Swampert-EX XY55/211 · XY Black Star Promos

Swampert is Pokédex #260, generation 3 (Hoenn). Swampert-EX is a Basic EX Water Pokémon with 180 HP. The card lists M Swampert-EX, Swampert (#260) under evolves to.

Swampert-EX sits at XY55/211 in XY Black Star Promos, position 55 of 216. Before it is XY54 Blaziken-EX, and after it is XY56 Blissey. The set belongs to the XY series. It was released on 12 October 2013. The printed size is 211. This checklist is longer, at 216 cards. The listed rarity is Promo.

The attack Mud Flood lists 40+ damage. The cost is Water, Colorless, Colorless. Reveal the top 4 cards of your deck. This attack does 40 more damage for each Water Energy you find there. Shuffle the revealed cards back into your deck. Hydro Tackle is another attack lists 120 damage. The cost is Water, Water, Colorless, Colorless. This Pokémon does 20 damage to itself. Weakness is Grass ×2. Retreat cost is 3. The card text says: Pokémon-EX rule: When a Pokémon-EX has been Knocked Out, your opponent takes 2 Prize cards.

Swampert (#260) has 14 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 11 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 2003 to 2021. The earliest other card is Swampert 13/109 in Ruby & Sapphire (2003). That card is named Swampert, while this one is Swampert-EX. That card lists 110 HP, and this one lists 180 HP. The rarity there is Rare Holo, and here it is Promo. Mitsuhiro Arita illustrated that card, and Eske Yoshinob illustrated this one. 14 other cards of Swampert list a different HP.

The illustrator line reads Eske Yoshinob. I count 177 other cards in the catalog with that illustrator.

XY Black Star Promos set binder is where a full XY Black Star Promos set goes. This card fills one slot there. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Swampert can fill a slot in Generation 3 binder (Hoenn). Themed lists that include this exact card are Hoenn starters. I still need this card.