Kabutops 6/75 · Neo Discovery

Kabutops is Pokédex #141, generation 1 (Kanto). Kabutops is a Stage 2 Water Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists level 42. The card says it evolves from Kabuto. In this catalog that name is Kabuto (#140).

Kabutops sits at 6/75 in Neo Discovery, position 6 of 75. Before it is 5 Houndour, and after it is 7 Magnemite. The set belongs to the Neo series. It was released on June 1, 2001. The printed size is 75, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Slash lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless. Hydrocutter is another attack lists 40× damage. The cost is Fighting. Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Energy cards attached to Kabutops. This attack does 40 damage times the number of heads. You can't flip more than 3 coins in this way. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "In the water, it tucks its limbs to become more compact, then it wiggles its shell to swim fast."

Kabutops (#141) has 17 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Kabutops 9/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Kimiya Masago illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 13 other cards of Kabutops list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Kimiya Masago. I count 24 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Neo Discovery set binder is where a full Neo Discovery set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Kabutops can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.