Dark Machamp 27/82 · Team Rocket

Team Rocket is a set in the Base series. It was released on April 24, 2000. The printed size is 82. This checklist is longer, at 83 cards. Dark Machamp is 27/82, in position 27 of 83 on this checklist. Before it is 26 Dark Hypno, and after it is 28 Dark Magneton. The listed rarity is Rare.

Dark Machamp is a Stage 2 Fighting Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists level 30. In the Pokédex this is Machamp (#068), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Dark Machoke. In this catalog that name is Machoke (#067).

Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this card. The same name is on 721 other cards in the catalog.

Machamp (#068) has 48 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Machamp 8/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Machamp, while this one is Dark Machamp. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 47 other cards of Machamp list a different HP.

The attack Mega Punch lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting. Fling is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Your opponent shuffles his or her Active Pokémon and all cards attached to it into his or her deck. This attack can't be used if your opponent has no Benched Pokémon. Weakness is Psychic ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "It is almost impossible to defend against a Machamp's four powerful arms."

I keep a set binder for Team Rocket, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Team Rocket set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Machamp can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards and Team Rocket cards. I still need this card.