Hyper Potion

What the card does

Hyper Potion trades Energy for healing. The Skyridge wording let a player discard 1 or 2 basic Energy cards from a chosen Pokémon, removing up to 3 or 5 damage counters respectively depending on how many were discarded. The Sword and Shield wording instead requires the target Pokémon to already have at least 2 Energy attached, healing a flat 120 damage and discarding 2 Energy only if healing occurred.

Printing history

The card debuted in the WOTC era's Skyridge with art by Katsura Tabata, then was reclassified as an Item card in the Sword and Shield era's own-named set with new art by Ryo Ueda. It was reprinted in Champion's Path with the same artwork. Our catalog lists 3 printings.

Trivia

Hyper Potion's Japanese name is written entirely in hiragana, while the in-game item's Japanese name is partly katakana, though both are read the same way.

Cards to know

• Hyper Potion (Skyridge #127)

  The Skyridge printing is Hyper Potion's first release, with a scaling Energy-based heal

• Hyper Potion (Sword & Shield #166)

  The Sword & Shield printing introduced the flat 120-damage heal wording

• Hyper Potion (Champion's Path #54)

  The Champion's Path printing reprints the same Ryo Ueda artwork