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Professor's Research (Professor Oak) card from the Celebrations set
Illustration by KIYOTAKA OSHIYAMA. Card image via the Pokémon TCG API.
Supporter

Professor's Research (Professor Oak)

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A powerful tool to completely refresh your hand with seven new cards.

SupporterBeginner to play

What this card does

You must discard every card currently in your hand.

You then draw exactly seven new cards from your deck.

What it does

Professor's Research (Professor Oak)

Discard your hand and draw 7 cards.

This Supporter card acts as a hard reset for your resources. It allows you to abandon a poor selection of cards and replace them with a much larger pool of options to choose from.

Which deck it belongs in

It suits almost any deck that struggles to find the right combination of cards early in the game. It is especially useful when you need to recover from a bad start or quickly build up your hand size.

Strengths
  • Massive card advantage
  • Recovers from bad hands
  • Versatile resource gain
Watch out for
  • Discards all current cards
  • Leaves you with no options this turn
  • Dependent on deck consistency
Pro tip

Use it when your hand is full of useless cards or when you need to find a specific key card quickly.

Good to know

Professor Oak is a renowned researcher who studies Pokemon in their natural habitats across the world.

Note for the parent

Explain to your child that using this card means they have no choices left for that turn, so they must be ready to play with whatever they draw next.

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