Aerodactyl-GX 224/236 · Unified Minds

Aerodactyl is Pokédex #142, generation 1 (Kanto). Aerodactyl-GX is a Stage 1 GX Fighting Pokémon with 210 HP. The card says it evolves from Unidentified Fossil.

Aerodactyl-GX sits at 224/236 in Unified Minds, position 227 of 261. Before it is 223 Latios-GX, and after it is 225 Mega Sableye & Tyranitar-GX. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 2 August 2019. The printed size is 236. This checklist is longer, at 261 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Ultra.

Primal Winds is listed as Ability. As long as this Pokémon is your Active Pokémon, your opponent's Basic Pokémon's attacks cost Colorless more. The attack Boulder Crush lists 120 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Wild Dive-GX is another attack lists 50× damage. The cost is Fighting. This attack does 50 damage times the amount of Energy attached to your opponent's Active Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Grass ×2. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Aerodactyl (#142) has 23 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2023. The earliest other card is Aerodactyl 1/62 in Fossil (1999). That card is named Aerodactyl, while this one is Aerodactyl-GX. That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 210 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Ultra. Kagemaru Himeno illustrated that card, and ConceptLab illustrated this one. 17 other cards of Aerodactyl list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads ConceptLab. I count 19 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Unified Minds set binder is where a full Unified Minds set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Aerodactyl can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). Themed lists that include this exact card are Fossil Pokémon. I still need this card.