Electrode 36/144 · Skyridge

Skyridge is a set in the E-Card series. It was released on 12 May 2003. The printed size is 144. This checklist is longer, at 182 cards. Electrode is 36/144, in position 36 of 182 on this checklist. Before it is 35 Xatu, and after it is 37 Kabuto. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

Electrode is a Stage 1 Lightning Pokémon with 70 HP. In the Pokédex this is Electrode (#101), generation 1 (Kanto). The card says it evolves from Voltorb. In this catalog that name is Voltorb (#100).

Sumiyoshi Kizuki illustrated this card. The same name is on 212 other cards in the catalog.

Electrode (#101) has 45 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 39 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Electrode 21/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 80 HP, and this one lists 70 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Uncommon. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Sumiyoshi Kizuki illustrated this one. 36 other cards of Electrode list a different HP.

The attack Plasma lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. If there are any Lightning Energy card in your discard pile, flip a coin. If heads, attach 1 of them to Electrode. Selfdestruct is another attack lists 100 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Colorless, Colorless. This attack does 20 damage to each Pokémon on each player's Bench. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Electrode does 100 damage to itself. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

I keep a set binder for Skyridge, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Skyridge set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Electrode can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.