Tickling Machine (Gym Heroes 119)

Trainer Rocket's Secret Machine
Tickling Machine
くすぐりマシーン Tickling Machine
TicklingMachineGymHeroes119.jpg
Illus. Sumiyoshi Kizuki
English expansion Gym Heroes
Rarity Uncommon
English card no. 119/132
Japanese expansion Challenge from the Darkness
Japanese Rarity Uncommon

Tickling Machine (Japanese: くすぐりマシーン Tickling Machine) is a Rocket's Secret Machine card. It is part of the Gym Heroes expansion.

Card text

All prints
  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
 
 
 
 
 
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VSTAR Power
Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent sets aside all the cards in his or her hand face down. Nobody may look at those cards. At the end of your opponent's next turn, your opponent puts those cards back into his or her hand. If tails, your turn ends immediately (you can't attack this 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.
 
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.


Trivia

As a result of an inconsistency in translation, the English print of this card classifies it as a Rocket's Secret Robot card; however, it was later ruled that it was a Rocket's Secret Machine card for the purposes of Rocket's Meowth's Snatch and Run attack and Rocket's Wobbuffet's Dark Aid attack, both from the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion.

Origin

In EP035, Jessie, James, and Meowth use a tickling machine in order to force Kaiser to tell them where Dratini are located within the Safari Zone. However, their machine did not resemble the one on this card.


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