Palossand-GX 82/168 · Celestial Storm

Celestial Storm is a set in the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 3 August 2018. The printed size is 168. This checklist is longer, at 187 cards. Palossand-GX is 82/168, in position 83 of 187 on this checklist. Before it is 81 Groudon, and after it is 83 Minior. The listed rarity is Rare Holo GX.

Palossand-GX is a Stage 1 GX Fighting Pokémon with 210 HP. In the Pokédex this is Palossand (#770), generation 7 (Alola). The card says it evolves from Sandygast. In this catalog that name is Sandygast (#769).

5ban Graphics illustrated this card. The same name is on 1,629 other cards in the catalog.

Palossand (#770) has 10 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 9 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2017 to 2024. The earliest other card is Palossand 75/149 in Sun & Moon (2017). That card is named Palossand, while this one is Palossand-GX. That card lists 130 HP, and this one lists 210 HP. The rarity there is Rare, and here it is Rare Holo GX. Kouki Saitou illustrated that card, and 5ban Graphics illustrated this one. 10 other cards of Palossand list a different HP.

The attack Eerie Light lists 60 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Confused. Absorb Life is another attack lists 100 damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Heal 20 damage from this Pokémon. Sandy Fear-GX is another attack lists 60× damage. The cost is Fighting, Fighting, Colorless, Colorless. Look at the top 13 cards of your opponent's deck and discard any number of Pokémon you find there. This attack does 60 damage for each card you discarded in this way. Your opponent shuffles the other cards back into their deck. (You can't use more than 1 GX attack in a game.) Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The card text says: Pokémon-GX rule: When your Pokémon-GX is Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

I keep a set binder for Celestial Storm, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Celestial Storm set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Palossand can fill a slot in Generation 7 binder (Alola). I still need this card.