Rayquaza-GX 160/168 · Celestial Storm

Rayquaza is Pokédex #384, generation 3 (Hoenn). Rayquaza-GX is a Basic GX Dragon Pokémon with 180 HP.

Rayquaza-GX sits at 160/168 in Celestial Storm, position 163 of 187. Before it is 159 Stakataka-GX, and after it is 161 Apricorn Maker. 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.

Stormy Winds is listed as Ability. When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may discard the top 3 cards of your deck. If you do, attach a basic Energy card from your discard pile to this Pokémon. The attack Dragon Break lists 30× damage. The cost is Grass, Lightning, Colorless. This attack does 30 damage times the amount of basic Grass and basic Lightning Energy attached to your Pokémon. Tempest-GX is another attack lists no damage number. The cost is Grass. Discard your hand and draw 10 cards. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Fairy ×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.

Rayquaza (#384) has 59 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 31 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2026. The earliest other card is Rayquaza ex 39/40 in Nintendo Black Star Promos (2003). That card is named Rayquaza ex, while this one is Rayquaza-GX. That card lists 100 HP, and this one lists 180 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Rare Ultra. Ryo Ueda illustrated that card, and 5ban Graphics illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 1, and here it is 3. 54 other cards of Rayquaza 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. Rayquaza can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza and All Rayquaza cards. I still need this card.