Trapinch 79/97 · Dragon

Trapinch is Pokédex #328, generation 3 (Hoenn). Trapinch is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists Vibrava, Vibrava (#329) under evolves to.

Trapinch sits at 79/97 in Dragon, position 79 of 100. Before it is 78 Trapinch, and after it is 80 Treecko. The set belongs to the EX series. It was released on 24 November 2003. The printed size is 97. This checklist is longer, at 100 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Bind lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Paralyzed. Rock Smash is another attack lists 10+ damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 10 damage plus 20 more damage. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

Trapinch (#328) has 20 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 18 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Trapinch 82/100 in Sandstorm (2003). That card lists 40 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. Both list the rarity Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 13 other cards of Trapinch list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Ken Sugimori. I count 1,112 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Dragon set binder is where a full Dragon set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Trapinch can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.