Blaine's Mankey 63/132 · Gym Challenge

Mankey is Pokédex #056, generation 1 (Kanto). Blaine's Mankey is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 40 HP. The card lists level 14. The card lists Primeape, Primeape (#057) under evolves to.

Blaine's Mankey sits at 63/132 in Gym Challenge, position 63 of 132. Before it is 62 Blaine's Growlithe, and after it is 64 Blaine's Ponyta. The set belongs to the Gym series. It was released on October 16, 2000. The printed size is 132, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Pranks lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, choose a card from your opponent's discard pile and put it on top of his or her deck. Fury Swipes is another attack lists 10× damage. The cost is Fighting. Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Psychic ×2.

Mankey (#056) has 26 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 24 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Mankey 55/64 in Jungle (1999). That card is named Mankey, while this one is Blaine's Mankey. That card lists 30 HP, and this one lists 40 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Atsuko Nishida illustrated this one. 21 other cards of Mankey list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Atsuko Nishida. I count 408 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Gym Challenge set binder is where a full Gym Challenge set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Mankey can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Trainer's Pokémon. I still need this card.