Kakuna

Kakuna on WOTC cards: Kinebuchi's Base Set art and Koga's Kakuna

Kakuna's first English card is Base Set #33 (January 1999), an Uncommon illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi. That art came back in Base Set 2 (2000) and Legendary Collection (2002), and Kinebuchi drew it again for Evolutions (2016), the XY era set that revisited Base Set, which makes him the artist with the most Kakuna credits.

Gym Challenge (2000) added Koga's Kakuna, drawn by Ken Sugimori, as part of the Gym Leader cards tied to Koga's Poison-type gym. Neo Discovery and Skyridge gave it new art before the WOTC era closed, and six of its 22 printings come from that first era, more than from any later one.

Kakuna on later cards: a Common or Uncommon in every era

Kakuna has appeared in every era of the card game, from WOTC to Mega Evolution, in sets such as FireRed & LeafGreen, Great Encounters, Unleashed, Plasma Freeze, XY, Team Up, Vivid Voltage, Chilling Reign, Scarlet & Violet's 151 and Chaos Rising (2026). The rarity never changes: through Chaos Rising, Kakuna has not been printed as a holo rare, a Pokémon ex or GX, or an illustration rare, so every one of its cards is a Common or an Uncommon.

Cards to know

• Kakuna (Base Set #33)

  Kakuna's first English card, a 1999 Base Set Uncommon illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi.

• Koga's Kakuna (Gym Challenge #47)

  A Gym Leader card from Gym Challenge (2000), drawn by Ken Sugimori and tied to Koga's Poison-type gym.

• Kakuna (Neo Discovery #41)

  Kakuna's Neo era card, an Uncommon illustrated by Yukiko Baba.

• Kakuna (Chaos Rising #002)

  A Mega Evolution era Common from Chaos Rising (2026).