Simisage 2/98 · Emerging Powers

Emerging Powers is a set in the Black & White series. It was released on August 31, 2011. The printed size is 98, and the checklist is the same length. Simisage is 2/98, in position 2 of 98 on this checklist. Before it is 1 Pansage, and after it is 3 Sewaddle. The listed rarity is Rare.

Simisage is a Stage 1 Grass Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Simisage (#512), generation 5 (Unova). The card says it evolves from Pansage. In this catalog that name is Pansage (#511).

match illustrated this card. The same name is on 143 other cards in the catalog.

Simisage (#512) has 10 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 9 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2025. The earliest other card is Simisage 8/114 in Black & White (2011). Both list 90 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare. Masakazu Fukuda illustrated that card, and match illustrated this one. 5 other cards of Simisage list a different HP.

The attack Fire's Power lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. If this Pokémon has any Fire Energy attached to it, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned. Seed Bomb is another attack lists 60 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Resistance is Water -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Ill tempered, it fights by swinging its barbed tail around wildly. The leaf growing on its head is very bitter."

I keep a set binder for Emerging Powers, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Emerging Powers set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Simisage can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.