Cubone 51/109 · Team Rocket Returns

Cubone is Pokédex #104, generation 1 (Kanto). Cubone is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists Marowak, Marowak (#105) under evolves to.

Cubone sits at 51/109 in Team Rocket Returns, position 51 of 111. Before it is 50 Togepi, and after it is 52 Dratini. The set belongs to the EX series. It was released on November 1, 2004. The printed size is 109. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Look for Friends lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Basic Pokémon. Show that card to your opponent and put it into your hand. Shuffle the other revealed cards into your deck. (If you don't reveal a Basic Pokémon, shuffle all the revealed cards back into your deck.) Bonemerang is another attack lists 10× damage. The cost is Fighting. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

Cubone (#104) has 21 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Cubone 50/64 in Jungle (1999). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Kouki Saitou illustrated this one. 18 other cards of Cubone list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Kouki Saitou. I count 652 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Team Rocket Returns set binder is where a full Team Rocket Returns set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Cubone can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.