Character info
The character
Lucario is the Aura Pokémon, a Fighting and Steel-type species that evolves from Riolu. It is known for sensing and reading the aura of people and objects, which allows it to anticipate movements and perceive emotions from great distances. Lucario has appeared prominently across the Pokémon video games, anime, and films, often depicted as a loyal and disciplined fighter.
This card
This is card number 095 from the MEP Black Star Promos set, a promotional printing released in 2025 featuring a Pikachu 30th Anniversary stamp in the lower right corner of the artwork. The illustration, by Taiga Kasai, shows Lucario lunging forward mid-attack with a trail of aura energy behind it, set against a snowy mountain backdrop. The card is a Stage 1 Pokémon that evolves from Riolu.
How it plays
This Stage 1 Pokémon has 120 HP and is a Fighting type with weakness to Psychic (×2) and a retreat cost of two colorless energy. Its attack, Aura Sphere, costs two Fighting energy and one colorless energy, deals 100 damage, and also deals 60 damage to one of the opponent's Benched Pokémon without applying Weakness or Resistance to that bench damage.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in MEP Black Star Promos, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Taiga Kasai and published 2025-09-26. 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
#448 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IV Pokémon · 390 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Riolu.
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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
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.