Blaine's Charmeleon 31/132 · Gym Challenge

Gym Challenge is a set in the Gym series. It was released on October 16, 2000. The printed size is 132, and the checklist is the same length. Blaine's Charmeleon is 31/132, in position 31 of 132 on this checklist. Before it is 30 Sabrina's Golduck, and after it is 32 Blaine's Dodrio. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Blaine's Charmeleon is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 70 HP. The card lists level 29. In the Pokédex this is Charmeleon (#005), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Blaine's Charmander. In this catalog that name is Charmander (#004). The card lists Charizard, Charizard (#006) under evolves to.

Ken Sugimori illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,112 other cards in the catalog.

Charmeleon (#005) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 31 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Charmeleon 24/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Charmeleon, while this one is Blaine's Charmeleon. That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. Both list the rarity Uncommon. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 26 other cards of Charmeleon list a different HP.

The attack Fire Claws lists 30 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire. Bonfire is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Fire, Fire, Fire. Flip 3 coins. For each heads, discard 1 Fire Energy card attached to Blaine's Charmeleon. If you can't discard Energy cards, this attack does nothing. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads to each of your opponent's Pokémon. Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for this attack. (Any other effects that would happen after applying Weakness and Resistance still happen.) Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 2.

I keep a set binder for Gym Challenge, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Gym Challenge set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Charmeleon can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Trainer's Pokémon, Kanto starters, without Charizard, Kanto Gym Leaders and their Pokémon, and Blaine and his Pokémon. I still need this card.