Character info
The character
Lucario is a Fighting and Steel-type Pokemon known for its ability to sense and manipulate aura, which allows it to perceive the emotions and thoughts of other beings. It evolves from Riolu and has appeared prominently across the Pokemon video games, anime, and films. It is widely recognized for its martial arts fighting style and loyalty to its trainer.
This card
This is Lucario VSTAR, number SWSH214 from the SWSH Black Star Promos set, printed as a Holofoil VSTAR promo card in 2022. The artwork depicts Lucario mid-strike with glowing aura energy radiating around its fists against a fiery red background. The illustration is credited to aky CG Works.
How it plays
This Pokemon VSTAR has 270 HP, a Fighting weakness listed as x2, no resistance, and a retreat cost of two. Its attack Fighting Knuckle costs one Fighting and two Colorless energy, dealing 120+ damage, doing 120 more if the opponent's Active Pokemon is a Pokemon V. Its VSTAR Power, Aura Star, costs one Fighting and one Colorless energy and deals 70 damage for each Energy attached to all of the opponent's Pokemon, usable only once per game.
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 SWSH Black Star Promos, a set of 307 cards, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Published 2019-11-15. 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 Lucario V.
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
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.