How many Suicune cards are there?

There are 31 Suicune cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 22 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.

Which Suicune card has the best artwork?

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

Who illustrates Suicune cards?

19 illustrators have drawn Suicune. Atsuko Nishida has done the most at 4, followed by 5ban Graphics and Ayaka Yoshida.

What was the first Suicune card?

Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Wizards Black Star Promos, released in 1999. 11 of its 31 cards are Rare.

No. 245 · Johto · Water

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Suicune is a Water-type Pokémon introduced in Johto, number 245 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: 31
Sets: 22
Printed: 1999–2025
Illustrators: 19
Sightings: 2

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The strongest Suicune art

01/06
Suicune & Entei LEGEND
Unleashed · 2010
Drawn by Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba
LEGEND
02/06
Suicune V
Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery · 2023
Drawn by Atsushi Furusawa
Ultra Rare
03/06
Raikou & Suicune LEGEND
Unleashed · 2010
Drawn by Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya
LEGEND
04/06
Suicune & Entei LEGEND
Unleashed · 2010
Drawn by Shinji Higuchi + Sachiko Eba
LEGEND
05/06
Raikou & Suicune LEGEND
Unleashed · 2010
Drawn by Shinji Higuchi + Noriko Takaya
LEGEND
06/06
Suicune GX
Lost Thunder · 2018
Drawn by 5ban Graphics
Ultra Rare

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Which is the better picture?

Two Suicune cards, side by side.

Suicune V, Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery

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Suicune by scene

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

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How Suicune gets drawn

Suicune is usually drawn epic, wondrous and dreamy, sometimes elegant, often splashing, in the snow, in winter.

Across 27 Suicune artworks, each picture counted once, next to how every other Pokémon is drawn.

Moods

epic82%3× more than most Pokémon
wondrous56%5× more than most Pokémon
mysterious41%2.2× more than most Pokémon
adventurous22%4× more than most Pokémon
tense41%

Light and time

In dramatic light 48%In the snow 22%In winter 41%

Epic22 of 27 artworks Wondrous15 of 27 artworks In winter11 of 27 artworks Splashing8 of 27 artworks

Drawn against type

The Suicune pictures least like the rest.

adventurous

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1999–2025

Suicune through the years

Its strongest card of each year it was printed.

1999 Wizards Black Star Promos
2001 Neo Revelation
2003 Aquapolis
2004 Team Magma vs Team Aqua
2005 Unseen Forces
2007 Secret Wonders
2010 Unleashed
2011 Call of Legends
2013 Plasma Blast
2016 BREAKpoint
2017 SM Black Star Promos
2018 Lost Thunder
2020 Darkness Ablaze
2021 Evolving Skies
2023 Crown Zenith Galarian Gallery
2025 Prismatic Evolutions

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Suicune sightingsspotted in 2 other cards

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

Every Suicune card

31 cards, strongest artwork first.

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Suicune in numbers

Cards: 31
Sets: 22since Wizards Black Star Promos
Illustrators: 19most by Atsuko Nishida
Printed: 1999–2025
Printed as: Basic
Sightings: 2in other cards' art
HP on card: 60–210

They span 22 sets, from Wizards Black Star Promos to Phantasmal Flames. 19 illustrators have drawn it, most often Atsuko Nishida, 5ban Graphics and Ayaka Yoshida.

Who draws Suicune

19 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.

Where it has been printed

22 sets, by how many Suicune cards each holds.

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Rarity

Rare11LEGEND4Ultra Rare4Holo Rare3Common2Promo2

Questions

How many Suicune cards are there?: There are 31 Suicune cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 22 sets, alternate arts and reprints included.
Which Suicune card has the best artwork?: That's how this page is ordered: the strongest Suicune art first, however common or rare the card.
Who illustrates Suicune cards?: 19 illustrators have drawn Suicune. Atsuko Nishida has done the most at 4, followed by 5ban Graphics and Ayaka Yoshida.
What was the first Suicune card?: Its earliest printing in the catalog comes from Wizards Black Star Promos, released in 1999. 11 of its 31 cards are Rare.