Character info
The character
Bulbasaur is a Grass-type Pokémon known as the Seed Pokémon, famous as one of the three original starter Pokémon available at the beginning of a Trainer's journey. It carries a bulb on its back that grows as it absorbs sunlight and nutrients, eventually evolving into Ivysaur and then Venusaur. It is recognized for its calm demeanor and its ability to photosynthesize energy directly from the sun.
This card
This is Bulbasaur, numbered 133/132 in the Mega Evolution set, an Alternate Rarity (AR) secret rare beyond the base set count. The artwork, illustrated by mashu, depicts Bulbasaur in a stylized, abstract swirl of warm reds and cool greens against a black background rather than a realistic habitat. The card carries the Mega Evolution set's special treatment branding in the corner despite Bulbasaur itself not being a Mega Evolution Pokémon here.
How it plays
This is a Basic Pokémon with 80 HP and a Grass energy type. Its single attack, Bind Down, costs one Grass energy, deals 10 damage, and prevents the Defending Pokémon from retreating during the opponent's next turn. It has weakness to Fire-type attacks at double damage, 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 Mega Evolution, a set of 132 cards, rarity AR. The details on this certificate match it.
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
#1 in the National Pokédex · a Generation I Pokémon · 156 different cards of it exist.
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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.