Let’s see how it looks like magnified starting with with the letters of the name of the card. You can easily see that the difference is huge. This was an old proxy, very easy to detect (extremely lighter and missing the blue core). Also, the pattern in the red mana symbol is less defined.įake number 1: here the external border is less defined, but the external border is still clearly wrong.Īnd now a some pictures about a fake Ancestral Recall. Additionally is missing the external black line. Real card: please notice the double external border, a thick black line and how the pattern in the mana symbol looks like.įake number 1: this is easy to detect as the external border is not pure white. The first picture below is from a real card from the set. One was very easy to detect due to the “glossy”feeling like a poker card. The next example is 2 fakes imperial recruiters coming (presumably) from 2 different counterfeiters trying to make my life harder and kill this game.īoth failed the light test – currently the majority of proxies are darker than the real cards. Additionally, direct light test leave no doubt on the situation. Rebacked cards fail 99% of times the weight test. It has been usually done with Collector’s Edition, to create fake Betas. This is conceptually a bit more complicate – it’s a forgery in the sense that 2 real cards are glued together. Here you can see a zoom on the mana symbol: The next example is a fake Arabian Nights Drop of Honey – a card that was worth a few dollars and now sell for over 250. The final result looks abnormal and artificial to a trained eye. Below you will find the back of a forged Unlimited Black Lotus. However, a worn-out proxy looks different. Common trick include creating shuffling wear, scratches, etc. Scammer selling fakes are artificially “aging” the cards.
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I will describe in the following section the tests that I perform to guarantee the authenticity or the cards I trade and their expected results. However, the still have a totally different printing patter, a different, more “glossy” feel when you touch them and a different “penetrability” when exposed to strong direct light. The latter type (new high quality “blue core” proxies) are somehow more tough because they have almost the same thickness and a very similar weight. The first 2 are really easy to spot because they almost invariably have a different weight and thickness. Generally speaking, there are 3 types of forged Magic cards: “rebacked” cards (basically, 2 cards glued together), old proxies and new “blue core” proxies.
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They are not particularly expensive: the entry level price for the full kit would be around 100 USD, a negligible amount of money if you are interested in trading P9 and similar stuff. If you want to replicate this test by yourself you will need a few tools. Purpose of this page is to describe several test that will help you to spot them. When I touch one of this fakes, a red alarm light start blinking in my head. However, they are still far away from being able to fool someone that has been trading and playing more than 20 years. How good are they? Well, I would say “very good” or “very, very good”, depending on your knowledge of the game. As you will know if you are reading this lines, the secondary MTG cards market has been recently flooded by an impressive amount of high quality proxies.
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