Sceptile 10a/168 · Celestial Storm

Celestial Storm is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on August 3, 2018. The printed size is 168. This checklist is longer, at 187 cards. Sceptile is 10a/168, in position 11 of 187 on this checklist. Before it is 10 Sceptile, and after it is 11 Seedot. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

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

Hitoshi Ariga illustrated this card. The same name is on 155 other cards in the catalog.

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. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Midori Harada illustrated that card, and Hitoshi Ariga illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 1. 20 other cards of Sceptile list a different HP.

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."

I keep a set binder for Celestial Storm, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Celestial Storm set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Sceptile can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.