Gone dark
Team Rocket’s Dark Pokémon in evolution columns: Squirtle to Dark Blastoise, Charmander to Dark Charizard, Dratini to Dark Dragonite and Oddish to Dark Vileplume.
About this collection
Gone dark is a page from the 2000 Team Rocket set, laid out so every column tells the same story. The top row is four perfectly nice Pokémon: Squirtle, Charmander, Dratini and Oddish. The middle row is Dark Wartortle, Dark Charmeleon, Dark Dragonair and Dark Gloom. By the bottom row they’ve fully committed, as Dark Blastoise, Dark Charizard, Dark Dragonite and Dark Vileplume.
Nobody here chose to be evil. They just fell in with the wrong crowd, and the wrong crowd had a Meowth‑shaped hot air balloon. Kagemaru Himeno painted eight of the twelve, which is why the page holds together so well.
The colours
Water blue, fire orange, dragon purple and grass green run down the four columns, each getting a shade grimmer row by row, with the little black‑and‑red R on every card keeping them in line.
Standout cards
Dark Charizard, Team Rocket #4, illustrated by Ken Sugimori.
Dark Blastoise, Team Rocket #3, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Dark Dragonite, Team Rocket #5, illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita.
Make your own
Evolution columns work with any set that has full lines in it, and Evolution lines does the same trick with modern art. For the rest of the gang, Giovanni’s Team Rocket picks up where this page leaves off, and our guide to finding the right printing and finish helps when an old set has more than one version of each card.
Cards in this binder
Squirtle · Team Rocket #68 · Common
Charmander · Team Rocket #50 · Common
Dratini · Team Rocket #53 · Common
Oddish · Team Rocket #63 · Common
Dark Wartortle · Team Rocket #46 · Uncommon
Dark Charmeleon · Team Rocket #32 · Uncommon
Dark Dragonair · Team Rocket #33 · Uncommon
Dark Gloom · Team Rocket #36 · Uncommon
Dark Blastoise · Team Rocket #3 · Rare
Dark Charizard · Team Rocket #4 · Rare
Dark Dragonite · Team Rocket #5 · Rare
Dark Vileplume · Team Rocket #30 · Rare
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Set up the binder
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