Radiant Heatran 27/189 · Astral Radiance

Astral Radiance is a set in the Sword & Shield series. It was released on 27 May 2022. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 216 cards. Radiant Heatran is 27/189, in position 27 of 216 on this checklist. Before it is 26 Heatran VMAX, and after it is 28 Psyduck. The listed rarity is Radiant Rare.

Radiant Heatran is a Basic Radiant Fire Pokémon with 160 HP. In the Pokédex this is Heatran (#485), generation 4 (Sinnoh).

Shigenori Negishi illustrated this card. The same name is on 151 other cards in the catalog.

Heatran (#485) has 27 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 20 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Heatran LV.X DP31/56 in DP Black Star Promos (2007). That card is named Heatran LV.X, while this one is Radiant Heatran. That card lists 120 HP, and this one lists 160 HP. The rarity there is Promo, and here it is Radiant Rare. Shizurow illustrated that card, and Shigenori Negishi illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 4, and here it is 3. 27 other cards of Heatran list a different HP.

The attack Raging Blast lists 70× damage. The cost is Fire, Colorless, Colorless. This attack does 70 damage for each damage counter on this Pokémon. Weakness is Water ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: Radiant Pokémon Rule: You can't have more than 1 Radiant Pokémon in your deck. The flavor text reads "Boiling blood, like magma, circulates through its body. It makes its dwelling place in volcanic caves." The regulation mark is F.

I keep a set binder for Astral Radiance, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Astral Radiance set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Heatran can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.