Koffing 41/72 · Shining Fates

Shining Fates is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on February 19, 2021. The printed size is 72. This checklist is longer, at 73 cards. Koffing is 41/72, in position 41 of 73 on this checklist. Before it is 40 Trapinch, and after it is 42 Galarian Weezing. The listed rarity is Common.

Koffing is a Basic Darkness Pokémon with 60 HP. In the Pokédex this is Koffing (#109), generation 1 (Kanto). The card lists Weezing, Weezing (#110) under evolves to.

Pani Kobayashi illustrated this card. The same name is on 39 other cards in the catalog.

Koffing (#109) has 28 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 25 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Koffing 51/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 60 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Pani Kobayashi illustrated this one. 17 other cards of Koffing list a different HP.

The attack Ascension lists no damage number. The cost is Darkness. Search your deck for a card that evolves from this Pokémon and put it onto this Pokémon to evolve it. Then, shuffle your deck. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Its body is full of poisonous gas. It floats into garbage dumps, seeking out the fumes of raw, rotting trash." The regulation mark is D.

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