Honedge Collector Guide: Building a 🎃 Halloween Page That Actually Pops
Find the cutest Honedge cards: Illustration Rares, promos, and binder-ready picks across English, Japanese, and Chinese TCG sets.
2025-01-09
Popularity Rank: #502
Fan survey data
Blended rank from two r/pokemon "favourite Pokémon" surveys, weighted 60/40 toward the 2025 results (u/Jawnysparklez; u/mamamia1001 2019).
2025 survey: #510
2019 survey: #367
#502 / 1025
Pokédex details
National Dex
#0679
Height
0.8 m
Weight
2.0 kg
Capture rate
180 / 255
Generation
Gen VI
Gender ratio
50% male, 50% female
Hatch steps
5,100 steps
Base happiness
70
Growth rate
Medium
Color
Brown
Habitat
—
Shape
Blob
Why collectors adore Honedge
The elevator pitch for Honedge: cute, recognizable, and worth a binder slot.
- Cheerful personality in-game — Honedge feels upbeat even before you pick a favourite card.
- A staple in our 🎃 Halloween crowd — Honedge is one of those picks collectors nod at immediately.
- Honedge has that "favourite since childhood" energy — you don't need lore to explain the appeal.
Pokémon TCG cards
Recent cards featuring Honedge from the Trading Card Game, newest first.
Perfect Order
Common
Fantastical Parade
One Diamond
Mega Rising
One Diamond
Paradox Rift
Common
Paradox Rift
Common
Battle Styles
Common
Rebel Clash
Common
Unified Minds
Common
Unified Minds
Common
Team Up
Common
Forbidden Light
Common
Forbidden Light
Common
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How I'd build a Honedge spread
Binder geometry for Honedge: where the eye should land first and what can stay in the background.
Cards to anchor your spread
TCG picks for collectors — pair these with a printed scene below.
Honedge #93 (Unified Minds) is a promo worth chasing — alternate art that stands out on any Honedge binder page.
Honedge #107 (Team Up) is a promo worth chasing — alternate art that stands out on any Honedge binder page.
Honedge #47 (Forbidden Light) is a promo worth chasing — alternate art that stands out on any Honedge binder page.
Species art references
Character renders for colour matching, pose ideas, and silhouette checks.
Official artwork
Match card holo colours and keep the species silhouette consistent across pockets.
HOME render
Modern pose reference when you want a cleaner, upright character layout.
Dream World vector
Simple line-and-fill shape — handy for tracing pocket placement before you print.
Shiny palette
Alternate colourway for accent pockets or shiny-themed spreads.
Art via PokéAPI/sprites (open source).
Honedge mini binder spread
A seeded two-page 3×3 binder mockup using Honedge chase cards and Michi Method scene art for display planning.
Left page
Unified Minds
Common
Team Up
Common
Forbidden Light
Common
Perfect Order
Common
Fantastical Parade
One Diamond
Mega Rising
One Diamond
Paradox Rift
Common
Right page
Paradox Rift
Common
Battle Styles
Common
Rebel Clash
Common
Unified Minds
Common
Forbidden Light
Common
BREAKpoint
Common
Primal Clash
Common
XY trainer Kit (Bisharp)
Common
XY trainer Kit (Bisharp)
Common
Start with a background that echoes Honedge's steel and ghost, then place your chase holo in the top-left anchor slot. Secondary copies can step down in rarity toward the edges so the spread breathes in photos.
Michi Method scene examples
Illustration picks when dedicated scene art is not cached yet — card frames may still show.
Scene wallpaper — Honedge
Illustration by pixiv.net
Scene art via Wallhaven — Scene wallpaper — Honedge
Find more scene art
Curated galleries and search links — we do not hotlink Pinterest or ArtStation results.
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Additional tips
- Lead with your strongest Honedge single, then echo it with a secondary spread featuring Aegislash, Doublade, and Banette so the page reads as a story, not a checklist.
- Try a gunmetal, silver, and dusty purple sleeve story around Honedge's steel-type and ghost-type identity — mat color does more work than people admit in photos.
- Photograph the Honedge page under warm side light once and cool once — you'll quickly see which copy deserves the top-left anchor slot.
- At 0.8m / 2kg, Honedge sits in a middleweight silhouette band — mix close-up portraits with one environmental wide shot for depth.
Honedge: competitive snapshot
Optional competitive context for Honedge. Display collectors can skip straight to the backstory below.
Base stats
In-game numbers for Honedge — useful context beside abilities and moves.
HP
45
Attack
80
Defense
100
Sp. Atk
35
Sp. Def
37
Speed
28
Total: 325
Players file Honedge around tier "Past" while Ability No Guard (Ensures all moves used by and against the Pokémon hit.) shapes the fantasy — chase art that stages that payoff, not just the highest number on the slab.
- Steel/Ghost typings invite clash lighting or split backgrounds — lean into that tension on-page.
3D battle sprites
Animated Showdown-style models for Honedge — normal and shiny.
Sprites via Project Pokémon. Pokémon and character names are trademarks of Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK.
Backstory & Lore
A short write-up on Honedge, weaving together Pokédex notes, species lore, and evolution context.
Apparently this Pokémon is born when a departed spirit inhabits a sword. It attaches itself to people and drinks their life force.
If anyone dares to grab its hilt, it wraps a blue cloth around that person’s arm and drains that person’s life energy completely.
Collectors still read Honedge, Doublade, and Aegislash fastest left-to-right; matching illustration eras across those stages matters more than cramming every rarity onto one page.
A second dex beat (X) frames Honedge as apparently this pokémon is born when a departed spirit inhabits a sword.. Rotating that line on a sticky note beside the page keeps the spread feeling lived-in.
In the games, Honedge → Doublade → Aegislash make up this evolution family — a natural arc to echo when you curate cards or binder spreads.
Name in other languages
Common localized names collectors may search for.
German
Gramokles
Spanish
Honedge
French
Monorpale
Italian
Honedge
Japanese
ヒトツキ
Japanese (Romaji)
Hitotsuki
Korean
단칼빙
Chinese (Simplified)
独剑鞘
Chinese (Traditional)
獨劍鞘
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