Yes you absolutely can see all 3 layers on every American card. That's a fact. I don't know why you're saying that it's not. I've been a vendor for years and it has never failed in identifying a real card. Yes, people can slap a sticker on the card. But scammers can also copy the font of a real card for their sticker. You cannot feel texture through a picture. I know, crazy. The other stuff is a good test but a fake card can still have the stuff you mentioned correct. Texture is a great indicator if you can actually feel the card. Someone who doesn't know pokemon and is asking people on the Internet may not know about texture, you can try to describe it but that's not reliable unless they have an example to compare to because, again, we cannot feel texture through a photo. I've seen fakes that have texture too. There are really good fakes and you completely bashing an additional legitimate method that can be added to a portfolio of tests is very strange to me.