2002 Japanese edition almanac

Nidoran ♂ニドラン♂

Nidoran♂, 50 HP, the set's first card and one of three Poison-types in the opening run. A one-Energy jab and a two-Energy horn, retreat 1. It is the only Nidoran in the set without a second printing — its evolution, Nidorino, follows at 002 and then stops: Nidoking is not in this set, so the line breaks at Stage 1.

Nidorinoニドリーノ

Nidorino, 70 HP Stage 1, up from 60 in 1996. Ten for one Grass, forty for three Colourless, retreat 1. It is the highest HP in the set's first twenty cards and one of only four Stage 1 Pokémon here that never reach Stage 2 inside the set.

Grimerベトベター

Grimer, 50 HP, up from 40 in 1997, with a single Colourless attack and retreat 1. It is the plain half of the Grimer line; Muk follows at 004 and again at 005.

Mukベトベトン

Muk, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 it has had since 1997 — with one attack for two Colourless and retreat 1. This is the plain rare; 005 is the same card in holofoil, same illustrator, same attacks, one number later.

Mukベトベトン

Muk, holofoil. Same 70 HP, same two-Colourless attack, same Hajime Kusajima art as 004. Every one of this set's sixteen holofoils is a foil version of a card printed plain elsewhere in the same set — there is no separate holo-only design in e-Card 2, and no H-numbered run until the English Aquapolis.

Spinarakイトマル

Spinarak, 40 HP, the lower of the set's two Spinarak. One Grass attack, retreat 1, and no damage printed on it at all — a status card rather than a hitter.

Spinarakイトマル

Spinarak, 50 HP — ten more than 006, and a different card: two attacks, ten for one Colourless and twenty for Grass plus Colourless. Two Spinarak in one set with different HP and different attacks is normal for e-Card 2; it does the same with Growlithe, Voltorb, Wooper and Magnemite.

Ariadosアリアドス

Ariados, 70 HP Stage 1, free retreat and one Grass-Colourless attack. The free retreat is the point: it is one of only six cards in the set that cost nothing to pull back. Plain rare here, holofoil at 009.

Ariadosアリアドス

Ariados, holofoil — same 70 HP, same free retreat, same Shin-ichi Yoshida art as 008. The pair is the cleanest example of how this set handles rarity: the holo is not a better card, it is the same card with foil on it.

Hoppipハネッコ

Hoppip, 40 HP, up from 30 in 2000, with one Colourless attack for 20 and retreat 1. The first of three cards in this set drawn by Yuka Morii, who draws the whole Hoppip line here — 010, 011 and both Jumpluff.

Skiploomポポッコ

Skiploom, 60 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, one Colourless attack, retreat 1. Yuka Morii again. The line runs Hoppip → Skiploom → Jumpluff (012) without a break, one of only four complete three-stage lines in the set.

Jumpluffワタッコ

Jumpluff, 70 HP Stage 2, free retreat and a single Grass attack. Plain rare. The end of the set's only complete Grass line, and one of eight Stage 2 Pokémon here — the fewest of the four 2002 sets.

Jumpluffワタッコ

Jumpluff, holofoil — same 70 HP, same free retreat, same Yuka Morii art as 012. With Hoppip and Skiploom above it, the whole line is drawn by one artist, which is rare in a set this size.

Growlitheガーディ

Growlithe, 50 HP, one of two in the set. Two attacks, a Colourless one and a Fire one, retreat 1. 015 is the other Growlithe at 60 HP — ten more, different attacks, different artist.

Growlitheガーディ

Growlithe, 60 HP, the stronger of the pair, with a single Fire-Colourless attack for 30. Drawn by Kyoko Umemoto, who also draws both Arcanine at 016 and 017 — so the whole evolution line carries one hand.

Arcanineウインディ

Arcanine, 90 HP Stage 1, retreat 3 — the most expensive retreat in the set alongside Nidoking. One attack for three Colourless. Down from 100 HP in 1996 and 70 in 2001: this is the highest-HP Arcanine printed so far.

Arcanineウインディ

Arcanine, holofoil — same 90 HP, same retreat 3, same Kyoko Umemoto art as 016. One of the two heaviest cards in the set by HP-and-retreat together, and the only Fire holofoil in e-Card 2.

Houndourデルビル

Houndour, 50 HP, one of two in the set, and the only one drawn by Midori Harada. Two attacks — a Colourless sing and a Fire-colourless flare for 20 — retreat 1. The Darkness Houndour is at 069, in the second half of the set.

Houndoomヘルガー

Houndoom, 80 HP Stage 1, uncommon — the only Houndoom in the set that is not a rare. Two attacks, ten for one Colourless and sixty for Fire-Fire-Colourless, retreat 1. At 80 HP it is ten above the 2000 card.

Psyduckコダック

Psyduck, 50 HP, unchanged since 1997, two Colourless attacks for 10 and 20, retreat 1. One of the few cards here whose HP has not moved in five years.

Golduckゴルダック

Golduck, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, two attacks, retreat 1. It carries a Psychic-coloured attack despite being a Water card — the set does this on several Water Pokémon, and it is the reason a third of the set's Water cards can hit a Psychic weakness.

Goldeenトサキント

Goldeen, 40 HP, its fourth printing since 1997 and the lowest HP of them. One Colourless attack with no damage, retreat 1. Seaking at 023 is its evolution, so the line is complete — one of only four complete two-stage lines in the set.

Seakingアズマオウ

Seaking, 70 HP Stage 1, two attacks — a two-Colourless flail and a Water-colourless one for 30 — retreat 1. Drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki.

Marillマリル

Marill, 50 HP, its fourth printing since 1999. Two attacks, both for 10, retreat 1. The set prints Marill and Azumarill as a pair, and Azumarill gets both a plain and a holo.

Azumarillマリルリ

Azumarill, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000. One Water-colourless attack for 40, retreat 1, drawn by Kagemaru Himeno. Plain rare; 026 is the holofoil.

Azumarillマリルリ

Azumarill, holofoil — same 70 HP, same 40-damage attack, same Kagemaru Himeno art as 025. The only Water holofoil in the set.

Wooperウパー

Wooper, 40 HP, the first of two. Two Water attacks for 10 and 20, retreat 1, drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. 028 is the other Wooper at 50 HP with different attacks and a different artist.

Wooperウパー

Wooper, 50 HP — ten more than 027, and a different card: a Colourless tail whip and a Water dive. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida. Two Woopers in one set, both Basic, both Water, neither one a reprint of the other.

Quagsireヌオー

Quagsire, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 2, two attacks, the second costing four Colourless. The highest-HP Water Pokémon in the set after Suicune.

Suicuneスイクン

Suicune, 70 HP Basic, one attack for three Energy and no damage printed on it — a status card, not a hitter. Plain rare here, holofoil at 031. Same 70 HP as the 2000 print, and the same attack cost.

Suicuneスイクン

Suicune, holofoil — same 70 HP, same single attack, same Atsuko Nishida art as 030. The only legendary beast of the three in this set: Entei is in e-Card 3, Raikou in e-Card 4, and the three never appear together in any 2002 set.

Magnemiteコイル

Magnemite, 50 HP — ten above every previous printing, which had been stuck at 40 since 1996. One Lightning-Colourless attack, retreat 1. The Metal Magnemite at 072 is a different card entirely.

Voltorbビリリダマ

Voltorb, 40 HP, one of two in the set. A single Lightning attack for 20, retreat 1, drawn by Keiji Kinebuchi. The other Voltorb at 034 has 50 HP and two attacks.

Voltorbビリリダマ

Voltorb, 50 HP — ten more than 033 — with a Colourless rollout and a Lightning shock for 20. Two Voltorb, two Electrode: the set prints the whole line twice, once at each strength.

Electrodeマルマイン

Electrode, 70 HP Stage 1 — down from 90 in 1996 and 80 in 1997 — one Lightning-colourless attack for 30, retreat 1. Plain rare; holofoil at 036.

Electrodeマルマイン

Electrode, holofoil — same 70 HP, same 30-damage attack, same Shin-ichi Yoshida art as 035. The only Lightning holofoil in the set.

Zapdosサンダー

Zapdos, 80 HP Basic, retreat 2, two attacks — ten for one Colourless and sixty for four Energy. Down from 90 HP in 1996 and up from 70 in 1997 and 2001, so this is the middle of the three printings.

Zapdosサンダー

Zapdos, holofoil — same 80 HP, same four-Energy 60, same Hajime Kusajima art as 037. The heaviest attack in the set by Energy cost, tied with Nidoking's four.

Elekidエレキッド

Elekid, 30 HP Baby, unchanged since 2000, one Lightning attack with no damage, retreat 1. One of three Babies in the set — with Smoochum at 047 and Tyrogue at 055 — and the only one that is not a common.

Drowzeeスリープ

Drowzee, 50 HP, unchanged since 1997. Two attacks, a Psychic sleep and a two-Colourless 20, retreat 1. Hypno at 041 and 042 is its evolution, printed twice — plain and holo.

Hypnoスリーパー

Hypno, 80 HP Stage 1 — down from 90 in 1997 — one Psychic-colourless attack for 30, retreat 1. Plain rare; 042 is the holofoil. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita.

