Cleffa 17/123 · HeartGold & SoulSilver

Cleffa is Pokédex #173, generation 2 (Johto). Cleffa is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 30 HP. The card lists Clefairy, Clefairy (#035) under evolves to.

Cleffa sits at 17/123 in HeartGold & SoulSilver, position 17 of 124. Before it is 16 Butterfree, and after it is 18 Exeggutor. The set belongs to the HeartGold & SoulSilver series. It was released on 10 February 2010. The printed size is 123. This checklist is longer, at 124 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

Sweet Sleeping Face is listed as Poké-Body. As long as Cleffa is Asleep, prevent all damage done to Cleffa by attacks. The attack Eeeeeeek lists no damage number. Shuffle your hand into your deck, then draw 6 cards. Cleffa is now Asleep. The flavor text reads "Because of its unusual, star-like silhouette, people believe that it came here on a meteor."

Cleffa (#173) has 16 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2024. The earliest other card is Cleffa 31/53 in Wizards Black Star Promos (1999). Both list 30 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Ken Sugimori illustrated that card, and Masakazu Fukuda illustrated this one. 5 other cards of Cleffa list a different HP.

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

HeartGold & SoulSilver set binder is where a full HeartGold & SoulSilver set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Cleffa can fill a slot in Generation 2 binder (Johto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Baby Pokémon. I still need this card.