Today's Pokémon Card:

Base Set - Nidoran (Male)

“Stiffens its ears to sense danger. The larger, more 
powerful of its horns secretes venom.”

Total Overview:

Hello, hello! You are you out there?
This is my review for today, and then I think we will go on to something a little newer after that.

X & Y is coming out really soon! Are you looking forward to it? I know I am. Hopefully I can get a booster box to open on YouTube, so be sure to check that. I will of course post it here, if I do :)

Nidoran (male) is a grass type energy in this set, which I think is absolutely right instead of that psychic type they decided it to be in Rising Rivals - what was that!?

Is has 40 HP and only one attack. It requires only one grass energy card, BUT you also have to flip a coin, and if it tails, the attack does absolutely NOTHING. this is devastating for a Pokémon, not being able to use a single attack properly, without the risk that it can't do anything during its turn at all. And since the Pokémon only has 40 HP, your opponent could possibly knock it out in just one hit..

Nidoran has no resist to any type of Pokémon and it's weak to psychic ones, which is kind of ironic when you think about it, since this same Pokémon was decided to be a psychic one later on. It turned into its own weakness! Pretty clever, if it weren't just given another weakness instead :P
If you wish to retreat it, it only costs you one energy of your own choice :)

This is a basic Pokémon, and it has 2 evolutions - Nidorino and Nidoking. You just have to remember, that it is quite difficult to get that stage 2 Pokémon in play, since you don't have a lot of them in your deck, so you have to be lucky to draw just that card. The Nidorino though, is actually a pretty ok card. It could use a bit more HP, but other than that it could work out with Nidoran and Nidorino I think.

Personal Opinion:

Ok, here goes!
When looking at other basic, common Pokémon from base set, you'll notice that the 40 HP is actually pretty common, some above, some below this of course. But, Nidoran's attack actually does more damage than a lot of the other Pokémon do. There is just one more but, and that is - if you flip that coin and it tails, you don't get to do any damage at all, and since this attack is the only one Nidoran has, you don't really get to choose.

And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, I think we'll end up at:

The Pokémon has some advantages. Its health is normal for Base Set Pokémon, its attack does more damage, when you get lucky with the coin, but it drags it down a bit, that it only has 1 attack and that attack may not do anything ;)

A bit about the artwork:

Well, to be honest this card doesn't really look that cool ;) It's very easy to see that Nintendo has come a long way from the Base Set cards to the cards they give us today. Most of all, this looks like a bad job in Photoshop! :P
They took a nice background, some dirt, trees, bushes, and then slammed a Nidoran in the middle of the picture.. I mean, it's not really been thought through very much, I think! But other than that, it's a fine looking Nidoran just watching over its shoulder to see if anything is there, just like the one in Rising Rivals :)

Next Card Review:

So, I did already decide that I wanted to review some of the newer Pokémon, then I just found out that some of the Pokémon from X & Y are now available! So we can get the first look at them. Which means, that tomorrow I'll be doing a review of Blastoise full art, because that card is simply amazing!

Check out my channel on YouTube, there should be a video soon, with me opening a couple of packs from Plasma Blast. I promise the video with the Plasma Storm booster box will be there soon, I just need to find the time to upload the 4 parts after each other :)

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