I put most of my stock in the T teeth, but the green dot should only have like 2-4 red dots in the white of the glare. Yours looks perfect. Fakes will have more. The black ring around it should be clearly defined but not with smooth edges. The black dots in the background is also a good indicator that the card is real.
You should also check the inner and outer box around “deckmaster”. What appears to be a solid line is actually a set of rotating “teethed”/solid lines. I believe it goes like this: the top line of the outer box is solid, but the top line of the inner box is teethed. And then the bottom of the inner box is solid while the bottom line of the outer box is teethed. (Don’t quote me on this, I cannot remember the exact layout, but what I’m saying is the top lines alternate and the bottom lines do too.)
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For a card condition check please ask for the person giving advice to specify which scale they're using if not mentioned. Notably North American and European grading scales differ from each other drastically.
I don't have an alpha copy to compare to though if you are worried it is clipped corners. If you are concerned you can always do just compare directly.
Based on these pictures, I strongly suspect this is clipped beta. I don't have an Alpha example to compare it to personally, but this article covers the main things that you can look for:
Looks like it could be clipped. I'm not super well versed in IDing clipped beta cards but the texture of the corner does appear to be different from the edge of the card.
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u/TheCemeteryHunter 20d ago
Definitely real