EX Power Keepers (TCG)

EX Power Keepers (Japanese: ワールドチャンピオンズパック World Champions Pack) is the name given to an Expansion of cards and Theme Decks for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Previously released only in English and European languages, it was subsequently released in Japanese to give native players the chance to use cards from the set in Worlds 2007. It was also the last Expansion to feature the "EX" prefix and the last Generation III set.

File:EX16-Logo.png

The EX Power Keepers set logo.

File:EX16-Symbol.gif

The symbol for EX Power Keepers is two downward triangles with a starburst on top.

Set size

• Both the English and Japanese sets contain 108 cards

Sequence

• 31st English release
• 34th Japanese release

Release dates

• 14th February 2007 - English Expansion
• 5th July 2007 - Japanese Expansion

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 Diamond & Pearl, due to Nintendo's continuing trend of releasing Expansion sets in time with related games.
• With no Japanese set at the time 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)
• In Japan, the set was available only through the Pokémon Card Game website, in a similar fashion to the distribution of the Pokémon Web Expansion. Released under the name of World Champions Pack, it was intended for Japanese players only so they would not be at a disadvantage at Worlds 2007.
• Japanese players could order their packs online from 15th June 2007 until 1st July 2007, a rather limited window of opportunity. Packs were released from 5th July onwards to those who had ordered them.
• Each pack contained 15 cards as opposed to 10.
• There are no Half Decks to correlate with the Japanese release.
• The elusive Eeveelutions 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.
• At the time of its release, EX Power Keepers finally brought the number of sets released in English and in Japanese equal once again, but with its Japanese release the sequence has been thrown out of balance.
• Despite already being available as PLAY Promotional cards in the past, the Japanese set still includes the Eeveelutions , allowing players not in the Players Club or those who did not gain enough EXP Points for these cards a chance of obtaining them again.
• This is the first time an entire English-exclusive Expansion has been translated into Japanese. Previously, only single cards had been translated from English into Japanese, such as Dark Raichu from the Team Rocket Expansion and several cards from EX Sandstorm.
• 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.

Theme decks

• Dark Blast
• Mind Game

Card list

English expansion

No.	Card Name	Type	Rarity
1	Aggron		File:Rare rare.gifH
2	Altaria		File:Rare rare.gifH
3	Armaldo		File:Rare rare.gifH
4	Banette		File:Rare rare.gifH
5	Blaziken		File:Rare rare.gifH
6	Charizard		File:Rare rare.gifH
7	Cradily		File:Rare rare.gifH
8	Delcatty		File:Rare rare.gifH
9	Gardevoir		File:Rare rare.gifH
10	Kabutops		File:Rare rare.gifH
11	Machamp		File:Rare rare.gifH
12	Raichu		File:Rare rare.gifH
13	Slaking		File:Rare rare.gifH
14	Dusclops		File:Rare rare.gif
15	Lanturn		File:Rare rare.gif
16	Magneton		File:Rare rare.gif
17	Mawile		File:Rare rare.gif
18	Mightyena		File:Rare rare.gif
19	Ninetales		File:Rare rare.gif
20	Omastar		File:Rare rare.gif
21	Pichu		File:Rare rare.gif
22	Sableye		File:Rare rare.gif
23	Seviper		File:Rare rare.gif
24	Wobbuffet		File:Rare rare.gif
25	Zangoose		File:Rare rare.gif
26	Anorith		File:Rare uncom.gif
27	Cacturne		File:Rare uncom.gif
28	Charmeleon		File:Rare uncom.gif
29	Combusken		File:Rare uncom.gif
30	Glalie		File:Rare uncom.gif
31	Kirlia		File:Rare uncom.gif
32	Lairon		File:Rare uncom.gif
33	Machoke		File:Rare uncom.gif
34	Medicham		File:Rare uncom.gif
35	Metang		File:Rare uncom.gif
36	Nuzleaf		File:Rare uncom.gif
37	Sealeo		File:Rare uncom.gif
38	Sharpedo		File:Rare uncom.gif
39	Shelgon		File:Rare uncom.gif
40	Vibrava		File:Rare uncom.gif
41	Vigoroth		File:Rare uncom.gif
42	Aron		File:Rare com.gif
43	Bagon		File:Rare com.gif
44	Baltoy		File:Rare com.gif
45	Beldum		File:Rare com.gif
46	Cacnea		File:Rare com.gif
47	Carvanha		File:Rare com.gif
48	Charmander		File:Rare com.gif
49	Chinchou		File:Rare com.gif
50	Duskull		File:Rare com.gif
51	Kabuto		File:Rare com.gif
52	Lileep		File:Rare com.gif
53	Machop		File:Rare com.gif
54	Magnemite		File:Rare com.gif
55	Meditite		File:Rare com.gif
56	Omanyte		File:Rare com.gif
57	Pikachu		File:Rare com.gif
58	Poochyena		File:Rare com.gif
59	Ralts		File:Rare com.gif
60	Seedot		File:Rare com.gif
61	Shuppet		File:Rare com.gif
62	Skitty		File:Rare com.gif
63	Slakoth		File:Rare com.gif
64	Snorunt		File:Rare com.gif
65	Spheal		File:Rare com.gif
66	Swablu		File:Rare com.gif
67	Torchic		File:Rare com.gif
68	Trapinch		File:Rare com.gif
69	Vulpix		File:Rare com.gif
70	Wynaut		File:Rare com.gif
71	Battle Frontier	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
72	Drake's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
73	Energy Recycle System	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
74	Energy Removal 2	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
75	Energy Switch	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
76	Glacia's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
77	Great Ball	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
78	Master Ball	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
79	Phoebe's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
80	Professor Birch	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
81	Scott	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
82	Sidney's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
83	Steven's Advice	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
84	Claw Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
85	Mysterious Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
86	Root Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
87	Darkness Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
88	Metal Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
89	Multi Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
90	Cyclone Energy	E	File:Rare uncom.gif
91	Warp Energy	E	File:Rare uncom.gif
92	Absol ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
93	Claydol ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
94	Flygon ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
95	Metagross ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
96	Salamence ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
97	Shiftry ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
98	Skarmory ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
99	Walrein ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
100	Flareon		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
101	Jolteon		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
102	Vaporeon		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
103	Grass Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH
104	Fire Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH
105	Water Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH
106	Lightning Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH
107	Psychic Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH
108	Fighting Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gifH

