Sceptile 8/160 · Primal Clash

Sceptile is Pokédex #254, generation 3 (Hoenn). Sceptile is a Stage 2 Grass Pokémon with 130 HP. The card says it evolves from Grovyle. In this catalog that name is Grovyle (#253).

Sceptile sits at 8/160 in Primal Clash, position 8 of 164. Before it is 7 Grovyle, and after it is 9 Sceptile. 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.

Nurture and Heal is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), you may attach a Grass Energy card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon. If you do, heal 30 damage from that Pokémon. The attack Jungle Edge lists 70 damage. The cost is Grass, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The flavor text reads "It agilely leaps about the jungle and uses the sharp leaves on its arms to strike its prey."

Sceptile (#254) has 23 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 15 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2018. The earliest other card is Sceptile 11/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 130 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Midori Harada illustrated that card, and Hajime Kusajima illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 2. 21 other cards of Sceptile list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Hajime Kusajima. I count 206 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. Sceptile can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.