Character info
The character
Great Tusk is one of the Paradox Pokemon introduced in Scarlet and Violet, an ancient, fossil-like relative of Donphan that appears in fighting-type form across the games. Known for its tusked, mammoth-like appearance, it is depicted as a powerful prehistoric creature from a parallel timeline. In the games it is prized for its high attack and speed stats.
This card
This is Great Tusk ex, card number 072 from the SVP Black Star Promos set, a full art holofoil promo bearing the Ancient stamp. The artwork, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, shows Great Tusk in a dynamic foil pattern with starburst effects surrounding the creature. It was released alongside the Scarlet and Violet Paldean Fates branding referenced on the card's lower corner markings.
How it plays
Great Tusk ex is a Basic Fighting-type Pokemon with 250 HP. Its Ability, Quaking Demolition, forces the player to discard the top 5 cards of their deck once at the end of each turn it spends in the Active Spot, after the attack. Its attack, Great Bash, costs one Fighting energy and three additional energy to deal 260 damage, and this damage cannot be reduced by any effects on the opponent's Active Pokemon. The card has weakness to Psychic-type attacks at double damage, no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of four 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 SVP Black Star Promos, a set of 225 cards, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics and published 2023-03-31. 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
#984 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 60 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
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.