Arceus AR5/99 · Arceus

Arceus is Pokédex #493, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Arceus is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 100.

Arceus sits at AR5/99 in Arceus, position 104 of 111. Before it is AR4 Arceus, and after it is AR6 Arceus. The set belongs to the Platinum series. It was released on November 4, 2009. The printed size is 99. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Ripple Swell lists no damage number. If you have 6 Arceus in play and each of them is a different type, search your deck for up to 6 basic Energy cards. Attach each of those Energy cards to a different Pokémon you have in play. Shuffle your deck afterward. Sky Spear is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Choose 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. This attack does 80 damage to that Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Remove all Energy cards attached to Arceus and put them in the Lost Zone. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like. The flavor text reads "It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world."

Arceus (#493) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 10 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Arceus DP50/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card lists 90 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Kunihiko Yuyama illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 31 other cards of Arceus list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Arceus set binder is where a full Arceus set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Arceus can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.