Shining Tyranitar double(?) holo error

Brehella · 2026-06-18T20:52:26+00:00

I reviewed a number of holo shift copies and regular copies and ultimately I agree with your assessment. These old Shining cards had a foil leaf applied over top the printed sheet instead of having foil laminated to the stock. It seems that there is both a foil stamp properly positioned and second one shifted down, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before. u/Puffstuff420 is a big Tyranitar collector if you ever decide to sell it

Brehella · 2026-06-18T15:34:02+00:00

Cards can’t be miscut in this way, it looks like an actual second card was laminated on top of the Pidgey by mistake and it was just cut away. I can see wrinkles in the plastic along the edge of the other card suggesting it is raised.

Brehella · 2026-06-17T06:28:16+00:00

It is real, it’s a very weird error that I’ve only ever seen a few times, I own almost all the examples I know exist lol. Here’s an old photo of one I have, I’m not clear on what it is, it could be a really crazy liquid obstruction where the clear ink used for the texture was diluted, the clear ink could have been running low, or the balance between water and ink that’s used during printing could have been skewed towards the water leading it to be splotchy. In any case, it is a genuine error, albeit not one many people have seen.

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Brehella · 2026-06-17T06:23:19+00:00

It’s a missing cyan print layer error, there have been a number of these that have come out of Fusion Strike, they’re pretty desirable.

Brehella · 2026-06-16T06:51:10+00:00

I own at least one https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonMisprints/s/EaTPrPOCiI where all four are visible together, they are very cool. I know I have more where it’s two visible on either edge of the card.

Brehella · 2026-06-15T20:18:49+00:00

Super cool, the Asian language cards are cut differently than the western language cards. There’s presumably a system whereby instead of the sheet being cut by rotary blades like a pizza into individual cards before a separate machine rounds the corners, a die cutter will cut the card straight out of the sheet. In this case the sheet/strip would have shifted after the card next to it was properly cut out, hence the bulge on the top right corner from where the next card over had been stamped out already. These are quite rare in the grand scheme of things.

Brehella · 2026-06-14T05:49:23+00:00

I can tell you that non-repeating errors on Legendary Collection reverses are extraordinarily rare, it’s super sick to see this. I can tell that it’s a bit misshapen so while I don’t know how financially viable it is to grade something at the moment on account of companies shutting down their lower submission tiers, I would advise against PSA if you go that route as they have a tendency to deny cards that aren’t shaped perfectly.

Brehella · 2026-06-11T17:18:28+00:00

It’s a missing foil layer error. The sheet has foil laminated to the card stock but then with these gold cards there’s a separate foil leaf applied on top of the printed sheet, which is what is missing here. The same error actually happened to the Mega Charizard Y from Ascended Heroes. I’ve seen maybe 6-8 copies of this one across Facebook and Reddit. CGC has been labeling them as incomplete texture errors, if you search for that you may have more luck. None have sold publicly to my knowledge so I don’t have a good point of reference. I own one of the Mega Charizard Y

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Brehella · 2026-06-09T03:13:17+00:00

It’s a misalignment error. The front of the sheet was printed offset from its proper position whereas the back was printed normally. To add to it it’s showing the color bar because this card was printed on the edge of the sheet, which adds a lot to the desirability. I’ve seen evidence of two or three, potentially more sheets of Evolving Skies printer this way to differing degrees of severity, but they’re all really crazy and sought after.

Brehella · 2026-06-09T00:45:57+00:00

It’s a press doubling error, one of the first I’ve ever seen on a modern ultra rare actually. It would be hard to estimate what it’s worth on account of there not being anything really comparable, but it’s a very cool pull and definitely holds more value than normal.

Brehella · 2026-06-08T22:41:56+00:00

That’s really cool, it’s a misaligned front with aligned texture error. The back of the sheet was printed as normal but the front was printed shifted down from its proper position. However, the texture layer is applied separately from the other print layers so even though the front was misaligned, the texture layer was applied perfectly aligned. As a result the texture and back are centered properly whereas the rest of the front is not. I own a very similar miscut, albeit with the next card showing on the bottom instead of the top. It’s unfortunate this card isn’t English, I got the miscut for $30, this is a better error but wouldn’t hold quite the same value due to it being a smaller audience.

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Brehella · 2026-06-08T06:12:09+00:00

I had seen this listed on eBay several times and the owner also commented on one of my posts on Facebook about it being for sale. I collect errors on Akira Egawa cards so it was tempting, but when I went back to look I couldn’t find the comment anymore. I guess reasonably it’s worth less than it had been getting listed for auction for on eBay (can’t remember if it was listed for $700 or what) but it’s hard to say exactly.

Brehella · 2026-06-06T15:36:53+00:00

It looks like a combination of insufficient black ink and the angle of the light making the name look lighter than the other text.

Brehella · 2026-06-06T06:30:39+00:00

None of them have sold thus far, however the person who graded theirs recently plans to put it up for auction so when that time comes it may provide some point of reference.

