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Master Ball
Deoxys 88/107 • uncommon
- Set
- Deoxys
- Number
- 88/107
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Released
- 2005
- Market price
- $0.48
- Artist
- Keiji Kinebuchi
What it does
Look at the top 7 cards from your deck. Choose a Basic Pokémon or Evolution card from those cards, show it to your opponent, and put it into your hand. Put the other 6 cards back on top of your deck. Shuffle your deck afterward.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
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Where it came from
The Master Ball card from the EX Deoxys expansion was released in 2005 as part of the Pokémon Trading Card Game's EX series. This set focused on the extraterrestrial Pokémon Deoxys and introduced various mechanics themed around the space-faring creature. The card serves as an Item card, designed to allow players to search their deck for a Pokémon and place it directly into their hand, reflecting the canonical function of the Master Ball as the most effective Poké Ball for capturing rare specimens.
The card’s visual design utilizes the sleek, high-tech aesthetic characteristic of the EX-era cards, which often featured clean layouts and bold, stylized borders. As an uncommon card, it was widely accessible to players during its competitive tenure, becoming a staple in many decks due to its efficiency in streamlining card searches. Like much of the artwork from this period, the illustration aimed to capture the kinetic energy and futuristic nature of the Pokémon world as it transitioned into the mid-2000s meta.
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