Smeargle 123/162 · BREAKthrough

BREAKthrough is a set in the XY series. It was released on November 4, 2015. The printed size is 162. This checklist is longer, at 165 cards. Smeargle is 123/162, in position 123 of 165 on this checklist. Before it is 122 Ursaring, and after it is 124 Swablu. The listed rarity is Rare.

Smeargle is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Smeargle (#235), generation 2 (Johto).

Yukiko Baba illustrated this card. The same name is on 151 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 70 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Tomokazu Komiya illustrated that card, and Yukiko Baba illustrated this one. 10 other cards of Smeargle list a different HP.

Second Coat is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), you may switch a basic Energy card attached to your Active Pokémon with a different type of basic Energy card from your discard pile. The attack Beat lists 30 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "Once it becomes an adult, it has a tendency to let its comrades plant footprints on its back."

I keep a set binder for BREAKthrough, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the BREAKthrough 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.