Porygon2 73/101 · Plasma Blast

Porygon2 is Pokédex #233, generation 2 (Johto). Porygon2 is a Stage 1 Colorless Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Porygon. In this catalog that name is Porygon (#137). The card lists Porygon-Z, Porygon-Z (#474) under evolves to.

Porygon2 sits at 73/101 in Plasma Blast, position 73 of 105. Before it is 72 Porygon, and after it is 74 Porygon-Z. 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 Uncommon.

The attack Destructive Beam lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It was upgraded to enable the exploration of other planets. However, it failed to measure up."

Porygon2 (#233) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Porygon2 12/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Uncommon. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and HiRON illustrated this one. 11 other cards of Porygon2 list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads HiRON. I count 12 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. Porygon2 can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.