Volcarona-GX 252/236 · Cosmic Eclipse

Volcarona is Pokédex #637, generation 5 (Unova). Volcarona-GX is a Stage 1 GX Fire Pokémon with 210 HP. The card says it evolves from Larvesta. In this catalog that name is Larvesta (#636).

Volcarona-GX sits at 252/236 in Cosmic Eclipse, position 253 of 272. Before it is 251 Charizard & Braixen-GX, and after it is 253 Blastoise & Piplup-GX. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 1 November 2019. The printed size is 236. This checklist is longer, at 272 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 236. The listed rarity is Rare Rainbow.

Flaming Shot is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Fire Energy card from your hand. If you do, put 2 damage counters on 1 of your opponent's Pokémon. The attack Backfire lists 160 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless. Put 2 Fire Energy attached to this Pokémon into your hand. Massive Heat Wave-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Fire. Discard an Energy from each of your opponent's Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Volcarona (#637) has 20 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 16 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2011 to 2025. The earliest other card is Volcarona BW40/101 in BW Black Star Promos (2011). That card is named Volcarona, while this one is Volcarona-GX. That card lists 110 HP, and this one lists 210 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Rainbow. Shin Nagasawa illustrated that card, and PLANETA Tsuji illustrated this one. 16 other cards of Volcarona list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads PLANETA Tsuji. I count 81 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Cosmic Eclipse set binder is where a full Cosmic Eclipse set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Volcarona can fill a slot in Generation 5 binder (Unova). I still need this card.