No. 27 · Kanto · Ground
Sandshrew cards
Sandshrew is a Ground-type Pokémon introduced in Kanto, number 27 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 23 sets, from Base Set to Mega Evolution. 17 illustrators have drawn it, most often Ken Sugimori, Shin Nagasawa and Atsuko Nishida.
- Cards
- 24
- Sets
- 23since Base Set
- Illustrators
- 17most by Ken Sugimori
- Printed
- 1999–2025
- Printed as
- Basic
- HP on card
- 40–70
Evolves into
Who draws Sandshrew
17 illustrators, by how many they have drawn.
Where it has been printed
23 sets, by how many Sandshrew cards each holds.
- Gym Heroes2
- 1511
- BREAKthrough1
- Base Set1
- Base Set 21
- Boundaries Crossed1
- Cosmic Eclipse1
- Delta Species1
- Evolutions1
- Fusion Strike1
Rarity
Common23None1
Questions
- How many Sandshrew cards are there?
- Illudex indexes 24 Sandshrew cards, printed between 1999 and 2025 across 23 sets. That covers every printing in the catalogue, alternate arts and reprints included.
- Which Sandshrew 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 Sandshrew artwork appears first regardless of how common the card is.
- Who illustrates Sandshrew cards?
- 17 illustrators have drawn Sandshrew. Ken Sugimori has done the most at 7, followed by Shin Nagasawa and Atsuko Nishida. Each name links to their complete body of work.
- What was the first Sandshrew card?
- Its earliest printing in the catalogue comes from Base Set, released in 1999. 23 of its 24 cards are Common.