Noivern-GX 160/147 · Burning Shadows

Noivern is Pokédex #715, generation 6 (Kalos). Noivern-GX is a Stage 1 GX Dragon Pokémon with 200 HP. The card says it evolves from Noibat. In this catalog that name is Noibat (#714).

Noivern-GX sits at 160/147 in Burning Shadows, position 168 of 177. Before it is 159 Gardevoir-GX, and after it is 161 Bodybuilding Dumbbells. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 5 August 2017. The printed size is 147. This checklist is longer, at 177 cards. The collector number is above the printed set size of 147. The listed rarity is Rare Rainbow.

The attack Distort lists 50 damage. The cost is Darkness, Colorless. Your opponent can't play any Item cards from their hand during their next turn. Sonic Volume is another attack lists 120 damage. The cost is Psychic, Darkness, Colorless. Your opponent can't play any Special Energy cards from their hand during their next turn. Boomburst-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Psychic, Darkness, Colorless. This attack does 50 damage to each of your opponent's Pokémon. (Don't apply Weakness and Resistance for Benched Pokémon.) (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Fairy ×2. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Noivern (#715) has 20 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 14 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2014 to 2026. The earliest other card is Noivern 77/111 in Furious Fists (2014). That card is named Noivern, while this one is Noivern-GX. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 200 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Rainbow. 13 other cards of Noivern list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads 5ban Graphics. I count 1,629 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Burning Shadows set binder is where a full Burning Shadows set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Noivern can fill a slot in Generation 6 binder (Kalos). I still need this card.