Garbodor SWSH025/307 · SWSH Black Star Promos

SWSH Black Star Promos is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on November 15, 2019. The printed size is 307. This checklist is longer, at 304 cards. Garbodor is SWSH025/307, in position 25 of 304 on this checklist. Before it is SWSH024 Coalossal, and after it is SWSH026 Mantine. The listed rarity is Promo.

Garbodor is a Stage 1 Darkness Pokémon with 120 HP. In the Pokédex this is Garbodor (#569), generation 5 (Unova). The card says it evolves from Trubbish. In this catalog that name is Trubbish (#568).

tetsuya koizumi illustrated this card. The same name is on 62 other cards in the catalog.

Garbodor (#569) has 21 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2026. The earliest other card is Garbodor 49/101 in Noble Victories (2011). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 120 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Promo. match illustrated that card, and tetsuya koizumi illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 14 other cards of Garbodor list a different HP.

Poisonous Puddle is listed as Ability. Once during your turn, if a Stadium is in play, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Poisoned. The attack Sludge Bomb lists 80 damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "This Pokémon eats trash, which turns into poison inside its body. The main component of the poison depends on what sort of trash was eaten." The regulation mark is D.

I keep a set binder for SWSH Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the SWSH Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Garbodor can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.