Hypnoスリーパー

Hypno, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 30-damage attack, same Mitsuhiro Arita art as 041. The only Psychic holofoil in the first half of the set; Espeon at 045/046 is the other.

Mr. Mimeバリヤード

Mr. Mime, 50 HP — ten above the 1997 card — one Psychic-colourless attack for 20, retreat 1. A common, which is unusual for a card that had been a rare in 1997.

Jynxルージュラ

Jynx, 60 HP, its third printing since 1996 and the lowest of them (the 2000 and 2001 cards were 70). Two Psychic attacks, retreat 2 — the most expensive retreat of any Psychic card in the set.

Espeonエーフィ

Espeon, 80 HP Stage 1, free retreat, one Psychic-colourless attack with no printed damage. Plain rare; 046 is the holofoil. Same 80 HP as the 2000 print, and the only Eevee evolution in the set that gets both printings.

Espeonエーフィ

Espeon, holofoil — same 80 HP, same free retreat, same Kyoko Umemoto art as 045. One of six cards in the set with free retreat, and the only one of those that is a holofoil.

Smoochumムチュール

Smoochum, 30 HP Baby, unchanged since 2000, one Psychic attack with no damage, retreat 1. A common. The second of the three Babies; the third, Tyrogue, is at 055.

Nidokingニドキング

Nidoking, 110 HP Stage 2 — twenty above the 1996 and 2001 cards — retreat 3, one attack for four Energy. Plain rare here, holofoil at 049. The highest HP in the set, tied only with Blissey at 065.

Nidokingニドキング

Nidoking, holofoil — 110 HP Stage 2, the set's ceiling, drawn by Hironobu Yoshida rather than by Naoyo Kimura who drew the plain print at 048. Same HP, same four-Energy attack, different artist: this is the one holo pair in the set where the illustrator changes between the plain and the foil.

Cuboneカラカラ

Cubone, 40 HP, unchanged since 1997, two attacks — a Colourless one and a Fighting 10 — retreat 1. Marowak at 051 completes the line, one of four complete two-stage lines in the set.

Marowakガラガラ

Marowak, 70 HP Stage 1, up from 60 in 1997, retreat 1, two attacks with the second costing two Fighting and Colourless. A common — the whole Marowak line is common in this set, which is unusual for a Stage 1 with 70 HP.

Hitmonchanエビワラー

Hitmonchan, 60 HP, unchanged since 1996, retreat 2, two attacks with a 50-damage three-Energy punch. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya, who draws all three of the set's Fighting basics that came out of the Tyrogue line — Hitmonchan here, Tyrogue at 055, Hitmontop at 056.

Phanpyゴマゾウ

Phanpy, 40 HP, unchanged since 2000, two attacks, retreat 1. Donphan at 054 is the evolution, so the line is complete.

Donphanドンファン

Donphan, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 2, two attacks, the second costing three Colourless. An uncommon, and the only Ground-type evolution in the set.

Tyrogueバルキー

Tyrogue, 30 HP Baby, unchanged since 2000, one Fighting attack for 10, retreat 1. A common. All three Babies in the set are 30 HP and all three cost one Energy to attack — Elekid, Smoochum, Tyrogue — the only structural rule this set applies without exception.

Hitmontopカポエラー

Hitmontop, 60 HP Basic, retreat 1, two attacks — a two-Colourless double kick and a Fighting-colourless triple spin. The third of the three Tyrogue-line cards here, and the only one that is not a Baby.

Umbreonブラッキー

Umbreon, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, retreat 1, one Colourless attack for 30. Plain rare; 068 is the holofoil. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita, who also draws Hypno and the Darkness Houndoom.

Umbreonブラッキー

Umbreon, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 30-damage attack, same Mitsuhiro Arita art as 067. One of only two Darkness cards in the set with a holofoil; the other, Houndoom at 071, is Fire-coloured in its plain print.

Houndourデルビル

Houndour, 50 HP, the second of the set's two, and the only Darkness-type Houndour here — 018 is Fire. One Darkness-colourless attack, retreat 1, drawn by Atsuko Nishida. Same 50 HP as 018, different type and different artist.

Houndoomヘルガー

Houndoom, 70 HP Stage 1, retreat 1, two attacks — a Fire-colourless 30 and a Darkness-colourless-colourless 40. Plain rare; 071 is the holofoil. Ten lower than the uncommon Houndoom at 019, which makes the rare the smaller card — the set does this deliberately on several lines.

Houndoomヘルガー

Houndoom, holofoil — same 70 HP, same two attacks, same Hajime Kusajima art as 070. The only card in the set that is both a Darkness holofoil and part of a line printed twice at different rarities.

Magnemiteコイル

Magnemite, 40 HP — ten below the other Magnemite at 032 — and a Metal-type, the only Metal Basic in the set besides the Metal Energy at 091. One Metal attack and one two-Colourless 20, retreat 1.

Magnetonレアコイル

Magneton, 70 HP Stage 1, retreat 2, one three-Colourless attack for 30. Plain rare; 074 is the holofoil. Drawn by Hikaru Koike, and down from 80 HP in 1997.

Magnetonレアコイル

Magneton, holofoil — same 70 HP, same 30-damage attack, same Hikaru Koike art as 073. This is the holo that closes the Pokémon half of the set: everything from 075 on is Trainer and Energy.

Chanseyラッキー

Chansey, 100 HP for one Energy, retreat 2, two Colourless attacks for 10 and 40. Printed as a common — a 100 HP Basic at common is the single most unusual rarity call in the set, and it is why Chansey is the card that breaks the set's own rarity logic.

Eeveeイーブイ

Eevee, 50 HP, its third printing since 1997. Two Colourless attacks for 20, retreat 1, drawn by Midori Harada. Two of its five evolutions are here — Espeon at 045/046 and Umbreon at 067/068 — the other three are in e-Card 4.

Porygonポリゴン

Porygon, 40 HP, its fourth printing since 1996. Two Colourless attacks, retreat 1. Porygon2 at 063 is the evolution, so this is the one line in the set that starts at a common and ends at an uncommon without a rare in between.

Togepiトゲピー

Togepi, 40 HP, unchanged since 1999, two Colourless attacks for 10, retreat 1. Drawn by Miki Tanaka. Togetic at 061 and 062 follows — plain and holo — so the line is complete.

Togeticトゲチック

Togetic, 60 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, one Colourless attack, retreat 1. Plain rare; 062 is the holofoil. Both drawn by Kagemaru Himeno.

Togeticトゲチック

Togetic, holofoil — same 60 HP, same single attack, same Kagemaru Himeno art as 061. The only Colourless holofoil in the set, and the only holofoil whose plain print is at 60 HP rather than 70 or above.

Porygon2ポリゴン２

Porygon2, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, one Colourless-Colourless attack for 20, retreat 1. An uncommon. Upgrading Porygon from common to Porygon2 as uncommon is the set's only clean two-step rarity ladder.

Smeargleドーブル

Smeargle, 60 HP — ten above the 2000 card — two Colourless attacks, retreat 1, drawn by Miki Tanaka. A common with 60 HP, which in this set is high for the rarity.

Blisseyハピナス

Blissey, 120 HP Stage 1 — the highest HP in e-Card 2, tied with Nidoking — retreat 2, one attack for three Colourless and 50. Plain rare; 066 is the holofoil. Same 120 as the 2000 print.

Blisseyハピナス

Blissey, holofoil — same 120 HP, same 50-damage attack, same Naoyo Kimura art as 065. Between them, Blissey and Nidoking are the only two cards in the set at 120 HP, and both appear as a plain rare and a holo.

Weakness Guard

Weakness Guard, the first Trainer. Attached to one of your Pokémon, it removes that Pokémon's Weakness entirely and is discarded at the end of your opponent's next turn. One turn of no Weakness is a narrow effect, and on a 2002 board of 100-plus HP Pokémon it is the card that decides a single trade rather than a game.

Super Energy Removal 2

Super Energy Removal 2. Flip two coins: on two heads, discard an Energy from the Defending Pokémon; otherwise discard one of your own. The '2' is a different card from the 1996 Super Energy Removal, not a reprint — the original discarded an Energy unconditionally, and this one gambles.

Seer

Seer. Look at the top six cards of your deck, take every basic Energy from them into your hand, then shuffle. The only card in the set that turns a deck's top into Energy on demand, and the reason e-Card decks of this period could run low Energy counts.

Pokémon Fan Club

Pokémon Fan Club, a Supporter that searches the deck for two Basic Pokémon and puts them into your hand. A first-turn card in every format it has ever been legal in, and one of four Trainer cards in the set named after a game character or organisation rather than an effect.

Town Volunteers

Town Volunteers. Take five Pokémon or basic Energy cards from your discard pile, show them, and put them back into your deck. The set's answer to its own aggressive discarding — Energy Restore's job in e-Card 1, done here for Pokémon as well.

Grass Cube 01

Grass Cube 01, the first of eight Cube cards — one per type, all uncommon, all numbered 080 to 087. A Cube is a Trainer that attaches to a Pokémon and gives it an attack of that type. Eight in a row is the largest block of same-design cards in the set.

