Character info
The character
Charmander is a Fire-type Pokemon known as the Lizard Pokemon, the first stage in the Charmander evolutionary line that leads to Charmeleon and Charizard. It is one of the original three starter Pokemon available to new trainers. Its defining trait is the flame burning at the tip of its tail, which reflects its health and life-force.
This card
This is Charmander, card number 011 out of 94 from the Phantasmal Flames set, printed with common rarity in 2025. The artwork, illustrated by HYOGONOSUKE, depicts the young Pokemon perched on dark volcanic rock with a lit torch and glowing lava in the background. The card bears the standard Basic Pokemon layout with the Pokedex entry printed along the bottom.
How it plays
This Basic Fire-type Pokemon has 80 HP. It has the Ability Agile, which removes its Retreat Cost if it has no Energy attached. Its attack, Live Coal, costs a single Fire Energy and deals 20 damage. It has a weakness to Water-type attacks (x2), 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 Phantasmal Flames, a set of 94 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by HYOGONOSUKE and published 2025-11-14. 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
#4 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 243 different cards of it exist.
The flame on its tail shows the strength of its life-force. If Charmander is weak, the flame also burns weakly.
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.