charge (Neo Genesis 85)

Trainer

Energy Charge エネルギーチャージ Energy Charge

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 Expansion EX Deoxys Rarity English card no. 86/107 Japanese Half Deck Deoxys Constructed Starter Deck Rayquaza Constructed Starter Deck Japanese card no. 009/015

Energy Charge (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.

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

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.

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.

EX Deoxys 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

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.

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 reprinted in the Japanese-exclusive Pokémon VS expansion and in the EX Deoxys expansion. The EX Deoxys print received an amended card effect for clarity. Power Charge, a card that shares the same illustration, similar name, and effect to this card was released in the Expedition Base Set.

Trivia

Due to the fact that this card's name and, at the time of Power Charge's original Expedition 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, Portugese, 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.

Origin

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