EX Power Keepers (Japanese: ワールドチャンピオンズパック World Champions Pack) is the name given to an Expansion of cards and Theme Decks for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. Previously released only in English and European languages, it was subsequently released in Japanese to give native players the chance to use cards from the set in Worlds 2007. It was also the last Expansion to feature the "EX" prefix and the last Generation III set.

The EX Power Keepers set logo.

The symbol for EX Power Keepers is two downward triangles with a starburst on top.

Set size

Both the English and Japanese sets contain 108 cards

Sequence

31st English release
34th Japanese release

Release dates

14th February 2007 - English Expansion
5th July 2007 - Japanese Expansion

Prereleases were held on the weekends of 3rd/4th and 10th/11th February 2007.

Trivia

EX Power Keepers is loosely based around the Hoenn Elite Four; Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia and Drake. They each have their own Stadium Card, and the Pokémon ex featured in the set are all Pokémon owned by them in the games. Some Pokémon in the set have attacks that are enhanced when a particular Elite Four Stadium card is in play.
EX Power Keepers was conceived to “fill the gap” between EX Dragon Frontiers and Diamond & Pearl, due to Nintendo's continuing trend of releasing Expansion sets in time with related games.
With no Japanese set at the time to correlate with EX Power Keepers, Nintendo created many new cards, making this set the first since Team Rocket to use original cards created outside of Japan. As a result, many cards feature artwork by Ken Sugimori (as his Pokémon character images are used widely in other media and are readily available) plus background images edited with filter effects from various sources.
Several cards in the set are reprints from older sets with new artwork, bringing back old favorites to once again see tournament play. These cards include: -
- Blaziken (reprint from EX Ruby & Sapphire)
- Combusken (reprint from EX Ruby & Sapphire)
- Omastar (reprint from EX Sandstorm)
- Wobbuffet (reprint from EX Sandstorm)
- Magneton (reprint from EX Dragon)
- Machamp (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
- Lanturn (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
- Ninetales (reprint from EX Hidden Legends)
In Japan, the set was available only through the Pokémon Card Game website, in a similar fashion to the distribution of the Pokémon Web Expansion. Released under the name of World Champions Pack, it was intended for Japanese players only so they would not be at a disadvantage at Worlds 2007.
Japanese players could order their packs online from 15th June 2007 until 1st July 2007, a rather limited window of opportunity. Packs were released from 5th July onwards to those who had ordered them.
Each pack contained 15 cards as opposed to 10.
There are no Half Decks to correlate with the Japanese release.
The elusive Eeveelutions make their English debut in this set, previously only available as Japanese PLAY Promotional cards. To the disappointment of players and collectors, only Flareon, Jolteon and Vaporeon were released, but Espeon and Umbreon later appeared in POP Series 5, albeit in non-holographic forms.
At the time of its release, EX Power Keepers finally brought the number of sets released in English and in Japanese equal once again, but with its Japanese release the sequence has been thrown out of balance.
Despite already being available as PLAY Promotional cards in the past, the Japanese set still includes the Eeveelutions , allowing players not in the Players Club or those who did not gain enough EXP Points for these cards a chance of obtaining them again.
This is the first time an entire English-exclusive Expansion has been translated into Japanese. Previously, only single cards had been translated from English into Japanese, such as Dark Raichu from the Team Rocket Expansion and several cards from EX Sandstorm.
The reverse-holographic design for this set is a plain holographic foil with the EX Power Keepers set logo. Reverse-holographic versions of holographic rares have foil name text, HP text and rarity symbol.
EX Power Keepers does not include a secret box-topper card.
The Prerelease card for this set is Cacturne.

