Character info
The character
Mimikyu is the Disguise Pokémon, known for covering itself in a tattered cloth resembling Pikachu so that it will be loved like the popular mouse Pokémon. It lives in dark places untouched by sunlight, and its true form beneath the cloak is said to bring misfortune to anyone who sees it. It first appeared in the Alola region games and has become a popular character for its mix of eerie and sympathetic traits.
This card
This is Team Rocket's Mimikyu from the Destined Rivals set, numbered 087/182 with uncommon rarity. The card depicts Mimikyu alongside a shadowy, jagged dark-type silhouette in the background, illustrated by DOM, and bears a Team Rocket icon indicating its affiliation with that trainer group within the set's storyline.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 60 HP and is a Psychic type. Its single attack, Gemstone Mimicry, costs one Psychic Energy and one Colorless Energy, and lets the player choose one of the opponent's Active Tera Pokémon's attacks and use it as this attack. It has a weakness to Darkness types (×2), a resistance of -30 to Fighting types, and its retreat cost is not fully legible in the image.
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 Destined Rivals, a set of 182 cards, rarity U. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by DOM and published 2025-05-30. 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
#778 in the National Pokédex · a Generation VII Pokémon · 258 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
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The working behind this grade
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