Character info
The character
Ho-Oh is a Legendary Pokémon known as the guardian of the skies, said to grant eternal happiness to those who see it. In the games and anime, it is associated with rebirth and rainbow-colored flames, and Ethan (known as Gold in Japan) is a protagonist from the Johto region games who partners with legendary Pokémon such as this one.
This card
This card is Ethan's Ho-Oh ex, number 039 of 182 from the Destined Rivals set, printed in 2025 in a holofoil treatment with RR rarity. The artwork by aky CG Works depicts Ho-Oh in a dynamic, fiery pose with Ethan's portrait shown in a circular inset at the lower right of the illustration. The card is a Basic Pokémon with Fire-type energy symbol shown on the top right.
How it plays
This Basic Fire-type Pokémon has 230 HP, weakness to Water (x2), and a retreat cost of two. Its Ability, Golden Flame, lets the player attach up to two Basic Fire Energy cards from hand to one of their Benched Ethan's Pokémon once per turn. Its attack, Shining Feathers, costs four Fire Energy, deals 160 damage, and heals 50 damage from each of the player's Pokémon. As an ex Pokémon, its Knock Out gives the opponent two Prize cards.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Destined Rivals, a set of 182 cards, rarity RR. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by aky CG Works and published 2025-05-30. 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
#250 in the National Pokédex · a Generation II Pokémon · 190 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.