Kabuto 50/62 · Fossil

Fossil is a set in the Base series. It was released on October 10, 1999. The printed size is 62, and the checklist is the same length. Kabuto is 50/62, in position 50 of 62 on this checklist. Before it is 49 Horsea, and after it is 51 Krabby. The listed rarity is Common.

Kabuto is a Stage 1 Fighting Pokémon with 30 HP. The card lists level 9. In the Pokédex this is Kabuto (#140), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Mysterious Fossil. The card lists Kabutops, Kabutops (#141) under evolves to.

Ken Sugimori illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,112 other cards in the catalog.

Kabuto (#140) has 12 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 12 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2023. The earliest other card is Kabuto 56/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 30 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Yuka Morii illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 11 other cards of Kabuto list a different HP.

Kabuto Armor is listed as Pokémon Power. Whenever an attack (even your own) does damage to Kabuto (after applying Weakness and Resistance), that attack does half the damage to Kabuto (rounded down to the nearest 10). (Any other effects of attacks still happen.) This power stops working while Kabuto is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed. The attack Scratch lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "A Pokémon that was resurrected from a fossil found in what was once the ocean floor eons ago."

I keep a set binder for Fossil, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Fossil set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Kabuto can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.