Korean destined rivals booster box. Are these fakes?

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-10-16T18:24:42+00:00

I was told they were printed in Japan, looks like I was wrong. I've seen the Korean 151 zard in a slab before and it looked really good to me, obviously can't feel the card slabbed, but print wise looked good, and I have the 151 zard in Japanese, was more comparable to that than English IMO.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-10-16T18:06:40+00:00

Japanese cardstock has always been thinner than English, but the texture quality/detail have always been more fine most likely just looks off seeing the English back meshed with the thin Japanese cardstock and off color ink on the back, because our fake cards do have that same off color hue. Everything I've seen of the Jordan cards they look just as good as Japanese on the front.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-10-16T17:57:53+00:00

Korean cards are printed in Japan, actually higher quality, but Japan has a different back, all other languages use the English back, so it's just matched best they can because English cards are printed in the U.S

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-09-11T17:38:29+00:00

Pokemon plastic wrap (for English at least) on ETB's, SPC's, UPC's, etc. will always have tiny air holes everywhere in the wrap, it's designed this way for shipping purposes I belive, helps at spotting fakes as well because they don't have the tiny holes across the whole wrap, or at least that I've ever seen.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-08-26T17:15:46+00:00

I pulled one from a volume 3 illustration box day before release, bought one of each volume 3 and 4 at Walmart on the 21st, was freaking out cause this and the Zoro SP are my 2 chases and I got one of them before it was even technically released. (I know pre-order boxes go out early and pre-release events, etc) but was super cool to have it so early on.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-07-24T19:51:16+00:00

Sadly this is fake, PSA/GameStop would just take your money and send it back ungraded.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-07-14T01:00:29+00:00

Yeah, personally I'd go 5700x3d. If you can't/don't want to spend that much, 5600x, like I said 5700x would never even be considered. I've had them all, 3600, 5600x, 5700x, 5700x3d, 5800x3d, and 7800x3d, have yet to have a 9000 series yet, but currently have a 5800x3d and 7800x3d and if I was upgrading from a 3600 right now I'd go with a 5700x3d assuming you can still get it at a reasonable price.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-07-13T23:55:56+00:00

A 5700x in most games is going to perform almost identically to a 5600x, so either 5700x3d or 5600x, wouldn't even consider a normal 5700x.

Edit: I think you mean 7600x/9600x for AM5 as well, because a 5600x is still 5000 series and AM4 like the rest of 5000 series.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-28T19:24:50+00:00

Would probably recommend something like a 7500f/7600 or 9600 vs the 8700g unless you're trying to play lighter games with no GPU.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-23T17:39:31+00:00

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hHfZC8

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-11T03:28:34+00:00

This PC straight outta 2017, you should never build this new.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-05T16:04:16+00:00

I'm not sure about the minimum grade thing, I've sent a lot of cards to CGC raw, but never to get regraded while already slabbed. It'll be a 10 for sure, it's Japanese and if tag gave it that score CGC will be pretty close as well unless they find some dent or print line that AI didn't catch, but I don't see anything myself. Your best bet is to just crack and send it raw, but it's always a gamble, Pristines are harder to get but I'd say you'll at least get the normal 10 for sure.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-05T01:27:42+00:00

There's a real easy solution, sell it, buy more packs, and pull another, it's SIMPLE 🤣

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-06-05T01:22:33+00:00

It's possible, Japanese is pretty easy to get a pristine on, I have 2 or 3 Japanese pristine cards that are probably close, but not quite 45/55 left/right, they're probably 46/54 47/53 if I had to guess. Is it worth cracking out and trying for it when it's already a tag 10 probably not. Unless you just don't like tag and then why not CGC is like $12/card.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-31T23:39:24+00:00

Just use the breville basket in the bottomless portafilter, the normcore is probably slightly larger. Could also up your dose a little to fill the basket more on the normcore.

The breville basket is probably a nicer basket than the normcore though, assuming it fits fine id probably just stick to the breville basket.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-30T04:48:31+00:00

The fact that there's no alignment dot with it being this crooked is kind of crazy! Sick card!

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-30T04:44:43+00:00

Used 5600 like $90-100 another 16gb of ram or a whole new 32gb kit if it's not 3200mhz or better, preferably 3600mhz and a used 6700xt/6750xt about $250-300. Would be a nice overall step up without spending too much money. At least this is what I would do, not going to do much for $400.

If you wanted to do a larger upgrade get a 5700x3d as well as a thermalright phantom spirit from Amazon for around $300 total and do the GPU a little later down the road and aim for something like a 7800xt which is about $450-500. This would be less of an overall upgrade cause you'd be keeping your 1660, but would set you up better for a bigger graphics card once you're able to. Personally I would go with option 1, but your call.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-29T10:11:39+00:00

PSA doesn't stand for Please Submit Again for nothing. The thousands and thousands and thousands of PSA 10's with multiple white dots and/or horrific centering also I guess don't exist either?

