Character info
The character
Machop is the Superpower Pokémon, a fighting-type known in the Pokémon series for its incredible physical strength relative to its small size. It is a dedicated martial artist that constantly trains to build muscle and increase its power. Machop evolves into Machoke and eventually Machamp as it grows stronger.
This card
This is the Machop card from the Pokémon Base Set, numbered 52 out of 102, printed in the non-shadowed variant with common rarity. The artwork by Mitsuhiro Arita shows Machop flexing atop a rock formation beneath a dark cliff overhang. The card bears the 1999 Wizards copyright line along with the Nintendo, Creatures, and GAMEFREAK copyright notices.
How it plays
Machop is a Basic Pokémon with 50 HP and a Fighting type energy symbol. Its single attack, Low Kick, costs one Fighting energy and deals 20 damage. The card lists a weakness to Psychic type, no resistance, and a retreat cost of one 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 Base Set, a set of 102 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Mitsuhiro Arita and published 1999-01-09. 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
#66 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 126 different cards of it exist.
Loves to build its muscles. It trains in all styles of martial arts to become even stronger.
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.