Character info
The character
Victini is the Victory Pokémon, a mythical creature known in the Pokémon series for sharing infinite energy with its trainer to bring victory. It is recognized as National Pokédex number 494 and typically appears as a small, fox-like Fire/Psychic type. Victini is closely associated with good fortune and triumph in battle, often depicted radiating a warm glow.
This card
This is Victini from the McDonald's Collection 2022 set, numbered 5 out of 15 cards. It is printed in the Cracked Ice Holo variant, giving the background a faceted, icy foil texture behind the character artwork. The illustration, by Teeziro, shows Victini mid-flight with an open-mouthed, joyful expression.
How it plays
This is a Basic Pokémon with 60 HP and a Fire type energy symbol. Its only listed attack is Victory Dive, costing two Colorless energy, which deals 30 damage and allows the player to search their deck for up to 2 cards to add to hand, then shuffle the deck. The card has a weakness to Water type (x2), no resistance listed, and a retreat cost of one Colorless energy.
Written with AI from the card and its catalogue entry, and checked by WinnTCG.
Share this card
An image of the graded card, sized for eBay and social posts. The grade, the certificate number and the verification link travel with it.
Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in McDonald's Collection 2022, a set of 15 cards. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Teeziro and published 2022-08-03. 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
#494 in the National Pokédex · a Generation V Pokémon · 248 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.
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.