Mawile 100/163 · Battle Styles

Battle Styles is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on March 19, 2021. The printed size is 163. This checklist is longer, at 183 cards. Mawile is 100/163, in position 100 of 183 on this checklist. Before it is 99 Steelix, and after it is 101 Bronzor. The listed rarity is Common.

Mawile is a Basic Single Strike Metal Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Mawile (#303), generation 3 (Hoenn).

kawayoo illustrated this card. The same name is on 209 other cards in the catalog.

Mawile (#303) has 35 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 26 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Mawile 9/100 in Sandstorm (2003). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and kawayoo illustrated this one. 27 other cards of Mawile list a different HP.

The attack Powerful Vise lists 20 damage. The cost is Metal. Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Piercing Strike is another attack lists 100 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness or Resistance, or by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon. Weakness is Fire ×2. Resistance is Grass -30. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It chomps with its gaping mouth. Its huge jaws are actually steel horns that have been transformed." The regulation mark is E.

I keep a set binder for Battle Styles, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Battle Styles set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Mawile can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Single Strike. I still need this card.