Fire Cube 01

Fire Cube 01, second of the eight. The Cube run is numbered by type in a fixed order — Grass, Fire, Water, Lightning, Psychic, Fighting, Darkness, Metal — which is the same order the Japanese set prints its Pokémon in, so the eight Trainers double as a legend for the set's type blocks.

Water Cube 01

Water Cube 01, third of eight. The Cubes are what the e-Card era added to the Trainer line: an attachment rather than an event, so a deck can convert one Pokémon's attack into another type mid-game without switching the Pokémon.

Lightning Cube 01

Lightning Cube 01, fourth of eight. All eight Cubes are uncommon and all eight sit between 080 and 087 — no Cube is a rare and none is a holo, which is why the Trainer block of this set has no holofoil at all.

Psychic Cube 01

Psychic Cube 01, fifth of eight. Eight Cubes in a 92-card set means one Trainer in eleven is a Cube, the highest concentration of a single Trainer design in any Japanese set to that point.

Fighting Cube 01

Fighting Cube 01, sixth of eight. The Japanese card's name is the type word plus a number; the number 01 is not a series marker but the card's place in the run, and no Cube 02 exists in any e-Card set.

Darkness Cube 01

Darkness Cube 01, seventh of eight. Darkness and Metal Cubes only became possible in 2001, when the two types entered the game — this is the first set in which a full eight-type Cube run could exist at all.

Metal Cube 01

Metal Cube 01, the last of the eight. With 087 the Cube run closes, and the eight cards account for 8 of the set's 18 Trainers — the single clearest structural signature of e-Card 2.

Pokémon Park

Pokémon Park, a Stadium. Stadiums arrived in 2000 and e-Card 2 is one of the first Japanese sets to print two in a single expansion — the other is Power Plant at 089, printed directly after it.

Power Plant

Power Plant, the second Stadium. Two Stadiums in one set is unusual: they are the only two cards here that affect both players at once, and every other Trainer in the set is single-use.

Darkness Energy

Darkness Energy, a Special Energy providing Darkness. Darkness and Metal had only existed as types since 2001, and this is the first Japanese set to print the Special Energy for both in the same expansion as the Metal Energy at 091.

Metal Energy

Metal Energy, the second Special Energy. It reduces damage taken while it is attached, which made it the most-played card of the pair and the reason the set's two Metal Pokémon — Magnemite and Magneton — were worth printing at all.

Rainbow Energy

Rainbow Energy, the last card, providing any type at the cost of one damage counter on the holder. Three Special Energy in one set — Darkness, Metal and Rainbow — is more than any previous Japanese expansion, and it closes the run with the one card that works in every deck.

Oddishナゾノクサ

Oddish, 50 HP, the first of the set's twenty Grass cards. One Grass status attack and a two-Colourless 20, retreat 1. The whole Oddish line here is drawn by Kyoko Umemoto — 001, 002 and both Vileplume — one hand across a full three-stage evolution.

Gloomクサイハナ

Gloom, 70 HP Stage 1, retreat 2, one attack for 20. Down from 60 HP in 1997, up from nothing in 2001: this is the strongest Gloom yet printed, and the only one at 70.

Vileplumeラフレシア

Vileplume, 100 HP Stage 2 — twenty above the 1997 card and ten above 2001 — retreat 2, two Grass attacks, the second for 40. Plain rare; 004 is the holofoil. The 100 HP makes it the second-largest Grass Pokémon in the set.

Vileplumeラフレシア

Vileplume, holofoil — same 100 HP, same two attacks, same Kyoko Umemoto art as 003. One of fourteen holo pairs in this set where the artist does not change, which is how the e-Card holofoil works: the foil is the same card, not a second design.

Parasパラス

Paras, 50 HP, ten above both 1997 and 2000, retreat 1, two Grass attacks neither of which does printed damage. Drawn by Miki Tanaka. Parasect at 006 is the evolution, printed as an uncommon rather than a rare.

Parasectパラセクト

Parasect, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 1, two attacks. The set's only Grass evolution at uncommon, and one of two cards drawn by Masako Yamashita.

Bellsproutマダツボミ

Bellsprout, 40 HP, the first of two. Two Grass attacks with no printed damage, retreat 1, drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. 008 is the other Bellsprout at 50 HP — same name, ten more HP, different artist.

Bellsproutマダツボミ

Bellsprout, 50 HP, the stronger of the pair, one Grass attack for 20, retreat 1. Drawn by Masako Yamashita. Both Bellsprout evolve into the same Weepinbell at 009 — the set prints two Basics for a single Stage 1.

Weepinbellウツドン

Weepinbell, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two Grass attacks. Drawn by Miki Tanaka, who also draws Victreebel at 010 and 011 — so the whole line is one artist's work even though the two Bellsprout are not.

Victreebelウツボット

Victreebel, 90 HP Stage 2 — ten above the 1997 card — retreat 2, one Grass attack for 40. Plain rare; 011 is the holofoil. The highest HP of any Grass Stage 2 in the set apart from Vileplume.

Victreebelウツボット

Victreebel, holofoil — same 90 HP, same 40-damage attack, same Miki Tanaka art as 010. Four Grass holofoils in this set — Vileplume, Victreebel, Bellossom and nothing else — the most of any type.

Exeggcuteタマタマ

Exeggcute, 40 HP, the first of two in the set. Two Grass attacks, retreat 1, drawn by Yukiko Baba. 050 is the other Exeggcute at 50 HP, printed in the second half — and the set carries three Exeggutor in total, more than any other Pokémon here.

Exeggutorナッシー

Exeggutor, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two attacks with no printed damage. Plain rare. Drawn by Yukiko Baba, who draws this one and the second Exeggcute but not the holofoil at 014.

Exeggutorナッシー

Exeggutor, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, but drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki, not by Yukiko Baba who drew 013. This is one of only two holo pairs in the set where the illustrator changes, which means 013 and 014 are two different pictures of the same card.

Tangelaモンジャラ

Tangela, 60 HP — ten above every earlier printing, which had been 50 since 1996 — retreat 2, two attacks. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya. The 60 HP is the single biggest jump on any card in this set that has an older version.

Scytherストライク

Scyther, 50 HP, the lower of the set's two. Two attacks for 10 and 20, retreat 1, drawn by Midori Harada. 017 is the other Scyther at 60 HP. Neither evolves — Scizor at 074 is a Metal card and does not evolve from Scyther in this set.

Scytherストライク

Scyther, 60 HP — ten above 016 — two attacks, the second costing two Colourless. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura, who also draws Scizor at 074 and 075, so the two Scyther and their Metal relative share two artists between them.

Pinsirカイロス

Pinsir, 60 HP, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two attacks: 20 for one, and 90 for three — the largest single printed damage number in the set.

Bellossomキレイハナ

Bellossom, 90 HP Stage 2 — twenty above the 2000 card — retreat 2, one Grass attack. Plain rare; 020 is the holofoil. A Grass Stage 2 that does not evolve from Gloom in this set: Gloom's line ends at Vileplume, and Bellossom stands on its own.

Bellossomキレイハナ

Bellossom, holofoil — same 90 HP, same single attack, same Sumiyoshi Kizuki art as 019. The last of the set's four Grass holofoils, and the only one whose Stage 1 form is not in the set.

Vulpixロコン

Vulpix, 50 HP, unchanged since 1996, one Fire attack for 10, retreat 1. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. Ninetales at 022 and 023 follows — plain and holo.

Ninetalesキュウコン

Ninetales, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1996, retreat 1, two Fire attacks. Plain rare; 023 is the holofoil. Drawn by Kagemaru Himeno.

Ninetalesキュウコン

Ninetales, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, same Kagemaru Himeno art as 022. The only Fire holofoil in the set: Entei, Moltres and Ho-oh all sit in the other three sets, so 2002 never puts two Fire holos in one expansion.

Ponytaポニータ

Ponyta, 40 HP — ten below the 1996 and 1997 cards — retreat 1, two attacks with a Fire-colourless 30. Drawn by Shin-ichi Yoshida. Rapidash at 025 is the evolution, and it is an uncommon rather than a rare.

Rapidashギャロップ

Rapidash, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, free retreat — one of six cards in the set that cost nothing to pull back — and two attacks. Drawn by Kouki Saitou. An uncommon, which makes it the cheapest-to-play Stage 1 in the set.

Enteiエンテイ

Entei, 70 HP Basic — ten below the 2000 card — retreat 1, one Fire attack for 40. Plain rare; 027 is the holofoil. The Fire beast of the year: Suicune was in e-Card 2, Raikou is in e-Card 4, and the three never share a set.

Enteiエンテイ

Entei, holofoil — same 70 HP, same 40-damage attack, same Atsuko Nishida art as 026. One of three legendary holofoils across the year — Entei, Raikou and Suicune — each in a different expansion.

Tentacoolメノクラゲ

Tentacool, 50 HP — twenty above the 1997 card, which was 30 — retreat 1, two Water attacks with no printed damage. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima, who draws both Tentacruel as well.

Tentacruelドククラゲ

Tentacruel, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above 1997 and 1999 — free retreat, one Water attack for 20. Plain rare; 030 is the holofoil. The free retreat on a 70 HP Stage 1 is what makes the line playable.

Tentacruelドククラゲ

Tentacruel, holofoil — same 70 HP, same free retreat, same Hajime Kusajima art as 029. The only Water holofoil with free retreat in the set.

