Character info
The character
Bill is a recurring character in the Pokémon franchise known as a Pokémon researcher and breeder, famed for his work cataloguing and storing Pokémon via computer systems. He frequently assists trainers with technical and organizational matters involving the PC storage system. In the trading card game, his name is attached to numerous Supporter and Trainer cards that reflect his helpful, behind-the-scenes role.
This card
This is Bill's Maintenance, a Supporter Trainer card from the Expedition Base Set, numbered 137/165 with uncommon rarity, printed in the e-Reader card format used in that set. The artwork by Ken Sugimori depicts Bill working with tools on an open electronic device, consistent with his characterization as a technician. The card bears the e-Reader dot-matrix strip along its left edge and the set's 2002 copyright line.
How it plays
As a Supporter, only one copy of this effect can be played per turn, and the card is placed next to the Active Pokémon before being discarded at the end of the turn. Its printed effect requires shuffling one card from hand into the deck, then drawing three cards, but only if the player has any cards in hand.
Written with AI from the card and its catalogue entry, and checked by WinnTCG.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Expedition Base Set, a set of 165 cards, rarity U. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Ken Sugimori and published 2002-09-15. Both come from the public catalogue, not from WinnTCG.
A catalogue match is not the authenticity check. It confirms the card is the card it claims to be. Whether it is genuine was checked separately, on the card itself; see Authenticity below.
Authenticity
WinnTCG authenticated this card in hand, on the bench, against genuine Pokémon cards. It was checked four ways: light shone through it to check the core, its weight on a scale, its thickness measured, and its print pattern and surface texture under magnification.
How this card was graded
WinnTCG graded this card in hand, on the bench. The card was in our hands, and we sealed the case ourselves. We photographed it here under controlled light to show which card is in the case and where anything we marked sits on it.
If you are buying this slab: the grade is WinnTCG’s judgement of the card that was in front of us, and WinnTCG sealed this case. The photographs above are of that card. Compare them against what you can see through the case, because a case can be opened by anyone who has held it since.
The working behind this grade
Every grade here is published with its reasoning. The report states what each measurement returned, what the model proposed on each axis, where the grader disagreed with it, and every defect marked on the photographs above.