Aerodactyl (Neo Revelation N3 15)
Aerodactyl — 60 HP — [F]
Stage 1 — Evolves from Mysterious Fossil
Pokémon Power: Prehistoric Memory
Whenever an Evolved Pokémon attacks (even if it’s your opponent’s), it can use any attack from its Basic Pokémon card or any Evolution card attached to it. It still has to pay for that attack’s Energy cost. This power stops working while Aerodactyl is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.
[C][C][C] Fly: 30
Flip a coin. If heads, during your opponent’s next turn, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to Aerodactyl. If tails, this attack does nothing (not even damage).
weakness: [G]×2
resistance: [F]-30
retreat: 2
Illus. Shin-ichi Yoshida
Neo Revelation — 15/64 — Rare
A vicious Pokémon from the distant past, it appears to have flown by spreading its wings and gliding.
feyblade
…It’s like the Bizzaro Universe’s take on Fossil Aerodactyl.
Curtis
You mean I can use attacks from Mysterious Fossil with this thing? Oh… Wait…
MarxForever
I’ve always liked this card’s power, it’s like having a permanent Recall. Beside making your evolution cards much harder to punish with Energy Removal, there are just so many possible combinations and surprise attacks.
What’s that, your Blaine’s Arcanine running a little low on energy? Just use Stoke.
You like Dragonite’s Step In power, but hate Slam? Well now you can keep that power and start dishing out Hyper beams.
You and your opponent are down to your last prizes and your Gayarados only has ten health left and just got hit with a Super Energy Removal? Time to unleash a 90 powered flail.
And that’s just off the top of my head, I’ve come up with more before.
It sucks that Wizard dropped the ball (as usual) and only gave us a non-holo version of this holographic card. Of course, maybe they just hated Aerodactyl since they didn’t give us the vending series either, which included the Fossil Excavation card that made it almost impossible not to get a Mysterious fossil out on your first turn, and made sacrificing them for stalling a non-issue.