Character info
The character
Lugia is the Diving Pokemon, National Pokedex No. 0249, a Psychic-type Legendary known as the Guardian of the Seas from the Pokemon franchise. It rose to prominence as the box legend of Pokemon Silver and the central figure of the second Pokemon movie. Lugia is said to sleep in a deep-sea trench, and legend holds that a single flap of its wings can summon a storm lasting forty days.
This card
This is card 121 of 128 from the 30th Celebration set, printed in 2026 with Rarity R and illustrated by Kazuki Minami. The artwork depicts Lugia emerging from swirling dark water, wings spread wide amid streaks of spray. This particular copy carries the Pikachu 30th Anniversary stamp in the lower right corner of the image, marking it as a special anniversary variant.
How it plays
Lugia is a Basic Pokemon with 120 HP, weak to Lightning (x2) and resistant to Fighting (-30), with a retreat cost of two Colorless Energy. Its printed attack, Elemental Blast, costs Fire, Water, and Lightning Energy and deals 250 damage, requiring the player to discard one Fire Energy, one Water Energy, and one Lightning Energy attached to Lugia as a cost.
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 30th Celebration, a set of 128 cards, rarity R. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Kazuki Minami and published 2026-09-16. 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
#249 in the National Pokédex · a Generation II Pokémon · 216 different cards of it exist.
It sleeps in a deep-sea trench. If it flaps its wings, it is said to cause a 40-day storm.
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.