Mudkip 5/40 · Nintendo Black Star Promos

Nintendo Black Star Promos is a set in the NP series. It was released on October 1, 2003. The printed size is 40, and the checklist is the same length. Mudkip is 5/40, in position 5 of 40 on this checklist. Before it is 4 Grovyle, and after it is 6 Torchic. The listed rarity is Promo.

Mudkip is a Basic Water Pokémon with 50 HP. In the Pokédex this is Mudkip (#258), generation 3 (Hoenn). The card lists Marshtomp, Marshtomp (#259) under evolves to.

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

Mudkip (#258) has 19 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2021. The earliest other card is Mudkip 59/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). Both list 50 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 10 other cards of Mudkip list a different HP.

The attack Pound lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Fury Swipes is another attack lists 10× damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip 3 coins. This attack does 10 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Lightning ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

I keep a set binder for Nintendo Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Nintendo Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Mudkip can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.