Blaziken-GX 153/168 · Celestial Storm

Blaziken is Pokédex #257, generation 3 (Hoenn). Blaziken-GX is a Stage 2 GX Fire Pokémon with 240 HP. The card says it evolves from Combusken. In this catalog that name is Combusken (#256).

Blaziken-GX sits at 153/168 in Celestial Storm, position 156 of 187. Before it is 152 Shiftry-GX, and after it is 154 Articuno-GX. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 3 August 2018. The printed size is 168. This checklist is longer, at 187 cards. The listed rarity is Rare Ultra.

The attack Slash lists 60 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Explosive Kick is another attack lists 210 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless. Discard 2 Fire Energy from this Pokémon. Blaze Out-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Fire. Discard 2 Energy from your opponent's Pokémon. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Blaziken (#257) has 31 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 21 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Blaziken 3/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card is named Blaziken, while this one is Blaziken-GX. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 240 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Rare Ultra. Kouki Saitou illustrated that card, and 5ban Graphics illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 1. 29 other cards of Blaziken list a different HP.

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

Celestial Storm set binder is where a full Celestial Storm set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Blaziken can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Hoenn starters. I still need this card.