Heracross 43/109 · 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. Heracross is 43/109, in position 43 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 42 Dark Weezing, and after it is 44 Magmar. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Heracross is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Heracross (#214), generation 2 (Johto).

Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this card. The same name is on 248 other cards in the catalog.

Heracross (#214) has 26 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Heracross 6/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Uncommon. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 24 other cards of Heracross list a different HP.

Crust is listed as Poké-Body. Any damage done to Heracross by attacks from your opponent's Basic Pokémon is reduced by 20 (after applying Weakness and Resistance). The attack Get Even lists 20+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless. If you have more Prize cards left than your opponent, this attack does 20 damage plus 10 more damage for each Prize card more than your opponent. Weakness is Psychic ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

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. Heracross can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.