Hippopotas 79/189 · Astral Radiance

Hippopotas is Pokédex #449, generation 4 (Sinnoh). Hippopotas is a Basic Fighting Pokémon with 100 HP. The card lists Hippowdon, Hippowdon (#450) under evolves to.

Hippopotas sits at 79/189 in Astral Radiance, position 79 of 216. Before it is 78 Lucario V, and after it is 80 Hippowdon. The set belongs to the Sword & Shield series. It was released on 27 May 2022. The printed size is 189. This checklist is longer, at 216 cards. The listed rarity is Common.

The attack Mud-Slap lists 30 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless. Rolling Tackle is another attack lists 90 damage. The cost is Fighting, Colorless, Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 4. The flavor text reads "Though large and languid, Hippopotas is difficult to detect due to its tendency to burrow into and lurk beneath the soil. When agitated or excited, it expels sand from its nostrils." The regulation mark is F.

Hippopotas (#449) has 13 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 13 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2007 to 2026. The earliest other card is Hippopotas 51/130 in Diamond & Pearl (2007). That card lists 60 HP, and this one lists 100 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and nagimiso illustrated this one. Retreat cost there is 2, and here it is 4. 10 other cards of Hippopotas list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads nagimiso. I count 156 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

Astral Radiance set binder is where a full Astral Radiance set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Hippopotas can fill a slot in Generation 4 binder (Sinnoh). I still need this card.