Fossil

Omanyte FO 52/62

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Omanyte FO 52

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read FO 52/62 there. Its illustration is signed Kagemaru Himeno.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Fossil set, released here on 10 October 1999.

When it came out

Fossil landed here on 10 October 1999.

Every set, with both of its dates

What the card itself says

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

HP
40
Type
Water
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
52/62
Set
FossilFO
Illustrated by
Kagemaru Himeno

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Its Ability

Clairvoyance

Your opponent plays with his or her hand face up. This power stops working while Omanyte is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Its attacks

Water Gun

10+

Does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Omanyte but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. You can't add more than 20 damage in this way.

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

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

    Water Gun hits for 10 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Fossil hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

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

  4. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,427 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.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Grass ×2. Against a Grass Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,427 tournament lists we have read, 3,431 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.

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 16 Omanyte cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Omanyte card and its price