Tentacool 40/214 · Unbroken Bonds

Unbroken Bonds is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on May 3, 2019. The printed size is 214. This checklist is longer, at 238 cards. Tentacool is 40/214, in position 40 of 238 on this checklist. Before it is 39 Poliwrath, and after it is 41 Tentacruel. The listed rarity is Common.

Tentacool is a Basic Water Pokémon with 60 HP. In the Pokédex this is Tentacool (#072), generation 1 (Kanto). The card lists Tentacruel, Tentacruel (#073) under evolves to.

Shin Nagasawa illustrated this card. The same name is on 303 other cards in the catalog.

Tentacool (#072) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Tentacool 56/62 in Fossil (1999). That card lists 30 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Shin Nagasawa illustrated this one. 9 other cards of Tentacool list a different HP.

The attack Bubble Jutsu lists 10+ damage. The cost is Colorless. If you played Janine from your hand during this turn, this attack does 50 more damage. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It drifts through the sea searching for prey. Its poisonous tentacles break off sometimes, but after a while, they grow back."

I keep a set binder for Unbroken Bonds, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Unbroken Bonds set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Tentacool can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.