Black & White

Poké Ball BLW 97/114

BLWJPUncommon
Poké Ball BLW 97

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read BLW 97/114 there. Its illustration is signed Yuri Umemura.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Black & White set, released here on 25 April 2011.

When it came out

Black & White landed here on 25 April 2011.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

Retreat cost
0
Number
97/114
Set
Black & WhiteBLW
Illustrated by
Yuri Umemura

The Japanese text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.

  2. A strength

    Hydreigon ex runs it in 1 of the 65 lists we have read, seen across 1 different tournaments.

  3. A strength

    No Weakness printed on the card. Nothing doubles up the damage it takes.

Who plays it

Every printing of Poké Ball plays the same way at a tournament. So the decks below count them all together, and the last column shows the one players wrote on their list.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Hydreigon ex1 of 651POR 80