Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokémon, a small Electric-type creature best known as the mascot of the Pokémon franchise and the companion of Ash Ketchum in the animated series. It stores electricity in its cheek pouches and releases it when threatened or excited. Pikachu is a Basic Pokémon that evolves from Pichu and into Raichu.
This card
This is card 051/162 from the Temporal Forces set, printed as a Common with a Pokémon Day stamp and cosmos holo treatment, dated 2024. The artwork by kodama shows Pikachu perched on a brick wall beside a large sheet of yellow paper, with a small clover visible nearby. The card bears the official 2024 copyright line for Pokémon, Nintendo, Creatures, and Game Freak.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 70 HP and is Lightning type. Its single attack, Random Spark, costs one Lightning energy and does 10 damage to one of the opponent's Pokémon, with weakness and resistance not applied for benched Pokémon. It has a weakness to Fighting type (x2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one energy.
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 Temporal Forces, a set of 162 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by kodama and published 2024-03-22. 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.
About this card
#25 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 985 different cards of it exist.
When several of these Pokémon gather, their electricity can build and cause lightning storms.
From the card and the public catalogue, not written by WinnTCG.
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.