Bagon SH10/99 · Arceus

Bagon is Pokédex #371, generation 3 (Hoenn). Bagon is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists level 15. The card lists Shelgon, Shelgon (#372) under evolves to.

Bagon sits at SH10/99 in Arceus, position 109 of 111. Before it is AR9 Arceus, and after it is SH11 Ponyta. 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.

Star Barrier is listed as Poké-Body. As long as Bagon has any Energy attached to it, Bagon has no Weakness. The attack Dragon Rage lists 40 damage. The cost is Colorless. Flip 2 coins. If either of them is tails, this attack does nothing. Weakness is Colorless +10. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Dreaming of one day flying, it practices by leaping off cliffs every day."

Bagon (#371) has 21 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Bagon 23/97 in Dragon (2003). Both list 50 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Naoyo Kimura illustrated this one. 11 other cards of Bagon list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Naoyo Kimura. I count 256 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. Bagon can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.