Character info
The character
Espathra is a Psychic-type Pokémon known for its ostrich-like appearance and its Ability Opportunist, which lets it mirror stat boosts used by opponents in the core video games. It evolves from Snom's relative Fletchling... actually it evolves from Flittle, a small ostrich-like Pokémon. Espathra is recognized for its serene, almost trance-like expression and its ties to psychic power themes within the Paldea region's Pokédex.
This card
This is Espathra ex, card number 023 out of 190 in the Shiny Treasure ex set (SV4a), printed with RR rarity. The card features a Terastallized crystalline illustration of Espathra by illustrator takuyoa, rendered in a sparkling, faceted art style befitting the Tera treatment. It is a Stage 1 Pokémon card with a Grass-type Tera crystal symbol shown near the HP box.
How it plays
This card has 260 HP and is a Grass-type Stage 1 Tera Pokémon ex, evolving from Flittle. Its printed rule text states that while this Pokémon is on the Bench, it takes no damage from attacks. Its Ability, Dazzling Flash, makes the opponent's Active Pokémon require one additional Colorless Energy to use any attack. Its attack, Psycho Ball, costs one Psychic Energy and deals 30 damage plus 30 more damage for each Energy attached to both Active Pokémon combined. It has a weakness to Fire-type attacks (x2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one Energy. As an ex Pokémon, when it is knocked out the opponent takes two Prize cards.
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 レイジングサーフ, a set of 190 cards, rarity RR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by takuyoa and published 2023-12-01. 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
#956 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 64 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
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.