Abomasnow 40/162 · 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. Abomasnow is 40/162, in position 40 of 165 on this checklist. Before it is 39 Snover, and after it is 41 Panpour. The listed rarity is Rare.

Abomasnow is a Stage 1 Water Pokémon with 130 HP. In the Pokédex this is Abomasnow (#460), generation 4 (Sinnoh). The card says it evolves from Snover. In this catalog that name is Snover (#459).

Naoyo Kimura illustrated this card. The same name is on 256 other cards in the catalog.

Abomasnow (#460) has 15 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2025. The earliest other card is Abomasnow 19/123 in Mysterious Treasures (2007). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 130 HP. Both list the rarity Rare. Kazuyuki Kano illustrated that card, and Naoyo Kimura illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 4. 13 other cards of Abomasnow list a different HP.

The attack Ice Age lists 80 damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. If your opponent's Active Pokémon is a Dragon Pokémon, it is now Paralyzed. Frost Breath is another attack lists 110 damage. The cost is Water, Water, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Metal ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "It lives a quiet life on mountains that are perpetually covered in snow. It hides itself by whipping up blizzards."

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. Abomasnow can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.