How many Arbok cards are there?

There are 20 Arbok cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 16 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.

Which Arbok card has the best artwork?

That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Arbok art first, however common or rare the card.

Who illustrates Arbok cards?

15 illustrators have drawn Arbok. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 3, followed by Eske Yoshinob and Kyoko Umemoto.

What was the first Arbok card?

Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Fossil, released in 1999. 8 of its 20 cards are Rare.

No. 24 · Kanto · Poison

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Arbok is a Poison-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 24 in the National Pokédex. Its cards run from 1999 to 2025. Its cards are ordered by the art, the best first, rather than by set.

Cards: 20
Sets: 16
Printed: 1999–2025
Illustrators: 15
Sightings: 2

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The strongest Arbok art

01/06
Arbok
Temporal Forces · 2024
Drawn by OKUBO
Illustration rare
02/06
Arbok ex
151 · 2023
Drawn by Eske Yoshinob
Ultra Rare
03/06
Arbok
Temporal Forces · 2024
Drawn by Minato
Common
04/06
Arbok
Champion's Path · 2020
Drawn by nagimiso
Uncommon
05/06
Team Rocket's Arbok
Destined Rivals · 2025
Drawn by Teeziro
Uncommon
06/06
Dark Arbok
Team Rocket · 2000
Drawn by Mitsuhiro Arita
Rare

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Which is the better picture?

Two Arbok cards, side by side.

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Arbok by scene

Where its cards are set. Each opens a search of just those Arbok cards, the artwork that shows it most first.

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How Arbok gets drawn

Arbok is usually drawn fierce, tense and moody, usually coiling, often painted.

Across 19 Arbok artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.

Moods

fierce100%3× more than most Pokémon
tense95%2.4× more than most Pokémon
nostalgic42%2.1× more than most Pokémon
mysterious21%
eerie11%

Coiling13 of 19 artworks Hissing9 of 19 artworks Fierce19 of 19 artworks Moody16 of 19 artworks

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1999–2025

Arbok through the years

Its strongest card of each year it was printed.

1999 Fossil
2000 Team Rocket
2002 Expedition Base Set
2003 Sandstorm
2004 Team Rocket Returns
2006 Dragon Frontiers
2008 Great Encounters
2014 XY
2017 Shining Legends
2019 Hidden Fates
2020 Champion's Path
2023 151
2024 Temporal Forces
2025 Destined Rivals

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Evolves from

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Arbok sightingsspotted in 2 other cards

Cards where Arbok turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.

Every Arbok card

20 cards, strongest artwork first.

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Arbok in numbers

Cards: 20
Sets: 16since Fossil
Illustrators: 15most by Ken Sugimori
Printed: 1999–2025
Printed as: Stage 1
Sightings: 2in other cards' art
HP on card: 60–270

They span 16 sets, from Fossil to Destined Rivals. 15 illustrators have drawn it, most often Ken Sugimori, Eske Yoshinob and Kyoko Umemoto.

Who draws Arbok

15 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.

Where it has been printed

16 sets, by how many Arbok cards each holds.

4 more sets

Rarity

Rare8Uncommon7Common1Double rare1Holo Rare1Illustration rare1

Questions

How many Arbok cards are there?: There are 20 Arbok cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 16 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
Which Arbok card has the best artwork?: That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Arbok art first, however common or rare the card.
Who illustrates Arbok cards?: 15 illustrators have drawn Arbok. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 3, followed by Eske Yoshinob and Kyoko Umemoto.
What was the first Arbok card?: Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Fossil, released in 1999. 8 of its 20 cards are Rare.