Character info
The character
Archaludon is a Steel/Dragon-type Pokémon that evolves from Duraludon, first introduced in the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet generation. It is known for the massive bridge-like structure formed across its back, and in-game lore describes it digging burrows in mountains to search for food, being sturdy enough to shrug off cave-ins. It is a Pokémon associated with resilience and engineering-like design.
This card
This is Archaludon from the Stellar Miracle set (SV7), numbered 113 out of 102 in the set, printed as an AR (Art Rare) variant. The artwork, illustrated by Toshinao Aoki, depicts a group of children and an elderly man interacting with an oversized Archaludon in a market street scene, rendered in an everyday slice-of-life style rather than a battle scene. The card is a Stage 1 Pokémon, evolving from Duraludon as indicated in the top left evolution marker.
How it plays
This Stage 1 Pokémon has 180 HP and is a Metal-type card. Its Ability, Metal Link, states that as long as this Pokémon is in play, all of your Pokémon with a Metal Energy attached have no Retreat Cost. Its attack, Iron Blaster, costs two Colorless Energy and one Star Energy, deals 160 damage, and prevents this Pokémon from using an attack during your next turn. It has a weakness to Fire-type attacks (x2), a resistance of -30 to Grass-type attacks, and a Retreat Cost of two Energy.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in ステラミラクル, a set of 102 cards. The details on this certificate match it.
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
#1018 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IX Pokémon · 52 different cards of it exist.
山中で 穴を 掘り エサを 探す。 落盤に 巻きこまれても へっちゃらなくらい 頑丈。
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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.