Sudowoodo SM207/248 · SM Black Star Promos

SM Black Star Promos is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on February 3, 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. Sudowoodo is SM207/248, in position 210 of 251 on this checklist. Before it is SM206 Pikachu, and after it is SM208 Vikavolt. The listed rarity is Promo.

Sudowoodo is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 110 HP. In the Pokédex this is Sudowoodo (#185), generation 2 (Johto).

Akira Komayama illustrated this card. The same name is on 239 other cards in the catalog.

Sudowoodo (#185) has 19 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 17 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2000 to 2026. The earliest other card is Sudowoodo 77/111 in Neo Genesis (2000). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 110 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Promo. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Akira Komayama illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 12 other cards of Sudowoodo list a different HP.

The attack Low Kick lists 20 damage. The cost is Fighting. Territorial Strike is another attack lists 80 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting. If you don't have a Stadium card in play, this attack does nothing. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It's so popular with the elderly that there's a magazine devoted to this Pokémon. Fans obsess over the particular length and angle of its arms."

I keep a set binder for SM Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the SM Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Sudowoodo can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.