Sceptile 8/106 · Great Encounters

Sceptile is Pokédex #254, generation 3 (Hoenn). Sceptile is a Stage 2 Grass Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists level 52. The card says it evolves from Grovyle. In this catalog that name is Grovyle (#253).

Sceptile sits at 8/106 in Great Encounters, position 8 of 106. Before it is 7 Rotom, and after it is 9 Swampert. The set belongs to the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on February 1, 2008. The printed size is 106, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Wild Growth is listed as Poké-Body. Each basic Grass Energy card attached to your Grass Pokémon provides GrassGrass Energy instead. You can't use more than 1 Wild Growth Poké-Body each turn. The attack Leaf Blade lists 50+ damage. The cost is Grass, Grass, Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 50 damage plus 20 more damage. Weakness is Fire +30. Resistance is Water -20. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "The leaves that grow on its arms can slice down thick trees. It is without peer in jungle combat."

Sceptile (#254) has 23 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2018. The earliest other card is Sceptile 11/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Midori Harada illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 19 other cards of Sceptile list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Masakazu Fukuda. I count 471 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Great Encounters set binder is where a full Great Encounters set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Sceptile can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.