Giovanni's Meowth 43/132 · Gym Challenge

Meowth is Pokédex #052, generation 1 (Kanto). Giovanni's Meowth is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 40 HP. The card lists level 12. The card lists Persian, Persian (#053) under evolves to.

Giovanni's Meowth sits at 43/132 in Gym Challenge, position 43 of 132. Before it is 42 Giovanni's Machoke, and after it is 44 Giovanni's Nidorina. The set belongs to the Gym series. It was released on 16 October 2000. The printed size is 132, and the checklist is the same length. The listed rarity is Uncommon.

The attack False Charity lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Flip a coin. If heads, look at the top card of your opponent's deck. If it's a Trainer card, put it in your opponent's discard pile; otherwise, put it into his or her hand. Double Scratch is another attack lists 20× damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 20 damage times the number of heads. Weakness is Fighting ×2. Resistance is Psychic -30. Retreat cost is 1.

Meowth (#052) has 65 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 53 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2026. The earliest other card is Meowth 56/64 in Jungle (1999). That card is named Meowth, while this one is Giovanni's Meowth. That card lists 50 HP, and this one lists 40 HP. The rarity there is Common, and here it is Uncommon. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Atsuko Nishida illustrated this one. 61 other cards of Meowth list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Atsuko Nishida. I count 408 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Gym Challenge set binder is where a full Gym Challenge set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Meowth can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Trainer's Pokémon, Atsuko Nishida cards, early series, Kanto Gym Leaders and their Pokémon, Giovanni and his Pokémon, and Meowth, Persian, and Perrserker. I still need this card.