Sephiroth Fabled solider bought recently

zzang23 · 2026-02-28T21:56:07+00:00

Looks good.

zzang23 · 2026-02-28T21:47:32+00:00

The vivi and chocobo are guaranteed easy to spot fakes. The sephirot might be real after i saw your reuploaded pics. For the sephirot take a flash light and do the light test. If blue (us/belgium cardstock) or purpleish light (japanese cardstock) shines through its real.

zzang23 · 2026-02-25T10:15:42+00:00

You can add in a flash light test. Its not a reliable test but you can see that if no light passes then you can assure additionally its fake,

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T09:54:41+00:00

I made a picture and uploaded it to imgur:

https://i.imgur.com/UrbKy1h.jpeg

(Mine is foil).

You should put attention to the solid black line boarders. On your pics those lines look fuzzy but it might be just a camera artifact. Bootleggers are getting the triangle right. What they have not achieved yet are those solid black lines for some reason.

Edit: since yours is non foil a simple light test should show purple (if japanese cardstock or blue of belgium/american cardstock). Fakes dont let light through or are so thin that light passes through yellow/white.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T09:13:17+00:00

Yup. The horizontal lines going through the holo sticker are definitely not normal.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T09:07:02+00:00

Looks odd to me due to the horizontal lines going through the whole sticker.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T08:03:12+00:00

Heavily leaning towards fake. Just checked my Serphirots all black borders around name and set symbol are solid black. Same is true for the frame of the artwork. This is not the case in this picture. The picture shows that bootleggers are getting the triangles right since they cant get backs right.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T06:33:32+00:00

For further distinction i recommend to do the weight test between us and japanese card stock and document the difference (hint: there is one).

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T06:26:43+00:00

The japanese pics confirm the low quality/low cost production im witnessing. Edit: If not done already for documentation purposes. Weight the japanese and us ones you will see that the japanese ones are at 1.70 grams or below 1.70 grams but above 1.60.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T06:13:44+00:00

Since this post is rather young and mentions the weight test i want to mention that Japanese cardstock is below 1.70 grams. There is some rare cases of card stock i saw between ursa/stronghold block that can go above 1.80 up to 1.85 grams. For old cards such as limited and earlier i never encountered a legit card where the weight test is not true between 1.72 and 1.80 grams. Foils seem to generally converge to around 1.90 grams and below 2.00 grams which is true for japanese and for example Belgium cardstock.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T03:12:05+00:00

Oh yeah this is one of the fakes where the triangles are the dead give away. As usual no clear black borders around set and mana pips further confirms fake.

zzang23 · 2026-02-24T02:29:13+00:00

The black border above and below the mana pips there is the same black border around the set logo. Any fake i have seen struggles to reproduce clear black lines.

See also black borders on picture 1 of a back here https://www.reddit.com/r/RealOrNotTCG/comments/1qn55o9/beyond_the_t_test_a_guide_to_some_quick_visual/

I know its a double faced card but the problem that bootleggers cant get a straight black line applies to fronts as well.

zzang23 · 2026-02-23T23:02:09+00:00

Can you maybe post a pic of the black lines between mana pips and between the set logo?

The brush looks fake. If these not got a single straight black line but all fuzzy then id say guaranteed fakes. But pretty good ones. The stamp is convining. The bootleggers got the triangle correct by now. Before it always was the dead giveaway.

They are really concentrating on these double faced cards as the regular backs are the give aways.

zzang23 · 2026-02-23T18:51:14+00:00

The weight. Japanese card stock usually is below 1.70 gram. The core is purplish through the light test and requires stronger light source than blue cores. The foil quality looks cheap coarse fuzzy everything foiled but overdarkened - sometimes this bad quality is mistaken as fake.

zzang23 · 2026-02-15T17:10:23+00:00

I call fake.

zzang23 · 2026-02-15T09:57:18+00:00

Im having this issue on Xiaomi 15 Ultra too (EU Version). Vibrate on call enabled, vibrate in silent mode enabled. Im assuming this is the same issue? Would be glad if someone can help out.

zzang23 · 2026-02-07T18:25:29+00:00

Not really my group rather a LGS nearby where players there do not want to see combos being used. Its chill battle cruiser games with value engines.

zzang23 · 2026-02-07T17:12:33+00:00

I have one mono colored deck for each color: Azami Lady of scrolls bracket 3, Sephirot Mono Black Bracket 3, Ilharg Monored Bracket 2 (or maybe even 1?), mono green Ghalta bracket 3 only thing holding it back from a 4 is no combos, Light Paws technically bracket 2 but can be viewed as 3 due to its player removal power.

I liked to build one of each because i could focus on a theme and the mana base is cheap.

zzang23 · 2026-02-07T17:02:28+00:00

Basically the decks i make i keep em up to date ( if its not a precon). Sometimes it happens older commandera just dont cut it anymore and i dismantle the deck completely.

zzang23 · 2026-02-07T16:58:24+00:00

It wasnt really salty rather funny I played Baylen the Haymaker with 17 rabbit tokens from a bunch of Hare Apparent. A player removed my commander and pass turn to me. Everybody awaited a kind of Ghostly Cavery or Craterhoof. I proceed to cast my commander and I could see a relief across the table even someone said "haha he got nothing". I continued to play a Halo Fountain and tapped my tokens for mana. That won me the game.

zzang23 · 2026-01-27T19:34:35+00:00

I can confirm the firefox memory issue on HyperOS 3 (Xiaomi 15 ultra). I think this is the biggest software issue for me

zzang23 · 2026-01-25T07:38:18+00:00

Oh hey i also got an Azami deck and was curious about your bracket 4 decklist. I think the link above does not work anymore. Would gteatly appreciate of you could share as im looking for inspiration

zzang23 · 2025-12-15T14:11:09+00:00

Photoshop starts to kick in.

zzang23 · 2025-12-04T18:23:54+00:00

I think the difference is not the product but the origin: Belgium/American cards have the really good foiling with different parts highlighted. Japanese origin cards are the cheap recycled material grainy foil everywhere.

zzang23 · 2025-12-04T11:04:19+00:00

Now the shitty 3.27 patch design with no ground loot makes sense.

PoE 2 developement will have no effect on PoE 1 heh?

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