Character info
The character
Starmie is a Water-type Pokemon known as the Mysterious Pokemon, evolving from Staryu. It is recognized for its star-shaped body and glowing, multicolored core, which some in its world prize as a gem. Starmie is often depicted as a fast and versatile battler in the Pokemon series.
This card
This is Starmie from the Base Set, numbered 64/102 with common rarity, printed in 1999. The card features Stage 1 evolution artwork illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi, showing Starmie set against a starry blue background. It is a Shadowless variant of the Base Set printing.
How it plays
Starmie has 60 HP and is a Water-type Stage 1 Pokemon evolving from Staryu. Its Recover attack costs two Water Energy, requires discarding one Water Energy attached to Starmie, and removes all damage counters from it. Its Star Freeze attack costs one Water and two Colorless Energy, deals 20 damage, and has a coin flip chance to paralyze the Defending Pokemon. It is weak to Lightning, 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
#121 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 205 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Staryu.
Its central core glows with the seven colors of the rainbow. Some people value this core as a gem.
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.