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Flip a coin. If heads, choose up to 3 cards at random from your opponent’s hand (don’t look at them). Your opponent shuffles those cards into his or her deck.
illus. Ken Sugimori
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Mantidactyle
IT’S A TRAP !
(It’s a broken card, btw)
WilliamH.
I like this looks of this.
I wonder what the best (most devious) disruption cards are. Building a pure disruption-just-for-run deck would be, well, fun!
Mantidactyle
The Rocket’s Trap is the best disruption card ever printed.
Next are Umbreon Star, Lass and Rocket’s Sneak Attack.
WilliamH.
OMG Lass haha! I couldn’t believe that card when I first got one. Thx for pointed out some other cards. I’m always learning more about Pkmn history. :)
coolestman22
Over time, they evolved into hooligans.
Curtis
As broken as this is as a trainer, I don’t really like it as a supporter. Risking your supporter for the turn on a coin flip is too much of a gamble for me.
coolestman22
I know, if it was guaranteed, however, it would be good.
WilliamH.
If it was guaranteed then it, would again, be broken. haha
I would prefer: “Flip 3 coins. For each Heads, pick a card….etc.”
coolestman22
on a Supporter? I think it would only be played as a Trainer with that effect.
WilliamH.
So back as an Item now? I think that seems balanced enough then.
Would it be playable?
coolestman22
that’s balanced enough.
WilliamH.
Judge + Rocket’s Trap = LOL.
feyblade
Imagine pulling this one off 3-4 times during your opponent’s turn, maybe a rocket’s sneak attack ,followed by two of these… just devestating
Otaku
As I didn’t see it plainly stated before, the main combo from when this card was Standard-legal was to use Imposter Oak’s Revenge to force your opponent down to a four card hand, Rocket’s Sneak Attack to hopefully discard at least one Trainer from your opponent’s hand, and finally The Rocket’s Trap to force your opponent to shuffle their remaining three cards back into their deck. Preferably, before using the “Trapper Combo” as it was known, you used multiple copies of Erika, swelling your own hand size while taunting your opponent with what was coming. You could even do all of this on your first turn, and at a time when first turn attacks were still legal and (when this card was brand new and before the first ever rotation) when Computer Search, Double Colorless Energy, Erika’s Jigglypuff, Item Finder, and PlusPower were also all still legal. @_@
Ambassador
This card is the only card from the Gym block of the TCG that is available in the Pokémon Card GB2 video game¹. It’s a useful card if you’re trying to donk your opponent to end matches faster – i.e. in the way Otaku formally outlined – but it’s kind of overkill against the game’s AI, which can play clumsily even if you don’t disrupt its hand at all. (Having said this, there is a lot of late-stage grinding in the game if you’re trying to complete your card collection, so a way to wrap matches up faster can be helpful.)
¹ I previously noted this on N1 Recycle Energy, where I also hazarded a guess on why the rest of the Gym block didn’t make it into the game.