Fossil Excavator (Mysterious Treasures 111)

Supporter

Fossil Excavator 化石発掘員 Fossil Excavator

Illus. Kanako Eo English expansion Mysterious Treasures Rarity English card no. 111/123 Japanese expansion Secret of the Lakes Japanese Rarity Japanese Half Deck Bastiodon the Defender Japanese Half Deck Rampardos the Attacker Expansion Majestic Dawn Rarity English card no. 82/100

Fossil Excavator (Japanese: 化石発掘員 Fossil Excavator) is a Supporter card. It was first released as part of the Mysterious Treasures expansion.

Card text

All prints

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

(Prism Star) Rule You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

You can play only one Supporter card each turn. When you play this card, put it next to your Active Pokémon. When your turn ends, discard this card.

VSTAR Power

Search your deck or discard pile for a Trainer card that has Fossil in its name or a Stage 1 or Stage 2 Evolution card that evolves from a Fossil. Show it to your opponent and put it into your hand. If you searched your deck, shuffle your deck afterward.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Release information

This card was included in the Mysterious Treasures expansion, first released in the Secret of the Lakes expansion in Japan. It was reprinted in the Japanese Bastiodon the Defender and Rampardos the Attacker Half Decks, as well as the English Majestic Dawn expansion.

Trivia

• This card may have been based on and expanded from Fossil Excavation, a card from Series 1 of the Vending collection.
• Fossil Excavator is one of the only Supporter cards in the Diamond & Pearl Series of the TCG with a name in which the second word is not a possessive of the first word, the others being Professor Rowan and Rival.
• This card's artwork appears in the Lumiose Museum in Pokémon X and Y.

Origin

The ability to excavate fossils was introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl as a minigame in the Sinnoh Underground.

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