Golem 148/144 · 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. Golem is 148/144, in position 148 of 182 on this checklist. Before it is 147 Crobat, and after it is 149 Ho-oh. The collector number is above the printed set size of 144. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

Golem is a Stage 2 Colorless Pokémon with 100 HP. In the Pokédex this is Golem (#076), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Graveler. In this catalog that name is Graveler (#075).

Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this card. The same name is on 721 other cards in the catalog.

Golem (#076) has 25 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Golem 36/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Secret. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 23 other cards of Golem list a different HP.

Crystal Type is listed as Poké-Body. Whenever you attach a Grass, Fire, or Fighting basic Energy card from your hand to Golem, Golem's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn. The attack Rock Throw lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Earth Bomb is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Grass, Fire, Fighting, Colorless. Golem does 20 damage to itself. This attack also does 10 damage to each Benched Pokémon (yours and your opponent's). (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 4.

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. Golem 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.