📘 Weedle — Pokémon TCG Card

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Overview

This entry covers a basic Grass-type Pokémon card from the Shining Revelry expansion, featuring Weedle as the central creature. The card is presented with a distinctive rarity designation and embodies a niche mechanic that can influence board development by accelerating Weedle presence on the Bench. While Weedle’s standard role in the broader Pokémon TCG involves evolution into Kakuna and ultimately Beedrill, this particular card emphasizes a deck-search-like effect that places a Weedle from the deck onto the Bench, illustrating a thematic blend of aggression and tempo typical of Grass-type strategies. The card’s presentation, including its artwork by Akira Komayama, reflects the aesthetic and mechanical identity of the Shining Revelry set within the contemporary game environment.

Card Information

  • Name: Weedle
  • Set: Shining Revelry
  • Set Code: A2b
  • Card Number: 001
  • Rarity: One Diamond
  • Illustrator: Akira Komayama
  • Type: Grass
  • Stage: Basic
  • HP: 50
  • Weakness: Fire x2 (represented as +20 in some summaries)
  • Retreat Cost: 1
  • Attacks:
    • Multiply — Cost: Grass
    • Effect: Put 1 random Weedle from your deck onto your Bench.
  • Evolution: Evolves into Kakuna, forming the Weedle → Kakuna → Beedrill evolutionary line common to Bug-type lines (Weedle’s evolution path in the broader series).
  • Legal in Formats: Standard: false, Expanded: false
  • Illustration Notes: The artwork is attributed to Akira Komayama, aligning with the set’s visual identity.
  • Variants: Normal, Holo, Reverse (with the given variants_detailed indicating standard sizes for each)

Gameplay and Strategy

The core mechanic of this Weedle card centers on its attack, Multiply, which mechanically promotes a Weedle from the deck to the Bench for no additional Energy beyond the Grass requirement. This kind of effect is notable for its potential to accelerate Bench presence, which can be advantageous in tempo-driven or stall-to-aggro blends where early Bench pressure shapes the opponent’s responses. Because the attack targets a Weedle specifically from the deck, players must consider deck construction to ensure Weedle exists within the deck when the attack is used. This creates a synergy with search and consistency elements that keep Weedle in the deck while ensuring a Weedle remains accessible for bench progression. In practice, Weedle’s 50 HP and Grass typing frame it as a relatively fragile early-game Pokémon in most competitive ecosystems. The Fire weakness (+20 in some shorthand summaries) further informs matchups against Fire-type threats, where Weedle’s survival duration on the Bench or in active position may hinge on support from defensive or healing options, or on avoiding direct engagement with high-damage Fire Pokémon. The Retreat Cost of 1 means Weedle can be cycled in and out of the active position with moderate ease, enabling transitional plays as the opponent’s strategy unfolds. Deck-building considerations for this Weedle card emphasize tempo and consistency. Because the attack pulls a Weedle from the deck, players might pair it with draw or search supporters that help maintain Weedle density in the deck, while leveraging Weedle’s presence on the Bench to fuel subsequent evolves (Kakuna and Beedrill) should the format and card interactions permit. This approach can create acceleration windows where an opponent is pressured to adjust their strategy to contend with additional basics on the Bench. As a basic Grass Pokémon, Weedle also aligns with broader Grass-type themes that leverage nature-inspired motifs, energy acceleration, and board presence through evolving threats. Given its rarity designation (One Diamond) and its place within the Shining Revelry set, Weedle can be valuable for collectors and players who value set composition and niche mechanics over raw tournament efficiency. The card’s legal status in Standard and Expanded formats is noted as false, indicating it is not currently sanctioned for those standard competitive environments, a factor collectors and organizers may consider when evaluating format eligibility and display relevance.

Collector and Market Information

Weedle’s card data places it within the Shining Revelry set, which features a total card count of 111 with 72 officially cataloged cards. The Wheedle entry itself is cataloged as 001 within the A2b sub-set, marking it as an early set print within Shining Revelry’s numbering. The variant options for this card include Normal, Reverse, and Holo, reflecting standard distribution channels for Pokémon TCG releases of this era. Pricing data for this specific card shows fields for CardMarket and TCGPlayer as None, indicating that there may be limited public price data at the time of record or that the card’s market activity is limited compared to some other releases. For collectors, this combination of rarity (One Diamond), set position, and variant availability contributes to its potential appeal, particularly for enthusiasts seeking to complete the Shining Revelry collection or to study the set’s presentation of early Grass-type basics with unique bench-acceleration effects. Because the card is not listed as legal in Standard or Expanded formats, it typically holds more value as a collector’s item and a reference for card design history within the Pokémon TCG rather than as a staple in contemporary tournament decks. The absence of current pricing in major marketplaces does not preclude collectible interest, but it does mean market data should be monitored on an ongoing basis for any future reprints, re-releases, or reprints within alternate formats.

Art and Lore

Artwork for Weedle in this card is attributed to Akira Komayama, a contributor known for detailed insect-inspired Pokémon artwork across various sets. The depiction typically emphasizes naturalistic textures and vibrant color contrasts characteristic of Grass-type Pokémon, with emphasis on Weedle’s distinct beaded texture and its familiar horn-like sprinting feature on its head. The Shining Revelry set’s visual identity—often characterized by luminous, jewel-like accents and a twilight ambiance—aligns with Weedle’s presentation as a forest-dwelling, early-game presence. While the specific lore surrounding this Weedle in the card’s flavor text is brief, the card’s description notes Weedle’s natural habitat in forests and grasslands and references its toxic barb, grounding the creature in the broader Beedrill lineage’s lore within the Pokémon world. As part of the Weedle evolution line, this card sits at the beginning of a classic trio: Weedle evolves into Kakuna and ultimately Beedrill. This lineage is well-established in the Pokémon universe and in TCG ecosystems, where evolving lines represent a core mechanic for scaling power and expanding play options as a trainer’s strategy develops. The card’s narrative position reflects its function as an enabler—creating board presence that can set up evolving threats while remaining thematically linked to the forest habitat that Weedle inhabits.

Trivia

  • The card features a unique attack mechanic that pulls a Weedle from the deck to the Bench, highlighting a rare form of deck thinning and bench acceleration for a basic Grass-type Pokémon.
  • The variant availability includes holo and reverse holo options in addition to the standard normal print, matching the usual distribution for many rare and special sets in the Pokémon TCG.
  • Weedle’s basic HP of 50 and a single Grass-energy attack place it among the more modest early-game basics, emphasizing tempo rather than raw power.
  • The set information indicates a relatively large overall set size (111 total cards, with 72 officially cataloged), reflecting a broad and diverse expansion with emphasis on aesthetics and thematic identity.
  • The card’s legal status—being non-legal in both Standard and Expanded formats—makes it primarily a collectible reference card within the current competitive landscape.
Weedle - Shining Revelry A2b-001

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