Today's Pokémon Card:

Base Set Venusaur

"This plant blooms when it is absorbing solar energy.

It stays on the move to seek sunlight."

Total Overview:

Today's Pokémon card review is all about the Base Set Venusaur. It is a stage 2 Pokémon, which means that is has evolved from, not 1, but 2 other Pokémon which in this case would be Ivysaur which is the stage 1 Pokémon and Bulbasaur, the basic Pokémon in this chain of evolution.

Venusaur is, as well as both Bulbasaur and Ivysaur, a grass type Pokémon. It's total HP is at 100 and, as the first Pokémon I'm reviewing, the Venusaur also has a Pokémon Power! Besides that, it also has an attack called Solarbeam which requires 4 grass type energy cards and deals an amount of 60 damage. The Pokémon Power is called Energy Trans and it allows you to take 1 grass type energy card from one Pokémon and transfer it to another Pokémon. You can do this as many times as you like during your turn, however, you cannot use the power if Venusaur is asleep, confused or paralyzed.

Venusaur's weakness is the fire type Pokémon and it takes double damage from attacks from that type of Pokémon. It has no resistance and it will cost you 2 colorless energy cards to retreat Venusaur from battle. 

As a stage 2 Pokémon, Bulbasaur needs to have evolved into Ivysaur before you can evolve the Ivysaur into Venusaur. Considering that this is a Pokémon from the good old days, and you are not allowed to play with these anymore, I think I would put it in my deck if it were a match between old series of Pokémon. It has a fair amount of HP, and if you evolve it on the bench and then set it as your active Pokémon, the Solar Beam attack deals a pretty good amount of damage. One of the things I like the best, is that this attack does not require you to discard any energy cards afterwards. Venusaur is a rare card, which you know my looking in the bottom right corner of the card, where you can see a little black star. A star means that the Pokémon card is rare.

Personal Opinion:

The rating of this Pokémon is going to be somewhere between 3/5 and 4/5 considering that it is a Pokémon from the Base Set and generally the old sets of Pokémon. It has a fair amount of HP, but it's attack could have dealt more damage than "just" 60, considering it is a stage 2 Pokémon, and another attack to choose from would definitely have been nice as well.

A bit about the artwork:

Unfortunately I feel the same way about Venusaur as I did about Ivysaur. The Pokémon in itself is big and powerful, but the position of the Pokémon is almost boring.. I really like the half-lazy half-evil look Venusaur has on its face though. This is a HOLO card, but it's a shame that the background is just a dark colour with holo on it. But then again, the Venusaur almost fits the whole image, so there isn't much space for a nice background!

Next Card Review: 

Now that I've done Venusaur as well, I've decided to move on to some of the newer Pokémon cards. The next card I will be reviewing is Cubchoo from the Plasma Storm set. So stay tuned for the next Pokémon review!

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