Basic Fairy Energy (Japanese:基本フェアリーエネルギーBasic Fairy Energy) is aBasic Energy card which provides oneFairy Energy (). This can be attached toPokémon cards and used to powerattacks with Fairy orColorless Energy requirements.
The Basic Fairy Energy was first released in the Chespin Half Decks of both theXY Beginning Set and the XY Beginning Set for Girls. A further print was included in theXerneas & Yveltal Card Box. A special Unnumbered XY-P Promotional print was released as one of nine possible stamped Basic Energy cards included within theLawson Limited Pokémon Coin Set, a product exclusive toLawson stores released December 13, 2013. January 2014 saw the release of Fairy Energy within theXerneas Half Deck featuring the Half Deck's Set Symbol. Fairy Energy was reprinted as aFull ArtSecret card in theBurning Shadows expansion, first released in the JapaneseDarkness that Consumes Light expansion. It was included in the JapaneseTag All Stars subset as another Secret card.
Due to this card first being released after Basic Energy cards stopped listing illustrator credits in theExpedition Base Set, no print of this card has an illustrator listed.
This is the only Basic Energy card to have ever beenrotated out of play, following the retirement of the Fairy type in the TCG.[1]