Sunkern

How it was given out: How I Became a Pokémon Card Vol. 4 insert.

Japanese promo, released 23 Aug 2000.

One of 278 promos from 1999 to 2003 listed on this site.

Basic · Grass · HP 40

Growth

Flip a coin. If heads, you may attach up to 2 Grass Energy cards from your hand to Sunkern.

Mega Drain 30

Remove a number of damage counters from Sunkern equal to half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10). If Sunkern has fewer damage counters than that, remove all of them.

Illustrator: Kagemaru Himeno

This card was included in the Neo Genesis expansion with artwork by Kagemaru Himeno, first released in the Japanese Gold, Silver, to a New World... expansion. In Japan, it was reprinted as an Unnumbered Promotional card with different artwork by the same artist and was included with the fourth volume of the manga series, How I Became a Pokémon Card released on August 23, 2000. This print has a color graphic of an open book with a trading card in place of an expansion symbol.