Shelgon 50/100 · Stormfront

Shelgon is Pokédex #372, generation 3 (Hoenn). Shelgon is a Stage 1 Colorless Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists level 35. The card says it evolves from Bagon. In this catalog that name is Bagon (#371). The card lists Salamence, Salamence (#373) under evolves to.

Shelgon sits at 50/100 in Stormfront, position 50 of 106. Before it is 49 Scyther, and after it is 51 Skarmory. 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 listed rarity is Uncommon.

The attack Body Slam lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Rollout is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Colorless +20. Resistance is Fighting -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Within its rugged shell, its cells have begun changing. The shell peels off the instant it evolves."

Shelgon (#372) has 17 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Shelgon 20/97 in Dragon (2003). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Uncommon. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. 15 other cards of Shelgon list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Tomokazu Komiya. I count 248 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. Shelgon can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.