No. 104 · Kanto · Ground
Cubone cards
Cubone is a Ground-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 104 in the National Pokédex. Its cards run from 1999 to 2025. These are its cards ranked by the artwork itself rather than by set order, so the illustrations worth looking at come first instead of whichever set happened to print last.
They span 21 sets, from Jungle to Journey Together. 20 illustrators have drawn it, most often Mitsuhiro Arita, Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube.
- Cards
- 21
- Sets
- 21since Jungle
- Illustrators
- 20most by Mitsuhiro Arita
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Basic
- HP on card
- 40–70
Evolves into
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
Rarity
Common21
Questions
- How many Cubone cards are there?
- Illudex indexes 21 Cubone cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 21 sets. That covers every printing in the catalogue, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Cubone card has the best artwork?
- That is what this page is ordered by. Rather than sorting by set or rarity, Illudex reads each illustration with a vision model and ranks them, so the most striking Cubone artwork appears first regardless of how common the card is.
- Who illustrates Cubone cards?
- 20 illustrators have drawn Cubone. Mitsuhiro Arita has done the most at 2, followed by Atsuko Nishida and Aya Kusube. Each name links to their complete body of work.
- What was the first Cubone card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalogue comes from Jungle, released in 1999. 21 of its 21 cards are Common.




















