Salamence 24/100 · 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. Salamence is 24/100, in position 24 of 106 on this checklist. Before it is 23 Roserade, and after it is 25 Scizor. The listed rarity is Rare.

Salamence is a Stage 2 Colorless Pokémon with 140 HP. The card lists level 66. In the Pokédex this is Salamence (#373), generation 3 (Hoenn). The card says it evolves from Shelgon. In this catalog that name is Shelgon (#372).

Kagemaru Himeno illustrated this card. The same name is on 656 other cards in the catalog.

Salamence (#373) has 30 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 18 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Salamence 10/97 in Dragon (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 140 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Kagemaru Himeno illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 3. 27 other cards of Salamence list a different HP.

Battle Rush is listed as Poké-Body. If your opponent has any Pokémon in play that has maximum HP of 120 or more, ignore all Colorless Energy necessary to use Salamence's attacks. The attack Combustion lists 50 damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless. Steam Twister is another attack lists 120 damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Colorless, Colorless. Discard a Fire Energy and a Water Energy attached to Salamence. Weakness is Colorless +30. Resistance is Fighting -20. Retreat cost is 3.

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. Salamence can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.