Machamp 20/100 · Stormfront

Stormfront is a set in the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on November 1, 2008. The printed size is 100. This checklist is longer, at 106 cards. Machamp is 20/100, in position 20 of 106 on this checklist. Before it is 19 Gyarados, and after it is 21 Mamoswine. The listed rarity is Rare.

Machamp is a Stage 2 Fighting Pokémon with 130 HP. The card lists level 62. In the Pokédex this is Machamp (#068), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Machoke. In this catalog that name is Machoke (#067).

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Machamp (#068) has 48 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Machamp 8/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 130 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 46 other cards of Machamp list a different HP.

The attack Take Out lists 40 damage. The cost is Fighting. If the Defending Pokémon isn't an Evolved Pokémon, that Pokémon is Knocked Out instead of damaged by this attack. Hurricane Punch is another attack lists 30× damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip 4 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads. Rage is another attack lists 60+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Does 60 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Machamp. Weakness is Psychic +30. Retreat cost is 2.

I keep a set binder for Stormfront, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Stormfront set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Machamp can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.