Spearow (Sample Set 1)

This article is about a Pokémon Trading Card Game card which has not yet been officially released in English. As such, this article may contain translated Japanese terms instead of English terms.

Spearow  
オニスズメ Onisuzume
Colorless

Illus. Ken Sugimori
Evolution stage Basic Pokémon
Card name Spearow
Type Colorless
HP 30
weakness
Lightning×2
resistance
Fighting-30
retreat cost
None
Japanese expansion Sample Set
For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Spearow.

Spearow (Japanese: オニスズメ Onisuzume) is a Colorless-type Basic Pokémon card. It is part of the Sample Set.

Card text

Colorless
Whirlwind
ふきとばし
10
Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon.

e-Reader data

This card's ID is R-02-#.

Mini-game

The long strip contains data for the Machop At Work mini-game. Clefairy and Psyduck are also required to play it.

Release information

This card is part of the Sample Set, a small collection of cards created in order to promote the e-Reader prior to its release in Japan on December 1, 2001. This card is part of the second produced collection, consisting of 10 cards utilized during the Nintendo Space World event held on August 24-26, 2001 at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba. Some copies of this card eventually made their way into the hands of collectors.

Trivia

Origin

Whirlwind is a move in the Pokémon games that Spearow can learn via TM04 in Generation I, and via breeding since Generation IV.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.