Dragonite 5/20 · Dragon Vault

Dragonite is Pokédex #149, generation 1 (Kanto). Dragonite is a Stage 2 Dragon Pokémon with 150 HP. The card says it evolves from Dragonair. In this catalog that name is Dragonair (#148).

Dragonite sits at 5/20 in Dragon Vault, position 5 of 21. Before it is 4 Dragonair, and after it is 6 Bagon. The set belongs to the Black & White series. It was released on October 5, 2012. The printed size is 20. This checklist is longer, at 21 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Hyper Beam lists 50 damage. The cost is Lightning, Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to the Defending Pokémon. Hurricane Tail is another attack lists 60× damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Flip 4 coins. This attack does 60 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Dragon ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "It is said to make its home somewhere in the sea. It guides crews of shipwrecks to shore."

Dragonite (#149) has 48 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 29 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Dragonite 5/53 in Wizards Black Star Promos (1999). That card lists 90 HP, and this one lists 150 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Holo. Toshinao Aoki illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 3. 44 other cards of Dragonite list a different HP.

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

Dragon Vault set binder is where a full Dragon Vault set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Dragonite 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.