Character info
The character
Pikachu is the Electric Mouse Pokémon and the best-known mascot of the entire Pokémon franchise. It stores electricity in its cheek pouches and releases it in powerful jolts against opponents or threats. Pikachu is famously the partner of Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime and has appeared across games, movies, and merchandise since the franchise's debut.
This card
This is Pikachu V, card number SWSH061 from the SWSH Black Star Promos set, released in 2021. It is a Full Art Holo promo card with PROMO rarity, illustrated by PLANETA Tsuji. The artwork depicts Pikachu leaping through a lightning-charged sky with electricity crackling around its body.
How it plays
Pikachu V is a Basic Pokémon with 190 HP and Lightning typing. Its first attack, Charge, costs a single Lightning energy and lets the player search their deck for up to 2 Lightning Energy cards to attach to this Pokémon, then shuffle the deck. Its second attack, Thunderbolt, costs two Lightning energy and one Colorless energy, deals 200 damage, and requires discarding all Energy attached to this Pokémon. It has a weakness to Fighting type (×2), no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one Colorless energy. As a V Pokémon, when it is Knocked Out the opponent takes 2 Prize cards.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in SWSH Black Star Promos, a set of 307 cards, rarity PROMO. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by PLANETA Tsuji and published 2019-11-15. 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
#25 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 1,241 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.
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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.