Houndoom-EX 21/162 · BREAKthrough

Houndoom is Pokédex #229, generation 2 (Johto). Houndoom-EX is a Basic EX Fire Pokémon with 170 HP. The card lists M Houndoom-EX, Houndoom (#229) under evolves to.

Houndoom-EX sits at 21/162 in BREAKthrough, position 21 of 165. Before it is 20 Typhlosion, and after it is 22 M Houndoom-EX. The set belongs to the XY series. It was released on November 4, 2015. The printed size is 162. This checklist is longer, at 165 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo EX.

The attack Melting Horn lists no damage number. The cost is Fire. Discard the top 2 cards of your opponent's deck. Grand Flame is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire. Attach a Fire Energy card from your discard pile to 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The card text says: Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Houndoom (#229) has 44 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 30 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2025. The earliest other card is Houndoom 4/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card is named Houndoom, while this one is Houndoom-EX. That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 170 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Holo EX. Shin-ichi Yoshida illustrated that card, and Eske Yoshinob illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 43 other cards of Houndoom list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Eske Yoshinob. I count 177 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

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