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Blaine’s Last Resort · Gym Heroes (G1) #105

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Blaine’s Last Resort
Trainer

You can’t play this card if you have any cards in your hand other than Blaine’s Last Resort. Show your hand to your opponent, then draw 5 cards.

illus. Ken Sugimori
Gym › Gym Heroes (G1) › #105/132 : Uncommon · ↘ Aug 14, 2000
Formats: Other: 1999–2001 · Modified: 2002
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Rating

Overall: 68.42% (13 wins, 6 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

  • Gym Heroes: 100% (1 win, 0 losses)
  • BS-on (1999–2001): 100% (1 win, 0 losses)
  • RO-on (Modified 2002): 100% (2 wins, 0 losses)

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4 comments

  1. Krisi92

    (10 years ago)

    Almost strictly worse than Professor Oak, I guess…

    Reply
  2. coolestman22

    (10 years ago)

    If you want to use technical terms, you can put all cards in your hand down, play this, pick your hand up, show it to your opponent, and proceed to draw 5 cards.

    Reply
  3. Nosredna

    (1 year ago)

    Not sure why you would ever want to use this when Professor Oak exists, unless I’m missing something big

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    • OtakuNosredna

      (1 year ago)

      I don’t recall if this card actually was used with much competitive success but there are reasons:

      1) You could run both cards in your deck.
      2) You could even use both cards in the same turn.
      3) The very first set rotation axed Professor Oak, but not Blaine’s Last Resort.

      Blaine’s Last Resort released while Professor Oak was legal, but both cards predate both the practice of set rotation and the introduction of the Supporter mechanic. What we now think of as “Item cards” originally was just how all Trainer cards functioned. To this day, any Trainer which did not receive an errata or a re-release “updating” it into something other than a “normal” Trainer card counts as an Item card in the Unlimited Format, and that would include both Blaine’s Last Resort and Professor Oak. So both then and now, you could run both in the same deck, maxed out, and use multiple of either in a single turn.

      Computer Search and Item Finder made getting your hand down to just Blaine’s Last Resort… reasonable. Of course, you would still be better off with searching out or recycling a Professor Oak. If you wanted a secondary draw card, Bill or Erika would do, mostly Erika. Though not anymore, as she was finally re-released as a Supporter near the end of 2020, in SM – Cosmic Eclipse. Prior to that, though, she too functioned like an Item card… and while she was legal outside of the Unlimited Format, so was Imposter Oak’s Revenge, so it didn’t matter that your opponent could draw cards from her as well.

      After set rotation, I still don’t think Blaine’s Last Resort became better; it lost Professor Oak as competition, but also there was no more Computer Search or Item Finder. Erika was still there, and Professor Elm was added. Bill returned, but not until the last few months of the Format.

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