Japanese expansion

No.	Card Name	Type	Rarity
1	Seedot		File:Rare com.gif
2	Cacnea		File:Rare com.gif
3	Seviper		File:Rare rare.gif
4	Lileep		File:Rare com.gif
5	Cradily		File:Rare rare.gif
6	Charmander		File:Rare com.gif
7	Charmeleon		File:Rare uncom.gif
8	Charizard		File:Rare rare.gif
9	Vulpix		File:Rare com.gif
10	Ninetales		File:Rare rare.gif
11	Flareon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
12	Torchic		File:Rare com.gif
13	Combusken		File:Rare uncom.gif
14	Blaziken		File:Rare rare.gifH
15	Vaporeon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
16	Omanyte		File:Rare com.gif
17	Omastar		File:Rare rare.gif
18	Snorunt		File:Rare com.gif
19	Glalie		File:Rare uncom.gif
20	Spheal		File:Rare com.gif
21	Sealeo		File:Rare uncom.gif
22	Walrein ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
23	Pikachu		File:Rare com.gif
24	Raichu		File:Rare rare.gifH
25	Magnemite		File:Rare com.gif
26	Magneton		File:Rare rare.gif
27	Jolteon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		File:Rare ssrare.gifH
28	Chinchou		File:Rare com.gif
29	Lanturn		File:Rare rare.gif
30	Pichu		File:Rare rare.gif
31	Wobbuffet		File:Rare rare.gif
32	Ralts		File:Rare com.gif
33	Kirlia		File:Rare uncom.gif
34	Gardevoir		File:Rare rare.gifH
35	Sableye		File:Rare rare.gif
36	Baltoy		File:Rare com.gif
37	Claydol ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
38	Shuppet		File:Rare com.gif
39	Banette		File:Rare rare.gif
40	Duskull		File:Rare com.gif
41	Dusclops		File:Rare rare.gif
42	Wynaut		File:Rare com.gif
43	Machop		File:Rare com.gif
44	Machoke		File:Rare uncom.gif
45	Machamp		File:Rare rare.gif
46	Kabuto		File:Rare com.gif
47	Kabutops		File:Rare rare.gif
48	Meditite		File:Rare com.gif
49	Medicham		File:Rare uncom.gif
50	Trapinch		File:Rare com.gif
51	Anorith		File:Rare uncom.gif
52	Armaldo		File:Rare rare.gif
53	Poochyena		File:Rare com.gif
54	Mightyena		File:Rare rare.gif
55	Nuzleaf		File:Rare uncom.gif
56	Shiftry ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
57	Carvanha		File:Rare com.gif
58	Sharpedo		File:Rare uncom.gif
59	Cacturne		File:Rare uncom.gif
60	Absol ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
61	Skarmory ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
62	Mawile		File:Rare rare.gif
63	Aron		File:Rare com.gif
64	Lairon		File:Rare uncom.gif
65	Aggron		File:Rare rare.gif
66	Beldum		File:Rare com.gif
67	Metang		File:Rare uncom.gif
68	Metagross ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
69	Slakoth		File:Rare com.gif
70	Vigoroth		File:Rare uncom.gif
71	Slaking		File:Rare rare.gifH
72	Skitty		File:Rare com.gif
73	Delcatty		File:Rare rare.gifH
74	Vibrava		File:Rare uncom.gif
75	Flygon ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
76	Swablu		File:Rare com.gif
77	Altaria		File:Rare rare.gif
78	Zangoose		File:Rare rare.gif
79	Bagon		File:Rare com.gif
80	Shelgon		File:Rare uncom.gif
81	Salamence ex		File:Rare rare.gifex
82	Energy Recycle System	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
83	Energy Switch	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
84	Energy Removal 2	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
85	Great Ball	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
86	Claw Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
87	Mysterious Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
88	Root Fossil	T	File:Rare com.gif
89	Master Ball	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
90	Scott	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
91	Professor Birch	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
92	Steven's Advice	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
93	Battle Frontier	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
94	Sidney's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
95	Drake's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
96	Phoebe's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
97	Glacia's Stadium	T	File:Rare uncom.gif
98	Cyclone Energy	E	File:Rare uncom.gif
99	Multi Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
100	Warp Energy	E	File:Rare uncom.gif
101	Darkness Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
102	Metal Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
103	Grass Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
104	Fire Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
105	Water Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
106	Lightning Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
107	Psychic Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif
108	Fighting Energy	E	File:Rare rare.gif

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