Alolan Grimer 127/236 · Unified Minds

Grimer is Pokédex #088, generation 1 (Kanto). Alolan Grimer is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists Muk, Muk (#089) under evolves to.

Alolan Grimer sits at 127/236 in Unified Minds, position 128 of 261. Before it is 126 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX, and after it is 128 Murkrow. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 2, 2019. The printed size is 236. This checklist is longer, at 261 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Collect lists no damage number. Draw 2 cards. Sludge Bomb is another attack lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "There are a hundred or so of them living in Alola's waste-disposal site. They're all hard workers who eat a lot of trash."

Grimer (#088) has 24 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 23 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Grimer 48/62 in Fossil (1999). That card is named Grimer, while this one is Alolan Grimer. That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and kawayoo illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 15 other cards of Grimer list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads kawayoo. I count 209 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

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