Slowpokeヤドン

Slowpoke, 50 HP, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two Water attacks for 20. Drawn by Aya Kusube. Slowbro at 032 and Slowking at 052 are both in this set, so one Basic feeds two different Stage 1s — the only Pokémon here with two evolutions printed.

Slowbroヤドラン

Slowbro, 80 HP Stage 1 — twenty above the 1997 card — retreat 2, one attack. An uncommon, and one of two Slowpoke evolutions in the set. Drawn by Aya Kusube.

Horseaタッツー

Horsea, 40 HP, the first of two. One Water attack for 10, retreat 1, drawn by Hisao Nakamura. 034 is the other Horsea at 50 HP with a different attack and a different artist.

Horseaタッツー

Horsea, 50 HP, the stronger of the pair, one Water attack for 20, retreat 1. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida, who also draws Kingdra at 041 and the secret Kingdra at 089 — three Kingdra-line cards, two of them hers.

Seadraシードラ

Seadra, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two attacks. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. The only Seadra in the set: the Horsea line reaches Kingdra through a Stage 1 that appears once.

Chinchouチョンチー

Chinchou, 50 HP, the first of two in the set. Two attacks, a Water float and a 20-damage headbutt, retreat 1, drawn by Yuka Morii. 043 is the other Chinchou, and the set also prints two Lanturn — the only line it prints twice in full.

Lanturnランターン

Lanturn, 80 HP Stage 1 — unchanged since 2000 — retreat 1, two attacks, the second a Lightning one. An uncommon. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. 044 and 045 are a second Lanturn pair at the same 80 HP, so this Pokémon appears four times in the set.

Remoraidテッポウオ

Remoraid, 50 HP — ten above the 2000 and 2001 cards — retreat 1, one Water attack with no printed damage. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita, who draws all three of the set's Water basics in the Tentacool–Remoraid run.

Octilleryオクタン

Octillery, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, retreat 2, one attack for 40. Plain rare; 040 is the holofoil. Drawn by Kouki Saitou.

Octilleryオクタン

Octillery, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 40-damage attack, same Kouki Saitou art as 039. The only Octillery holofoil in 2002.

Kingdraキングドラ

Kingdra, 120 HP Stage 2 — thirty above the 2000 card — retreat 3, one Water attack for 50. Plain rare, drawn by Atsuko Nishida. One of only three cards at 120 HP in the set, with Tyranitar and the secret Nidoking at 100.

Kingdraキングドラ

Kingdra, holofoil — same 120 HP, same retreat 3, same 50-damage attack, but drawn by Mikio Menjo, not Atsuko Nishida. The second of the set's two holo pairs where the artist changes, and the card that makes three Kingdra in one set with the secret at 089.

Chinchouチョンチー

Chinchou, 50 HP, the second of the pair and identical in HP to 036. Different attacks, different artist — Hisao Nakamura rather than Yuka Morii. The set prints two complete Chinchou–Lanturn lines, one at 036/037 and one at 043/044.

Lanturnランターン

Lanturn, 80 HP Stage 1, plain rare. The second Lanturn at the same 80 HP as 037 but at a different rarity, with a single Lightning attack and Yuka Morii's art. 045 is its holofoil.

Lanturnランターン

Lanturn, holofoil — same 80 HP, same single attack, same Yuka Morii art as 044. Between 037 and 045 this Pokémon appears four times in one set at two rarities, the strongest case of duplication in e-Card 3.

Mareepメリープ

Mareep, 40 HP, unchanged since 2000, retreat 1, two attacks, drawn by Hizuki Misono — an illustrator who appears twice in this set and nowhere else in the year.

Flaaffyモココ

Flaaffy, 80 HP Stage 1 — twenty above the 2000 card and ten above 2001 — retreat 1, two Lightning attacks for 10 and 30. Drawn by Shin-ichi Yoshida, who also draws Ampharos at 048 and 049: one artist across the full three-stage line.

Ampharosデンリュウ

Ampharos, 100 HP Stage 2 — twenty above 2000 and ten above 2001 — retreat 2, two Lightning attacks for 20 and 50. Plain rare; 049 is the holofoil. One of only four Stage 2 Pokémon in the set at 100 HP or more.

Ampharosデンリュウ

Ampharos, holofoil — same 100 HP, same two attacks, same Shin-ichi Yoshida art as 048. The only Lightning holofoil in e-Card 3.

Exeggcuteタマタマ

Exeggcute, 50 HP — ten above 012 — the second of the set's two. Two Grass attacks with no printed damage, retreat 1, drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki. Twelve numbers apart, both Basic, both 40-or-50 HP, neither a reprint.

Exeggutorナッシー

Exeggutor, 80 HP Stage 1, uncommon — the third Exeggutor in the set after the rare at 013 and the holo at 014. One attack set, drawn by Yukiko Baba, who drew 013 but not 014. Three Exeggutor in one set at three different rarities is the extreme case of this set's duplication.

Slowkingヤドキング

Slowking, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, retreat 1, two Psychic attacks for 40. Plain rare; 053 is the holofoil. The second Slowpoke evolution in the set, alongside Slowbro at 032 — Slowpoke is the only Basic here with two Stage 1s printed.

Slowkingヤドキング

Slowking, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, same Aya Kusube art as 052. With Slowbro at 032, the Slowpoke line accounts for four cards in one set.

Mankeyマンキー

Mankey, 40 HP — ten above the 1997 card, which was 30 — retreat 1, two Fighting attacks, drawn by Tomokazu Komiya. Primeape at 055 is the evolution, printed as an uncommon.

Primeapeオコリザル

Primeape, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above 1997 and 1999 — retreat 1, two attacks with a 40-damage second. An uncommon, drawn by Tomokazu Komiya, who draws both cards of the line.

Onixイワーク

Onix, 60 HP — thirty below the 2000 card at 90 — retreat 2, one Fighting attack with no printed damage. The single largest HP cut in e-Card 3, and the reason Onix reads as the weakest card in a set that otherwise raises HP.

Sudowoodoウソッキー

Sudowoodo, 60 HP, unchanged since 2000, retreat 2, two Fighting attacks with no printed damage. Plain rare; 058 is the holofoil. A Basic with 60 HP at rare — the set's lowest HP for a rare.

Sudowoodoウソッキー

Sudowoodo, holofoil — same 60 HP, same two attacks, same Kagemaru Himeno art as 057. The lowest-HP holofoil in the set, and one of only two Fighting holofoils.

Larvitarヨーギラス

Larvitar, 40 HP, unchanged since 2000, retreat 1, two Fighting attacks. Drawn by Naoyo Kimura, who draws Pupitar and both Tyranitar as well — the whole line in one hand.

Pupitarサナギラス

Pupitar, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 and 2001 cards — retreat 1, one Fighting attack. A common, which at 80 HP makes it the largest common Stage 1 in the set.

Sneaselニューラ

Sneasel, 60 HP, unchanged since 2000, retreat 1, one Darkness attack for 30. A common, and the only Darkness card in e-Card 3 — the type appears once per set in 2002 and never more.

Tyranitarバンギラス

Tyranitar, 120 HP Stage 2 — the same 120 as the 2001 card, twenty above 2000 — retreat 3, three attacks. Plain rare; 071 is the holofoil. One of two cards at 120 in the set, with Kingdra.

Tyranitarバンギラス

Tyranitar, holofoil — same 120 HP, same three attacks, same Naoyo Kimura art as 070. With the 2001 holofoil this is the second Tyranitar holo in two years, and the only Stage 2 in e-Card 3 with three attacks.

Steelixハガネール

Steelix, 100 HP Stage 1 — ten below the 2000 card at 110 — retreat 4, the highest retreat cost in the set, two Metal attacks. Plain rare; 073 is the holofoil. One of only two Metal Pokémon in e-Card 3.

Steelixハガネール

Steelix, holofoil — same 100 HP, same retreat 4, same Hajime Kusajima art as 072. The only Metal holofoil of the year: e-Card 3 prints two Metal Pokémon and makes one of them a holo, and neither of the other three sets does.

Scizorハッサム

Scizor, 80 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 2000, retreat 2, two Metal attacks. Plain rare; 075 is the holofoil. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura, who draws both Scyther — so the Metal relative and the Grass originals come from one hand.

Scizorハッサム

Scizor, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, same Hisao Nakamura art as 074. With Steelix at 073 this gives the set two Metal holofoils, more than any other 2002 expansion prints.

Doduoドードー

Doduo, 40 HP, ten below the 1996 card, retreat 1, two Colourless attacks for 20. Drawn by Yukiko Baba. Dodrio at 062 is the evolution, and both cards are common — one of two lines in the set where every stage is common.

Dodrioドードリオ

Dodrio, 70 HP Stage 1, unchanged since 1997, retreat 1, two Colourless attacks. A common. Yukiko Baba draws the pair, giving the set a complete two-stage Colourless line entirely at common rarity.

Lickitungベロリンガ

Lickitung, 80 HP — ten below the 1999 card at 90, ten above 1997's 70 — retreat 2, two Colourless attacks for 20. A common at 80 HP, drawn by Yuka Morii.

