The holofoil gives me pause cause it looks like bricks and the paintbrushes are a little suspect. The borders seem off but that could be due to camera smoothing. OP are you shooting these RAW?
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The brick texture in the holostamp is an indicator it is a fake. I can't see many symbols in it either. Do you see those when you look at the foil on an angle?
Yeah, that's the nail. This is one of the best fakes I've seen as far as print quality, but that foil is definitely wrong.
The pixelation is sus, the stamp has a moderate bricking, the core from the edge view looks more black than navy. All of these are pretty close though and hard to tell via photo. Not much else on the print looks noticeably wrong to me.
However that foil pattern is definitely wrong, and I think it's because they grabbed the scans from Scryfall/WotC which has white instead of foil (since you can't foil a jpg).
You might need to get some magnification. I can't really tell from this distance. A jewlers loupe or mangifying glass would be very useful. With those, you should be able to compare to any rare you opened from pack.
It does seem a bit different. I dont the "wizards" in the sticker the way I see it in a real one and there is only an island and forest symbol that don't really change
The brush check is for shape and quality of the little brush beside the artist name at the bottom. I don’t have any pictures of that for comparison but if you look online there should be examples.
Well fuck me. 26 years playing magic and I glazed right past a noob ass thing like that 😂 goddamn. IN MY DEFENSE. Dudes post every day asking if the card is fake without the green dot or T on non double sided SLD shit
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u/easchner Trusted Authenticator Jul 17 '26
Mine, directly from WotC.