Cloyster 8/165 · Expedition Base Set

Cloyster is Pokédex #091, generation 1 (Kanto). Cloyster is a Stage 1 Water Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Shellder. In this catalog that name is Shellder (#090).

Cloyster sits at 8/165 in Expedition Base Set, position 8 of 165. Before it is 7 Clefable, and after it is 9 Dragonite. The set belongs to the E-Card series. It was released on September 15, 2002. The printed size is 165, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Lick lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Auto Fire is another attack lists 20× damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. Flip 4 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Metal ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

Cloyster (#091) has 13 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Cloyster 32/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Kyoko Umemoto illustrated this one. 11 other cards of Cloyster list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Kyoko Umemoto. I count 174 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Expedition Base Set set binder is where a full Expedition Base Set set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Cloyster can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.