Kangaskhanガルーラ

Kangaskhan, 70 HP — twenty below the 1997 card at 90 — retreat 2, two Colourless attacks for 30. A common, drawn by Toshinao Aoki, who also draws Pinsir at 018. No Kangaskhan Stage 1 exists: the line begins and ends on this card.

Sentretオタチ

Sentret, 50 HP — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 1, two Colourless attacks, drawn by Hizuki Misono. Furret at 066 is the evolution, and both are common.

Furretオオタチ

Furret, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 1, one Colourless attack for 30. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida. A common, and the set's only complete Colourless line drawn by two different artists.

Aipomエイパム

Aipom, 50 HP — ten above the 2000 card — retreat 1, two Colourless attacks for 20. Drawn by Kagemaru Himeno, who draws five cards in this set, the most of any illustrator here.

Miltankミルタンク

Miltank, 60 HP — ten below the 2000 card at 70 — retreat 1, two Colourless attacks for 20. Drawn by Kouki Saitou, who draws four cards in the set including all three Water rares in the Octillery–Rapidash block.

Nidokingニドキング

Nidoking, secret, 100 HP Stage 2, retreat 3, two attacks for 20 and 50. Ten below the e-Card 2 Nidoking at 110 — the same Pokémon printed twice in one year at two different HP values, and the only Pokémon to be a secret in one 2002 set and an ordinary rare in another.

Kingdraキングドラ

Kingdra, secret, 110 HP Stage 2 — ten below the rare Kingdra at 041 — retreat 3, two attacks for 40 and 60. Drawn by Mikio Menjo, the same artist as the holofoil at 042. Three Kingdra in one set at three rarities and two HP values.

Lugiaルギア

Lugia, secret, 80 HP Basic — ten below the 2000 card at 90 — retreat 3, two attacks for 50. The last card of e-Card 3 and the card English collectors meet as Crystal Lugia in Aquapolis: the three secrets of this set are exactly the three Crystal Pokémon of that one.

Energy Switch

Energy Switch, the first Trainer. Moves one Energy from one of your Pokémon to another — the plainest card in the set and the only one that changes nothing except where an Energy sits. It is also the only Trainer here that had a card of the same name in 1996.

Traveling Salesman

Traveling Salesman, a Supporter. One of the set's twelve Trainers and one of five that search the deck — the group that made e-Card decks thin and fast. The twelve Trainers here are numbered 076 to 087 with no gap.

Juggler

Juggler, a Supporter with a discard cost. The set's cheap draw card, and the one Trainer here whose name refers to nothing in the game — no Juggler character exists in the video games; the card is named for the act.

Forest Guardian

Forest Guardian, a Supporter. One of four Trainers in e-Card 3 that recover cards from the discard pile — with Memory Berry, Healing Berry and Time Shard — a block that makes this the most recovery-heavy Trainer run of the year.

Memory Berry

Memory Berry, a Pokémon Tool. The first card in the game to let an evolved Pokémon use an attack printed on its earlier stage, which is why the set prints so many three-stage lines: Memory Berry needs them to work.

Healing Berry

Healing Berry, a Pokémon Tool. With Memory Berry at 080 it forms a two-card Tool block — the last Japanese set to print two Tools in one expansion before Tools were reworked in the EX era.

Time Shard

Time Shard, a Trainer that returns cards from the discard pile to the deck. The third of the set's four recovery cards, and the only one that puts cards back rather than into the hand.

Undersea Ruins

Undersea Ruins, a Stadium. e-Card 3 prints one Stadium, where e-Card 2 printed two — the clearest sign that the four sets were designed as a sequence rather than as four independent releases.

Apricorn Forest

Apricorn Forest, a Stadium. The named location is from Gold and Silver, and it is one of three cards in the set named after a place in the games rather than an effect — with Undersea Ruins and the set's own theme of the sea.

Crystal Energy

Crystal Energy, a Special Energy. The first card in the game to use the word Crystal, a year before the English Aquapolis built an entire Pokémon mechanic around it. In Japanese it is only an Energy card.

Boost Energy

Boost Energy, a Special Energy providing three Energy at once but only to an evolved Pokémon. The card the English set calls Boost Energy, and the reason the set's Stage 2 population is fourteen — the largest of the year.

Warp Energy

Warp Energy, the last Trainer, a Special Energy that returns the holder to the hand. Three Special Energy in e-Card 3 — Crystal, Boost and Warp — all uncommon, all numbered 085 to 087, and all three would be reprinted in the English Aquapolis unchanged.

Zubatズバット

Zubat, 40 HP, the lower of the set's two — and the only Zubat in 2002 still at the 40 HP every printing since 1997 has used. Two no-damage attacks, one Grass and one Colourless, retreat 1. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura.

Zubatズバット

Zubat, 50 HP — the first Zubat ever printed above 40 — retreat 1, two attacks for 10 each. Drawn by Kyoko Umemoto. Two Zubat, two Golbat different only in artist, and one Crobat line: this is how the set bulks out a 91-card count without adding new Pokémon.

Golbatゴルバット

Golbat, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 1997, 1999 and 2000 cards, all of which sat at 60 — retreat 1, two attacks neither of which does printed damage. A common. The HP jump makes this the largest Golbat of the first six years.

Ledybaレディバ

Ledyba, 40 HP, unchanged from the 1999 promo and the 2000 and 2001 cards. Drawn by Masako Yamashita, who draws only two cards in e-Card 4. 005 is the second Ledyba, ten HP higher.

Ledybaレディバ

Ledyba, 50 HP — the first Ledyba above 40 in the game — retreat 1, a 10 for one Grass and a no-damage Colourless attack. Drawn by Yukiko Baba, who draws four cards in e-Card 4 — 005, Omanyte at 028, Girafarig at 048 and Kabuto at 056 — and no holofoil at all.

Ledianレディアン

Ledian, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card — and a rare. Free retreat: 006 and 007 are two of the seven card entries in e-Card 4 with a retreat cost of zero. Two attacks, 10 for one Colourless and 50 for two Grass and a Colourless.

Ledianレディアン

Ledian, holofoil — same 70 HP, same two attacks, same free retreat, same Hikaru Koike art as 006. One of the pairs in this set where the foil is the identical card rather than a second design.

Crobatクロバット

Crobat, 90 HP Stage 2 — unchanged from 2000 — a rare, free retreat, and a single attack costing two Grass and a Colourless that does no printed damage: the whole card is its effect. Drawn by Kimiya Masago.

Crobatクロバット

Crobat, holofoil — same 90 HP, same free retreat, same single attack, but drawn by Atsuko Nishida. 008 and 009 are the same card with two different pictures, one of four such pairs in e-Card 4 (with Magcargo 019/020, Kabutops 057/058, and nothing else).

Yanmaヤンヤンマ

Yanma, 60 HP — the same 60 as the 2000 card — but demoted from holofoil rare to common. Two attacks, 10 for a Grass and a Colourless and a three-energy second. Drawn by Miki Tanaka. In 2002 a 60 HP Yanma is no longer worth a foil slot.

Pinecoクヌギダマ

Pineco, 40 HP, the lower of two. One attack, 20 for a single Colourless, retreat 1, drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. Pineco has been 40 HP since 2000; the second copy at 012 breaks it.

Pinecoクヌギダマ

Pineco, 50 HP — ten above every earlier Pineco — retreat 1, one attack for 30 costing a Grass and a Colourless. Drawn by Midori Harada. Both Pineco evolve into Forretress, of which the set prints two entirely separate cards at 013 and at 074/075.

Forretressフォレトス

Forretress, 70 HP Stage 1, Grass, a common — and therefore the cheap half of a split: the same Pokémon appears at 074/075 as a Metal rare and holofoil at 70 HP. Ten below the 2000 Forretress at 80, and a fall from holofoil to common. Drawn by Kouki Saitou.

Shuckleツボツボ

Shuckle, 30 HP — the lowest HP of any Shuckle printed, down from 50 in 2000 and 40 in the same year's second card — retreat 2, one attack for 10 costing a Grass and a Colourless. A common, drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki.

Heracrossヘラクロス

Heracross, 60 HP — unchanged since 2000 — but now a common where 2000 had it as a holofoil and 2001 as an uncommon. Two attacks, 20 for two Colourless and 30 for a Grass plus two Colourless, retreat 1. Drawn by Kouki Saitou.

Flareonブースター

Flareon, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 as 1997 and 1999 — a rare, retreat 1, one Fire attack and one three-Colourless attack. Drawn by Kyoko Umemoto, who draws both 016 and the holofoil at 017.

Flareonブースター

Flareon, holofoil — same 70 HP, same two attacks, same Kyoko Umemoto art as 016. Flareon is the only one of the three Eevee evolutions in this set whose plain and foil versions are one picture; Vaporeon at 026/027 and Jolteon at 036/037 keep their artists too.

Slugmaマグマッグ

Slugma, 50 HP — unchanged from 2000 and 2001 — retreat 2, two attacks, 10 for a Colourless and a no-damage Fire attack. A common, drawn by Naoyo Kimura, who draws six cards in e-Card 4 — the most of any artist after Atsuko Nishida — including both Vaporeon and both Poliwrath.

Magcargoマグカルゴ

Magcargo, 80 HP Stage 1 — the same 80 as 2000 — but promoted from uncommon to rare, retreat 3, two attacks with a 60 for two Fire and two Colourless. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima.

