Dark Venusaur (Best of Game 7)
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Dark Venusaur (Japanese: わるいフシギバナ Bad Fushigibana) is a Grass-type Stage 2 Pokémon card. It was first released as one of the Unnumbered Promotional cards in Japan, and later released in English as a Best of Game promotional card.
Card text
Unnumbered Promotional and Best of Game prints
In-game print
Pokédex data (Unnumbered Promotional and in-game prints)
Pokédex data (Best of Game print)
Release information
In Japan, this card was first available as a Holofoil Unnumbered Promotional card alongside Dark Ivysaur and was included in Volume 10 of Pokémon Card Trainers magazine, released on March 1, 2001. This print uses the Neo Series layout and features the aesthetic differences common to Dark Pokémon cards from this period. It also features a "GB" symbol in place of an expansion symbol, referencing its ties to the Game Boy Color title Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team GR! It was reprinted in the Japanese Pokémon Web expansion. This print uses the e-Card Series layout and lacks any Dark Pokémon aesthetics. The Pokémon Web print was available outside Japan as part of the Best of Game collection, and was distributed at BattleZone events in May 2003. A version with a gold foil "Winner" stamp in the bottom right corner of the artwork was awarded to those who had won a certain number of matches in the event. A Jumbo version of the Winner print was also given out. The "Winner" stamp is Non Holofoil on the Jumbo version.
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Trivia
- Dark Venusaur is the only Dark fully evolved Kanto first partner Pokémon that was not released in the Team Rocket expansion. It is also the only Grass-type fully evolved first partner Pokémon to be a Dark Pokémon.
- The text on the bottom of the Japanese Unnumbered Promotional print's border reads: "Pokémon Card Official Magazine "Trainers Vol. 10" bonus card."
Origin
This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game. |