Forest of Giant Plants (Japanese: 巨大植物の森Giant Plant Forest) is a Stadium card. It was first released as part of the Ancient Origins expansion.
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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
Each player's Pokémon can evolve during his or her first turn or the turn he or she plays those Pokémon.
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.
Release information
This card was included in the Ancient Origins expansion, first released in the Japanese Bandit Ring expansion. In Japan, it was reprinted as a Mirror Reverse Holofoil in the Premium Champion Pack. It was reprinted in the Japanese Premium Trainer Box, utilizing the XY Era Trainer card layout instead of the newly introduced Sun & Moon Era layout. The reprints later included in The Best of XY subset and the Ultra Sun Deck Build Box in Japan also use the old layout.
Rulings
It was announced in July 2017 that this card was to be banned from all sanctioned Pokémon TCG tournaments using the Expanded format as it was ruled to create an unbalanced playing environment. The use of this card allowed many dangerous strategies with Grass-type Pokémon, ranging from limiting the opponent's options to allowing a win on the first turn before the opponent can play. This card was also banned in the Gym Leader Challenge format from January 10, 2022 onward for the same reason.[1]
One such strategy evolved into a short-lived deck archetype known as Shiftry Donk, which involves Shiftry from Next Destinies. Due to that, Shiftry was banned from the Expanded format, but was unbanned when this card was banned.
The Stadium card Forest of Vitality released later in the Mega Evolution expansion can be considered an underpowered version of this card, as it only allows Grass-type Pokémon to evolve into other Grass-type Pokémon, and cannot be used to evolve Pokémon on either player's first turn.
