Pooka
Arcanine
#33/130 in Base Set 2, Uncommon, 100 HP, Fire, illustrated by Ken Sugimori.
- Set
- Base Set 2
- Card number
- #33/130
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- HP
- 100 HP
- Type
- Fire
- Language
- English
- Release date
- February 24, 2000
- Illustrator
- Ken Sugimori
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Collector Notes
Arcanine
Arcanine appears in the English print of Base Set 2, released on February 24, 2000. Arcanine is a uncommon rarity and 100 HP. The Base Set 2 set contains 130 cards.
Artist Info
This card's illustration was created by Ken Sugimori.
Collector Insights
Arcanine is a Fire-type Pokémon with 100 HP, featuring a retreat cost of three Colorless energies. It appears in the Base Set 2 series, released in February 2000, and is illustrated by Ken Sugimori. The card includes two attacks: Flamethrower, which costs two Fire and one Colorless energy to deal 50 damage and requires discarding a Fire Energy card, and Take Down, which costs two Fire and two Colorless energies to deal 80 damage while inflicting 30 damage to Arcanine itself. It has a Water weakness multiplied by two, reflecting its vulnerability to water-type attacks. The card’s flavor text highlights its admired beauty and graceful, wing-like movement. Arcanine is classified as a Pokémon with a rarity of Uncommon and is numbered 33 in the set. Its themecolor, a warm orange-brown, aligns with its fiery attributes.
A Pokémon that has been long admired for its beauty. It runs gracefully, as if on wings.
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