Character info
The character
Giratina is a Legendary Pokémon introduced in Diamond and Pearl, associated with the Distortion World and known as the Renegade Pokémon. In the games it represents antimatter and distortion, contrasting with Dialga's role over time. It frequently appears as a powerful, menacing figure in Pokémon lore tied to alternate dimensions.
This card
This is Giratina VSTAR from the Lost Origin set, numbered 131 out of 196, printed as a Full Art Holofoil Rare in 2022. The artwork by 5ban Graphics depicts Giratina's golden Origin Forme emerging amid swirling, colorful distortion effects. The card evolves from Giratina V as indicated in the evolution line text at the top.
How it plays
Giratina VSTAR has 280 HP and is a Colorless type Pokémon. Its attack, Lost Impact, costs Grass, Psychic, and Colorless energy, deals 280 damage, and puts 2 Energy attached to your Pokémon into the Lost Zone. Its VSTAR Power, Star Requiem, costs Grass and Psychic energy, can only be used if there are 10 or more cards in the Lost Zone, and knocks out the opponent's Active Pokémon. The retreat cost is two Colorless energy.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Lost Origin, a set of 196 cards, rarity Holo Rare VSTAR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics and published 2022-09-09. 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
#487 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IV Pokémon · 206 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Giratina V.
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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.