Salamence 64/101 · Plasma Blast

Salamence is Pokédex #373, generation 3 (Hoenn). Salamence is a Stage 2 Dragon Pokémon with 150 HP. The card says it evolves from Shelgon. In this catalog that name is Shelgon (#372).

Salamence sits at 64/101 in Plasma Blast, position 64 of 105. Before it is 63 Shelgon, and after it is 65 Dialga-EX. 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 Rare Holo.

Breakwing is listed as Ability. When you play this Pokémon from your hand to evolve 1 of your Pokémon, you may discard all Pokémon Tool cards attached to each of your opponent's Pokémon. The attack Gaia Crush lists 100 damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Colorless, Colorless. Discard any Stadium card in play. Weakness is Dragon ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "As a result of its long-held dream of flying, its cellular structure changed, and wings grew out."

Salamence (#373) has 30 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 18 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Salamence 10/97 in Dragon (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 150 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Naoki Saito illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 4. 27 other cards of Salamence list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Naoki Saito. I count 270 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. Salamence can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.