So I just purchased a judge foil gaea's cradle off of ebay, and I'm looking at it and I've noticed that there are some scratches on the card and foil underneath (can't be seen unless you look very closely, one visible on the tree above the faerie thing). But from what I understand only borders of old cards are foil, plus the star. And it looks like there is foil on the text box as well. Could that indicate a fake or just printer problems?
LMK if I should get a better picture or not. Also not sure if this is the right forum for this post, so my bad mods if not.
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Foil cards, both old and new, are just ink printed on top of a solid foil layer. If you take a strong flash light to any old-bordered foil card, you'll probably be able to see the foil peeking through the text box. For reference, my foil Cradle looks the same.
Looks like the ones I've seen, but to be positive, I'd need a jeweler's loupe or something similar to test it.
My thoughts exactly. It doesn't raise red flags for me immediately, but handling it in person can be the difference between declaring it fake or authentic. If you have doubts I would try to find a real one and compare them to one another.
The counterfeit detection threads on FB usually maintain that faking foils is too expensive to be worth their while (when they can make just as much faking nonfoil RL cards).
@ZenArcadia: Honestly, those three do look a little weird to me. I'd want to examine them in person before buying.
@BurntGerbil: As the price of foils continues to go up and up (and the costs of making them remain flat), you can count on this changing at some point. I'd be shocked if this weren't going on with some of these cards. Cradle definitely comes to mind..
The counterfeit detection threads on FB usually maintain that faking foils is too expensive to be worth their while (when they can make just as much faking nonfoil RL cards).
FB? You mean Facebook? Where at? I might actually finally find something worth tolerating there.
By expense, by whose standards? Counterfeiters seem to operate on much lower costs and higher yields or perhaps much thinner margins than we would otherwise think.
As for the cards. I can't see enough to decide one way or the other. Foils are a pain to photograph, the glare tends to mess things up IMHO.
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My thoughts exactly. It doesn't raise red flags for me immediately, but handling it in person can be the difference between declaring it fake or authentic. If you have doubts I would try to find a real one and compare them to one another.
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@BurntGerbil: As the price of foils continues to go up and up (and the costs of making them remain flat), you can count on this changing at some point. I'd be shocked if this weren't going on with some of these cards. Cradle definitely comes to mind..
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FB? You mean Facebook? Where at? I might actually finally find something worth tolerating there.
By expense, by whose standards? Counterfeiters seem to operate on much lower costs and higher yields or perhaps much thinner margins than we would otherwise think.
As for the cards. I can't see enough to decide one way or the other. Foils are a pain to photograph, the glare tends to mess things up IMHO.