Cover Fossil

Plasma Blast 79/101 • uncommon

Set: Plasma Blast
Number: 79/101
Rarity: Uncommon
Released: 2013
Market price: $0.35
Artist: Ryo Ueda

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What it's worth

$0.35market price via TCGplayer · Nov 4, 2026$0.29 – $0.39 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

The Cover Fossil is an uncommon card that captures a foundational element of the game by allowing players to integrate prehistoric creatures into their decks. As a structural component of play, this card serves as a vital transition, enabling the evolution of specific fossil-based Pokémon that collectors prize for their unique role in strategy.

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Card face

What it does

Item

Look at the bottom 7 cards of your deck. You may reveal a Tirtouga you find there and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

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Provenance

Where it came from

The Cover Fossil card was released as part of the Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion Plasma Blast, which debuted in the West in August 2013. This set focused on the narrative of Team Plasma’s influence in the Unova region, featuring high-tech aesthetics and cards themed around the powerful, genetically altered Pokémon associated with the villainous organization.

The card was illustrated by 5ban Graphics, a design team frequently commissioned by The Pokémon Company to create digital, polished artwork for the TCG. As an item card, its function is to facilitate the evolution of Tirtouga into Carracosta, maintaining the game's long-standing tradition of representing prehistoric fossils as physical objects that players must play from their hands to recover ancient Pokémon.

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Other printings

Others named Cover Fossil

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Cover FossilNoble Victories · #90/101 · uncommon · 2011$0.33

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