Magcargo 24/160 · Primal Clash

Magcargo is Pokédex #219, generation 2 (Johto). Magcargo is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 110 HP. The card says it evolves from Slugma. In this catalog that name is Slugma (#218).

Magcargo sits at 24/160 in Primal Clash, position 24 of 164. Before it is 23 Magcargo, and after it is 25 Torchic. The set belongs to the XY series. It was released on February 4, 2015. The printed size is 160. This checklist is longer, at 164 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Ram lists 30 damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless. Indomitable Blaze is another attack lists 60+ damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Pokémon-EX, this attack does 60 more damage. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3. Ω Barrier is the ancient trait on this card. Whenever your opponent plays a Trainer card (excluding Pokémon Tools and Stadium cards), prevent all effects of that card done to this Pokémon. The flavor text reads "Its body is as hot as lava and is always billowing. Flames will occasionally burst from its shell."

Magcargo (#219) has 29 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Magcargo 33/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 110 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Rare. Shin-ichi Yoshida illustrated that card, and Kagemaru Himeno illustrated this one. 28 other cards of Magcargo list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Kagemaru Himeno. I count 656 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Primal Clash set binder is where a full Primal Clash set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Magcargo can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.