No. 104 · Kanto · Ground
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Cubone is a Ground-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 104 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
- 21
- Sets
- 21
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Illustrators
- 20
- Sightings
- 1
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The strongest Cubone art

01/06Cubone
Common

02/06Cubone
Common

03/06Cubone
Common

04/06Cubone
Common

05/06Cubone
Common

06/06Cubone
Common
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Which is the better picture?
Two Cubone cards, side by side.
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Nine of the strongest Cubone artworks as a binder page. Add it to your binder and swap any card. No account needed.
Cubone by scene
Where its cards are set. Each opens a search of just those Cubone cards, the artwork that shows it most first.
How Cubone gets drawn
Cubone is usually drawn melancholy, sometimes rustic, at dusk, in golden light.
Across 20 Cubone artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.
Drawn against type
The Cubone pictures least like the rest.
1999–2025
Cubone through the years
Its strongest card of each year it was printed.
1999 Jungle
2000 Base Set 2
2002 Expedition Base Set
2003 Aquapolis
2004 Team Magma vs Team Aqua
2005 Delta Species
2008 Legends Awakened
2010 Triumphant
2012 Dragons Exalted
2015 BREAKthrough
2017 Crimson Invasion
2018 Forbidden Light
2019 Hidden Fates
2021 Battle Styles
2023 151
2024 Stellar Crown
2025 Journey Together
Evolves into
Cubonethis page · 21 cards
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Cubone sightingsspotted in 1 other card
Cards where Cubone turns up in someone else's picture: behind them, beside them, or hiding.
Every Cubone card
21 cards, strongest artwork first.
Cubone in numbers
- Cards
- 21
- Sets
- 21since Jungle
- Illustrators
- 20most by Mitsuhiro Arita
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Basic
- Sightings
- 1in other cards' art
- HP on card
- 40–70
They span 21 sets, from Jungle to Journey Together. 20 illustrators have drawn it, most often Mitsuhiro Arita, Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube.
Who draws Cubone
20 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.
Where it has been printed
21 sets, by how many Cubone cards each holds.
1511
Aquapolis1
BREAKthrough1
Base Set 21
Battle Styles1
Crimson Invasion1
Delta Species1
Dragons Exalted1
Expedition Base Set1
FireRed & LeafGreen1
Forbidden Light1
Hidden Fates1
9 more sets
Rarity
Questions
- How many Cubone cards are there?
- There are 21 Cubone cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 21 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Cubone card has the best artwork?
- That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Cubone art first, however common or rare the card.
- Who illustrates Cubone cards?
- 20 illustrators have drawn Cubone. Mitsuhiro Arita has done the most at 2, followed by Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube.
- What was the first Cubone card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Jungle, released in 1999. 21 of its 21 cards are Common.












