Character info
The character
Charmander is a Fire-type Pokémon known as the Lizard Pokémon, and one of the three original starter Pokémon available at the beginning of a Trainer's journey in the Kanto region. It evolves into Charmeleon and eventually Charizard. The flame on the tip of its tail is said to reflect its life force and health.
This card
This is the Charmander card from the 1999 Base Set, numbered 46 out of 102, printed with common rarity. The illustration by Mitsuhiro Arita depicts Charmander standing in a grassy field with distant flames and smoke rising behind it.
How it plays
This Basic Pokémon has 50 HP and is weak to Water-type attacks, with a retreat cost of one Colorless Energy. Its first attack, Scratch, costs one Colorless Energy and deals 10 damage. Its second attack, Ember, costs one Fire Energy and one Colorless Energy and deals 30 damage, but requires discarding one Fire Energy card attached to Charmander to use.
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 Mitsuhiro Arita 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
#4 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 243 different cards of it exist.
Obviously prefers hot places. If it gets caught in the rain, steam is said to spout from the tip of its tail.
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.