Ball Guy (Shining Fates 57)

Trainer Supporter

Ball Guy ボールガイ Ball Guy

Regular print Illus. Hitoshi Ariga English expansion Shining Fates Rarity English card no. 057/072 Japanese expansion Shiny Star V Japanese card no. 175/190 English expansion Shining Fates Rarity English card no. 065/072 Japanese expansion Shiny Star V Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 196/190

Ball Guy (Japanese: ボールガイ Ball Guy) is a Supporter card. It is part of the Shining Fates expansion.

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• Card text
• Release information
  • Gallery
• Rulings
• Trivia
  • Origin
• In other languages
• References

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.

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VSTAR Power

Search your deck for up to 3 different Item cards that have the word "Ball" in their name, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle 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.

You may play only 1 Supporter card during your turn.

Release information

This card was included as both a Regular card and a Full Art card in the Shining Fates expansion, first released in the Japanese Shiny Star V subset. Both prints feature artwork by Hitoshi Ariga.

Gallery

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Rulings

• Ball Guy cannot be used to search for the card Tasty Rice Ball, even though the card has "Ball" in its name, because the card's Japanese name does not contain "Ball" (ボール).

Trivia

Origin

Ball Guy is the mascot of the Galar Pokémon League. A Poké Ball, Great Ball, Level Ball, and Quick Ball are featured in the Full Art print's illustration.

In other languages

Language		Title
Japanese		ボールガイ Ball Guy
Chinese	Cantonese	阿球 A Kàuh
	Mandarin	阿球 Ā Qiú
French		Ball Masqué
German		Ballduin
Indonesian		Ball Guy
Italian		Ballino
Korean		볼가이 Ball Guy
Brazilian Portuguese		Cara da Bola
European Spanish		Bolifacio
Thai		บอลกาย Ball Guy

References

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