Lugia LEGEND 114/123 · HeartGold & SoulSilver

Lugia is Pokédex #249, generation 2 (Johto). Lugia LEGEND is a LEGEND Water Pokémon with 130 HP.

Lugia LEGEND sits at 114/123 in HeartGold & SoulSilver, position 114 of 124. Before it is 113 Lugia LEGEND, and after it is 115 Grass Energy. The set belongs to the HeartGold & SoulSilver series. It was released on February 10, 2010. The printed size is 123. This checklist is longer, at 124 cards. The listed rarity is LEGEND.

Ocean Grow is listed as Poké-Power. Once during your turn, when you put Lugia LEGEND into play, you may look at the top 5 cards of your deck and attach all Energy cards you find there to Lugia LEGEND. Discard the other cards. The attack Elemental Blast lists 200 damage. The cost is Fire, Water, Lightning. Discard a Fire Energy, Water Energy, and Lightning Energy attached to Lugia LEGEND. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Resistance is Fighting -20. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: Put this card from your hand onto your Bench only with the other half of Lugia LEGEND. The flavor text reads "It is said to be the guardian of the seas. It is rumored to have been seen on the night of a storm."

Lugia (#249) has 38 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 26 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2026. The earliest other card is Lugia 9/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card is named Lugia, while this one is Lugia LEGEND. That card lists 90 HP, and this one lists 130 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is LEGEND. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Shinji Higuchi illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 31 other cards of Lugia list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Shinji Higuchi. I count 3 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

HeartGold & SoulSilver set binder is where a full HeartGold & SoulSilver set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Lugia can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Pokémon LEGEND and All Lugia cards. I still need this card.