Magcargoマグカルゴ

Magcargo, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 60-damage attack, same retreat 3, but drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. Magcargo is also the only Pokémon in 2002 printed as a Fire card in one set and a Fighting card in another: 019/020 here, and 055/056 in e-Card 5.

Poliwagニョロモ

Poliwag, 40 HP — ten below the 2001 card at 50, and back to the 1999 and 2000 figure — retreat 1, a 10 Water attack and a two-Colourless second. Drawn by Miki Tanaka. The set's Poliwag line stops at Poliwhirl: Poliwrath at 051/052 is a Fighting card and Politoed at 030/031 is a separate Water Stage 2.

Poliwhirlニョロゾ

Poliwhirl, 70 HP Stage 1 — unchanged from 2000 and 2001 — retreat 1, two attacks, the second costing three Colourless. A common where 1999 had it as an uncommon, drawn by Hisao Nakamura.

Staryuヒトデマン

Staryu, 40 HP, the lower of two, unchanged since 1999. Two attacks, one of them a no-damage Colourless and one a 10 Water, retreat 1. Drawn by Kyoko Umemoto, who also draws Starmie at 025 — but not the second Staryu or the second Starmie.

Staryuヒトデマン

Staryu, 50 HP — the first Staryu above 40 — retreat 1, 10 for one Colourless and 10 for a Water and a Colourless. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. The set carries two Staryu and three Starmie at two different types, the widest treatment any single Pokémon receives in 2002.

Starmieスターミー

Starmie, 70 HP Stage 1, Water, an uncommon — and the cheaper of the set's three Starmie. Retreat 1, a no-damage Water attack and a three-Colourless second. Drawn by Kyoko Umemoto. Ten above the 1999 card at 60, level with 2000.

Vaporeonシャワーズ

Vaporeon, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten below the 80 that every Vaporeon since 1997 has used — a rare, retreat 1, a 10 for two Colourless and a 40 for two Water plus a Colourless. The drop makes this the smallest Vaporeon printed, and it is deliberate: the whole Eevee family is scaled down in e-Card 4.

Vaporeonシャワーズ

Vaporeon, holofoil — same 70 HP, same 40-damage attack, same Naoyo Kimura art as 026. The last Water holofoil in the set. e-Card 4 prints sixteen holofoils and only two of them are Water — Vaporeon and Politoed — fewer than any type except Darkness and Metal, which get one each.

Omanyteオムナイト

Omanyte, 60 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 2000 card and twenty above 1997 and 1999 — so the fossil is now the biggest it has ever been, retreat 1, one attack for 10 Water and a Colourless. A common. Drawn by Yukiko Baba.

Omastarオムスター

Omastar, 90 HP Stage 2 — ten above 2000, twenty above 1997 and 1999 — an uncommon, retreat 2, one attack for 50 costing two Water and a Colourless. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima. The Omanyte line is the one fossil line the set takes all the way to Stage 2.

Politoedニョロトノ

Politoed, 110 HP Stage 2 — ten above the 2000 card at 100, and level with Poliwrath for the highest HP in e-Card 4 — retreat 2, three attacks, the last a 70 for two Water and three Colourless. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida.

Politoedニョロトノ

Politoed, holofoil — same 110 HP, same three attacks, same Atsuko Nishida art as 030. Every set Politoed appears in — 2000, 2001, 2002 — prints a holofoil of it, a run no other Stage 2 in e-Card 4 can match.

Mantineマンタイン

Mantine, 60 HP — unchanged since 2000 — retreat 2, a no-damage Water attack and a 30 for two Water and a Colourless. A common, drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki. One of only two Water Basics in the set, with Staryu.

Pikachuピカチュウ

Pikachu, 50 HP — the same 50 as 1997, 1999's Base Set 2, 2000 and 2001 — a common with one attack, costing two Colourless and doing no printed damage. Drawn by Yuka Morii, whose clay-model work also covers Raichu at 034/035 and Dunsparce at 067.

Raichuライチュウ

Raichu, 80 HP Stage 1 — level with the 1999 Base Set and 2001 cards, ten below the 90 of 1997 and 1999's Fossil — a rare, retreat 1, two attacks with a 50 for a Lightning and two Colourless. Drawn by Yuka Morii.

Raichuライチュウ

Raichu, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 50-damage attack, same Yuka Morii art as 034. Raichu has been printed at 90 and at 80 and at nothing else — and both values appear in the same year, 1999, where Base Set gave 80 and Fossil gave 90. This card takes the 80.

Jolteonサンダース

Jolteon, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 as 1997 and 1999 — a rare with free retreat, retreat 0, a 10 Lightning attack and a 40 for a Lightning plus two Colourless. Drawn by Hikaru Koike, whose four cards in e-Card 4 are exactly the two Ledian and the two Jolteon — two complete plain-and-foil pairs.

Jolteonサンダース

Jolteon, holofoil — same 70 HP, same free retreat, same Hikaru Koike art as 036. The set's only Lightning holofoil besides Raikou, and the second of the three Eevee evolutions to keep one artist across its plain and foil printings.

Raikouライコウ

Raikou, 70 HP Basic — ten below the 2000 card at 80 — a rare, retreat 1, a single attack for a Lightning and two Colourless. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. The drop is the largest any legendary Beast suffers in 2002 and the only one of the three printed here.

Raikouライコウ

Raikou, holofoil — same 70 HP, same single attack, same Mitsuhiro Arita art as 038. Entei and Suicune do not appear in e-Card 4 at all: Raikou is the lone Beast of the set, and the only one printed as a holofoil here.

Abraケーシィ

Abra, 40 HP — back up from the 30 of 1999, level with 1997 and 2001 — a common with a single attack for 20 costing two Colourless, retreat 1. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama, who draws the set's Abra and nothing else above a common.

Kadabraユンゲラー

Kadabra, 70 HP Stage 1 — level with the 2001 card, ten above 1999 — a common, retreat 1, two attacks with a 40 for a Psychic and two Colourless. Drawn by Toshinao Aoki, who also draws Aerodactyl at 059: two cards, both in the Psychic and Fighting halves.

Alakazamフーディン

Alakazam, 100 HP Stage 2 — the same 100 as the 2001 card and twenty above 1999 — a rare, retreat 2, and one single attack costing three Colourless. Drawn by Kimiya Masago, who draws this and the holofoil at 043 and also Crobat at 008.

Alakazamフーディン

Alakazam, holofoil — same 100 HP, same single attack, same Kimiya Masago art as 042. Every Alakazam printed before 2001 sat at 80 HP; 2001 lifted it to 100 and e-Card 4 keeps it there — so this is the first Alakazam pair whose plain and foil versions are the same picture.

Starmieスターミー

Starmie, 80 HP Stage 1, Psychic — the second Starmie in one set, ten HP above the Water one at 025 and a rare rather than an uncommon. Retreat 1, a no-damage Psychic attack and a 40 for a Psychic plus two Colourless. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima.

Starmieスターミー

Starmie, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, same Hajime Kusajima art as 044. Two Starmie, two types, three cards: 025 is Water and uncommon, 044/045 are Psychic and rare, and no other Pokémon in 2002 is printed at two types in one expansion.

Misdreavusムウマ

Misdreavus, 50 HP — unchanged from 2000 — but dropped from holofoil rare to uncommon. Retreat 1, two attacks, one for 10 and one that costs a Psychic and a Colourless and does no printed damage. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida, who draws nine cards here, more than any other artist in e-Card 4.

Wobbuffetソーナンス

Wobbuffet, 70 HP Basic — twenty below the 2000 card at 90, the largest single drop on any returning Pokémon in this set — retreat 2, one Psychic-plus-Colourless attack that does no printed damage: the card is its counter-attack effect and nothing else. Drawn by Kagemaru Himeno.

Girafarigキリンリキ

Girafarig, 60 HP — unchanged from 2000 and 2001 — a common, retreat 1, a no-damage Psychic attack and a 40 for a Psychic plus a Colourless. Drawn by Yukiko Baba. One of four Psychic cards in the set that are not part of an evolution line.

Sandshrewサンド

Sandshrew, 40 HP Basic — unchanged from 1999 — a common, retreat 1, two attacks: a no-damage Colourless and a Fighting one. Drawn by Naoyo Kimura. Sandslash at 050 completes the line, and it is the set's only Ground-type evolution outside the Rhydon pair.

Sandslashサンドパン

Sandslash, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 as 1997 and 1999 — a common, retreat 1, a 10 Fighting-plus-Colourless attack and a three-energy poison-rush attack. Drawn by Miki Tanaka, whose four cards in the set include both Cleffa and Rattata.

Poliwrathニョロボン

Poliwrath, 110 HP Stage 2 — ten above the 2001 card at 100 and twenty above 1999 and 2000 at 90 — a Fighting rare, retreat 2, one single attack for 50 costing two Fighting and a Colourless. Drawn by Naoyo Kimura.

Poliwrathニョロボン

Poliwrath, holofoil — same 110 HP, same single attack, same Naoyo Kimura art as 051. The 110 makes Poliwrath and Politoed the two largest cards in e-Card 4, and they are the same evolution line printed as two different Stage 2s at two different types.

