Shining Gyarados 65/64 · Neo Revelation

Gyarados is Pokédex #130, generation 1 (Kanto). Shining Gyarados is a Basic Water Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists level 62.

Shining Gyarados sits at 65/64 in Neo Revelation, position 65 of 66. Before it is 64 Old Rod, and after it is 66 Shining Magikarp. The set belongs to the Neo series. It was released on 21 September 2001. The printed size is 64. This checklist is longer, at 66 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 64. The listed rarity is Rare Shining.

The attack Outrage lists 30+ damage. The cost is Water, Fighting, Fighting. Flip a coin. If heads, this attack does 30 damage plus 10 more damage for each damage counter on Shining Gyarados. If tails, this attack does nothing. Devastate is another attack lists 50 damage. The cost is Water, Water, Fire, Fire. Discard 2 Fire Energy cards attached to Shining Gyarados or this attack does nothing. This attack does 10 damage to each of your opponent's Benched Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) Then, flip a coin. If heads, choose 1 Energy card attached to each of your opponent's Pokémon that has any Energy cards attached to it and discard those Energy cards. Weakness is Grass ×2. Resistance is Fighting -30. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: You can't have more than 1 Shining Gyarados in your deck. The flavor text reads "Once it appears, it goes on a rampage. It remains enraged until it demolishes everything around it."

Gyarados (#130) has 56 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 38 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Gyarados 6/102 in Base (1999). That card is named Gyarados, while this one is Shining Gyarados. Both list 100 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Shining. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Ken Sugimori illustrated this one. 51 other cards of Gyarados list a different HP.

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

Neo Revelation set binder is where a full Neo Revelation set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Gyarados can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Magikarp and Gyarados. I still need this card.