Character info
The character
Magnemite is the Magnet Pokemon, a small floating unit made of a magnet body and two horseshoe magnet arms that uses electromagnetism and anti-gravity to hover. It is known in the Pokemon series for appearing unexpectedly and for using electric attacks like Thunder Wave. It later evolves into Magneton.
This card
This is Magnemite from the Base Set, numbered 53 out of 102, printed as a common card. It depicts Magnemite hovering against a background of crackling electricity over a green field, illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi. The card bears the 1999 Wizards of the Coast copyright line alongside the original 1995-1998 Nintendo, Creatures, and GAMEFREAK copyrights.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon card has 40 HP and is a Lightning type. It has two attacks: Thunder Wave, costing one Lightning energy, which does 10 damage and has a coin flip chance to paralyze the Defending Pokemon; and Selfdestruct, costing one Lightning and one Colorless energy, which does 40 damage to itself while dealing 10 damage to each Pokemon on both players' Benches without applying Weakness or Resistance. It is weak to Fighting type, has no listed resistance, and has a retreat cost of one Colorless 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 Keiji Kinebuchi 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
#81 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 241 different cards of it exist.
Uses anti-gravity to stay suspended. Appears without warning and uses attacks like Thunder Wave.
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.