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Alolan Sandshrew
McDonald's Collection 2019 4/12
- Set
- McDonald's Collection 2019
- Number
- 4/12
- Released
- 2019
- Energy type
- water energy
- Market price
- $12.26
- Artist
- Shin Nagasawa
What it does
Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage for each heads.
An ancient tradition of Alolan festivals, still carried on to this day, is a competition to slide Sandshrew across ice as far as one can.
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Where it came from
The Alolan Sandshrew card was released in 2019 as part of a promotional set distributed exclusively within McDonald's Happy Meals in North America and select international markets. This collaboration between The Pokémon Company and the fast-food chain has been a recurring tradition since the early 2000s, designed to increase brand engagement among younger fans and collectors by offering small, accessible batches of cards that correlate with the latest game releases or animated series.
The card features the Alolan variant of Sandshrew, a creature reimagined for the 2016 games Pokémon Sun and Moon to reflect the frozen environment of the Alola region. The artwork, characterized by the distinct style favored in modern Pokémon Trading Card Game expansions, highlights the character's icy blue coloration and armor-like plating. While the card is a standard promotional release and is widely available, it remains a charming representation of the regional variants that defined the seventh generation of the franchise.
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