Magcargo 17/144 · Skyridge

Magcargo is Pokédex #219, generation 2 (Johto). Magcargo is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Slugma. In this catalog that name is Slugma (#218).

Magcargo sits at 17/144 in Skyridge, position 17 of 182. Before it is 16 Machamp, and after it is 18 Magcargo. 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 listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Eruption lists 20+ damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Each player discard the top card of his or her deck. This attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage for each Fire Energy card discarded in this way. Fire Stream is another attack lists 60 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless, Colorless. Discard a Fire Energy card attached to Magcargo in order to use this attack. If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, this attack does 10 damage to each of them. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3.

Magcargo (#219) has 29 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Magcargo 33/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). Both list 80 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare. Shin-ichi Yoshida illustrated that card, and Hajime Kusajima illustrated this one. 21 other cards of Magcargo 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. Magcargo can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.