Character info
The character
Starmie, known as the Mysterious Pokémon, is the evolved form of Staryu. Its rotating, star-shaped body and glowing red core have made it a recognizable figure across the Pokémon games and anime, often depicted as fast and enigmatic, emitting unexplained signals.
This card
This card is from the Fusion Strike set, numbered 053/264, printed as a Holo Rare with the Rapid Strike treatment. The artwork shows Starmie spinning through water with its core gem prominently displayed, illustrated by Uta (per the card's listed illustrator credit). The card lists its species data as No. 121, Mysterious Pokémon, with height 3'7" and weight 176.4 lbs.
How it plays
Starmie is a Stage 1 Water-type Pokémon with 90 HP, evolving from Staryu, and bears the Rapid Strike icon. Its single attack, Multishot Star, costs one Water Energy: the player may discard any amount of Water Energy from this Pokémon, then for each Energy discarded this way, choose one of the opponent's Pokémon and deal 30 damage to it, with damage unaffected by Weakness or Resistance. It has a Weakness to Lightning (x2), no listed Resistance, and a retreat cost of one Colorless Energy.
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Card details confirmed
A card with this name and number exists in the public card catalogue, in Fusion Strike, a set of 264 cards, rarity Holo Rare. The details on this certificate match it.
Illustrated by Megumi Mizutani and published 2021-11-12. 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
#121 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 206 different cards of it exist · it evolves from Staryu.
It rotates its geometrically shaped body to swim through the water. It always seems to be sending out mysterious radio waves.
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.