Our twelfth and final international specimen brings us to the year 2023 and the current Scarlet & Violet TCG era. This Onix, from the set Paldea Evolved, features a majestic and powerful piece of art that perfectly captures the colossal scale of the Rock Snake Pokémon.
Card Details
- Pokémon Name: Onix
- Set: Scarlet & Violet – Paldea Evolved
- Year: 2023
- Card Number: 095/165
- Rarity/Edition: Uncommon
- Artist: Shin Nagasawa
- National Pokédex No.: 095
Card Text & Attacks
- Type: Fighting
- HP: 120
- Attack 1: Thumpalanche
- Cost: [Colourless][Colourless]
- Damage: 80x
- Effect: Discard the top 5 cards of your deck. This attack does 80 damage for each Pokémon with a Retreat Cost of exactly 4 that you discarded in this way.
- Attack 2: Heavy Impact
- Cost: [Fighting][Fighting][Colourless][Colourless]
- Damage: 100
- Weakness: Grass x2
- Resistance: None
- Retreat Cost: [Colourless][Colourless][Colourless][Colourless]
- Flavour Text: It rapidly bores through the ground at 50 mph by squirming and twisting its massive, rugged body.
Collector’s Notes
The artwork by Shin Nagasawa is a modern masterpiece, showcasing a colossal Onix soaring over a lush, green mountain peak. The low-angle perspective makes Onix feel truly immense, like a god-sized creature emerging from the earth to survey its domain. The clean, crisp art style is a hallmark of the Scarlet & Violet era, presenting a powerful and awe-inspiring vision of this classic Pokémon.
For our Geological Pokémon special exhibit, this card is the perfect finale. It represents the pinnacle of modern Pokémon art, and its “Thumpalanche” attack is a fantastic portmanteau of “thump” and “avalanche,” directly referencing a powerful and dangerous geological event. This specimen perfectly encapsulates Onix’s identity as a living, breathing mountain, a force of nature that commands its rocky domain.
Exhibit Conclusion
This concludes our “International Study” of Onix. We have journeyed from the earliest days of the TCG with Brock’s Onix, through the nostalgia of Evolutions, and into the modern era with this magnificent specimen. This collection showcases not only the enduring appeal of this cornerstone geological Pokémon but also the wonderful diversity of art and design that has defined the Pokémon TCG for over two decades.
