Kabutops 14/144 · Skyridge

Skyridge is a set in the E-Card series. It was released on May 12, 2003. The printed size is 144. This checklist is longer, at 182 cards. Kabutops is 14/144, in position 14 of 182 on this checklist. Before it is 13 Jolteon, and after it is 15 Ledian. The listed rarity is Rare.

Kabutops is a Stage 2 Fighting Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Kabutops (#141), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Kabuto. In this catalog that name is Kabuto (#140).

Kouki Saitou illustrated this card. The same name is on 652 other cards in the catalog.

Kabutops (#141) has 17 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Kabutops 9/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Kouki Saitou illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 13 other cards of Kabutops list a different HP.

Primal Aura is listed as Poké-Body. As long as Kabutops is your Active Pokémon, neither player can play Basic Pokémon or Evolution cards from his or her hand to evolve Benched Pokémon. The attack Dual Cut lists 50× damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 50 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

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