Dark Charizard 21/82 · Team Rocket

Team Rocket is a set in the Base series. It was released on 24 April 2000. The printed size is 82. This checklist is longer, at 83 cards. Dark Charizard is 21/82, in position 21 of 83 on this checklist. Before it is 20 Dark Blastoise, and after it is 22 Dark Dragonite. The listed rarity is Rare.

Dark Charizard is a Stage 2 Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 38. In the Pokédex this is Charizard (#006), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Dark Charmeleon. In this catalog that name is Charmeleon (#005).

Ken Sugimori illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,112 other cards in the catalog.

Charizard (#006) has 106 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 51 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Charizard 4/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Charizard, while this one is Dark Charizard. That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 105 other cards of Charizard list a different HP.

The attack Nail Flick lists 10 damage. The cost is Colorless. Continuous Fireball is another attack lists 50× damage. The cost is Fire, Fire. Flip a number of coins equal to the number of Fire Energy cards attached to Dark Charizard. This attack does 50 damage times the number of heads. Discard a number of Fire Energy cards attached to Dark Charizard equal to the number of heads. Weakness is Water ×2. Resistance is Fighting -30. Retreat cost is 3. The flavor text reads "Seemingly possessed, it spews fire like a volcano, trying to burn all it sees."

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