Counter Gain (Lost Thunder 170)

Trainer Pokémon Tool

Counter Gain カウンターゲイン Counter Gain

Surging Sparks regular print Illus. Toyste Beach English expansion Lost Thunder Rarity English card no. 170/214 Japanese expansion Thunderclap Spark Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 053/060 English expansion Lost Thunder Rarity English card no. 230/214 Japanese expansion Thunderclap Spark Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 073/060 Japanese Deck Kit Tag Team GX Deck Build Box Japanese card no. 015/029 Japanese expansion Tag All Stars Japanese card no. 139/173 English expansion Surging Sparks Rarity English card no. 169/191 Japanese expansion Paradise Dragona Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 059/064 English expansion Surging Sparks Rarity English card no. 249/191 Japanese expansion Paradise Dragona Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 093/064

Counter Gain (Japanese: カウンターゲイン Counter Gain) is a Pokémon Tool card. It was first released as part of the Lost Thunder expansion.

Card text

Lost Thunder print

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

VSTAR Power

If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, the attacks of the Pokémon this card is attached to cost less.

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 as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Surging Sparks print

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

If you have more Prize cards remaining than your opponent, attacks used by the Pokémon this card is attached to cost less.

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 attach any number of Pokémon Tools to your Pokémon during your turn. You may attach only 1 Pokémon Tool to each Pokémon, and it stays attached.

Release information

This card was included as both a Regular card and a Full Art Secret card in the Lost Thunder expansion, first released in the Japanese Thunderclap Spark subset. Both prints feature artwork by Toyste Beach. The Regular print later was included in the Japanese Tag Team GX Deck Build Box and Tag All Stars subset.

In the Scarlet & Violet series, this card was reprinted as a Regular card and a Full Art gold-etched hyper rare card with new artwork by the same illustrator in the Surging Sparks expansion, first released in the Japanese Paradise Dragona subset.

Gallery

Lost Thunder regular print Illus. Toyste Beach	Lost Thunder Secret print Illus. Toyste Beach	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Surging Sparks regular print Illus. Toyste Beach	Surging Sparks hyper rare print Illus. Toyste Beach	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

Trivia

Origin

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