SM Black Star Promos

Venusaur & Snivy GX

SMPSM229· Promo
Venusaur & Snivy GX SMP SM229

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What the card itself says

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HP
270
Type
Grass
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
3
Weakness
×2
Number
SM229/248
Set
SM Black Star PromosSMP
Illustrated by
Yuka Morii

Its Ability

Shining Vine

Once during your turn, if this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, when you attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to it, you may switch 1 of your opponent’s Benched Pokémon with their Active Pokémon.

Its attacks

Forest Dump

160

Solar Plant GX

This attack does 50 damage to each of your opponent’s Pokémon. If this Pokémon has at least 2 extra Energy attached to it (in addition to this attack’s cost), heal all damage from all of your Pokémon. (Don’t apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) (You can’t use more than 1 GX attack in a game.)

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

    270 HP. Only 2 cards in Cosmic Eclipse carry more.

  2. A strength

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

  3. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  4. Keep in mind

    Retreat cost 3. Once it is out front, it stays there. Pack something that moves it another way, or you will burn whole turns discarding Energy.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

SM Black Star Promos landed here on 3 February 2017.

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The other cards of this Pokémon

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