Character info
The character
Voltorb is a Pokemon species first introduced in the original Red and Blue games, numbered 100 in the national Pokedex. It is known as the Ball Pokemon for its resemblance to a Poke Ball, and is typically found around power plants. It is an Electric-type creature noted for exploding when disturbed.
This card
This is the Voltorb card from the Base Set, numbered 67 out of 102, printed as a common with the shadowless treatment. The artwork, illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi, shows Voltorb crackling with purple and blue electrical arcs against a dark background. The card bears the 1999 Wizards of the Coast copyright line along with the original Nintendo, Creatures, and GAMEFREAK dates.
How it plays
This Basic Pokemon card has 40 HP and is Electric type. Its only listed attack is Tackle, which costs a single Colorless energy and deals 10 damage. It has a weakness to Fighting type, no listed resistance, and a retreat cost of one Colorless 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 Base Set, a set of 102 cards, rarity C. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Keiji Kinebuchi and published 1999-01-09. 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
#100 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 215 different cards of it exist.
Usually found in power plants. Easily mistaken for a Monster Ball, it has zapped many people.
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.