Scraggy BW25/101 · BW Black Star Promos

BW Black Star Promos is a set in the Black & White series. It was released on March 1, 2011. The printed size is 101, and the checklist is the same length. Scraggy is BW25/101, in position 25 of 101 on this checklist. Before it is BW24 Zekrom, and after it is BW26 Axew. The listed rarity is Promo.

Scraggy is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 50 HP. In the Pokédex this is Scraggy (#559), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Scrafty, Scrafty (#560) under evolves to.

Akira Komayama illustrated this card. The same name is on 239 other cards in the catalog.

Scraggy (#559) has 19 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 17 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2026. The earliest other card is Scraggy 68/114 in Black & White (2011). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Masakazu Fukuda illustrated that card, and Akira Komayama illustrated this one. 19 other cards of Scraggy list a different HP.

The attack Paralyzing Gaze lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. High Jump Kick is another attack lists 30 damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It immediately headbutts anyone that makes eye contact with it. Its skull is massively thick."

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