Piloswine 27/135 · Plasma Storm

Piloswine is Pokédex #221, generation 2 (Johto). Piloswine is a Stage 1 Water Pokémon with 100 HP. The card says it evolves from Swinub. In this catalog that name is Swinub (#220). The card lists Mamoswine, Mamoswine (#473) under evolves to.

Piloswine sits at 27/135 in Plasma Storm, position 27 of 138. Before it is 26 Swinub, and after it is 28 Mamoswine. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on February 6, 2013. The printed size is 135. This checklist is longer, at 138 cards. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

The attack Ice Beam lists 20 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Quintuple Headbutt is another attack lists 40× damage. The cost is Water, Water, Colorless, Colorless. Flip 5 coins. This attack does 40 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Metal ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "With its excellent sense of smell, it's even able to find mushrooms that are buried under frozen ground."

Piloswine (#221) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Piloswine 44/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. Both list the rarity Uncommon. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Suwama Chiaki illustrated this one. 8 other cards of Piloswine list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Suwama Chiaki. I count 102 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Plasma Storm set binder is where a full Plasma Storm set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Piloswine can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.