Bird Keeper (Darkness Ablaze 159)

Trainer Supporter

Bird Keeper とりつかい Bird Tamer

Regular print Illus. Hideki Ishikawa English expansion Darkness Ablaze Rarity English card no. 159/189 Japanese expansion Infinity Zone Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 094/100 Japanese expansion Shiny Star V Japanese card no. 172/190 English expansion Shining Fates Rarity English card no. 066/072 Japanese expansion Shiny Star V Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 193/190 Japanese expansion VMAX Climax Japanese card no. 155/184

Bird Keeper (Japanese: とりつかい Bird Tamer) is a Supporter 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.

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

Switch your Active Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. If you do, draw 3 cards.

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 Supporter card 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, alongside a Full Art card with artwork also by the same artist, in the Japanese Shiny Star V subset. The Full Art print was later included in the Shining Fates expansion. The Darkness Ablaze print was reprinted in the Japanese VMAX Climax subset.

Gallery

Darkness Ablaze print Illus. Hideki Ishikawa	Shining Fates print Illus. Hideki Ishikawa	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

Trivia

Origin

Bird Keeper is a class of Trainer in the Pokémon games. This card's illustration depicts the Bird Keeper as he appears in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!

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