Iron Defender (Japanese: アイアンディフェンダーIron Defender) is an Item card. It was first released as part of the Mega Evolution 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
During your opponent's next turn, all of your Pokémon take 30 less damage from attacks from your opponent's Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance). (This includes new Pokémon that come into play.)
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 any number of Item cards during your turn.
A player may use Iron Defender even if they have no Metal-type Pokémon in play.[1]
The effect of Iron Defender stacks per Iron Defender used.[1][2]
Trivia
Origin
The item depicted on the card is modeled after the X Defense item from the core series games, known as "Defender" in Japanese. Like the Defender card from the Base Set, the English name of this card uses the Japanese name for the X Defense item instead of the English name.
