Super Potion

What the card does

Super Potion trades an attached Energy for healing. The Base Set wording removed up to 4 damage counters, and Base Set 2 specified that the Energy comes from 1 of your own Pokémon. The XY era rewrite switched to healing 60 damage outright and only discarding the Energy if healing occurred, and the Journey Together wording refined that condition further to require damage actually having been healed.

Printing history

Super Potion debuted in the WOTC era's Base Set with Keiji Kinebuchi art and was reprinted in Base Set 2. It returned as an updated Item in the XY era's XY set with new art by 5ban Graphics, then as a retro card in Evolutions reusing the original Kinebuchi artwork. It was reworked again with art by Studio Bora Inc. in the Scarlet and Violet era's Journey Together. Our catalog lists 5 printings.

Trivia

Before its official North American release, Super Potion appeared in the Trainer Deck A given to prototype Pokémon Leagues, distinguished by a red border and Trainer Deck A text on the back. The card's Japanese name is written entirely in hiragana, unlike the in-game item's partly katakana name, though both read the same.

Cards to know

• Super Potion (Base Set #90)

  The Base Set printing is Super Potion's first release

• Super Potion (XY #128)

  The XY printing introduced the 60-damage heal wording

• Super Potion (Evolutions #87)

  The Evolutions printing reprints the original Base Set artwork in a retro template