Electrode 5/101 · Hidden Legends

Hidden Legends is a set in the EX series. It was released on 1 June 2004. The printed size is 101. This checklist is longer, at 102 cards. Electrode is 5/101, in position 5 of 102 on this checklist. Before it is 4 Dark Celebi, and after it is 6 Exploud. The listed rarity is Rare Holo.

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).

Kyoko Umemoto illustrated this card. The same name is on 174 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 Rare Holo. Keiji Kinebuchi illustrated that card, and Kyoko Umemoto illustrated this one. 36 other cards of Electrode list a different HP.

The attack Swift lists 30 damage. The cost is Lightning. This attack's damage isn't affected by Weakness, Resistance, Poké-Powers, Poké-Bodies, or any other effects on the Defending Pokémon. Mass Destruction is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Both Electrode and the Defending Pokémon are now Knocked Out. If Electrode has any Special Energy cards attached to it, this attack does nothing. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Retreat cost is 1.

I keep a set binder for Hidden Legends, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Hidden Legends 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.