Tyranitar 17/123 · Mysterious Treasures

Tyranitar is Pokédex #248, generation 2 (Johto). Tyranitar is a Stage 2 Darkness Pokémon with 140 HP. The card lists level 57. The card says it evolves from Pupitar. In this catalog that name is Pupitar (#247).

Tyranitar sits at 17/123 in Mysterious Treasures, position 17 of 124. Before it is 16 Typhlosion, and after it is 18 Uxie. The set belongs to the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on 1 August 2007. The printed size is 123. This checklist is longer, at 124 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

The attack Payback lists 40+ damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. If your opponent has only 1 Prize card left, this attack does 40 damage plus 40 more damage and discard the top 3 cards from your opponent's deck. Ground Burn is another attack lists 80+ damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Darkness, Darkness. Each player discards the top card of his or her deck. This attack does 80 damage plus 20 more damage for each Energy card discarded in this way. Weakness is Fighting +30. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "If it rampages, it knocks down mountains and buries rivers. Maps must be redrawn afterward."

Tyranitar (#248) has 47 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 29 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Tyranitar 12/75 in Neo Discovery (2001). That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 140 HP. Both list the rarity Rare Holo. Hironobu Yoshida illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 3, and here it is 4. 45 other cards of Tyranitar list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Masakazu Fukuda. I count 471 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Mysterious Treasures set binder is where a full Mysterious Treasures set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Tyranitar can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). I still need this card.