Melmetal SM181/248 · SM Black Star Promos

Melmetal is Pokédex #809, generation 7 (Alola). Melmetal is a Stage 1 Metal Pokémon with 150 HP. The card says it evolves from Meltan. In this catalog that name is Meltan (#808).

Melmetal sits at SM181/248 in SM Black Star Promos, position 184 of 251. Before it is SM180 Stakataka, and after it is SM182 Persian. The set belongs to the Sun & Moon series. It was released on 3 February 2017. The printed size is 248. This checklist is longer, at 251 cards. The listed rarity is Promo.

Metal Eater is listed as Ability. Once during your turn (before your attack), you may discard a Metal Pokémon from your hand. If you do, heal 100 damage from this Pokémon. The attack Heavy Impact lists 130 damage. The cost is Metal, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fire ×2. Resistance is Psychic -20. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "Revered long ago for its capacity to create iron from nothing, for some reason it has come back to life after 3,000 years."

Melmetal (#809) has 19 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 10 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2017 to 2024. The earliest other card is Melmetal-GX SM178/248 in SM Black Star Promos (2017). That card is named Melmetal-GX, while this one is Melmetal. That card lists 220 HP, and this one lists 150 HP. Both list the rarity Promo. PLANETA Otani illustrated that card, and TOKIYA illustrated this one. 16 other cards of Melmetal list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads TOKIYA. I count 93 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

SM Black Star Promos set binder is where a full SM Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Melmetal can fill a slot in Generation 7 binder (Alola). I still need this card.