Character info
The character
Malamar is a Dark/Psychic-type Pokémon known for its hypnotic abilities, capable of controlling the minds of people and other Pokémon through its eye patterns and inverted body posture. It evolves from Inkay and first appeared in the Kalos region games Pokémon X and Y. Malamar is noted in the games and anime for inducing sleep and manipulating thoughts of those who make eye contact with it.
This card
This is Malamar EX, card number 58 out of 119 from the Phantom Forces set, released in 2014. It is a Full Art Ultra Rare holo variant, featuring artwork by Eske Yoshinob that depicts Malamar emerging dramatically from a dark, starry background with its tentacle-like arms extended.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 170 HP and is weak to Fighting-type attacks (x2), with a Psychic-type resistance of -20. Its Ability, Hyper Hypnosis, allows the player to put the opponent's Active Pokémon to sleep whenever an Energy card is attached from hand. Its attack, MAXamar, costs one Psychic Energy and one Colorless Energy, and deals 60 damage multiplied by the number of heads flipped, once per Energy attached to Malamar EX. The retreat cost is two Energy.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Phantom Forces, a set of 119 cards, rarity SR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Eske Yoshinob and published 2014-11-05. 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
#687 in the National Pokédex · a Generation VI Pokémon · 151 different cards of it exist.
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
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The working behind this grade
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