Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokémon and the best-known mascot of the Pokémon franchise, a Basic Electric-type creature famous for storing electricity in its cheeks. Within the games and anime it is recognized as Ash Ketchum's companion and a symbol of the series as a whole. It is noted for being easily recognizable and for releasing powerful electric shocks when threatened or gathered in groups.
This card
This is Pikachu, number 051/162 from the Temporal Forces set, printed in common rarity with a Pokemon Day stamp treatment applied to the 2024 printing. The artwork by kodama depicts Pikachu perched against a brick wall holding a large yellow leaf, with a small clover beside it. The card carries the TEF set code and English language designation.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 70 HP and is Lightning type. Its single attack, Random Spark, costs one Lightning energy and deals 10 damage to one of the opponent's Pokémon, with a note that Weakness and Resistance are not applied for Benched Pokémon. It has a weakness to Fighting type (x2), no listed 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 Temporal Forces, a set of 162 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by kodama and published 2024-03-22. 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
#25 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 969 different cards of it exist.
When several of these Pokémon gather, their electricity can build and cause lightning storms.
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.