Lotad SH4/127 · Platinum

Lotad is Pokédex #270, generation 3 (Hoenn). Lotad is a Basic Grass Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists level 14. The card lists Lombre, Lombre (#271) under evolves to.

Lotad sits at SH4/127 in Platinum, position 131 of 133. Before it is 130 Scyther, and after it is SH5 Swablu. 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 Rare.

Swift Swim is listed as Poké-Body. If Lotad has any Water Energy attached to it, Lotad's Retreat Cost is 0. The attack Blot lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Remove 1 damage counter from Lotad. Jump On is another attack lists 10+ damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage. Weakness is Lightning +10. Retreat cost is 1.

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. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Rare. 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.