Rhyhornサイホーン

Rhyhorn, 60 HP — ten below the 70 of 1997 and 1999 — a common, retreat 2, two attacks for 10 and for no printed damage. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura. Seven returning Pokémon lose ten HP in e-Card 4; Rhyhorn is one of them, and only Wobbuffet falls further.

Rhydonサイドン

Rhydon, 90 HP Stage 1 — ten below the 100 of 1997 and 1999, and the first Rhydon without a holofoil — retreat 2, and an attack for 100 damage costing two Fighting and three Colourless. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. That 100 is the largest printed damage number in e-Card 4.

Rhydonサイドン

Rhydon, holofoil — same 90 HP, same 100-damage tail, same Mitsuhiro Arita art as 054. The five-energy cost is what balances it: nothing else in the set asks for five and nothing else in the set hits for three digits.

Kabutoカブト

Kabuto, 50 HP Stage 1 — level with the 2000 card and twenty above the 30 of 1997 and 1999 — a common, retreat 1, one attack for 30 costing a Fighting and a Colourless. Drawn by Yukiko Baba. Two cards in the set exist to find it: Buried Fossil at 070 searches the deck, Underground Lake at 087 revives it from the discard pile.

Kabutopsカブトプス

Kabutops, 90 HP Stage 2 — level with the 2000 card and fifteen above 1999 — a rare, retreat 2, one attack costing two Fighting and a Colourless that does no printed damage. Drawn by Kouki Saitou.

Kabutopsカブトプス

Kabutops, holofoil — same 90 HP, same single attack, but drawn by Atsuko Nishida. Three Kabutops in one set — 057 rare, 058 holofoil, 090 secret — is the only case in 2002 of one Pokémon printed three times in a single expansion.

Aerodactylプテラ

Aerodactyl, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above every earlier Aerodactyl, which sat at 60 — but now an uncommon where 1997, 1999 and 2000 all had it as a rare or holofoil. Retreat 1, one Fighting-plus-Colourless attack. Drawn by Toshinao Aoki.

Umbreonブラッキー

Umbreon, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten below the 2000 card at 80 — a Darkness rare, retreat 1, one attack costing a Darkness and a Colourless that does no printed damage. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida, who draws both this and the holofoil at 072.

Umbreonブラッキー

Umbreon, holofoil — same 70 HP, same single attack, same Atsuko Nishida art as 071. The only Darkness holofoil in e-Card 4, and the fourth Eevee evolution in a set that prints all four — Umbreon, Flareon, Vaporeon and Jolteon — in one expansion.

Murkrowヤミカラス

Murkrow, 50 HP — level with the 2000 holofoil rare and ten above the same year's common — a common here, retreat 1, two attacks, both of which do no printed damage. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya. One of only two Darkness cards in the set, with Umbreon.

Forretressフォレトス

Forretress, 70 HP Stage 1, Metal — ten below the 2000 card at 80 — a rare, retreat 2, a no-damage two-Colourless attack and a 40 for a Metal plus two Colourless. Drawn by Midori Harada. The set prints Forretress twice at two types: 013 is a Grass common, 074/075 a Metal rare and holofoil.

Forretressフォレトス

Forretress, holofoil — same 70 HP, same Metal typing, same Midori Harada art as 074. Metal is the smallest type in e-Card 4 — two Pokémon across three cards, Forretress and Skarmory — against fifteen Grass and thirteen Colorless.

Skarmoryエアームド

Skarmory, 60 HP — the same 60 as 2000 and 2001 — but demoted from holofoil and rare to common — the same fall Yanma, Ditto and Forretress take in this expansion. Retreat 2, two attacks with a 30 for a Metal plus two Colourless. Drawn by Katsura Tabata, credited on this one card and nothing else in 2002.

Rattataコラッタ

Rattata, 30 HP — level with the 1999 card and ten below 1997 — a common, retreat 1, two attacks, one of which searches out a friend from the deck. Drawn by Masako Yamashita, whose only two cards in e-Card 4 are this and Ledyba at 004.

Raticateラッタ

Raticate, 70 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 60 of 1999 and 2000 — a common, retreat 1, a 20 for one Colourless and a two-Colourless bite sequence. Drawn by Kagemaru Himeno, whose two cards here are this and Wobbuffet.

Meowthニャース

Meowth, 40 HP — level with the 1997 and 1999 cards and ten below the 50 of 1997's second Meowth and 2001 — a common with a single 10-damage attack for one Colourless, retreat 1. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. Persian at 063 follows directly, and the two are the set's only cat line.

Persianペルシアン

Persian, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 as 1997 and 1999 — an uncommon with free retreat, retreat 0, a 20 for two Colourless and a 50 for two Colourless. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida. Free retreat on a Stage 1 that hits for 50 on two Energy is the best rate in e-Card 4's Colorless run.

Dittoメタモン

Ditto, 50 HP — unchanged from 1997 and 1999 — but now a common where both earlier printings were rare or holofoil. Retreat 1, and one single attack costing a single Colourless which does no printed damage: the whole card is its copy effect. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya.

Eeveeイーブイ

Eevee, 50 HP — the same 50 as 1997, 1999 and 2000 — a common, retreat 1, a 10 for one Colourless and a 30 for two. Drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki, whose three cards here also include Shuckle and Mantine. The three evolutions are all in this set at 016/017, 026/027 and 036/037.

Cleffaピィ

Cleffa, 30 HP Baby — the same 30 as 2000 — but now a common where 2000 had it as a rare. Retreat 1, one single Colourless attack that does no printed damage and recycles Energy. Drawn by Miki Tanaka. The only Baby Pokémon in e-Card 4.

Dunsparceノコッチ

Dunsparce, 40 HP — ten above the 30 of 2000 and 2001 — a common, retreat 1, a single 10-damage attack for one Colourless. Drawn by Yuka Morii, the clay modeller, whose four cards here are Pikachu, both Raichu and this.

Snubbullブルー

Snubbull, 50 HP — unchanged from both 2000 printings — a common, retreat 1, a no-damage scare attack and a 20 for two Colourless. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura. Granbull at 069 follows, and unlike most lines in this set the two share nothing but the evolution.

Granbullグランブル

Granbull, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above the 70 of 2000 — and a common where 2000 had it as an uncommon. Retreat 1, a 20 for two Colourless and a 50 for four Colourless. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya, whose four cards here are all commons.

Golemゴローニャ

Golem, secret, 100 HP Stage 2 — level with the 2001 card at 100 and twenty above 1997 and 1999 at 80 — retreat 4, two attacks for 30 and 50. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita. The highest retreat cost in e-Card 4, and the only Golem of the e-Card era printed as a secret.

Kabutopsカブトプス

Kabutops, secret, 90 HP Stage 2 — the same 90 HP as the rare at 057, but with retreat 3 instead of 2 and two attacks rather than one: 20 for a Fighting, a Water and a Colourless, plus a triple-cutter for four Energy. Drawn by Atsuko Nishida, the same artist as the holofoil at 058. Three Kabutops, one set, three rarities.

Ho-ohホウオウ

Ho-oh, secret, 80 HP Basic — ten below the 2000 card at 90 — retreat 3, two attacks, 20 for a Fire and a Lightning and 40 for a Fire and two Water. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima. This is the card English collectors meet as Crystal Ho-Oh in Skyridge: the three secrets of e-Card 4 are exactly that set's three Crystal Pokémon.

Buried Fossil

Buried Fossil, a Trainer — and the one card in 2002 that the source data gets wrong: the English database files it as a 30 HP Colorless Basic Pokémon, which it is not. Its job is to find Omanyte or Kabuto in the deck and put it onto the Bench as a Basic. Numbered 070, it sits in the middle of the Pokémon run, which is why the mistake is easy to make.

Hyper Potion

Hyper Potion, a Trainer. Discard one or two basic Energy from one of your Pokémon to remove three or five damage counters — the item version of the old Potion line, printed alongside the Supporter wave that defines the second half of this set.

Desert Shaman

Desert Shaman, a Supporter. Shuffle your hand into your deck and draw up to four; your opponent does the same. The only Supporter in 2002 that helps both players, and the set's answer to a full hand of dead cards.

Oracle

Oracle, a Supporter. Choose two cards from your deck, shuffle the rest, and put the two on top in any order — a search that costs you the shuffle rather than the cards. One of three Supporters in e-Card 4, with Desert Shaman and Underground Expedition.

Underground Expedition

Underground Expedition, a Supporter. Look at the bottom four cards of your deck, take two, return the rest. The set's only card that reads the deck from the bottom — a mechanic that exists because e-Card print runs were built around deck order.

Crystal Shard

Crystal Shard, a Pokémon Tool. The attached Pokémon's type becomes Colorless until it attacks, at which point the Shard is discarded. One of two Tools in the set, with Star Piece, and one of very few cards in the e-Card block that changes a Pokémon's type while it is in play.

Star Piece

Star Piece, a Pokémon Tool. On a Benched Pokémon with two or more damage counters, it searches out that Pokémon's Evolution card and evolves it directly from the deck. Evolution straight out of the deck, on the Bench, without the Evolution card in hand — the single most unusual rule printed in 2002.

