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Escape Rope

Trainer · PLS 120

Escape Rope

Card

Set
Plasma Storm
Number
120/135
Rarity
Uncommon
Category
Trainer
Type
Item
Illustrator
Ryo Ueda

What it does

Each player switches his or her Active Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. (Your opponent switches first. If a player does not have a Benched Pokémon, he or she doesn’t switch Pokémon.)

Where you can play it

The same check the deck builder makes.

  • Ditto Draft
  • Expanded
  • Gym Leader Challenge
  • Legacy
  • Standard — Escape Rope is not Standard-legal (regulation mark out of rotation).
  • Worlds 2015

Played in

2 decklists from finished events, this printing and its reprints.

4th
Sunday GLC [Budew's Basement]

of 4 · Masters · 27 Sep 2026

Colorless

6th
Retro worlds 2015

of 16 · Masters · 10 Jul 2026

Primal Groudon

Other printings

Same card, different set — legality can differ.