Character info
The character
Mela is a character from the Pokémon game world, depicted as a gym leader or trainer type figure associated with Fire-type Pokémon. She appears in a determined, combative pose, suggesting a battle-ready and fiery personality fitting her apparent specialty. Her in-game role centers on supporting trainers who have suffered losses in battle, helping them recover momentum.
This card
This is card 140 out of 131 in the Prismatic Evolutions set, a Full Art Supporter trainer card given the Special Rare (SR) treatment. The artwork by Naoki Saito shows Mela in a rural, tree-lined setting with a clenched fist, wearing a grey jacket and red tie. The card features a holographic silver border characteristic of its full art presentation.
How it plays
Mela is a Supporter trainer card that can only be used if one of your Pokémon was Knocked Out during your opponent's last turn. When played, you attach a Basic Fire Energy card from your discard pile to one of your Pokémon, and if you do, you draw cards until you have 6 cards in your hand. As with all Supporter cards, you may only play one per turn.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Prismatic Evolutions, a set of 131 cards, rarity SR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Naoki Saito and published 2025-01-17. 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.