Venusaur (Wizards Promo 13)

Venusaur LV.64
フシギバナ Fushigibana

Illus. Ken Sugimori

Evolution stage

Stage 2 Pokémon
Evolves from Ivysaur

Card name

Venusaur

Type

Grass

HP

100

weakness ×2	resistance None	retreat cost

English expansion	Wizards Black Star Promos
English card no.	13
Japanese expansion	Unnumbered Promotional cards

Card GB set	Promotional Card
Card GB ID	PXX
Card GB 2 set	Promotion Card
Card GB 2 rarity
Card GB 2 ID	PXX

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Venusaur.

Venusaur (Japanese: フシギバナ Fushigibana) is a Grass-type Stage 2 Pokémon card. It was created exclusively for Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color, but was later released as one of the Wizards Black Star Promos.

Card text

Pokémon Power:

Solar Power
ソーラーパワー

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may use this power. Your Active Pokémon and the Defending Pokémon are no longer Asleep, Confused, Paralyzed, or Poisoned. This power can't be used if Venusaur is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

	Mega Drain メガドレイン	40

Remove a number of damage counters from Venusaur equal to half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10). If Venusaur has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.

Pokédex data

Venusaur - Seed Pokémon
No.	Height	Weight
003	6'7" (2 m)	221 lbs. (100 kg)
Pokédex entry
This plant blooms when it is absorbing solar energy. It stays on the move to seek sunlight.
花からうっとりする香りがただよい、戦う者の気持ちをなだめてしまう。

Release information

This card was initially created for Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Game Boy Color. In Japan, a physical print was made available as an Unnumbered Promotional card in copies of the Pokémon Card GB Official Guidebook, released on January 28, 1999. This print features a "GB" symbol in place of an expansion symbol, referencing its ties to the Game Boy title. The English version of the card was included in copies of the Pokémon Trading Card Game: Official Nintendo Player's Guide, released on April 28, 2000.

Gallery

GB1 Promotional Card sprite

GB2 Promotion Card sprite

Trivia

The background on the English print is entirely Holofoil, whereas on the Japanese print, only the sky is Holofoil.
The Card GB version of this card could only be obtained through Card Pop! and is the only card out of the two Phantom Cards to be actually produced. In the Virtual Console version of Pokémon Trading Card Game for the Nintendo 3DS, however, Card Pop! is disabled, rendering this card unobtainable on that platform.
This was an orphaned card for a time when it came to the Modified format due to the only Bulbasaur card at the time being in the first rotation. It would not be fully playable in the format until a Bulbasaur was printed in Legendary Collection.

Origin

Solar Power is an Ability later introduced in the Generation IV Pokémon games that Venusaur cannot have; however, the Japanese names are different, making the two unrelated. Mega Drain is a move in the Pokémon games that Venusaur could learn via TM21 in Generation I. The card's English Pokédex entry comes from Pokémon Red and Blue, whereas the Japanese entry comes from Pokémon Red and Green.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.