Butterfree 2/112 · FireRed & LeafGreen

FireRed & LeafGreen is a set in the EX series. It was released on September 1, 2004. The printed size is 112. This checklist is longer, at 116 cards. Butterfree is 2/112, in position 2 of 116 on this checklist. Before it is 1 Beedrill, and after it is 3 Dewgong. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Butterfree is a Stage 2 Grass Pokémon with 100 HP. In the Pokédex this is Butterfree (#012), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Metapod. In this catalog that name is Metapod (#011).

Atsuko Nishida illustrated this card. The same name is on 408 other cards in the catalog.

Butterfree (#012) has 24 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 20 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Butterfree 33/64 in Jungle (1999). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Atsuko Nishida illustrated this one. 24 other cards of Butterfree list a different HP.

Sooth Dust is listed as Poké-Body. As long as Butterfree is your Active Pokémon, remove 1 damage counter from each of your Pokémon between turns. The attack Whirlwind lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Your opponent switches the Defending Pokémon with 1 of his or her Benched Pokémon. Gust is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Resistance is Fighting -30.

I keep a set binder for FireRed & LeafGreen, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the FireRed & LeafGreen set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Butterfree can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.