Aipom 78/94 · Phantasmal Flames

Phantasmal Flames is a set in the Mega Evolution series. It was released on November 14, 2025. The printed size is 94. This checklist is longer, at 130 cards. Aipom is 78/94, in position 78 of 130 on this checklist. Before it is 77 Wigglytuff, and after it is 79 Ambipom. The listed rarity is Common.

Aipom is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Aipom (#190), generation 2 (Johto). The card lists Ambipom, Ambipom (#424) under evolves to.

Saboteri illustrated this card. The same name is on 15 other cards in the catalog.

Aipom (#190) has 18 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2024. The earliest other card is Aipom 26/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Saboteri illustrated this one. 18 other cards of Aipom list a different HP.

The attack Astonish lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Choose a random card from your opponent's hand, and your opponent reveals that card and shuffles it into their deck. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It lives atop tall trees. When leaping from branch to branch, it deftly uses its tail for balance." The regulation mark is I.

I keep a set binder for Phantasmal Flames, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Phantasmal Flames set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Aipom can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.