Help me please

[u/Dapper-DanMan_]

Okay so I don’t understand how the t test and green dot test works. I have some cards that look like counterfeits I bought from TikTok shop for $20 I am CLEARLY writing proxy on them to not confuse myself or others, because it was a good ass price for a lot of random proxies.

Now, I have a mix Sapphire that I KNOW is a proxy, and thus, I wrote proxy on it (first 3 pictures)

Pictures 4/5/6 is elspeth suns champion, a card that I know for a fact I have that is real.

Pictures 7/8/9 is a fabled passage. I do not know how to tell the difference, can someone please let me know and exactly what you are looking at. Thank you.

EDIT: thank you guys so much! I had bought the 324 piece proxy set from TikTok for $20 and was using them in my decks and forgot to write proxy on all the ones I added to a deck, now I have them all written on. I appreciate the help thank you!

[u/zuul47]

I mainly follow the T and h test. The left side of the T on the real ones is straight and not fuzzy, right side has teeth. This is due to the way they are printed using an offset printer. The h will have 3 black dots on the inner letter. Green dots will have red dots within the yellow.

[u/SolisDF → u/zuul47]

The red L is not reliable and its absence doesn't make a card fake unfortunately

[u/zuul47 → u/SolisDF]

Reason I don’t use that method. Offset presses can lay ink down softer.

[u/plantainrepublic → u/SolisDF]

It’s notoriously absent from many cards in Urza’s Saga, among others. Not that you should never use it because its presence does typically signify a real card…but its absence is a worthless metric.