Detective Pikachu SM194/248 · SM Black Star Promos

Pikachu is Pokédex #025, generation 1 (Kanto). Detective Pikachu is a Basic Lightning Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists Raichu, Raichu (#026) under evolves to.

Detective Pikachu sits at SM194/248 in SM Black Star Promos, position 197 of 251. Before it is SM193 Garchomp & Giratina-GX, and after it is SM195 Charizard-GX. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. The listed rarity is Promo.

The attack Brilliant Deduction lists no damage number. The cost is Lightning. Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 1 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards back into your deck. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Metal -20. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "Skilled in deduction, he's a self-proclaimed "great detective." His detective hat is his trademark."

Pikachu (#025) has 212 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 90 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Pikachu 58/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Pikachu, while this one is Detective Pikachu. That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and MPC Film illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 209 other cards of Pikachu list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads MPC Film. I count 14 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

SM Black Star Promos set binder is where a full SM Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Pikachu can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are All Pikachu cards. I still need this card.