Character info
The character
Miraidon is a Paradox Pokemon introduced in the Scarlet and Violet era, known in its story as an ancient or future counterpart tied to legends of a destructive lightning serpent. In the games it serves as a signature Electric-type Legendary, famed for its sleek, cybernetic reptilian design. Dex entries describe it as the 'Iron Serpent,' linked to an old tale of a creature that scorched the land with lightning.
This card
This is card 028/084 from the Pitch Black (PBL) set, printed in 2026 as a holo rarity R card. The artwork by mashu depicts Miraidon coiled amid swirling blue and green energy with lightning arcing across a nighttime cityscape. The card is a Basic Pokemon with 120 HP and a Lightning energy type icon in the top corner.
How it plays
As a Basic Pokemon with 120 HP, Miraidon has the Ability Photon Cord: if it is Knocked Out in the Active Spot by damage from an opponent's attack, you may move up to 2 Basic Lightning Energy cards from it to one of your Benched Pokemon. Its attack Thunder costs two Lightning Energy and deals 90 damage, but also deals 30 damage to itself. It has weakness to Fighting type (x2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one.
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 Pitch Black, a set of 84 cards, rarity R. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by mashu and published 2026-07-17. 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.
About this card
#1008 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 150 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.
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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.