Electrode 22/108 · Roaring Skies

Roaring Skies is a set in the XY series. It was released on May 6, 2015. The printed size is 108. This checklist is longer, at 112 cards. Electrode is 22/108, in position 22 of 112 on this checklist. Before it is 21 Voltorb, and after it is 23 Zapdos. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Electrode is a Stage 1 Lightning Pokémon with 90 HP. In the Pokédex this is Electrode (#101), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Voltorb. In this catalog that name is Voltorb (#100).

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

Electrode (#101) has 45 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 39 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Electrode 21/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Uncommon. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. 27 other cards of Electrode list a different HP.

The attack Continuous Tumble lists 20× damage. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads. Energy Bomb is another attack lists 70 damage. The cost is Lightning, Colorless, Colorless. You may move all Energy from this Pokémon to your Benched Pokémon in any way you like. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Metal -20. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It stores an overflowing amount of electric energy inside its body. Even a small shock makes it explode."

I keep a set binder for Roaring Skies, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Roaring Skies set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Electrode can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.