Please remember to follow the unreleased materials policy, manual of style, and code of conduct at all times.
Check the Bulbagarden home page for up-to-date Pokémon news, and discuss it on the forums or in the Bulbagarden Discord server.

Lost Zone

From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
Jump to navigationJump to search
The Lost Zone in Pokémon Trading Card Game Live as it sucks in Spinarak

The Lost Zone (Japanese: ロストゾーン) is a zone in the Pokémon Trading Card Game, first introduced in the Platinum expansion. It is strongly associated with Giratina. Unlike other game zones, there is only a single Lost Zone, shared by both players. No game rule causes a card to be moved to it; instead, some card effects cause cards to be placed into the Lost Zone.

Much like the discard pile, cards in the Lost Zone are considered public knowledge; there are, however, no effects to retrieve cards from the Lost Zone or effects that trigger when a card is placed there, rendering them unplayable during the rest of the match.

The number of cards in the Lost Zone, as well as the properties of specific cards in the zone, can be referenced by other cards. Such effects are an incentive to put the opponent or one's own cards into the Lost Zone. Many of these effects only care about the cards a specific player has in the Lost Zone, not necessarily every card. (However, some effects do indeed only care about cards in the Lost Zone and not about who owns them.)

Prism Star cards, as per the Prism Star rule, are moved to the Lost Zone if they would be moved to the discard pile.

Location

The place on the playfield where the Lost Zone is placed is often disputed. Rulebooks advise that cards in the Lost Zone should be placed face up outside of the play area. Meanwhile, players in tournaments often tuck cards in the Lost Zone underneath their GX or VSTAR markers. The Play! Pokémon Tournament Rules Handbook enforces players keep their Lost Zone above their Prize cards in a neat stack.[1] While the Lost Zone is a single zone that both players use, players usually keep the cards that they own separate from the opponent's cards while in the Lost Zone. The Tournament Rules Handbook supports this interpretation, notably using the phrase "A player's Lost Zone...".

Radiant Gardevoir, Hisuian ZoroarkVSTAR, and EnamorusV all within the Lost Zone, or at least within the gas that is tied to the dimension.

Digital implementations of the Trading Card Game present the Lost Zone in different ways. Pokémon Trading Card Game Online represented the Lost Zone as a single stack next to the Active Spot, with a line separating either player's cards in the Lost Zone while inspecting this stack. Pokémon Trading Card Game Live represents the Lost Zone as a purple void that cards are sucked into, located to the left of the Active Spots. This void only appears after the first time a card enters the Lost Zone. There is one void for both players, but the contents of the Lost Zone can be sorted by each player.

Backstory

In Lost Origin, Giratina tore a hole in the fabric of space that leads to the Lost Zone.[2] Giratina VSTAR is described to have plunged "the world into the abyssal shadow of the Lost Zone!"[3] The Lost Zone is described as having "powerful shadows".[4]

The art of the cards Lost World and Lost City may either show locations with prominent connections to the Lost Zone or be depictions of the Lost Zone.

Sets

Platinum introduced the Lost Zone, but only has four cards referring to it.
Lost Origin is themed after the Lost Zone.

Cards with text referring to the Lost Zone are in the following sets:

(This list excludes the Prism Star rule. For those cards, see the Prism Star page.)

Artwork

The purple energy sphere hovering over Snorlax indicated that the card references the Lost Zone in the HeartGold & SoulSilver Series

Different sets use different motifs in the art to indicate that the card cares about the Lost Zone.

  • HeartGold & SoulSilver Series: Cards have spheres of purple, crackling energy in the artwork.
  • Sun & Moon Series: Some cards continue to use energy spheres, but the color range is extended to include blues and blacks. Other cards instead use any kind of purple or blue energy. Full Art cards do not follow this motif.
  • Sword & Shield Series: Cards have wisps of purple, pink, and blue gas emanate from the frame of the art. Pokémon V and Pokémon VSTAR do not have frames, but incorporate the gas into the art. Full Art cards do not follow this motif.

Some Item cards use Lost Zone colors in their design, like Lost Remover, Mirage Gate, Lost Vacuum and Lost Blender.

Cards

050Diglett.png This section is incomplete.
Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it.

The following is a list of all cards which have an effect referring to the Lost Zone.

