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Azurill (Diamond & Pearl DP 69)
Poké-POWER: Baby Evolution
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may put Marill from your hand onto Azurill (this counts a evolving Azurill) and remove all damage counters from Azurill.
[-] Delivery
Put any 1 card from your discard pile into your hand.
weakness: [F]+10
resistance:
retreat: 1
Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl — 69/130 — Common
A Pokémon that lives by water. It moves quickly on land by bouncing on its big tail.
jelze
Is Azurill the most forgotten Pokemon of the TCG? Only 3 cards ever despite existing since Gen 3 and no cards since this one in DP way back in 2007.
All Azurills have been quite good as well.
Even with its new Fairy typing, it still didn’t appear when Marill and Azumarill did in Primal Clash -.-
EverPhoenix
Most prevolutions are underrepresented, especially the gen3 onward ones
Blob Takeshi
Mostly since 4th Gen on, since at least they were still printed past one set in Gen 3 usually.
feyblade
Bonsly happens to be the most forgotten Pokemon, aside from Kadabra, afaik. Only one Bonsly has ever been printed outside of movie tie ins, and those tie ins can’t even evolve!
jelze
Well no-one has forgotten Kadabra, we just know we aren’t going to get one. Just as we are never going to have a Porygon in the anime.
Bonsly has also had 3 cards I know (and only one in a main set), but has been around since Generation 4, so a little less time
thegrovylekid
It has to be Mantyke, just one english card EVER, and it’s 10 years old…
achildrenscardgame
I am genuinely confused as to why they’ve stopped making Baby Pokemon. Are they stumped on making a viable Baby game mechanic? Do the designers secretly hate them? Did a Pichu pee in their coffee? I guess we’ll never know…
Otaku
I think they backed themselves into a corner. The past “Baby” Pokémon mechanics have never worked well; the EX-era (meaning Gen III) expansions came close, when they were simply a Basic Pokémon that could fake Evolve into the correct fellow Basic Pokémon, treating it as a Stage 1 via the Poké-Power “Baby Power”.
The thing is, now I think what ought to be happening is simple; just start making them Basic Pokémon, and the former Basic and/or Stage 1 they Evolve into starts being released as the next higher Stage. Without Expanded, it would just take them controlling themselves and NOT spamming certain cards for a while, so that the older versions could rotate out.
Blob Takeshi
Baby Pokémon (excluding Riolu and Togepi), Abra, Kadabra, Chimecho, Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Sunkern, Sunflora, Sawsbuck, Cranidos and Rampardos all haven’t been printed for 5+ years; most of which haven’t had a single card since HGSS.
Blob Takeshi
*10 years later*
It has yet to be seen again…