Venusaur & Snivy-GX SM229/248 · SM Black Star Promos

SM Black Star Promos is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. Venusaur & Snivy-GX is SM229/248, in position 232 of 251 on this checklist. Before it is SM228 Armored Mewtwo, and after it is SM230 Charizard & Braixen-GX. The listed rarity is Promo.

Venusaur & Snivy-GX is a Basic TAG TEAM GX Grass Pokémon with 270 HP. In the Pokédex this is Venusaur (#003), generation 1 (Kanto) and Snivy (#495), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Servine, Servine (#496) under evolves to.

Yuka Morii illustrated this card. The same name is on 204 other cards in the catalog.

Venusaur (#003) has 46 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 28 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Venusaur 15/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Venusaur, while this one is Venusaur & Snivy-GX. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 270 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Promo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Yuka Morii illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 3. 39 other cards of Venusaur list a different HP. Snivy (#495) has 17 cards in the catalog.

Shining Vine is listed as Ability. 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. The attack Forest Dump lists 160 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Solar Plant-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. 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.) Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: TAG TEAM rule: When your TAG TEAM is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 3 Prize cards.

I keep a set binder for SM Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the SM Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Venusaur and Snivy can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto) and Generation 5 binder (Unova). Themed lists that include this exact card are Yuka Morii clay cards, Kanto starters, without Charizard, and Unova starters. I still need this card.