Arceus AR8/99 · 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. Arceus is AR8/99, in position 107 of 111 on this checklist. Before it is AR7 Arceus, and after it is AR9 Arceus. The listed rarity is Rare.

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

Hajime Kusajima illustrated this card. The same name is on 206 other cards in the catalog.

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 Hajime Kusajima illustrated this one. 31 other cards of Arceus list a different HP.

The attack Break Ground lists 60 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Does 10 damage to each of your Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Water ×2. Resistance is Lightning -20. Retreat cost is 2. 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."

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. Arceus can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.