Character info
The character
Iron Thorns is a Paradox Pokémon introduced in the Scarlet and Violet era, a Future-themed counterpart tied to Tyranitar. It is known for its bulky, armored form and its connection to an ancient journal entry describing a similarly named object. Within the games it is a Rock/Electric type noted for its aggressive attacking stats.
This card
This is card 098 from the SVP Black Star Promos set, a promotional printing with the Future stamp treatment and PROMO rarity. The artwork, illustrated by Tonji Matsuno, depicts Iron Thorns standing against a dramatic red sunset backdrop with mountains in the distance. The card is a Basic Pokémon printed in English.
How it plays
Iron Thorns is a Basic Pokémon with 140 HP and Lightning as its energy type, marked with the Future symbol. Its first attack, Destructo-Press, costs one Lightning and one Colorless energy, reveals the top 5 cards of the deck and deals 70 damage for each Future card found among them, discarding those Future cards and shuffling the rest back. Its second attack, Megaton Lariat, costs three Lightning and one Colorless energy and deals 140 damage. It has a weakness to Fighting type (×2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of three.
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 Tonji Matsuno 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
#995 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 43 different cards of it exist.
Some of its notable features match those of an object named within a certain expedition journal as Iron Thorns.
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.