Sceptile 10/168 · Celestial Storm

Sceptile is Pokédex #254, generation 3 (Hoenn). Sceptile is a Stage 2 Grass Pokémon with 140 HP. The card says it evolves from Grovyle. In this catalog that name is Grovyle (#253).

Sceptile sits at 10/168 in Celestial Storm, position 10 of 187. Before it is 9 Grovyle, and after it is 10a Sceptile. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 3, 2018. The printed size is 168. This checklist is longer, at 187 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

Power of Nature is listed as Ability. Prevent all damage done to your Pokémon that have any Grass Energy attached to them by attacks from your opponent's Ultra Beasts. The attack Powerful Storm lists 20× damage. The cost is Grass. This attack does 20 damage times the amount of Energy attached to all of your Pokémon. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It agilely leaps about the jungle and uses the sharp leaves on its arms to strike its prey."

Sceptile (#254) has 23 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2018. The earliest other card is Sceptile 11/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 140 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Midori Harada illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 1. 20 other cards of Sceptile list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mitsuhiro Arita. I count 721 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Celestial Storm set binder is where a full Celestial Storm set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Sceptile can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.