Arceus AR3/99 · Arceus

Arceus is Pokédex #493, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Arceus is a Basic Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card lists level 100.

Arceus sits at AR3/99 in Arceus, position 102 of 111. Before it is AR2 Arceus, and after it is AR4 Arceus. The set belongs to the Platinum series. It was released on 4 November 2009. The printed size is 99. This checklist is longer, at 111 cards. The listed rarity is Rare.

The attack Bright Flame lists 80 damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. Flip a coin. If tails, discard 2 Energy attached to Arceus. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: You may have as many of this card in your deck as you like. The flavor text reads "It is described in mythology as the Pokémon that shaped the universe with its 1,000 arms."

Arceus (#493) has 34 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 10 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Arceus DP50/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card lists 90 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare. Kunihiko Yuyama illustrated that card, and Wataru Kawahara illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 31 other cards of Arceus list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Wataru Kawahara. I count 35 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Arceus set binder is where a full Arceus set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Arceus can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.