Team Rocket

Charmander RO 50/82

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Charmander RO 50

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What you might be wondering about this card

How can you tell your card is this one?
Look at the bottom of your card: you should read RO 50/82 there. Its illustration is signed Kagemaru Himeno.
Which set does it come from?
It comes from the Team Rocket set, released here on 24 April 2000.

When it came out

Team Rocket landed here on 24 April 2000.

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
40
Type
Fire
Stage
Basic
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Number
50/82
Set
Team RocketRO
Illustrated by
Kagemaru Himeno

The Korean text is not available yet. Text shown: English.

Its Ability

Gather Fire

Once during your turn (before your attack), you may take 1 Fire Energy card attached to 1 of your other Pokémon and attach it to Charmander. This power can't be used if Charmander is Asleep, Confused, or Paralyzed.

Its attacks

Fire Tail

20

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

    Fire Tail hits for 20 on 1 Energy. Nothing in Team Rocket hits harder for that price.

  3. A strength

    It has an Ability, Gather Fire. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  4. A strength

    It is a Basic Pokémon. You can put it down on your very first turn, with nothing to evolve through.

  5. Keep in mind

    None of the 5,466 tournament lists we have read runs it. That does not make it a bad card — it means we have not seen it on a table yet.

  6. Keep in mind

    Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 5,466 tournament lists we have read, 2,204 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Who plays it

None of the tournament lists we have read mentions this card. That happens with a card that has just come out, or one players have not tried yet.

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 47 Charmander cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Charmander card and its price