Combusken 27/168 · Celestial Storm

Combusken is Pokédex #256, generation 3 (Hoenn). Combusken is a Stage 1 Fire Pokémon with 80 HP. The card says it evolves from Torchic. In this catalog that name is Torchic (#255). The card lists Blaziken, Blaziken (#257) under evolves to.

Combusken sits at 27/168 in Celestial Storm, position 28 of 187. Before it is 26 Torchic, and after it is 28 Blaziken-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 Uncommon.

The attack Double Kick lists 30× damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Flip 2 coins. This attack does 30 damage for each heads. Flamethrower is another attack lists 80 damage. The cost is Fire, Fire, Colorless. Discard an Energy from this Pokémon. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "During a battle, the hot flame in its body increases. Its kicks have outstanding destructive power."

Combusken (#256) has 21 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 19 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2025. The earliest other card is Combusken 27/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card lists 70 HP, and this one lists 80 HP. Both list the rarity Uncommon. Kouki Saitou illustrated that card, and Mizue illustrated this one. 11 other cards of Combusken list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Mizue. I count 184 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. Combusken can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). I still need this card.