Houndour 55/101 · Plasma Blast

Houndour is Pokédex #228, generation 2 (Johto). Houndour is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 60 HP. The card lists Houndoom, Houndoom (#229) under evolves to.

Houndour sits at 55/101 in Plasma Blast, position 55 of 105. Before it is 54 Archeops, and after it is 56 Houndoom. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on August 14, 2013. The printed size is 101. This checklist is longer, at 105 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Roar lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. Ambush is another attack lists 20+ damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 more damage. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It is smart enough to hunt in packs. It uses a variety of cries for communicating with others."

Houndour (#228) has 31 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Houndour 5/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Common. Aya Kusube illustrated that card, and Sumiyoshi Kizuki illustrated this one. 27 other cards of Houndour list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Sumiyoshi Kizuki. I count 212 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

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