Dark Marowak 7/109 · 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 Marowak is 7/109, in position 7 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 6 Dark Hypno, and after it is 8 Dark Octillery. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Dark Marowak is a Stage 1 Fighting Darkness Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Marowak (#105), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Cubone. In this catalog that name is Cubone (#104).

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

Marowak (#105) has 21 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 Marowak 39/64 in Jungle (1999). That card is named Marowak, while this one is Dark Marowak. That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Holo. 20 other cards of Marowak list a different HP.

The attack Brick Smash lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. This attack's damage isn't affected by Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon. Hard Bone is another attack lists 70 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Discard a Basic Pokémon or Evolution card from your hand or this attack does nothing. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: This Pokémon is both Fighting 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. Marowak can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards and Team Rocket cards. I still need this card.