Salamence 19/97 · Dragon

Salamence is Pokédex #373, generation 3 (Hoenn). Salamence is a Stage 2 Colorless Pokémon with 100 HP. The card says it evolves from Shelgon. In this catalog that name is Shelgon (#372).

Salamence sits at 19/97 in Dragon, position 19 of 100. Before it is 18 Ninjask, and after it is 20 Shelgon. The set belongs to the EX series. It was released on November 24, 2003. The printed size is 97. This checklist is longer, at 100 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

Intimidating Fang is listed as Poké-Body. As long as Salamence is your Active Pokémon, any damage done to your Pokémon by an opponent's attack is reduced by 10 (before applying Weakness and Resistance). The attack Dragon Flame lists 40+ damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Colorless. You may discard an Energy card attached to Salamence. If you do, this attack does 40 damage plus 20 more damage. Retreat cost is 2.

Salamence (#373) has 30 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Salamence 10/97 in Dragon (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Kouki Saitou illustrated this one. 30 other cards of Salamence list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Kouki Saitou. I count 652 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Dragon set binder is where a full Dragon set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Salamence can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.