Electrode 2/64 · Jungle

Jungle is a set in the Base series. It was released on 16 June 1999. The printed size is 64, and the checklist is the same length. Electrode is 2/64, in position 2 of 64 on this checklist. Before it is 1 Clefable, and after it is 3 Flareon. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

Electrode is a Stage 1 Lightning Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists level 42. 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).

Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this card. The same name is on 721 other cards in the catalog.

Electrode (#101) has 45 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 40 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 Rare Holo. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated this one. 27 other cards of Electrode list a different HP.

The attack Tackle lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Chain Lightning is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Lightning. If the Defending Pokémon isn't Colorless, this attack does 10 damage to each Benched Pokémon of the same type as the Defending Pokémon (including your own). Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It stores electrical energy under very high pressure. It often explodes with little or no provocation."

I keep a set binder for Jungle, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Jungle set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Electrode can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Mitsuhiro Arita cards. I still need this card.