Mareep 73/123 · HeartGold & SoulSilver

Mareep is Pokédex #179, generation 2 (Johto). Mareep is a Basic Lightning Pokémon with 40 HP. The card lists Flaaffy, Flaaffy (#180) under evolves to.

Mareep sits at 73/123 in HeartGold & SoulSilver, position 73 of 124. Before it is 72 Magikarp, and after it is 74 Marill. 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 Common.

The attack Static Electricity lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Search your deck for a number of Lightning Energy cards up to the number of Mareep in play (both yours and your opponent's) and attach them to Mareep. Shuffle your deck afterward. Ram is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Metal -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "If static electricity builds in its body, its fleece doubles in volume. Touching it will shock you."

Mareep (#179) has 27 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 Mareep 65/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). Both list 40 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 22 other cards of Mareep list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Masakazu Fukuda. I count 471 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. Mareep can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.