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Poké-POWER ⇢ Quick Search
Once during your turn (before your attack), you may choose any 1 card from your deck and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward. You can’t use more than 1 Quick Search Poké-Power each turn. This power can’t be used if Pidgeot is affected by a Special Condition.
{C}{C} → Clutch : 40
The Defending Pokémon can’t retreat until the end of your opponent’s next turn.
illus. Midori Harada
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Krisi92
I always wanted one (or preferably more) of this card. It’s so awesome.
inatspong
The original Bird Jesus (as in the first time Pidgeot mattered in anything)
Blob Takeshi
First Pidgeot card since Expedition.
Joe
Was this card used much? The ability is amazing but idk how often Stage 2 cards were played in the -ex era.
Otaku
During the EX series* a.k.a. Gen III a.k.a. -ex era Stage 2 Pokémon may have been at their zenith. If they weren’t, then this was shortly after they hit their peak during the Neo and/or e-card eras. The second set in the EX series, EX – Sandstorm, contained Rare Candy. Not Rare Candy as you know it, however. Instead, it was an normal Trainer (Item) that let you immediately play either a Stage 1 or a Stage 2 Pokémon onto its corresponding Basic.
Yeah, Stage 1 decks sometimes included Rare Candy as well, because it also let them skip a turn of waiting to evolve. So if you wanted Pidgeot “Quick Search” goodness, and your deck already ran a Stage 2, you could get by just adding a Pidgey and a Pidgeot and remember you were using up one of your Rare Candies on it.
*I know it can be confusing, but this was the EX series/era well before any Pokémon-EX (from the BW and XY series) were around. If you look, the sets all have “EX” as a prefix, the way current sets have “SW”.
JP
This is one of the defining cards of the EX era! It was top-tier in every format it was legal in. If you do a search for tournament-winning decklists of the era, you’ll find a lot of lists with 2-1-2 or even 3-2-3 Pidgeot. Among the decks that got World Championship prints, ’05 Queendom, ’05 Dark Tyranitar, ’06 B-L-S, and ’06 Eeveelutions all contain Pidgeot.
Decks that did not run Pidgeot often ran ways to counter it so that opponents couldn’t outspeed & overwhelm them; the two most obvious answers to Pidgeot are Battle Frontier and Solrock LM (there are a few other Pidgeot answers as well, like Medicham ex, Muk ex/Muk LM, and Pidgeot delta, although these are less splashable than Frontier or Solrock). In fact, all but one of the other printed ’05 and ’06 decks that didn’t themselves run Pidgeot RG ran one of the aforementioned counters.
One other thing–Pidgeot is obviously good for its Poke-Power, but its attack is very good in this format and it can situationally be a great attacker. And the free retreat and Fighting resistance are great as well!
Nos
Man, the Pidgey family can have a really strong line in an unlimited setting. Pidgey (TM 71) into Pidgeotto (TEU 123) into Pidgeot RG (this one).
Otaku
Pidgey (HS – Triumphant 71/102; Call of Legends 67/95) wouldn’t likely be that good anymore. =/ Remember, no T1 attacks, even in Unlimited. You could use Pidgey Turn 2 but… it is Unlimited; the Format has a stupid amount of acceleration! @_@ Both Energy and Evolution. Pidgeotto (SM – Team Up 123/181) would be a nice little bonus; use its Ability once before immediately evolving via Broken Time-Space.