Butterfree V 177/189 · Darkness Ablaze

Darkness Ablaze is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on August 14, 2020. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 201 cards. Butterfree V is 177/189, in position 177 of 201 on this checklist. Before it is 176 Powerful Colorless Energy, and after it is 178 Houndoom V. The listed rarity is Rare Ultra.

Butterfree V is a Basic V Grass Pokémon with 190 HP. In the Pokédex this is Butterfree (#012), generation 1 (Kanto).

Saki Hayashiro illustrated this card. The same name is on 40 other cards in the catalog.

Butterfree (#012) has 24 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Butterfree 33/64 in Jungle (1999). That card is named Butterfree, while this one is Butterfree V. That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 190 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare Ultra. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Saki Hayashiro illustrated this one. 23 other cards of Butterfree list a different HP.

The attack Dizzying Poison lists no damage number. The cost is Grass. Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused and Poisoned. Blasting Wind is another attack lists 130 damage. The cost is Grass, Grass, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: V rule: When your Pokémon V is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards. The regulation mark is D.

I keep a set binder for Darkness Ablaze, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Darkness Ablaze set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Butterfree can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.