Theme decks

Card list

English expansion

No.	Card Name	Type	Rarity
1	Aggron		H
2	Altaria		H
3	Armaldo		H
4	Banette		H
5	Blaziken		H
6	Charizard		H
7	Cradily		H
8	Delcatty		H
9	Gardevoir		H
10	Kabutops		H
11	Machamp		H
12	Raichu		H
13	Slaking		H
14	Dusclops
15	Lanturn
16	Magneton
17	Mawile
18	Mightyena
19	Ninetales
20	Omastar
21	Pichu
22	Sableye
23	Seviper
24	Wobbuffet
25	Zangoose
26	Anorith
27	Cacturne
28	Charmeleon
29	Combusken
30	Glalie
31	Kirlia
32	Lairon
33	Machoke
34	Medicham
35	Metang
36	Nuzleaf
37	Sealeo
38	Sharpedo
39	Shelgon
40	Vibrava
41	Vigoroth
42	Aron
43	Bagon
44	Baltoy
45	Beldum
46	Cacnea
47	Carvanha
48	Charmander
49	Chinchou
50	Duskull
51	Kabuto
52	Lileep
53	Machop
54	Magnemite
55	Meditite
56	Omanyte
57	Pikachu
58	Poochyena
59	Ralts
60	Seedot
61	Shuppet
62	Skitty
63	Slakoth
64	Snorunt
65	Spheal
66	Swablu
67	Torchic
68	Trapinch
69	Vulpix
70	Wynaut
71	Battle Frontier	T
72	Drake's Stadium	T
73	Energy Recycle System	T
74	Energy Removal 2	T
75	Energy Switch	T
76	Glacia's Stadium	T
77	Great Ball	T
78	Master Ball	T
79	Phoebe's Stadium	T
80	Professor Birch	T
81	Scott	T
82	Sidney's Stadium	T
83	Steven's Advice	T
84	Claw Fossil	T
85	Mysterious Fossil	T
86	Root Fossil	T
87	Darkness Energy	E
88	Metal Energy	E
89	Multi Energy	E
90	Cyclone Energy	E
91	Warp Energy	E
92	Absol ex		ex
93	Claydol ex		ex
94	Flygon ex		ex
95	Metagross ex		ex
96	Salamence ex		ex
97	Shiftry ex		ex
98	Skarmory ex		ex
99	Walrein ex		ex
100	Flareon		H
101	Jolteon		H
102	Vaporeon		H
103	Grass Energy	E	H
104	Fire Energy	E	H
105	Water Energy	E	H
106	Lightning Energy	E	H
107	Psychic Energy	E	H
108	Fighting Energy	E	H

Japanese expansion

No.	Card Name	Type	Rarity
1	Seedot
2	Cacnea
3	Seviper
4	Lileep
5	Cradily
6	Charmander
7	Charmeleon
8	Charizard
9	Vulpix
10	Ninetales
11	Flareon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		H
12	Torchic
13	Combusken
14	Blaziken		H
15	Vaporeon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		H
16	Omanyte
17	Omastar
18	Snorunt
19	Glalie
20	Spheal
21	Sealeo
22	Walrein ex		ex
23	Pikachu
24	Raichu		H
25	Magnemite
26	Magneton
27	Jolteon File:Shiningsymbol.gif		H
28	Chinchou
29	Lanturn
30	Pichu
31	Wobbuffet
32	Ralts
33	Kirlia
34	Gardevoir		H
35	Sableye
36	Baltoy
37	Claydol ex		ex
38	Shuppet
39	Banette
40	Duskull
41	Dusclops
42	Wynaut
43	Machop
44	Machoke
45	Machamp
46	Kabuto
47	Kabutops
48	Meditite
49	Medicham
50	Trapinch
51	Anorith
52	Armaldo
53	Poochyena
54	Mightyena
55	Nuzleaf
56	Shiftry ex		ex
57	Carvanha
58	Sharpedo
59	Cacturne
60	Absol ex		ex
61	Skarmory ex		ex
62	Mawile
63	Aron
64	Lairon
65	Aggron
66	Beldum
67	Metang
68	Metagross ex		ex
69	Slakoth
70	Vigoroth
71	Slaking		H
72	Skitty
73	Delcatty		H
74	Vibrava
75	Flygon ex		ex
76	Swablu
77	Altaria
78	Zangoose
79	Bagon
80	Shelgon
81	Salamence ex		ex
82	Energy Recycle System	T
83	Energy Switch	T
84	Energy Removal 2	T
85	Great Ball	T
86	Claw Fossil	T
87	Mysterious Fossil	T
88	Root Fossil	T
89	Master Ball	T
90	Scott	T
91	Professor Birch	T
92	Steven's Advice	T
93	Battle Frontier	T
94	Sidney's Stadium	T
95	Drake's Stadium	T
96	Phoebe's Stadium	T
97	Glacia's Stadium	T
98	Cyclone Energy	E
99	Multi Energy	E
100	Warp Energy	E
101	Darkness Energy	E
102	Metal Energy	E
103	Grass Energy	E
104	Fire Energy	E
105	Water Energy	E
106	Lightning Energy	E
107	Psychic Energy	E
108	Fighting Energy	E

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