Ho-oh 149/144 · Skyridge

Ho-Oh is Pokédex #250, generation 2 (Johto). Ho-oh is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 80 HP.

Ho-oh sits at 149/144 in Skyridge, position 149 of 182. Before it is 148 Golem, and after it is 150 Kabutops. The set belongs to the E-Card series. It was released on May 12, 2003. The printed size is 144. This checklist is longer, at 182 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 144. The listed rarity is Rare Secret.

Crystal Type is listed as Poké-Body. Whenever you attach a Fire, Water, or Lightning basic Energy card from your hand to Ho-oh, Ho-oh's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn. The attack Holy Flame lists 20 damage. The cost is Fire, Lightning. Scalding Steam is another attack lists 40 damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Water, Colorless. Discard an Energy card attached to Ho-oh and flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Burned. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3.

Ho-Oh (#250) has 37 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Ho-oh 52/53 in Wizards Black Star Promos (1999). Both list 80 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Secret. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Hajime Kusajima illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 3. 33 other cards of Ho-Oh list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Hajime Kusajima. I count 206 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Skyridge set binder is where a full Skyridge set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Ho-Oh can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.