Lotad 81/127 · Platinum

Lotad is Pokédex #270, generation 3 (Hoenn). Lotad is a Basic Grass Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists level 11. The card lists Lombre, Lombre (#271) under evolves to.

Lotad sits at 81/127 in Platinum, position 81 of 133. Before it is 80 Lickitung, and after it is 82 Mareep. The set belongs to the Platinum series. It was released on February 11, 2009. The printed size is 127. This checklist is longer, at 133 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Energy Ball lists 10+ damage. The cost is Colorless. Does 10 damage plus 10 more damage for each Energy attached to Lotad but not used to pay for this attack's Energy cost. You can't add more than 20 damage in this way. Synthesis is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Grass. Flip a coin. If heads, search your deck for a Grass Energy card and attach it to 1 of your Pokémon. Shuffle your deck afterward. Weakness is Lightning +10. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It looks like an aquatic plant and serves as a ferry to Pokémon that can't swim."

Lotad (#270) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Lotad 66/100 in Sandstorm (2003). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 9 other cards of Lotad list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Masakazu Fukuda. I count 471 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Platinum set binder is where a full Platinum set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Lotad can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.