Search your deck for a basic Energy card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
· Item rule: You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).
illus. Ryo Ueda
Formats: Modified: 2013, 2014 · Standard: 2015 · Expanded: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, Current
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reshikrom64
One of the best cards in format. Should see play in almost every deck, alongside Virbank City Gym (PLS) #126…oh, never mind. Hypnotoxic Laser (PLS) #123 is obviously such a bad card TPCI needed to replace it with Energy Search.
Ziggmiceter
PHB wasn’t going to be in the set in the first place, so Virbank wouldn’t have had an impact on the format anyways.
coolestman22
Virbank might have been alright in Scolipede/Celebi.
feyblade
Due to the relative scarcity of nonbasic energies in the early days, Energy Search was a no-brainer in dual colored decks that didn’t absolutely trash their energy base through discard. It was about as weak a card as a no brainer could ever be, marginally improving your energy-base and marginally thinning your deck at the slight expense of marginally lowering your deck’s maximum possible energy.
In a format in which most decks run nonbasic energies to the point of absurdity, this really is no longer the case at all. As such, it’s only logical that the TCG eventually released a no-drawbacks double energy search