Shining Tyranitar 113/105 · Neo Destiny

Neo Destiny is a set in the Neo series. It was released on February 28, 2002. The printed size is 105. This checklist is longer, at 113 cards. Shining Tyranitar is 113/105, in position 113 of 113 on this checklist. The card before it is 112 Shining Steelix. The collector number is above the printed set size of 105. The listed rarity is Rare Shining.

Shining Tyranitar is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 41. In the Pokédex this is Tyranitar (#248), generation 2 (Johto).

Ken Sugimori illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,112 other cards in the catalog.

Tyranitar (#248) has 47 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Tyranitar 12/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card is named Tyranitar, while this one is Shining Tyranitar. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Shining. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 47 other cards of Tyranitar list a different HP.

The attack Mountain Crush lists 30 damage. The cost is Darkness, Fighting, Fighting. Flip a coin until you get tails. For each heads, your opponent discards the top card from his or her deck. Destructive Fire is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Darkness, Fire, Fire, Fire. Flip a coin for each Fire Energy card attached to Shining Tyranitar. For each heads, discard a Fire Energy card attached to Shining Tyranitar or this attack does nothing. Then, for each heads, choose an Energy card attached to the Defending Pokémon and discard it. If it has fewer Energy cards than that, remove all of them. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: You can't have more than 1 Shining Tyranitar in your deck. The flavor text reads "It is so powerful, it can knock down a mountain with hust one arm."

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