Hippopotas 93/189 · Darkness Ablaze

Hippopotas is Pokédex #449, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Hippopotas is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists Hippowdon, Hippowdon (#450) under evolves to.

Hippopotas sits at 93/189 in Darkness Ablaze, position 93 of 201. Before it is 92 Solrock, and after it is 94 Hippowdon. 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 Common.

The attack Tackle lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Double Stomp is another attack lists 70+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 more damage for each heads. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "It moves through the sands with its mouth open, swallowing sand along with its prey. It gets rid of the sand by spouting it from its nose." The regulation mark is D.

Hippopotas (#449) has 13 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Hippopotas 51/130 in Diamond & Pearl (2007). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Shin Nagasawa illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 4. 10 other cards of Hippopotas list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Shin Nagasawa. I count 303 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. Hippopotas can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.