EX Power Keepers (TCG)
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EX Power Keepers is the name given to an Expansion of cards and Theme Decks for the Pokémon Trading Card Game released only in English and European languages (though a Japanese release has been confirmed).
Set Size
- EX Power Keepers contains 108 cards.
Sequence
- 31st English release
- 34th Japanese release
Release Date
- 14th February 2007
Prereleases were held on the weekends of 3rd/4th and 10th/11th February 2007.
Trivia
- EX Power Keepers is loosely based around the Hoenn Elite Four; Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia and Drake. They each have their own Stadium Card, and the Pokémon ex featured in the set are all Pokémon owned by them in the games. Some Pokémon in the set have attacks that are enhanced when a particular Elite Four Stadium card is in play.
- EX Power Keepers was conceived to “fill the gap” between EX Dragon Frontiers and Pokémon Card Game: Diamond & Pearl, due to Nintendo’s continuing trend of releasing Expansion sets in time with related games.
- With no Japanese set to correlate with EX Power Keepers, Nintendo created many new cards, making this set the first since Team Rocket to use original cards created outside of Japan. As a result, many cards feature artwork by Ken Sugimori (as his Pokémon character images are used widely in other media and are readily available) plus background images edited with filter effects from various sources.
- Several cards in the set are reprints from older sets with new artwork, bringing back old favorites to once again see tournament play. These cards include: -
- Blaziken (reprint from EX Ruby & Sapphire)
- Combusken (reprint from EX Ruby & Sapphire)
- Omastar (reprint from EX Sandstorm)
- Wobbuffet (reprint from EX Sandstorm)
- Magneton (reprint from EX Dragon)
- Machamp (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
- Lanturn (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
- Ninetales (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
- The elusive Eeveelutions File:Shiningsymbol.gif make their English debut in this set, previously only available as Japanese PLAY Promotional cards. To the disappointment of players and collectors, only Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon were released, but Espeon and Umbreon later appeared in POP Series 5, albeit in non-holographic forms.
- EX Power Keepers finally brings the number of sets released in English and in Japanese equal once again.
- The reverse-holographic design for this set is a plain holographic foil with the EX Power Keepers set logo. Reverse-holographic versions of holographic rares have foil name text, HP text and rarity symbol.
- EX Power Keepers does not include a secret box-topper card.
- The Prerelease card for this set is Cacturne.