Magnezone 36/131 · Forbidden Light

Forbidden Light is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on May 4, 2018. The printed size is 131. This checklist is longer, at 150 cards. Magnezone is 36/131, in position 37 of 150 on this checklist. Before it is 35 Magneton, and after it is 37 Helioptile. The listed rarity is Rare.

Magnezone is a Stage 2 Lightning Pokémon with 150 HP. In the Pokédex this is Magnezone (#462), generation 4 (Sinnoh). The card says it evolves from Magneton. In this catalog that name is Magneton (#082).

Yoshinobu Saito illustrated this card. The same name is on 61 other cards in the catalog.

Magnezone (#462) has 27 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2025. The earliest other card is Magnezone 8/130 in Diamond & Pearl (2007). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 150 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Nakaoka illustrated that card, and Yoshinobu Saito illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 4, and here it is 2. 22 other cards of Magnezone list a different HP.

Magnetic Circuit is listed as Ability. As often as you like during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Lightning Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. The attack Zap Cannon lists 130 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Lightning, Colorless. This Pokémon can't use Zap Cannon during your next turn. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Metal -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "As it zooms through the sky, this Pokémon seems to be receiving signals of unknown origin, while transmitting signals of unknown purpose."

I keep a set binder for Forbidden Light, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Forbidden Light set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Magnezone can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.