Gloom 7/214 · Unbroken Bonds

Gloom is Pokédex #044, generation 1 (Kanto). Gloom is a Stage 1 Grass Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Oddish. In this catalog that name is Oddish (#043). The card lists Vileplume, Vileplume (#045) and Bellossom, Bellossom (#182) under evolves to.

Gloom sits at 7/214 in Unbroken Bonds, position 7 of 238. Before it is 6 Oddish, and after it is 8 Vileplume. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on May 3, 2019. The printed size is 214. This checklist is longer, at 238 cards. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Irresistible Aroma is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), if your opponent's Bench isn't full, you may flip a coin. If heads, your opponent reveals their hand. Put a Basic Pokémon you find there onto their Bench. The attack Drool lists 30 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Smells incredibly foul! However, around one out of a thousand people enjoy sniffing its nose-bending stink."

Gloom (#044) has 25 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Gloom 37/64 in Jungle (1999). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. Both list the rarity Uncommon. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Anesaki Dynamic illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 16 other cards of Gloom list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Anesaki Dynamic. I count 134 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Unbroken Bonds set binder is where a full Unbroken Bonds set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Gloom can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.