Magikarp 65/100 · Stormfront

Magikarp is Pokédex #129, generation 1 (Kanto). Magikarp is a Basic Water Pokémon with 30 HP. The card lists level 10. The card lists Gyarados, Gyarados (#130) under evolves to.

Magikarp sits at 65/100 in Stormfront, position 65 of 106. Before it is 64 Machop, and after it is 66 Magnemite. The set belongs to the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on 1 November 2008. The printed size is 100. This checklist is longer, at 106 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Sea Spray lists no damage number. Flip a coin until you get tails. For each heads, draw a card. Splash is another attack lists 10 damage. The cost is Water. Weakness is Lightning +10. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "It is said to be the world's weakest Pokémon. No one knows why it has managed to survive."

Magikarp (#129) has 44 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 39 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Magikarp 35/102 in Base (1999). Both list 30 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Tomokazu Komiya illustrated this one. 4 other cards of Magikarp list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Tomokazu Komiya. I count 248 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Stormfront set binder is where a full Stormfront set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Magikarp can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.