Trainer Certification Card (Fan Club promo)

This article is about a Pokémon Trading Card Game card which has not yet been officially released in English. As such, this article may contain translated Japanese terms instead of English terms.

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Trainer

Trainer Certification Card カードトレーナー認定証 Trainer Certification Card

Illus. Ken Sugimori Japanese expansion Unnumbered Promotional cards Japanese Rarity

Trainer Certification Card (Japanese: カードトレーナー認定証 Trainer Certification Card) is a Trainer card. It is one of the Unnumbered Promotional cards.

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

This card proves that you have recorded challenges against 50 opponents in your passport. You are now recognized as an Official Pokémon Card Certified Trainer.

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.

Release information

In conjunction with the establishment of the Pokémon Fan Club in April 1999 and the start of the first part of the Grand Party 1999-2000, the "Passport Challenge" was introduced to those who attended the Challenge Road '99 Summer events between July and August 1999. Participants were given a challenge passport to record details of any battles conducted during the Grand Party 1999-2000 campaign, covering Challenge Road 1999, Autumn Battle Road 1999 and Spring Battle Road 2000. Upon recording the details of 50 matches they'd viewed, they could claim this card as a reward.

It was previously believed that after completing the Passport Challenge participants were then entered into a lottery for the chance to win this card, but that was simply a mistranslation. There was a lottery involved after this card had been obtained; the prize for completing the Passport Challenge was both this card and entrance into a lottery which offered the chance to win invites to attend the Champion Road 2000 event.

Trivia

• This card is commonly known as Grand Party, in reference to the words displayed in the illustration.
• At the height of the Pokémon phenomenon, this card was well publicized as being much rarer than it actually was (similar to the hype surrounding Birthday Pikachu), sending initial overseas prices soaring. Rumors were fueled by the card having double star rarity and the official Pocket Monsters Trading Card Game logo; two features usually reserved for the rarest cards in the world.

Origin

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