Character info
The character
Starmie is a Water/Psychic-type Pokémon known as the Mysterious Pokémon, evolving from Staryu. It is recognized by its star-shaped body and the glowing red core at its center, which is said to flash in different colors. Starmie appears throughout the Pokémon games and anime, often depicted as a fast, resilient battler.
This card
This is Starmie V from the Astral Radeon set (Sword & Shield era), numbered 030/189, a Basic Pokémon card with 190 HP. The card is a Full Art Holo rarity printing, with artwork by Eske Yoshinob depicting Starmie emerging from water against a rocky coastal background. The illustration emphasizes the Pokémon's crystalline star shape and glowing red core.
How it plays
As a Basic Pokémon with 190 HP and a Water energy type, this card has two attacks. Swift costs two Colorless energy and deals 50 damage, unaffected by Weakness, Resistance, or effects on the opponent's Active Pokémon. Energy Spiral costs two Water energy and deals 50 damage for each Energy attached to all of the opponent's Pokémon. It has a weakness to Lightning (×2), no listed resistance, and no retreat cost. As a V card, if this Pokémon is Knocked Out, the opponent takes 2 Prize cards instead of 1.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Astral Radiance, a set of 189 cards, rarity SR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Eske Yoshinob and published 2022-05-27. 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
#121 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 206 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.