Heatran 3/99 · Arceus

Arceus is a set in the Platinum series. It was released on November 4, 2009. The printed size is 99. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. Heatran is 3/99, in position 3 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is 2 Froslass, and after it is 4 Kabutops. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Heatran is a Basic Fire Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists level 58. In the Pokédex this is Heatran (#485), generation 4 (Sinnoh).

Keiko Moritsugu illustrated Heatran, and no other card in this catalog uses that name.

Heatran (#485) has 27 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Heatran LV.X DP31/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Heatran LV.X, while this one is Heatran. That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Holo. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Keiko Moritsugu illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 4, and here it is 3. 24 other cards of Heatran list a different HP.

The attack Fire Fang lists 20 damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless. The Defending Pokémon is now Burned. Magma Mantle is another attack lists 60+ damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless, Colorless. Discard the top 3 cards of your deck. This attack does 60 damage plus 20 more damage for each Fire or Metal Energy card you discarded. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "Its body is made of rugged steel. However, it is partially melted in spots because of its own heat."

I keep a set binder for Arceus, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Arceus set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Heatran can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.