Master Ball/TCG



The Master Ball was introduced as a TCG Trainer card in the Pokémon Trading Card Game in English during the Original Series in the TCG Gym Challenge, and in Japanese during the Original Era in the TCG Extended Sheet 2. It has been reprinted as a Trainer card in the Japanese-exclusive TCG Intro Pack Neo (in the Neo Era), the Japanese-exclusive TCG Pokémon VS expansion (in the VS Era), the English e-Card Series (the Japanese e-Card Era), and the English EX Series (the Japanese ADV Era and PCG Era). It was reprinted as an TCG Ace Spec card (Ace Spec) TCG Item card during the English Black & White Series (the Japanese BW era), in the TCG Plasma Blast expansion in English and the TCG Blastoise + Kyurem-EX Combo Deck in Japanese.

As a Trainer card, this card allowed the player to look at the top 7 cards of their deck and add one Pokémon card from those cards to their hand, then shuffle their deck. As an Ace Spec Item card, this card allows the player to add 1 Pokémon card from their deck to their hand.

The Master Ball was also featured as a card in Pokémon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!