Steelix 104/236 · Unified Minds

Unified Minds is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 2, 2019. The printed size is 236. This checklist is longer, at 261 cards. Steelix is 104/236, in position 105 of 261 on this checklist. Before it is 103 Onix, and after it is 105 Cubone. The listed rarity is Rare.

Steelix is a Stage 1 Fighting Pokémon with 170 HP. In the Pokédex this is Steelix (#208), generation 2 (Johto). The card says it evolves from Onix. In this catalog that name is Onix (#095).

Ayaka Yoshida illustrated this card. The same name is on 128 other cards in the catalog.

Steelix (#208) has 33 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2025. The earliest other card is Steelix 15/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 110 HP, and this one lists 170 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Ayaka Yoshida illustrated this one. 30 other cards of Steelix list a different HP.

The attack Ground Stream lists 20 damage. The cost is Fighting. Attach 2 Fighting Energy cards from your discard pile to this Pokémon. Gigaton Shake is another attack lists 220 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. During your next turn, your Pokémon can't attack. (This includes Pokémon that come into play on that turn.) Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "Tempered underground under high pressure and heat, its body is harder than any metal."

I keep a set binder for Unified Minds, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Unified Minds set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Steelix can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.