Garchomp-EX XY167/211 · XY Black Star Promos

Garchomp is Pokédex #445, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Garchomp-EX is a Basic EX Dragon Pokémon with 180 HP. The card lists M Garchomp-EX, Garchomp (#445) under evolves to.

Garchomp-EX sits at XY167/211 in XY Black Star Promos, position 169 of 216. Before it is XY166 M Gengar-EX, and after it is XY168 M Garchomp-EX. The set belongs to the XY series. It was released on October 12, 2013. The printed size is 211. This checklist is longer, at 216 cards. The listed rarity is Promo.

The attack Shred lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting. This attack's damage isn't affected by any effects on your opponent's Active Pokémon. Hyper Beam is another attack lists 100 damage. The cost is Water, Fighting, Fighting, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, discard an Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon. Weakness is Fairy ×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.

Garchomp (#445) has 36 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Garchomp C LV.X DP46/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Garchomp C LV.X, while this one is Garchomp-EX. That card lists 110 HP, and this one lists 180 HP. Both list the rarity Promo. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Ryo Ueda illustrated this one. 36 other cards of Garchomp list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ryo Ueda. I count 462 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

XY Black Star Promos set binder is where a full XY Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Garchomp can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.