Dark Charizard 4/82 · Team Rocket

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

Dark Charizard sits at 4/82 in Team Rocket, position 4 of 83. Before it is 3 Dark Blastoise, and after it is 5 Dark Dragonite. The set belongs to the Base series. It was released on 24 April 2000. The printed size is 82. This checklist is longer, at 83 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

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."

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. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 105 other cards of Charizard list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ken Sugimori. I count 1,112 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Team Rocket set binder is where a full Team Rocket set goes. This card fills one slot there. 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.