Area Zero Underdepths (Stellar Crown 131)

Trainer Stadium

Area Zero Underdepths ゼロの大空洞 Great Zero Hollow

Regular print Illus. MARINA Chikazawa English expansion Stellar Crown Rarity English card no. 131/142 Japanese expansion Stellar Miracle Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 102/102 English expansion Stellar Crown Rarity English card no. 174/142 Japanese expansion Stellar Miracle Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 135/102 Japanese expansion Terastal Fest ex Japanese card no. 182/187

Area Zero Underdepths (Japanese: ゼロの大空洞 Great Zero Hollow) is a Stadium card. It was first released as part of the Stellar Crown expansion.

Card text

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

Each player who has any Tera Pokémon in play can have up to 8 Pokémon on their Bench. If a player no longer has any Tera Pokémon in play, that player discards Pokémon from their Bench until they have 5. When this card leaves play, both players discard Pokémon from their Bench until they have 5, and the player who played this card discards first.

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 only 1 Stadium card during your turn. Put it next to the Active Spot, and discard it if another Stadium comes into play. A Stadium with the same name can't be played.

Release information

This card was included as a Regular card and a Full Art gold-etched hyper rare card in the Stellar Crown expansion, first released in the Japanese Stellar Miracle expansion. Both prints feature artwork by MARINA Chikazawa.

In Japan, the Regular print is reprinted in the Terastal Fest ex subset.

Gallery

Regular print Illus. MARINA Chikazawa	Hyper rare print Illus. MARINA Chikazawa	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Rulings

Area Zero Underdepths's effect of expanding the Bench from 5 to 8 applies to each player's in-play zone if and only if they have a Tera Pokémon in play. Thus, when Area Zero Underdepths is in play, the following rules apply:

• If a player has no Tera Pokémon in play and 4 Benched Pokémon, and they use a card effect that allows them to put more than 1 Pokémon to the Bench at once (eg. Falinks's "Form Ranks" attack), they can only put 1 Pokémon to the Bench even if the Pokémon being put to the Bench is a Tera Pokémon. Only once the Tera Pokémon is in play does Area Zero Underdepths's effect apply for that player.
• If a player has a Tera Pokémon in the Active Spot and more than 5 Benched non-Tera Pokémon, and their Active Tera Pokémon is Knocked Out or otherwise removed from play, the player must discard their Benched Pokémon down to 5 first before promoting a new Active Pokémon, such that once the effect resolves, the player will have an Active Pokémon and 4 Benched Pokémon.
• If a player has a damaged Benched Tera Evolution Pokémon and more than 5 Benched Pokémon (including the Tera Pokémon), and if their opponent uses Technical Machine: Devolution to devolve the player's Tera Pokémon, the player discards their Benched Pokémon down to 5 first before resolving any other effects. Thus, the player may choose to discard the damaged Benched Pokémon that was just devolved; if the damaged Pokémon is discarded in this way, it is not considered Knocked Out, and the opponent does not take any Prize cards for it.
• Replacing an Area Zero Underdepths in play with Sky Field and vice versa will not change the number of Bench slots on either players' in-play zone, so long as all the requirements for either Stadium are fulfilled.

Trivia

Origin

The Area Zero Underdepths is a location beneath Area Zero, where Terapagos can be encountered in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.

References

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