Smeargle 32/53 · Wizards Black Star Promos

Smeargle is Pokédex #235, generation 2 (Johto). Smeargle is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 40 HP. The card lists level 21.

Smeargle sits at 32/53 in Wizards Black Star Promos, position 32 of 53. Before it is 31 Cleffa, and after it is 33 Scizor. The set belongs to the Base series. It was released on July 1, 1999. The printed size is 53, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Promo.

The attack Paint lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, choose a type (other than Colorless) and put a Coloring counter on the Defending Pokémon. That Pokémon is now the type you chose. If it already had a Coloring counter, remove the old one. If tails, this attack does nothing. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Once it becomes an adult, it has a tendency to let its comrades plant footprints on its back."

Smeargle (#235) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Smeargle 11/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 40 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Promo. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. 16 other cards of Smeargle list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Tomokazu Komiya. I count 248 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Wizards Black Star Promos set binder is where a full Wizards Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Smeargle can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.