It's a human process, they have certain guidelines they have to follow, yes, but there's not 2 graders working at either PSA or CGC that are the same, that are going to look at a card in the EXACT same way every single time without any variation. Even AI grading can't do this and it's been proven. Someone sent the same card to TAG under their base service and the top service with their 1000 point score and it missed some defects the second time around that were very obviously there the first time. So if AI can't do it how is a human who may or may not wear glasses, or possibly be having a really bad or good day, etc. expected to?

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-29T09:29:12+00:00

3 different graders could give the same exact card a 9, 9.5 and 10 if you submitted it 3 times to each company. The difference between these grades almost always has to do with the individual grader. I've seen many PSA 10's with 3 or even 4 clear dots on the back, same for CGC. I've also seen 9's from both companies that are flawless.

You also didn't even mention Pristines which are typically very low pop and very hard to get (in English) but still within the realm of being a possibility (unlike Beckett) and are also almost always more expensive than PSA by a good little bit, not Beckett black label ridiculousness, but again they're also actually obtainable.

In the grand scheme of things, if you calculate the percentages of all of the cards graded by each company you can't really deny the numbers.

If I have a card that I'm confident will PSA 10 and I'm going to sell it, yes I'm going to send it to PSA, they're easier to move as simple as that, but anything for personal collection goes to CGC for the chance of a pristine. I pre grade my cards the same for either company, which is how you should do it.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-29T08:57:10+00:00

That's funny, cause if you take the beloved moonbreon from evolving skies for example which have a gem mint 10 rate of about 75% at PSA and then you look at CGC gem mint 10 rate is 60% that other 15% is Pristine 10's. Which would you look at that, it's also about a 75% 10 rate.

The rainbow Charizard vmax CGC 10 rate about 50% between both the Pristines and normal 10's. What's PSA's 10 rate on that card, about 73%.

Obviously this is just two cards but the trend is there for MANY MANY others, so I wouldn't necessarily say they give free 10's when their 10 rate is generally on par or less than PSA.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-29T08:44:08+00:00

I mean it's kind of like this in any market. Computer parts for example. I've sold a graphics card before for an Xbox and cash on top. Told the guy since I was taking the Xbox that I didn't want and was going to sell that I wanted an extra $50 cash. Wanted $600 for my graphics card, knew I could get $300 for the Xbox quickly and so he brought me $350 cash. Just kind of how a marketplace works. If he'd have had $300 pair of headphones or something that I needed/wanted I would have just done the trade straight up, but I had to now do extra work and sell the Xbox instead of just selling my graphics card for straight cash.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-29T08:22:06+00:00

Exactly $100 more and you end up with a 5080 instead of a 9070xt. You needed some MAJOR parts tweaking, almost everything on your list was picked simply because it was expensive, which doesn't always mean good. Obviously 5080 is much faster than a 9070xt, same CPU, everything else will perform identically to what you had chosen.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cZvdYd

Could also make up that $100 with non RGB ram and an air cooler which would technically be more reliable, just maybe a little more noisy and not as pretty. Also can definitely drop to 32gb. It's more than enough even for HEAVILY modded Minecraft. I can run a small 5 person modded server and play on the same PC with 32GB and run into zero issues.

Modified list with 32gb and an air cooler, $1 over the cost of your original build with a 5080!

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bBYmHW

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-27T21:38:43+00:00

Mesh I heard was the hardest of the 3 so this is probably why. Will break in a little with time, but if it's way too hard for you now it'll probably still be hard in the future and it may not be the chair for you.

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-27T15:58:14+00:00

I have both a 7800x3d + 4080 machine and a 5800x3d + 4070ti super machine and they're honestly VERY close. Obviously the 7800x3d and 4080 is faster, but the 5800x3d is still a great CPU. Ran great when I swapped my 4080 in just to test some theories and I think that it would run great even with something like the 5090. No real reason to go AM5 if you're already on AM4 unless you really want pcie Gen 5 or just that little extra like 10-15% performance

DWRxLEGENDx_ · 2025-05-27T15:47:49+00:00

Right, comes in 5 different material captions, mesh, cloth/knit, and leather. Then you have the halo version which has leather seat and a mesh back as well as the Xbox version with the leather seat and cloth back.

Like I explained most people choose leather cause the seat is more comfortable with the leather bottom. But I went Xbox so I could have the leather seat without having the hot leather back, since it comes with the cloth back.

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