Rare Fossil (Darkness Ablaze 167)

Trainer Item

Rare Fossil めずらしい化石 Rare Fossil

Illus. 5ban Graphics Hit Points 70 English expansion Darkness Ablaze Rarity English card no. 167/189 Japanese expansion Infinity Zone Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 091/100 Japanese expansion Shiny Star V Japanese card no. 165/190

Rare Fossil (Japanese: めずらしい化石 Rare Fossil) is an Item card. It was first released as part of the Darkness Ablaze expansion.

Card text

All prints

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

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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Play this card as if it were a 70-HP Basic Pokémon. At any time during your turn, you may discard this card from play. This card can't be affected by any Special Conditions, and it can't retreat.

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.

Release information

This card was included in the Darkness Ablaze expansion, first released in the Japanese Infinity Zone expansion. It was reprinted in the Japanese Shiny Star V subset.

Trivia

• This card operates much in the same way as Mysterious Fossil and Unidentified Fossil in that it can evolve into several different Fossil Pokémon.
• The Fossilized Bird, Fish, Drake, and Dino appear in the illustration of this card.

Origin

Fossils are items in the Pokémon games that can be revived into Pokémon.

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