Dark Houndoom 5/109 · 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 Houndoom is 5/109, in position 5 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 4 Dark Electrode, and after it is 6 Dark Hypno. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Dark Houndoom is a Stage 1 Fire Darkness Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Houndoom (#229), generation 2 (Johto). The card says it evolves from Houndour. In this catalog that name is Houndour (#228).

Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this card. The same name is on 721 other cards in the catalog.

Houndoom (#229) has 44 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Houndoom 4/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card is named Houndoom, while this one is Dark Houndoom. Both list 70 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Shin-ichi Yoshida illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 32 other cards of Houndoom list a different HP.

The attack Shakedown lists 20 damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. Choose a card from your opponent's hand without looking and discard it. Dark Fire is another attack lists 40+ damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. You may discard a Fire Energy or Darkness Energy attached to Dark Houndoom. If you do, this attack does 40 damage plus 20 more damage. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: This Pokémon is both Fire Darkness 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. Houndoom can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards and Team Rocket cards. I still need this card.