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Lt. Surge · Gym Heroes (G1) #101

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Lt. Surge
Trainer › (Item)

You can play this card only if you have at least 1 Basic Pokémon card in your hand. Put a Basic Pokémon card from your hand into play as your Active Pokémon. Put your old Active Pokémon onto your Bench. (You can’t play this card if your Bench is full.)

illus. Ken Sugimori
Gym › Gym Heroes (G1) › #101/132 : Rare · ↘ Aug 14, 2000
Formats: Other: 1999–2001 · Modified: 2002
External: Bulba ↗ · Shop: TCGplayer ↗, cardmarket ↗, eBay ↗

Rating

Overall: 11.11% (2 wins, 16 losses)

Within Set & Formats:

  • Gym Heroes: n/a (0 wins, 0 losses)
  • BS-on (1999–2001): 0% (0 wins, 2 losses)
  • RO-on (Modified 2002): 0% (0 wins, 1 loss)

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8 comments

  1. reshikrom64

    (11 years ago)

    So, um…Switch?

    Reply
    • coolestman22reshikrom64

      (11 years ago)

      The only use there is for this card is as a 5th switch, and wasn’t warp point legal then?

      Reply
      • reshikrom64coolestman22

        (11 years ago)

        Not to mention Itemfinder (old-school Junk Arm).

        Reply
  2. Curtis

    (11 years ago)

    Its not exactly a Switch, as your new active comes from your hand.

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    • reshikrom64Curtis

      (11 years ago)

      Yeah, but if you have the space on your Bench to play Surge, why wouldn’t you just play your Basic and then just Switch it active? There is honestly no reason to play this. You can’t even use cost, because switches are probably the most common non-energy card in existence…wait. This garbage, outclassed by SWITCH of all things, was a rare????

      Reply
  3. Krisi92

    (10 years ago)

    I was gonna say that this is strictly worse than Switch in every way, but you guys beat me to it.

    Reply
  4. feyblade

    (10 years ago)

    If this could be played during your opponent’s turn,this would be absolutely fascinating, and it would make sense from a flavor perspective. Of course, that would bring instant-speed trainers into the fore in Pokemon TCG , which might not be a good idea….

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    • WilliamH. feyblade

      (10 years ago)

      I would absolutely LOVE it is Pokemon came out with some Trainer cards that could be played off-turn! They could start simple by letting cards like Switch, Defender, and Sleep!, and then print more complicated cards like perhaps one that lets you remove the energy from a pkmn that would be KO’d and return it to your hand (or move to benched pkmn).

      Reply

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