Rattata 72/109 · 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. Rattata is 72/109, in position 72 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 71 Rattata, and after it is 73 Remoraid. The listed rarity is Common.

Rattata is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 40 HP. In the Pokédex this is Rattata (#019), generation 1 (Kanto). The card lists Raticate, Raticate (#020) under evolves to.

Naoyo Kimura illustrated this card. The same name is on 256 other cards in the catalog.

Rattata (#019) has 26 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 26 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Rattata 61/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 30 HP, and this one lists 40 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Naoyo Kimura illustrated this one. 13 other cards of Rattata list a different HP.

The attack Call for Family lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Search your deck for a Basic Pokémon and put it onto your Bench. Shuffle your deck afterward. Snarl is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage to the Defending Pokémon. If tails, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Weakness is Fighting ×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. Rattata can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.