Arceus DP50/56 · DP Black Star Promos

DP Black Star Promos is a set in the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on 1 May 2007. The printed size is 56, and the checklist is the same length. Arceus is DP50/56, in position 50 of 56 on this checklist. Before it is DP49 Dialga, and after it is DP51 Cresselia. The listed rarity is Promo.

Arceus is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 90 HP. The card lists level 100. In the Pokédex this is Arceus (#493), generation 4 (Sinnoh).

Kunihiko Yuyama illustrated this card. The same name is on 1 other cards in the catalog.

Arceus (#493) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 10 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Arceus LV.X DP53/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Arceus LV.X, while this one is Arceus. That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 90 HP. Both list the rarity Promo. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Kunihiko Yuyama illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 2. 31 other cards of Arceus list a different HP.

The attack Judgment lists 80 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Discard all Energy cards attached to Arceus and this attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 2. The card text says: You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like. The flavor text reads "It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world."

I keep a set binder for DP Black Star Promos, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the DP Black Star Promos set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Arceus can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.