Galarian Darumaka 43/189 · 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. Galarian Darumaka is 43/189, in position 43 of 201 on this checklist. Before it is 42 Simipour, and after it is 44 Galarian Darmanitan. The listed rarity is Common.

Galarian Darumaka is a Basic Water Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Darumaka (#554), generation 5 (Unova). The card lists Darmanitan, Darmanitan (#555) under evolves to.

Shin Nagasawa illustrated this card. The same name is on 303 other cards in the catalog.

Darumaka (#554) has 18 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2026. The earliest other card is Darumaka BW18/101 in BW Black Star Promos (2011). That card is named Darumaka, while this one is Galarian Darumaka. That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Common. Akira Komayama illustrated that card, and Shin Nagasawa illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 13 other cards of Darumaka list a different HP.

The attack Tackle lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Headbutt is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless. Weakness is Metal ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It lived in snowy areas for so long that its fire sac cooled off and atrophied. It now has an organ that generates cold instead." 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. Darumaka can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). Themed lists that include this exact card are Galarian forms. I still need this card.