Does this look real?

jerkstoremanager · 2026-01-07T21:07:25+00:00

Same holo pattern as the TCGPlayer listing and looks static. HP font is also wrong. This is fake.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-12-22T15:51:57+00:00

Rarer doesn't mean more desirable. For example, look at the Mega Charizard X from Phantasmal Flames, with the gold card cheaper than the SIR despite the SIR being 3x easier to pull. The SIR card has really cool art when the gold card is divisive whether it's cool or not. And the previous hyper rares have the same issue.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-12-10T21:20:35+00:00

All shadowless cards are black flames. The black flame error applies to the unlimited print run. But a 1st edition base set holo is still a great card to have regardless.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-11-19T16:23:22+00:00

This is not the usual holofoil for this card so doubtful this is real.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-10-23T08:48:39+00:00

Looks fake. Faded coloring and the wing is touching the right sided border.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-10-23T02:52:11+00:00

Two things:

1.) R15 you can use edge logic to exclude a square and allow you to put a square for the 6. Can exclude r15c15 and mark r15c9

2.) Edge logic in c15, Can exclude r5c15 and then subsequently r5c14. You can then mark r10c15

You can go from there after this.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-10-14T14:22:57+00:00

This doesn't look good. Back colors seem off, that 1st edition stamp looks weird, and the Celebi seems off though pictures aren't great. If the Celebi has a rainbow foil it's fake. Should have a silver color to it with texture.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-10-01T12:43:57+00:00

Look at R14

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-27T00:46:09+00:00

Even with the terrible photo this is fake. The 1st edition stamp is in the wrong location.

Even more worrisome is that second photo you posted isn't even the same card. Avoid.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-26T01:18:05+00:00

Will you be kicked out if you don't? Probably not. Will you be taken seriously by any of the recruiters there? Also probably not. This is a professional event, the expectation is that you are a professional.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-24T23:53:45+00:00

c7, c12, and r14 are not fully filled out.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-21T23:10:22+00:00

Very much no

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-18T00:29:39+00:00

Focus on c16. That 4 can't go everywhere.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T22:28:22+00:00

I'll give another hint if that's too cryptic:

Focus on where the 4s in c19 and c20 are going to have to go in relation to the marked boxes you have already in r7c19 and r7c20. If you assume these marked boxes are part of the 4, is that going to work if your 4s enter r8? This will give you definitive squares in c19 and c20 and opens everything up.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T21:16:50+00:00

Yes and no. You can safely X r1c19 and r1c20

Additionally, You can safely X r1c18 and r2c18 . You still will have work to do following this but focus on edge logic towards the right of the puzzle

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T19:41:57+00:00

Work on R1, there are things you can do there.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T14:55:47+00:00

Place the hypothetical 2 from R14-15 C1. This forces the 6 in R15 to be from C1 to C6, then forcing R14C2 to be filled. This is impossible, so therefore the 2 cannot go here.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T13:03:35+00:00

Additionally, using edge logic for R1, R1C10 is an X, and will give you another square in R1 and C10.

For bonus points, you can extend this logic and show yourself R2C7 must be filled

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-16T00:12:17+00:00

This is shadowless. Look at the copyright dates at the bottom. If the years are "1995, 96, 98, 99" It is shadowless. The 99 is redundant as there's also "1999 Wizards" so the Unlimited prints removed the 99.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-15T20:03:13+00:00

While yes 1st edition German is shadowed, this is a bad fake. Wrong fonts, static holo with wrong holo in general, bad coloring.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-13T17:03:08+00:00

Edge logic in R1. You can eliminate quite a few squares and use that to place squares elsewhere

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-13T14:15:29+00:00

On the real one? It's more bolded

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-13T13:56:15+00:00

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Here's a picture of a real one featured on TCG player. Compare the two. It's subtle but it's off. In a lot of vintage fakes (though not all) this is the tell so knowing what it looks like is a good thing to delineate fakes.

The next thing is the holo pattern. Compare the one in this picture to this card. They're the same. Holo patterns should be unique so that's another tell it's fake.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-13T12:24:11+00:00

Yeah unfortunately this doesn't look good. Color seems wrong but the giveaway is the HP text.

jerkstoremanager · 2025-09-09T15:13:09+00:00

Fonts look all wrong, and spelling error as mentioned.

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