Pokémon that interact with the Lost Zone
Cards listed with a blue background are only legal to use in the current Expanded format.
Cards listed with a green background are legal to use in both the current Standard and Expanded formats.
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Giratina Psychic Platinum Rare 027/127 Intense Fight in the Destroyed Sky Rare Holo 048/092
Arceus Colorless Arceus Rare Holo AR5 Advent of Arceus Rare Holo 076/090
      DPt-P Promotional cards   040/DPt-P
Banette Psychic Triumphant Rare 014/102 Lost Link Rare 021/040
Absol Darkness Triumphant Rare Holo Prime 091/102 Lost Link SuperRare Holo 027/040
Gengar Psychic Triumphant Rare Holo Prime 094/102 Lost Link SuperRare Holo 015/040
Magnezone Lightning Triumphant Rare Holo Prime 096/102 Lost Link SuperRare Holo 011/040
Mew Psychic Triumphant Rare Holo Prime 097/102 Lost Link SuperRare Holo 018/040
Pachirisu Lightning Call of Legends Rare Holo 18/95 Lost Link Rare Holo 012/040
Snorlax Colorless Call of Legends Rare 33/95 Lost Link Rare Holo 028/040
Tangrowth Grass Call of Legends Rare 34/95 Lost Link Uncommon 004/040
Zangoose Colorless Call of Legends Rare 39/95 Lost Link Rare 034/040
      L-P Promotional cards   056/L-P
Mime Jr. Psychic Call of Legends Uncommon 47/95 Lost Link Uncommon 016/040
Relicanth Water Call of Legends Uncommon 69/95 Lost Link Uncommon 008/040
Spinarak Grass Lost Thunder Common 9/214 Super-Burst Impact C 006/095
Skiploom Grass Lost Thunder Uncommon 13/214 Super-Burst Impact C 010/095
      Tag All Stars   005/173
Jumpluff Grass Lost Thunder Rare Holo 14/214 Super-Burst Impact R 011/095
      Tag All Stars   006/173
Typhlosion Fire Lost Thunder Rare Holo 42/214 Super-Burst Impact R 019/095
Slowking Water Lost Thunder Rare 55/214 Super-Burst Impact U 025/095
Ampharos Lightning Lost Thunder Rare Holo 78/214 Super-Burst Impact R 036/095
Raikou Lightning Lost Thunder Rare 79/214 Super-Burst Impact R 037/095
SM Black Star Promos   SM150 Tag All Stars   044/173
Natu Psychic Lost Thunder Common 87/214 Super-Burst Impact C 038/095
      Tag All Stars   056/173
Unown Psychic Lost Thunder Rare 92/214 Super-Burst Impact U 043/095
Girafarig Psychic Lost Thunder Uncommon 94/214 Super-Burst Impact C 045/095
Pokémon LV.X that interact with the Lost Zone
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Giratina LV.X Psychic Platinum Rare Holo LV.X 124/127 Galactic's Conquest Rare Holo LV.X 052/096
DP Black Star Promos   DP38      
Pokémon Pokémon G LV.X that interact with the Lost Zone
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Dialga Pokémon GLV.X Metal Platinum Rare Holo LV.X 122/127 Galactic's Conquest Rare Holo LV.X 066/096
Palkia Pokémon GLV.X Water Platinum Rare Holo LV.X 125/127 Galactic's Conquest Rare Holo LV.X 033/096
Absol Pokémon GLV.X Darkness Supreme Victors Rare Holo LV.X 141/147 Beat of the Frontier Rare Holo LV.X 065/100
Pokémon LEGEND that interact with the Lost Zone
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Darkrai & Cresselia
LEGEND 		DarknessPsychic Triumphant Rare Holo Legend 099/102 Lost Link Rare Holo Legend 035/040
Triumphant Rare Holo Legend 0100/102 Lost Link Rare Holo Legend 036/040
Pokémon GX that interact with the Lost Zone
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Blacephalon GX Fire Lost Thunder Ultra-Rare Rare 52/214 Super-Burst Impact RR 023/095
Lost Thunder Rare Ultra 199/214 Super-Burst Impact SR 097/095
Lost Thunder Rare Rainbow 219/214 Super-Burst Impact HR 105/095
      Tag All Stars RR 028/173
Trainer cards that interact with the Lost Zone
Card Type English
Expansion 		Rarity # Japanese
Expansion 		Rarity #
Lost Remover I Call of Legends Uncommon 80/95 Lost Link Uncommon 038/040
      L-P Promotional cards   057/L-P
Lost World St Call of Legends Uncommon 81/95 Lost Link Uncommon 040/040
Lysandre Prism Star Su Forbidden Light Rare Prism 110/131 Forbidden Light PR 089/094
 


(This list excludes the Prism Star rule. For those cards, see the Prism Star page.)

Trivia

  • In Creating a Strong Stage 2 Pokémon Deck, an episode of Top Deck Academy, an incorrect answer to a trivia question involved sending a player "to the Lost Zone, ending the game".[5]

In other languages

050Diglett.png This section is incomplete.
Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it.
Reason: Thai name
Language Title
Japan Flag.png Japanese ロストゾーン Lost Zone
Chinese Cantonese 放逐區 Fongjuhk Kēui
Mandarin 放逐區 / 放逐区 Fàngzhú Qū
France Flag.png French Zone Perdue
Germany Flag.png German Nirgendwo
Indonesia Flag.png Indonesian Lost Zone
Italy Flag.png Italian Zona Perduta
Area perduta (Ultra Prism onward)
South Korea Flag.png Korean 로스트존 Lost Zone
Brazil Flag.png Brazilian Portuguese Zona Perdida
Spain Flag.png Spanish Zona Perdida

See also

References

  1. ↑ Play! Pokémon Tournament Rules Handbook
  2. ↑ Lost Origin Expansion Overview.
  3. ↑ Lost Origin page
  4. ↑ Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield-Lost Origin | Available Now!
  5. ↑ Creating a Strong Stage 2 Pokémon Deck ✌️ Top Deck Academy | Pokémon TCG - YouTube


Project TCG logo.png This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.
Retrieved from "https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/w/index.php?title=Lost_Zone&oldid=4205563"