Character info
The character
Mimikyu is the Disguise Pokémon, a Ghost-type first introduced in the Sun and Moon generation. It is known for hiding its true, unseen form beneath a ragged cloth sewn to resemble Pikachu, an attempt to gain affection that instead frightens most who see it. In the games and anime it is portrayed as shy but capable of fierce retaliation if its disguise is damaged or removed.
This card
This is Mimikyu from the Paldea Evolved set, numbered 097/193, printed as a holofoil Basic Pokemon card with Rare rarity. The illustration by Kagemaru Himeno shows Mimikyu tumbling through a green forest setting, its cloth disguise visible with its signature crayon-drawn face and jagged ghostly tail. The card background uses a pink and purple gradient border typical of Psychic-type Pokemon cards from this set.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon card has 70 HP and is Psychic type, with a weakness to Metal types (x2) and a retreat cost of one Colorless energy. It has the Ability Safeguard, which prevents all damage done to it by attacks from the opponent's Pokemon ex and Pokemon V. Its attack, Ghost Eye, costs one Psychic and one Colorless energy and places 7 damage counters directly onto the opponent's Active Pokemon.
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 Paldea Evolved, a set of 193 cards, rarity R. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno and published 2023-06-09. 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
#778 in the National Pokédex · a Generation VII Pokémon · 261 different cards of it exist.
This Pokémon lives in dark places untouched by sunlight. When it appears before humans, it hides itself under a cloth that resembles a Pikachu.
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.