Manectric 59/189 · Darkness Ablaze

Manectric is Pokédex #310, generation 3 (Hoenn). Manectric is a Stage 1 Lightning Pokémon with 110 HP. The card says it evolves from Electrike. In this catalog that name is Electrike (#309).

Manectric sits at 59/189 in Darkness Ablaze, position 59 of 201. Before it is 58 Electrike, and after it is 60 Vikavolt V. The set belongs to the Sword & Shield series. It was released on August 14, 2020. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 201 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Strafe lists 30 damage. The cost is Lightning. You may switch this Pokémon with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Flash Impact is another attack lists 150 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Colorless. This attack also does 30 damage to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It stimulates its own muscles with electricity, so it can move quickly. It eases its soreness with electricity, too, so it can recover quickly as well." The regulation mark is D.

Manectric (#310) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Manectric 9/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 110 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and nagimiso illustrated this one. 32 other cards of Manectric list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads nagimiso. I count 156 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Darkness Ablaze set binder is where a full Darkness Ablaze set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Manectric can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.