Chip-Chip Ice Axe (Unbroken Bonds 165)

Chip-Chip Ice Axe (Japanese: ザクザクピッケル Crunching Pickel) is an Item card. It is part of the Unbroken Bonds expansion.

Trainer Item
Chip-Chip Ice Axe
ザクザクピッケル Crunching Pickel

Illus. Yoshinobu Saito
English expansion Unbroken Bonds
Rarity
English card no. 165/214
Japanese expansion Double Blaze
Japanese Rarity
Japanese card no. 080/095

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
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Look at the top 3 cards of your opponent's deck and choose 1 of them. Your opponent shuffles the other cards back into their deck. Then, put the card you chose on top of their deck.
 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).


Trivia

This card has been banned from all sanctioned Pokémon TCG tournaments using the Expanded format since October 4, 2019 in Japan and November 15, 2019 internationally as it was ruled to create an unbalanced playing environment. The concern was to protect the opponent's hand from disruptive tactics that dwindled their hand up to no cards on the first turns.

Origin

A pickel is the Japanese name for an ice axe, which is derived from the German Eispickel.


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