Porygon-Z 118/198 · Chilling Reign

Chilling Reign is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on June 18, 2021. The printed size is 198. This checklist is longer, at 233 cards. Porygon-Z is 118/198, in position 118 of 233 on this checklist. Before it is 117 Porygon2, and after it is 119 Blissey V. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Porygon-Z is a Stage 2 Colorless Pokémon with 140 HP. In the Pokédex this is Porygon-Z (#474), generation 4 (Sinnoh). The card says it evolves from Porygon2. In this catalog that name is Porygon2 (#233).

Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this card. The same name is on 248 other cards in the catalog.

Porygon-Z (#474) has 17 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2025. The earliest other card is Porygon-Z DP35/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 140 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Holo. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. 16 other cards of Porygon-Z list a different HP.

Bug Transmission is listed as Ability. Whenever you attach an Energy card from your hand to this Pokémon during your turn, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Confused. The attack Superbeam lists 170 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Discard 2 Energy from this Pokémon. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "A faulty update was added to its programming. Its behavior is noticeably strange, so the experiment may have been a failure." The regulation mark is E.

I keep a set binder for Chilling Reign, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Chilling Reign set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Porygon-Z can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). Themed lists that include this exact card are Tomokazu Komiya cards. I still need this card.