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Capture Energy card from the Darkness Ablaze set
Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Special Energy

Capture Energy

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A special energy that finds new Pokémon for you.

Special EnergyBeginner to play

What this card does

This card counts as a Colorless Energy while attached to a Pokémon.

When you play it from your hand, you can search your deck for any Basic Pokémon and place it on your Bench.

What it does

Capture Energy

As long as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides Colorless Energy. When you attach this card from your hand to a Pokémon, search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench. Then, shuffle your deck.

The key feature is the ability to fetch a Basic Pokémon when played. This helps your child bring out their main attacker quickly without relying solely on drawing cards.

Which deck it belongs in

This card suits decks that need to put specific Basic Pokémon into play fast. It works well in strategies that rely on having a strong attacker ready early in the game.

Strengths
  • Fast setup
  • Search power
  • Energy provision
Watch out for
  • Requires a Basic Pokémon
  • Shuffles deck
Pro tip

Use this to find your main attacker early, but remember that shuffling the deck might lose other useful cards you were hoping to draw later.

Good to know

Capture Energy is a unique card type that does not exist in the real world of Pokémon biology.

Note for the parent

Your child will likely use this to get a key piece of their strategy onto the field without wasting turns searching manually.

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