Weakness Policy (Primal Clash 142)

Trainer Item

Weakness Policy じゃくてんほけん Weakness Guarantee

Primal Clash Regular print Illus. Ayaka Yoshida English expansion Primal Clash Rarity English card no. 142/160 Japanese expansion Gaia Volcano Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 063/070 English expansion Primal Clash Rarity English card no. 164/160 Japanese expansion Gaia Volcano Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 080/070 English expansion Burning Shadows Rarity English card no. 126/147 Japanese expansion Facing a New Trial Japanese card no. 045/049

Weakness Policy (Japanese: じゃくてんほけん Weakness Guarantee) is a Pokémon Tool card. It was first released as part of the Primal Clash expansion.

Contents

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

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

Attach a Pokémon Tool to 1 of your Pokémon that doesn't already have a Pokémon Tool attached to it.

The Pokémon this card is attached to has no Weakness.

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.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Release information

This card was released as both a Regular card and a Secret card in the English Primal Clash expansion, originating from the Japanese Gaia Volcano expansion. Both prints feature artwork by Ayaka Yoshida. Another print, also featuring artwork by Ayaka Yoshida, was included in the Burning Shadows expansion, having been reprinted in the Facing a New Trial subset in Japan.

Gallery

Primal Clash Regular print Illus. Ayaka Yoshida	Primal Clash Secret print Illus. Ayaka Yoshida	Burning Shadows print Illus. Ayaka Yoshida
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Trivia

Origin

The Weakness Policy is a held item in the Pokémon games that raises the holder's Attack and Special Attack two stages when hit by a super effective move.

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