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cool Event but it was called Goodie Bag… thats no bag thats just a paper bag 🙄

They’re all fake, it’s plastic and cardboard that y’all think are worth something.

The packs we had were Dominaria United Collectors and Mystery Booster convention edition. I wound up getting 3rd place and winning 4 more Duskmourn packs and had some great pulls and super fun games.

As a returning player (once again) after being gone for 13+ years, i hate backward curling foils. What do you thinknof recent secret lair rainbow foils vs non foil editions? Any insight there into process or where they come from? I'm thinking of upcoming marvel drop.

Is there a rule on prerelease foils and if they come from Japan or Usa?

I went to the event at my LGS yesterday and it was great. We had a Theros Beyond Death Draft Booster and a Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Collector Booster. They matched perfectly with the theme and the mechanics of Duskmourn. And playing with the emblem made everyone play five colour all enchantmen and good stuff. It's was a real treat!

What are the extra packs

One of the saddest ways to detect that a modern MTG card is fake is that it's higher quality that real ones. Cards don't feel flimsy. Foils don't curl. Older cards are still pretty obvious. No one who has been playing for any length of time is going to be tricked by fakes of ABU/Four Horsemen cards. They can't seem to get the colors on the backs of the fakes quite right. I got an Arid Mesa that was almost bang on on the front side, but the back looked like day glow orange sherbet. I've never seen a fake that had a correct reverse side, and I own thousands at this point. I was comparing a real Alliances Force of Will to a fake one day. One thing to consider is that fakes are printed on modern equipment. The expansion symbol on the real Force was grainy and lower resolution due to being printed on machines of that era. The fake was CRISP with very high resolution. Someone inexperienced who was looking for Forces may have been fooled, thought the real was fake due to the lower resolution, or not even thought of something like that. There's no real catch-all way. I ordered two fake Drop of Honey from the same vendor, and they both looked radially different. Both _obviously_ fake too at least.

That fake is blinding me it’s so reflective. That’s a clear indication.

6/8 = 3/4ths all good im sure u ment 11/16ths

Bill is the most fun commander i have. Ive never had a deck that comes back so fast even after a board wipe

Dang im going to have to cosplay as a cowboy now

Yeah ... I hope so the were when i printed them it would be very concerning if the weren't

I haven't looked at magic prices for about a year. The last time I went to pre release was WOE and I'm shocked at how cheap singles have gotten. I have the same virtue and I thought it was worth more lol, I don't get cards for value *cough* jeweled lotus *cough* I like to play the game. Yes I do own a few lotus and crypts, the only reason I'm upset is because lotus is a commander specific card.

Thanks for the video, it really helps to got an updated view on this - appreciate it. I recently got some troubles to declare cards 100 % legit. From the back they all seem legit - rosette and color variation excluded. Bend tests are positive as well. Most of the time my suspicion grows from different combinations of the following: • the black parts of the set-symbol or mana-symbol are blurry • font weight is different • light is barely coming through the cards • weight ist outside of 1,7-1,8 g - most of the time under • sometimes thick black layer in between • on some holostamps the "WIZARDS"-Sections are not shown or just barely shown If they are legit inspite all these, there is only the back to tell if cards are legit. What are your thoughts about rebacks? Everybody keeps telling me, these are only been done for old expensive cards. I think, if someone finds a cheap way to do them, they would aim for cards that are commonly been sold - which i think is more like 3-20 maybe 30 dollars.

Great tips, thanks for sharing

Those singles are surely worth more than a blb bundle. Def singles either way

Bottom right? I'm not sure, one definitely seems different

The 9 pack bundle is not that expensive.

as a new player, i am curious as to what people are talking about when they mention old foils. what was different about them? at what point did they change?

A small addition: not all collector boosters are US printed. I ordered two displays of Bloomburrow recently, they were shipped from a US store in Florida and they both were JP printed.

Single always

They are both bad T_T

Police need to charge for copy it!!! Magic cards needs to take action against pirate s!!!!

What about thinner font in the text box?

Thanks for the video! Still have not even seen one in my area at all. There was exactly one, once but it was on hold. Had to make two decks myself to make up for it lol.

My Double Masters 2022 Borderless Foils Pass every test besides the green dot test... The Red L or "7" is not present whatsoever in each of them. Should I be worried? It's a dockside extortionist and a mana drain so kind of expensive.

The red "L" in the green dot (4 red dots) are also not present on some real cards...

so it's impossible to test without a microscope , got it......

L A N D F A L L !

I missed/messed up some of the triggers, but hopefully you still enjoyed it. :)

Proxy cards have become either indistinguishable or in many cases better quality than authentic.

This is great info, but I'm color blind, so green and red are the same color in my eyes. Are there other ways to check?

If I trade for a damaged one ring how do they know I didn't just open it?

Looking forward to that upgrade!

I bought a draft box of Wilds of Eldraine from Amazon and I felt they were really weird. The first thing that stuck me was how fragile the packs were. Breaking apart whilst opening them at the top. Felt strange and more plastic-y. Then I noticed the smell of the cards that smelled very strange. Like cleenex or very strong chemical smell. Then the cards felt a little rough on the sides, a little bit like sandpaper but very light, like a bit rough. I feel they are fake but I gotta buy one of those magnifiers to make sure I guess

*Bootleggers watching this video for educational purposes* - "Ok thank you so much kind person, we will improve upon our fake cards from these lessons learned"

Great video, thanks!

WRT the green dot test, some of my legitimate Caverns of Ixalan cards (straight from a booster box) are closer to the "fake" cards than the real ones. I think we're very close to Wizards having to put an NFC tag in legitimate rares/mythics to avoid fakes.

Several of the tests you list as not indicative are effective on very old cards that were all printed in the same facility, for example the 'four horsemen' sets all had very small print runs from a single printer, so all the rosette patterns and card stock tests should match up. These became ineffective later on, when WotC started outsourcing the printing process to multiple printers, introducing more variance in processes and materials.

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I had no idea they're reproducing the "Wizards" within the holostamp. Wild! Great info and great video!

Get a loop, once you check out a few types of fakes they are pretty easy to spot. Shop owners SHOULD get to know this. That said the quality of reals is all over the place right now, alot of misprints, bad/missing holostamps or faded (end of print run) cards in packs. Some things I would have said were fake because of color etc in past are real now lol

I've had a couple cards get rejected on TCGplayer because they were fake, but I had no idea. I only recently started trying to look into this, is it worth it to get a loupe and scale and all if I'm not dealing with cards over like $50 or $100 or something?

For weeks, I've been worrying about the last booster box I got because of the colouring and card differences. I contacted the card store I got and they showed it was legit purchases. Thank you for mentioning differences in where cards are printer. They was printed in Japan and my previous purchase of a bundle was Belgium.

Comparing some of the newer cards, their red dots are so faint almost impossible to notice. (maybe is it just me idk) but like unique reprints like the otj 'breaking news' cards look scarrily not the same as the usual. makes me think twice if its real or fake

IDC, if the fake looks real enough, it is real.

Sorry, the clear-wobbly-clear-wobbly is for identifying real cards correct?

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