Raikou ★ 114/115 · Unseen Forces

Raikou is Pokédex #243, generation 2 (Johto). Raikou ★ is a Basic Star Lightning Pokémon with 80 HP.

Raikou ★ sits at 114/115 in Unseen Forces, position 116 of 145. Before it is 113 Entei ★, and after it is 115 Suicune ★. The set belongs to the EX series. It was released on 1 August 2005. The printed size is 115. This checklist is longer, at 145 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Holo Star.

The attack Lightning Turn lists 20 damage. The cost is Lightning, Colorless. Switch Raikou Star with 1 of your Benched Pokémon. Meta Voltage is another attack lists 70 damage. The cost is Lightning, Lightning, Lightning. If you have less Prize cards left than your opponent, this attack does 40 damage to each of your Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: You can't have more than 1 Pokémon Star in your deck.

Raikou (#243) has 26 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2001 to 2026. The earliest other card is Raikou 13/64 in Neo Revelation (2001). That card is named Raikou, while this one is Raikou ★. Both list 80 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Holo Star. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 23 other cards of Raikou list a different HP.

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

Unseen Forces set binder is where a full Unseen Forces set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Raikou can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Legendary beasts and Prism Star and Star cards. I still need this card.