Carnivine 5/189 · 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. Carnivine is 5/189, in position 5 of 201 on this checklist. Before it is 4 Parasect, and after it is 6 Pansage. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Carnivine is a Basic Grass Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Carnivine (#455), generation 4 (Sinnoh).

Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this card. The same name is on 471 other cards in the catalog.

Carnivine (#455) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Carnivine 21/130 in Diamond & Pearl (2007). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Uncommon. Kouki Saitou illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 13 other cards of Carnivine list a different HP.

The attack Return lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless. You may draw cards until you have 5 cards in your hand. Giga Drain is another attack lists 40 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless. Heal from this Pokémon the same amount of damage you did to your opponent's Active Pokémon. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It binds itself to trees in marshes. It attracts prey with its sweet-smelling drool and gulps them down." 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. Carnivine can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.