Heatran 1/17 · POP Series 8

Heatran is Pokédex #485, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Heatran is a Basic Fire Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists level 41.

Heatran sits at 1/17 in POP Series 8, position 1 of 17. The next card is 2 Lucario. The set belongs to the POP series. It was released on September 1, 2008. The printed size is 17, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Body Slam lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Fire Spin is another attack lists 90 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Fire, Colorless. Discard 2 Basic Energy cards attached to Heatran. (If you can't discard cards, this attack does nothing. Weakness is Water +30. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "It dwells in volcanic caves. It digs in with its cross-shaped feet to crawl on ceilings and walls."

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. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 4, and here it is 3. 24 other cards of Heatran list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ken Sugimori. I count 1,112 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

POP Series 8 set binder is where a full POP Series 8 set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Heatran can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.