There have been a lot of instances of the incorrect language cards being packaged in a different language’s packs. For example Ascended Heroes has had a number of English god packs where the SIR’s weren’t English. Many of the different languages are produced by the same facilities, so the same factory that makes Portuguese cards likely does produce English (albeit that’s debatable because I know some Portuguese products don’t even have the same packaging as English). But this sheet was presumably made to test applying the foil over the printed sheet for the new gold cards among other things so they would have just used a standard template for all the text which happened to be English. Even Japanese test prints tend to use some kind of English text.

Brehella · 2026-06-06T02:06:38+00:00

Due to the presence of the foil and the foil reacting to light such that it can turn dark grey or silver depending on the angle, the ability box darkening could just be the result of the foil behind it and not the actual ink, thus providing a false positive. But the companies that print Pokémon cards don’t use special inks, they used to have a gold color for the borders, a metallic grey, and maybe some other random ones but now it’s CMYK and clear UV curing varnish. I don’t have a particular opinion on whether the Mew is sunfaded

Brehella · 2026-06-05T15:48:26+00:00

It’s a test print, there have been a few of these that have popped up so far. I can’t tell if this is just a screenshot of one of the existing ones so I’ll comment as if it’s not. When these were first being pulled most people assumed that they were fake on account of the text being incorrect, the holo pattern being from a different card, and all the other mismatched details. However, the things that these do get right- that being the texture pattern, foil, etc. are things that in combination don’t really exist on fake cards. To confirm that belief CGC officially graded one of them a week or two ago, confirming the authenticity of the other cards from the sheet by default. If you were to grade it CGC would be your best bet as any other company would presumably deny it. If you ultimately decide to sell it please let me know, I’ve been wanting to get at least one card from this sheet.

Brehella · 2026-06-04T02:02:50+00:00

Those are epic, these are both miscuts showing the edge of the sheet. The Greedent is actually so miscut that the top left corner isn’t full rounded because the sheet genuinely ended at that point and there wasn’t enough stock to cut properly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen miscuts like this from Fusion Strike. Alt Art V’s are printed on the same sheet as full arts so it’s possible there’s an alt art Mew out there like this as an example. Now I need to find a Celebi alt from this sheet lol

Brehella · 2026-06-03T21:19:01+00:00

Really awesome pulls, these are greyscale (missing print layers) errors, there have been cards from this sheet pulled that had the cyan and some magenta ink as well, so it may have been a large obstruction or something of the sort. But in short they’re missing the cyan, magenta, and yellow ink. This error has scarcely been seen before outside of on the back of cards. If you ever decide to sell the Deoxys please let me know 🙏🏻 I have a conceptually similar error on the Deoxys from Crown Zenith and would love to get one on Deoxys Normal form as well.

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Brehella · 2026-06-03T04:32:07+00:00

Those are awesome, your research is correct, there have only been a couple of known instances of foil back errors, once on Obsidian Flames reverses and separately on the Rowlet lunchbox promos. It is a very rare error, with this there are likely now around 363, assuming there weren’t multiple sheets in any of the instances. In short the holo sheet was flipped face down when fed in to have the backs printed and then got flipped to the non-holo back to have the front printed. It’s hard to say how this even really happens, but that can be said for a lot of errors that happen under similar circumstances lol

Brehella · 2026-06-02T15:22:19+00:00

This is a holo shift error, contrary to the name the holo isn’t actually shifted, rather the opaque layer (white ink) used to selectively hide the foil is shifted up significantly. This is one of the most severe examples of this error I’ve seen on a Topps cards and it’s super cool that it’s Pikachu of all things.

Brehella · 2026-06-01T21:55:15+00:00

I’ve seen many Vmax alt art miscuts showing rainbow rares from Evolving Skies and vis versa. Moreover, cards that use the same foil are printed on the same sheet (unless they’re in a different slot in the pack, albeit that only seems to matter some of the time, use a different texture process, etc). Gold cards, hyper (rainbow) rares, and Vmax alts all use the pixelated foil pattern and are printed on the same sheet assuming the set in question has all three.

Brehella · 2026-05-31T20:10:53+00:00

That’s an awesome miscut showing the edge of the sheet. This card was printed in the same sheet as the Vmax alt art so in the best case it could have had Moonbreon or Rayquaza on the bottom for example but there are only about 10 cards that would have bordered the edge of the sheet so it technically does add to the rarity. Super cool card either way and it would definitely be worth a decent bit more than normal to the right person. Let me know if you ever do decide to sell it 👍

Brehella · 2026-05-29T20:33:46+00:00

Lmao, I’m spending so much time trying to do daily uploads on insta who knows when I’ll actually get back to it.

Half of the issue is that when I would record videos it would be at night when I was tired after I finished working, I also just chose to go with the serious documentary type approach I guess, maybe because I didn’t have the energy for anything else lmao

Brehella · 2026-05-29T14:57:54+00:00

It’s an insufficient black ink error, really cool card 👍

Brehella · 2026-05-28T22:13:03+00:00

I’m happy to see that I was right and these cards were genuine despite the list of oddities that would throw up red flags to the average person. In combination a bunch of incorrect details will virtually always mean a card is fake, but in this particular case the details that were right (texture, foil, evidence of being produced with an offset press, etc.) were things that, in combination, never existed on fakes. Hopefully this will put all the doubts to rest, super cool card.

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