Team Aqua's Seviper 17/95 Pokémon EX Team Magma VS Team Aqua Raw

Pokémon: Seviper

Series: EX

Set: Team Magma VS Team Aqua

Card Number: 17

Rarity: R

Condition: N/A

Grade: Raw

Year: 2004

Illustrator:  Jungo Suzuki

Type: Grass

The Team Aqua's Seviper 17/95 is a Rare Grass-type Basic Pokémon card from EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua, released on November 11, 2004 by The Pokémon Company and illustrated by Jungo Suzuki, a Japanese artist whose dynamic, serpentine linework and cool green palettes brought a sense of coiling, predatory tension to this one of the franchise's most iconic Poison-type Pokémon reimagined through a villainous lens.

As an 80 HP Pokémon with a Weakness to Psychic-type attacks (×2), no Resistance, and a Retreat Cost of two Colorless Energy, it occupies a strategically important position within the 95-card master set. The EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua set was the fourteenth expansion of the EX era, pitting the rival villain teams from the Hoenn region against each other in a roster of "Team Magma's" and "Team Aqua's" Pokémon that redefined competitive deck construction around team-based synergy and exclusive search mechanics. In terms of decks and strategy, Team Aqua's Seviper's two attacks make it one of the most tactically efficient Rare Grass Pokémon in the entire EX era. Call for Family costs a single Grass Energy and allows the player to search their deck for up to 2 "Team Aqua's" Pokémon and put them into their hand, then shuffle the deck afterward—a powerful team-specific search that could accelerate the deployment of key attackers like Team Aqua's Swampert or Team Aqua's Groudon ex by a full turn. Poison Fang costs two Grass Energy, deals 30 damage, and applies the Poisoned condition to the Defending Pokémon, creating a persistent 10-damage-per-turn chip that punishes high-HP attackers like Team Magma's Blaziken and Team Magma's Groudon ex over multiple turns. In 2004–2006 competitive formats, this made it a cornerstone of Team Aqua-themed Grass decks, where the Call for Family search created a powerful acceleration loop and Poison Fang provided consistent damage output with a lingering status condition. Its Psychic Weakness (×2) made it a natural counter to Mewtwo ex-heavy and Psychic-type strategies, and its role as a team-specific Basic that could be found by Call for Family gave it a self-sustaining presence within Team Aqua decks.

Collectors love the Team Aqua's Seviper for its unique position as one of the most visually striking Rare Pokémon in the EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua set, a card whose villainous reimagining of a popular Hoenn-region species through the Team Aqua aesthetic gave it a distinct identity separate from standard Seviper printings. Jungo Suzuki's illustration—depicting Seviper in a coiled, aggressive pose with its forked tongue extended and its small, calculating eyes locked forward against a dark, aquatic backdrop—captures the raw, serpentine cunning of the species in a style that stands out among the more conventional artwork of the set's other Rare Pokémon. The card's permanently fixed supply—combined with over 20 years of natural wear from the population of EX Team Magma vs Team Aqua cards that were opened, played, and traded in the mid-2000s—ensures that quality raw copies remain a steady target for both set completionists and players of Unlimited format tournaments who still appreciate the creative team-specific search mechanics of one of the EX era's most thematically cohesive expansions.

Product Details

Card Number / Rarity:17/95 / Rare

Card Type / HP / Stage:Grass / 80 / Basic

Attack 1:[1] Call for Family
Search your deck for a Grass Basic Pokemon or Basic Pokemon with Team Aqua in its name and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Attack 2:[2G] Thick Poison (20)
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokemon is now Confused and Poisoned. If tails, the Defending Pokemon is now Poisoned.

Weakness / Resistance / Retreat Cost:P / None / 2

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