Pidove 80/98 · Emerging Powers

Emerging Powers is a set in the Black & White series. It was released on August 31, 2011. The printed size is 98, and the checklist is the same length. Pidove is 80/98, in position 80 of 98 on this checklist. Before it is 79 Watchog, and after it is 81 Tranquill. The listed rarity is Common.

Pidove is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 50 HP. In the Pokédex this is Pidove (#519), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Tranquill, Tranquill (#520) under evolves to.

Naoki Saito illustrated this card. The same name is on 270 other cards in the catalog.

Pidove (#519) has 12 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 11 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2025. The earliest other card is Pidove BW15/101 in BW Black Star Promos (2011). Both list 50 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Common. 9 other cards of Pidove list a different HP.

The attack Gust lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Resistance is Fighting -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Each follows its Trainer's orders as best it can, but they sometimes fail to understand complicated commands."

I keep a set binder for Emerging Powers, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Emerging Powers set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Pidove can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.