Dark Steelix 10/109 · Team Rocket Returns

Team Rocket Returns is a set in the EX series. It was released on November 1, 2004. The printed size is 109. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. Dark Steelix is 10/109, in position 10 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 9 Dark Slowking, and after it is 11 Jumpluff. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Dark Steelix is a Stage 1 Darkness Metal Pokémon with 110 HP. In the Pokédex this is Steelix (#208), generation 2 (Johto). The card says it evolves from Onix. In this catalog that name is Onix (#095).

Kyoko Koizumi illustrated this card. The same name is on 14 other cards in the catalog.

Steelix (#208) has 33 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Steelix 15/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card is named Steelix, while this one is Dark Steelix. Both list 110 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Kyoko Koizumi illustrated this one. 30 other cards of Steelix list a different HP.

The attack Energy Link lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Search your discard pile for an Energy card and attach it to Dark Steelix. Heavy Impact is another attack lists 60 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Resistance is Grass -30. Retreat cost is 4. The card text says: This Pokémon is both Darkness Metal type.

I keep a set binder for Team Rocket Returns, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Team Rocket Returns set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Steelix can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Team Rocket cards. I still need this card.