Pokémon Center (Base Set 85)

Trainer

^Stadium

Pokémon Center
ポケモンセンター Pokémon Center

	BW-P Promotional print Illus. & Direc. The Pokémon Company Art-team

English expansion	Base Set
Rarity
English card no.	85/102
Japanese expansion	Expansion Pack
Japanese Rarity

Japanese Theme Deck	Nivi City Gym

Japanese Theme Deck	Yamabuki City Gym

Expansion	Base Set 2
Rarity
English card no.	114/130

Card GB set	Mystery
Card GB ID	C50
Card GB 2 set	Legendary Power
Card GB 2 ID	B59

Expansion	Wizards Black Star Promos
English card no.	40

English expansion	Next Destinies
Rarity
English card no.	90/99
Japanese expansion	Hail Blizzard
Japanese Rarity
Japanese card no.	051/052

Japanese expansion	BW-P Promotional cards
Japanese card no.	190/BW-P

Pokémon Center (Japanese: ポケモンセンター Pokémon Center) is a Stadium card. It was first released in the Base Set as a Trainer card.

Card text

Base Set print

Remove all damage counters from all of your own Pokémon with damage counters on them, then discard all Energy cards attached to those Pokémon.

Next Destinies print

Once during each player's turn, that player may heal 20 damage from 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon.

This card stays in play when you play it. Discard this card if another Stadium card comes into play. If another card with the same name is in play, you can't play this card.

Release information

This card was included in the Base Set with artwork by Keiji Kinebuchi, first released in the Japanese Expansion Pack. This print was reprinted in the Japanese Nivi City Gym and Yamabuki City Gym theme decks and the Base Set 2 expansion. The card was reprinted with different artwork by "Big Mama" Tagawa as one of the Wizards Black Star Promos, distributed at the November 2001 opening of Pokémon Center New York.

It was released as a Stadium card in the Next Destinies expansion with new artwork by 5ban Graphics, first released in the Japanese Hail Blizzard expansion. In Japan, it was reprinted as one of the BW-P Promotional cards with different artwork by The Pokémon Company Art-team and was given to customers who purchased at least ten Spiral Force or Thunder Knuckle booster packs in any combination at participating stores from December 14, 2012.

Gallery

Base Set print
Illus. Keiji Kinebuchi

Wizards Black Star Promos print
Illus. "Big Mama" Tagawa

Next Destinies print
Illus. 5ban Graphics

BW-P Promotional print
Illus. & Direc. The Pokémon
Company Art-team

TCG GB1 Mystery sprite

TCG GB2 Legendary Power sprite

Trivia

On the Base Set print of this card, "Pocket Monsters" can be clearly seen on the English translation of the card. This is one of the few times that the English cards refer to Pokémon as "Pocket Monsters".
At the beginning of the BW Era in Japan, a prototype image of this card was shown in the Japanese TCG rulebook to explain how to use Stadium cards. This image erroneously credits Yuri Umemura as the illustrator, and has a different effect from the final, printed version.
The BW-P Promotional print features Eevee and its evolutions as they appear on the many items made available during the 2012 Pokémon Center Eevee Collection campaign. A placeholder image of this print was advertised in the Eevee Collection Collection File.

Origin

A Pokémon Center is a place in the Pokémon games where Pokémon can be healed. Castelia City is featured in the illustration of the Next Destinies print.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.