Sandygast 74/149 · Sun & Moon

Sandygast is Pokédex #769, generation 7 (Alola). Sandygast is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists Palossand, Palossand (#770) under evolves to.

Sandygast sits at 74/149 in Sun & Moon, position 74 of 173. Before it is 73 Passimian, and after it is 75 Palossand. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 149. This checklist is longer, at 173 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Shore Up lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Attach a Fighting Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon. Sand Tomb is another attack lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. The Defending Pokémon can't retreat during your opponent's next turn. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "It takes control of anyone who puts a hand in its mouth. And so it adds to the accumulation of its sand-mound body."

Sandygast (#769) has 9 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 8 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2017 to 2024. The earliest other card is Sandygast 61/147 in Burning Shadows (2017). Both list 80 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Masakazu Fukuda illustrated that card, and Akira Komayama illustrated this one. 4 other cards of Sandygast list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Akira Komayama. I count 239 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Sun & Moon set binder is where a full Sun & Moon set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Sandygast can fill a slot in Generation 7 binder (Alola). I still need this card.