Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokemon, designated National Pokedex number 0025, and serves as the most widely recognized mascot of the Pokemon franchise. It is known for the electric sacs on its cheeks, which it uses to discharge powerful jolts when threatened. Pikachu is famously associated with Ash Ketchum as his starting partner in the Pokemon animated series.
This card
This is card number 024/128 from the 30th Celebration set, printed in 2026 as part of a confetti holo variant tied to the Pokemon 30th Anniversary stamp series, numbered 02/30. The artwork by danciao depicts Pikachu leaping forward amid crackling electricity and shattered ground. The card is a Basic Pokemon with a printed rarity of Rare.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon has 70 HP and a Lightning typing. Its attack, Volt Tackle, costs one Lightning energy and two Colorless energy, deals 80 damage, and also deals 30 damage to itself. It is weak to Fighting-type attacks (x2), has no listed resistance, and has a retreat cost of one Colorless 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 30th Celebration, a set of 128 cards, rarity Pikachu Rare. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by danciao and published 2026-09-16. 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 · 1,251 different cards of it exist.
It has small electric sacs on both its cheeks. When in a tough spot, this Pokémon discharges electricity.
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.