Spheal 29/124 · Dragons Exalted

Spheal is Pokédex #363, generation 3 (Hoenn). Spheal is a Basic Water Pokémon with 60 HP. The card lists Sealeo, Sealeo (#364) under evolves to.

Spheal sits at 29/124 in Dragons Exalted, position 29 of 128. Before it is 28 Milotic, and after it is 30 Sealeo. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on August 15, 2012. The printed size is 124. This checklist is longer, at 128 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Unstoppable Roll lists 10+ damage. The cost is Water, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. If both of them are heads, this attack does 30 more damage. Weakness is Metal ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It rolls across ice floes to reach shore because its body is poorly shaped for swimming."

Spheal (#363) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 12 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2004 to 2024. The earliest other card is Team Aqua's Spheal 56/95 in Team Magma vs Team Aqua (2004). That card is named Team Aqua's Spheal, while this one is Spheal. That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Nakaoka illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 12 other cards of Spheal list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Dragons Exalted set binder is where a full Dragons Exalted set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Spheal can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.