Absol 1/97 · Dragon

Dragon is a set in the EX series. It was released on November 24, 2003. The printed size is 97. This checklist is longer, at 100 cards. Absol is 1/97, in position 1 of 100 on this checklist. The next card is 2 Altaria. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Absol is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Absol (#359), generation 3 (Hoenn).

Naoyo Kimura illustrated this card. The same name is on 256 other cards in the catalog.

Absol (#359) has 29 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2004 to 2025. The earliest other card is Absol 96/95 in Team Magma vs Team Aqua (2004). Both list 70 HP. The rarity there is Rare Secret, and here it is Rare Holo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Naoyo Kimura illustrated this one. 24 other cards of Absol list a different HP.

The attack Bad News lists no damage number. The cost is Darkness. If the number of cards in your opponent's hand is at least 6, choose a number of cards there, without looking, until your opponent has 5 cards left. Have your opponent discard the cards you chose. Prize Count is another attack lists 20+ damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. If you have more Prize cards left than your opponent, this attack does 20 damage plus 20 more damage. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 1.

I keep a set binder for Dragon, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Dragon set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Absol can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.