Charmeleon 102/100 · Stormfront

Charmeleon is Pokédex #005, generation 1 (Kanto). Charmeleon is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 32. The card says it evolves from Charmander. In this catalog that name is Charmander (#004). The card lists Charizard, Charizard (#006) under evolves to.

Charmeleon sits at 102/100 in Stormfront, position 102 of 106. Before it is 101 Charmander, and after it is 103 Charizard. The set belongs to the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on November 1, 2008. The printed size is 100. This checklist is longer, at 106 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 100. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

The attack Slash lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Flamethrower is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless. Discard a Fire Energy attached to Charmeleon. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It lashes about with its tail to knock down its foe. It then tears up the fallen opponent with sharp claws."

Charmeleon (#005) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 31 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Charmeleon 24/102 in Base (1999). Both list 80 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Secret. 25 other cards of Charmeleon list a different HP.

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

Stormfront set binder is where a full Stormfront set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Charmeleon can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.