Character info
The character
Shellos is the Sea Slug Pokemon, National Pokedex number 422, introduced in the Sinnoh region games. It is a Basic Water-type Pokemon known for having two distinct regional forms, a West Sea form with a blue-green body and an East Sea form with a pink body, differing only in appearance. It later evolves into Gastrodon.
This card
This is a reverse holo common from the Steam Siege set, numbered 28 out of 114, released in 2016. The artwork by Sanosuke Sakuma depicts both the blue-green and pink forms of Shellos together, leaping from ocean waves beneath a bright sun. The card frame includes the standard Pokemon TCG basic layout with Pokedex data printed beneath the illustration.
How it plays
This card is a Basic Pokemon with 70 HP and a single Water-type attack called Rain Splash, which costs one Water energy and deals 10 damage. It has a weakness to Grass-type attacks, doubling damage taken, no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of two 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 Steam Siege, a set of 114 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Sanosuke Sakuma and published 2016-08-03. 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
#422 in the National Pokédex · a Generation IV Pokémon · 49 different cards of it exist.
Its shape and coloration vary, depending on its habitat.
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.