Mystery Plate α

Mystery Plate α, a Trainer that attaches and lets the holder use its attack instead of its own, then discards at end of turn. Four Mystery Plates — α, β, γ, δ — run consecutively at 083 to 086, the longest run of identically named cards in any 2002 set.

Mystery Plate β

Mystery Plate β, the second of the four. Each Plate carries a different attack, and the four are printed at the same rarity with the same framing, so the only way to tell them apart at a glance is the Greek letter in the name field.

Mystery Plate γ

Mystery Plate γ, the third. The Greek-letter naming is a Japanese-only convention: the English Skyridge renamed the four, which is why collectors who know the English set do not recognise these names.

Mystery Plate δ

Mystery Plate δ, the fourth and last. With the four Plates and the three Supporters, seven of the set's twelve non-Stadium Trainers share the same 'discard at end of turn' structure — the single biggest rules change between 2001 and 2002.

Underground Lake

Underground Lake, a Stadium. Once per turn either player may put an Omanyte or Kabuto from the discard pile onto the Bench as a Basic. This is the card that makes 028 Omanyte, 056 Kabuto and 070 Buried Fossil a single three-card engine: e-Card 4 is the only 2002 set built around fossils.

Mirage Stadium

Mirage Stadium, a Stadium. Every retreat attempt is a coin flip — heads you retreat, tails the Pokémon stays and no Energy is discarded. One of only two Stadiums in the set, with Underground Lake, where e-Card 3 had one and e-Card 2 had two.

Weedleビードル

Weedle, 40 HP — unchanged since 1999 — the lower of the set's two, retreat 1, one attack for no printed damage. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama, whose three cards here are both Weedle's neighbours and Igglybuff at 065.

Weedleビードル

Weedle, 50 HP — the first Weedle above 40 — retreat 1, two attacks, a no-damage Colourless and a no-damage Grass. Drawn by Sumiyoshi Kizuki, whose four cards in e-Card 5 include both Electrode and Delibird.

Kakunaコクーン

Kakuna, 70 HP Stage 1 — level with the 2000 card and ten below the 80 of 1999 — a common, retreat 2, one Grass attack that does no printed damage. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura. The Beedrill at 004/005 is a Stage 2 at 80 HP with free retreat, one of only four free-retreat cards in the set.

Beedrillスピアー

Beedrill, 80 HP Stage 2 — the same 80 as 1999 and 2000 — a rare with free retreat, retreat 0, and one attack costing two Colourless that does no printed damage. Drawn by Hikaru Koike.

Beedrillスピアー

Beedrill, holofoil — same 80 HP, same free retreat, same single attack, same Hikaru Koike art as 004. One of the pairs in e-Card 5 where the holofoil is the identical card rather than a second design.

Nidoran ♀ニドラン♀

Nidoran ♀, 50 HP, the first of two, retreat 1, a no-damage Colourless attack and a 10 for one Grass. Drawn by Midori Harada, who draws three cards in this set and all three in the Nidoran line — 006, 008 and nothing in between.

Nidoran ♀ニドラン♀

Nidoran ♀, 50 HP — the same HP as 006 and the same stage, but a completely different card: one attack, 10 for two Colourless, drawn by Masako Yamashita. Two Basics for one Nidorina, exactly as e-Card 4 does with Bellsprout and Pineco.

Nidorinaニドリーナ

Nidorina, 80 HP Stage 1 — ten above every earlier Nidorina, which sat at 70 — a common, retreat 2, a 20 for two Colourless and a 30 for a Grass plus two Colourless. Drawn by Midori Harada.

Nidoqueenニドクイン

Nidoqueen, 110 HP Stage 2 — twenty above the 90 of 1997 and 1999 and the largest Nidoqueen ever printed — a rare, retreat 3, one attack costing a Grass and two Colourless. Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita.

Nidoqueenニドクイン

Nidoqueen, holofoil — same 110 HP, same single attack, same Mitsuhiro Arita art as 009. Level with Charizard at 089 for the highest HP in the set. Nidoking appears twice in e-Card 2 and once as a secret in e-Card 3, so Nidoqueen is the only half of the pair that e-Card 5 carries.

Venonatコンパン

Venonat, 50 HP — the same 50 as the 2001 web card and ten above 1997 — a common, retreat 1, two attacks, 10 for a Grass and a Colourless. Drawn by Tomokazu Komiya, whose three cards here are Venonat, Diglett and Dugtrio.

Venomothモルフォン

Venomoth, 70 HP Stage 1 — level with 1997 and 1999, ten above the 2001 card — a common with free retreat, retreat 0, a no-damage two-Colourless attack and a 30 for a Grass plus two Colourless. Drawn by Yukiko Baba.

Sunkernヒマナッツ

Sunkern, 40 HP — unchanged from 2000 and 2001 — a common, retreat 1, two attacks for 10 each, one Colourless and one Grass. Drawn by Toshinao Aoki, who draws only two cards in e-Card 5.

Sunfloraキマワリ

Sunflora, 70 HP Stage 1 — the same 70 as 2000 — but now a common where 2000 had it as an uncommon. Retreat 1, a no-damage Grass-plus-Colourless attack and a no-damage three-energy second. Drawn by Miki Tanaka.

Growlitheガーディ

Growlithe, 50 HP — ten below the 60 of 1999 and the same as the 2001 card — a common, retreat 1, a 10 Fire attack and a no-damage double kick. Drawn by Masako Yamashita.

Arcanineウインディ

Arcanine, 80 HP Stage 1 — twenty below the 100 of 1999 and ten above the 2001 card — a rare, retreat 2, a 10 for one Colourless and a 70 for two Fire and a Colourless. Drawn by Aya Kusube, who draws four cards in this set.

Arcanineウインディ

Arcanine, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 70-damage white-flame attack, same Aya Kusube art as 016. The best damage-to-cost rate on any Fire card in 2002: 70 for three Energy appears nowhere else in the four Japanese sets.

Moltresファイヤー

Moltres, 80 HP Basic — ten above the 70 of 1997, 1999 and 2001 — a rare, retreat 2, a 10 for one Colourless and a 60 for two Fire and two Colourless. Drawn by Kouki Saitou, who draws eight cards in e-Card 5, more than any other artist there.

Moltresファイヤー

Moltres, holofoil — same 80 HP, same 60-damage attack, same Kouki Saitou art as 018. Moltres and Articuno are e-Card 5's two legendary birds; Zapdos stayed in e-Card 2, where it was printed at 037 and 038 as a plain rare and a holofoil.

Slugmaマグマッグ

Slugma, 50 HP — unchanged from 2000 and 2001 — a common, retreat 2, one attack for 10 costing a Fire and a Colourless. Drawn by Naoyo Kimura. The second Slugma of 2002: e-Card 4 printed one at 018 with a completely different attack spread, and neither set pairs it with the other's Magcargo.

Houndourデルビル

Houndour, 50 HP — level with the 2000 holofoil and 2001's E1 card — but a common here, retreat 1, a no-damage Colourless attack and a 20 for one Fire. Drawn by Hajime Kusajima, whose five cards in the set include the Fighting Magcargo.

Seelパウワウ

Seel, 50 HP — ten below the 60 of 1999 and the same as 2001 — a common, retreat 1, one 10-damage Water attack. Drawn by Hisao Nakamura. The set prints two Seel and one Dewgong, so only one of the two can evolve.

Seelパウワウ

Seel, 50 HP — the same HP as 022, a different card: two attacks, a no-damage double headbutt and a 10 for a Water and a Colourless, drawn by Yukiko Baba. Two Seel at identical HP in one set, and Dewgong at 024/025 is the only evolution either of them has.

Dewgongジュゴン

Dewgong, 80 HP Stage 1 — the same 80 as 1999 — a rare, retreat 2, a 20 for a Water and a Colourless and a no-damage four-energy second. Drawn by Kouki Saitou.

Dewgongジュゴン

Dewgong, holofoil — same 80 HP, same two attacks, same Kouki Saitou art as 024. Four of the set's sixteen holofoils are Water — Dewgong, Gyarados, Articuno and Piloswine — more than any other type; no other type reaches three.

Magikarpコイキング

Magikarp, 30 HP — unchanged since 1997 — a common, retreat 1, a no-damage Colourless attack and a 10 for one Water. Drawn by Keiko Fukuyama. The one card in the set whose whole point is the card after it: Magikarp at 30 HP evolving into the 90 HP Gyarados at 027.

Gyaradosギャラドス

Gyarados, 90 HP Stage 1 — ten below the 100 of 1999 — a rare, retreat 2, one attack for 50 costing a Water and three Colourless. Drawn by Kimiya Masago, whose five cards here include both Houndoom and the secret Crobat.

Gyaradosギャラドス

Gyarados, holofoil — same 90 HP, same 50-damage attack, same Kimiya Masago art as 027. No Gyarados has been printed above 90 HP since 1999, and this card takes the 90 rather than the 100.

Laprasラプラス

Lapras, 60 HP — twenty below the 80 of 1997 and 1999, one of two twenty-point drops in the set — and a common where every earlier Lapras was rare or holofoil. Retreat 1, a no-damage two-Colourless attack and a 30 for two Water and a Colourless. Drawn by Aya Kusube.

Articunoフリーザー