Struggle Gloves (Darkness Ablaze 171)

Trainer Item

Struggle Gloves 逆境グローブ Adversity Gloves

Illus. Ryo Ueda English expansion Darkness Ablaze Rarity English card no. 171/189 Japanese expansion S-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 045/S-P

Struggle Gloves (Japanese: 逆境グローブ Adversity Gloves) is a Pokémon Tool card. It is 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

Attach a Pokémon Tool to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn't already have a Pokémon Tool attached.

VSTAR Power

If the Pokémon this card is attached to has Weakness to your opponent's Active Pokémon's type, its attacks do 30 more damage to your opponent's Active Pokémon (before applying Weakness and Resistance).

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.

Release information

This card was included in the Darkness Ablaze expansion, first released as one of the Japanese S-P Promotional cards. In Japan, it was one of seven S-P Promotional cards available in Pokémon Card Gym Promo Card Pack 2, which was intended to be distributed at Pokémon Card Gym venues throughout March, April, and May 2020; however, these events were among those to be canceled from February 29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, it is evident venues still received packs from The Pokémon Company, hence external knowledge of the cards at the time, and that some venues still distributed them in some way. Events officially resumed from May 23, 2020 and packs were distributed until July. The Japanese print features the Pokémon Card Gym logo.

References

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