Arcanine H2/144 · Skyridge

Arcanine is Pokédex #059, generation 1 (Kanto). Arcanine is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Growlithe. In this catalog that name is Growlithe (#058).

Arcanine sits at H2/144 in Skyridge, position 152 of 182. Before it is H1 Alakazam, and after it is H3 Articuno. 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 Holo.

Energy Recharge is listed as Poké-Power. When you play Arcanine from your hand to evolve your Active Pokémon, you may flip 3 coins. For each heads, choose a basic Energy card from your discard pile and attach it to Arcanine. The attack Shake lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon, if any. White Flames is another attack lists 70 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless. Discard all Fire Energy cards attached to Arcanine. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

Arcanine (#059) has 41 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 35 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Arcanine 23/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Aya Kusube illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 38 other cards of Arcanine list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Aya Kusube. I count 127 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. Arcanine can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.