Horsea 33/97 · Dragon

Horsea is Pokédex #116, generation 1 (Kanto). Horsea is a Basic Water Pokémon with 40 HP. The card lists Seadra, Seadra (#117) under evolves to.

Horsea sits at 33/97 in Dragon, position 33 of 100. Before it is 32 Gyarados, and after it is 34 Houndoom. 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 Uncommon.

The attack Retaliate lists 10× damage. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage times the number of damage counters on Horsea. Smokescreen is another attack lists 10 damage. The cost is Water. If the Defending Pokémon tries to attack during your opponent's next turn, your opponent flips a coin. If tails, that attack does nothing. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

Horsea (#116) has 27 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2024. The earliest other card is Horsea 49/62 in Fossil (1999). Both list 40 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Uncommon. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Hajime Kusajima illustrated this one. 20 other cards of Horsea list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Hajime Kusajima. I count 206 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. Horsea can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.