Pidove BW15/101 · BW Black Star Promos

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

Pidove sits at BW15/101 in BW Black Star Promos, position 15 of 101. Before it is BW14 Pansage, and after it is BW16 Axew. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on March 1, 2011. The printed size is 101, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Promo.

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."

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 84/114 in Black & White (2011). Both list 50 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Masakazu Fukuda illustrated that card, and Naoki Saito illustrated this one. 9 other cards of Pidove list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Naoki Saito. I count 270 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

BW Black Star Promos set binder is where a full BW Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Pidove can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.