Growth
Cost: Colorless
Attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to Bulbasaur.
Team Magma vs Team Aqua / #39/95
Bulbasaur
Printed language: English · Pokémon
- Set (printed edition)
- Team Magma vs Team Aqua
- Rarity (source)
- Common
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
- Source reference
- ex4-39
CARDEX BACKGROUND
The Pokémon’s story
For Bulbasaur, growing up is an adventure for two. The seed it carries from birth develops alongside it. When it dozes in the sun, this plant reserve benefits from the light too. Its back thus tells a story of shared growth: the small Pokémon moves through life with a plant that accompanies it long before becoming a flower.
Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.A detail worth noticing
Bulbasaur’s seed also acts as a food store. The Pokémon Shield entry explains that the young Pokémon draws on the nutrients it contains to grow. This detail gives a concrete function to that instantly recognisable silhouette.
Sources for this background
Card details
- HP
- 50
- Type (source)
- Grass
- Stage (source)
- Basic
- Pokédex number
- 1
- Retreat cost
- 1 Energy
- Weakness (source)
- Fire ×2
Printed card text — English
Quoted source text is retained in the card’s printed language so this exact printing can be identified. The CarDex background above is translated into English.
Attacks
Razor Leaf
Cost: Grass
Damage: 10
Documented variants
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- Normal
- Reverse
- normal · standard
- reverse · standard
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