Garchomp 120/116 · Plasma Freeze

Plasma Freeze is a set in the Black & White series. It was released on May 8, 2013. The printed size is 116. This checklist is longer, at 122 cards. Garchomp is 120/116, in position 120 of 122 on this checklist. Before it is 119 Garbodor, and after it is 121 Max Potion. The collector number is above the printed set size of 116. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

Garchomp is a Stage 2 Dragon Pokémon with 140 HP. In the Pokédex this is Garchomp (#445), generation 4 (Sinnoh). The card says it evolves from Gabite. In this catalog that name is Gabite (#444).

Ayaka Yoshida illustrated this card. The same name is on 128 other cards in the catalog.

Garchomp (#445) has 36 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Garchomp C LV.X DP46/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Garchomp C LV.X, while this one is Garchomp. That card lists 110 HP, and this one lists 140 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Secret. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Ayaka Yoshida illustrated this one. 32 other cards of Garchomp list a different HP.

The attack Mach Cut lists 60 damage. The cost is Fighting. Discard a Special Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon. Dragonblade is another attack lists 100 damage. The cost is Water, Fighting. Discard the top 2 cards of your deck. Weakness is Dragon ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "This extremely rare Pokémon is a different color than usual. It is very hard to find."

I keep a set binder for Plasma Freeze, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Plasma Freeze set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Garchomp can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.