1. Analyze the stats of the card (HP, Weakness, Resistance, Retreat cost).
At 50HP it's not as good as most other basics you usually see as starters. It's colourless type could be useful, since you won't need to tech in new basic energy to use it. It's lightning weakness isn't great, while it's fighting resistance (pretty much standard for flying pokemon) could have some slight benefit. It's retreat cost of 1 is slightly disappointing, but not terrible.
2. Analyze the attacks of the card.
Glide is your standard one energy for 10 damage which you see on most common cards. It could be used as a last resort to knock out a low hp pokemon but it's very unlikely someone will use this attack in a competative game.
Messenger is an interesting attack, which allows you to search for any pokemon in your deck, but you then have to shuffle Pidgey and all cards attached to it into your deck. While this could be useful for getting a much needed pokemon in your deck, you won't get a chance to play it until your next turn, you still need to use your energy for the turn to use this attack, which could slow you down just as much , and you must have at least one other pokemon on your bench. Overall, there are better alternatives for searching for pokemon (Bebe's Search, Pokemon Communicator, etc).
3. What combos can you use it with? How so?
There's not really many combos that come to mind. If you did run a Pidgey, ideally you would want it as a starter and shuffle it into your deck. In the late game, it could be useful as Junk Arm Fodder if you want to reuse a trainer.
4. What techs can you use to combat the weak points?
There aren't a lot of things that can help Pidgey and even the most well known techs are useless. Expert Belt will only increase it's HP to 70 which can easily be one shot for 2 prizes. Exploud SV could remove the weakness but even then Luxray GL can still one shot it. Finally Unown Q can give it free retreat, but you probably want to start with it, use messenger and then never have it in play again.
5. How's the artwork?
It's er......not that exciting, but slightly better then it's Call of Legends reprint.
6. Give it a rating, and explain why you have given it that rating. You can also rate the card by rating the thread itself (out of 5 stars).
I would give it 2.5/5. If you're going to a Call of Legends Prerelease any time soon, then any Pidgey you get might be useful there. Other then that, unless your running a deck with a Pidgeotto or Pidgeot in it, this card won't be that much help to you.
