Smeargle 128/203 · Evolving Skies

Evolving Skies is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on August 27, 2021. The printed size is 203. This checklist is longer, at 237 cards. Smeargle is 128/203, in position 128 of 237 on this checklist. Before it is 127 Ursaring, and after it is 129 Slakoth. The listed rarity is Rare.

Smeargle is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 80 HP. In the Pokédex this is Smeargle (#235), generation 2 (Johto).

Kouki Saitou illustrated this card. The same name is on 652 other cards in the catalog.

Smeargle (#235) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Smeargle 32/53 in Wizards Black Star Promos (1999). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and Kouki Saitou illustrated this one. 13 other cards of Smeargle list a different HP.

The attack Live Painting lists 30+ damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Reveal any number of basic Energy cards from your hand. This attack does 30 more damage for each type of basic Energy you revealed in this way. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It draws symbols with the fluid that oozes from the tip of its tail. Depending on the symbol, Smeargle fanatics will pay big money for them." The regulation mark is E.

I keep a set binder for Evolving Skies, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Evolving Skies set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Smeargle can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.