Kabutops 150/144 · Skyridge

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

Kabutops sits at 150/144 in Skyridge, position 150 of 182. Before it is 149 Ho-oh, and after it is H1 Alakazam. 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 Water, Lightning, or Fighting basic Energy card from your hand to Kabutops, Kabutops's type (color) becomes the same as that type of Energy until the end of the turn. The attack Draining Cut lists 20 damage. The cost is Water, Fighting, Colorless. Remove a damage counter from Kabutops. Triple Cutter is another attack lists 30× damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Fighting, Colorless. Flip 3 coins. This attack does 30 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 3.

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 Secret. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Atsuko Nishida illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 3. 13 other cards of Kabutops list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Atsuko Nishida. I count 408 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. Kabutops can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.