Zorua 69/108 · Dark Explorers

Dark Explorers is a set in the Black & White series. It was released on May 9, 2012. The printed size is 108. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. Zorua is 69/108, in position 69 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 68 Scrafty, and after it is 70 Zorua. The listed rarity is Common.

Zorua is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 50 HP. In the Pokédex this is Zorua (#570), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Zoroark, Zoroark (#571) under evolves to.

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Zorua (#570) has 25 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 20 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2026. The earliest other card is Zorua BW12/101 in BW Black Star Promos (2011). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Common. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 21 other cards of Zorua list a different HP.

The attack Ascension lists no damage number. The cost is Darkness. Search your deck for a card that evolves from this Pokémon and put it onto this Pokémon. (This counts as evolving this Pokémon.) Shuffle your deck afterward. Scratch is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It changes into the forms of others to surprise them. Apparently, it often transforms into a silent child."

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