Dragon

Ninjask

DR18· Rare
Ninjask DR 18

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
70
Type
Grass
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
0
Weakness
×2
Number
18/97
Set
DragonDR
Illustrated by
Hajime Kusajima

Its Ability

Loose Shell

Once during your turn, when you play Ninjask from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may search your deck for Shedinja and put it onto your Bench. Treat the new Benched Pokémon as a Basic Pokémon. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Its attacks

Quick Touch

30

You may switch Ninjask with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. If you do, you may move any number of Grass Energy cards attached to Ninjask to the new Active Pokémon.

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    It retreats for free. You can pull it back to the Bench whenever you like, even with no Energy on it at all.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Loose Shell. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. Keep in mind

    None of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  4. Keep in mind

    Weakness Fire ×2. Against a Fire Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,811 tournament lists we have read, 914 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

When it came out

Dragon landed here on 24 November 2003.

Every set, with both of its dates

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 10 Ninjask cards on one page, priciest first.

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