Character info
The character
Eldegoss is a Grass-type Pokémon known as the Cotton Bloom Pokémon, introduced in the Galar region. It is recognized for the fluffy cotton tufts on its head, which it uses to release spores that heal wounds and calm aggression in others. In the games it typically evolves from Gossifleur and is prized for its supportive, defensive nature.
This card
This is Eldegoss V from the SWSH Black Star Promos set, numbered SWSH084, a holo promo card printed in 2021. The artwork, illustrated by 5ban Graphics, shows Eldegoss against a large glowing moon-like backdrop surrounded by sparkling stars. As a Promo rarity card it uses the foil V treatment with the oversized name and HP banner typical of Sword & Shield era V cards.
How it plays
Eldegoss V is a Basic Pokémon with 180 HP and Grass typing. Its Ability, Happy Match, lets you return a Supporter card from your discard pile to your hand when you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn. Its attack, Float Up, costs two Colorless energy, deals 50 damage, and allows you to shuffle this Pokémon and all attached cards back into your deck. It has a weakness to Fire (x2), no listed resistance, and 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 SWSH Black Star Promos, a set of 307 cards, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by 5ban Graphics and published 2019-11-15. 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
#830 in the National Pokédex · a Generation VIII Pokémon · 69 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.
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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.