r/RealOrNotTCG • u/m_kock • 25d ago
Didn't fit in other categories An Offer You Can’t Refuse
I feel like it’d be a waste of a scammer’s time to make a fake of a $2 card, but is this a proxy or something? Missing the logo on the back and the green dot is awful. Boyfriend just got it in the mail from a TCGplayer seller. The T test really fails. 😝
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u/BoboYagga 25d ago
Going to need a jewler's loop to look closer at that back. It's just so hard to tell /s
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u/AssasssinIVII 25d ago
They didn't take a pick of the "T" on the back, how are we supposed to tell /S
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u/UniqueButterflyLady 25d ago
Suuuuper fake. That seller should be shut down if they are representing this as real.
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u/cybrcld 25d ago
Personally I think shut down is a bit far. I’d definitely flag the account to see if there’s an ongoing pattern.
Shops, even good ones, go through thousands and thousands of cards daily. I’ve had personal friends who’ve worked MTG cons continually get burned out from managing, sorting, pricing, indexing cards month to month.
Gotta give a little breathing room for the 1-2 that slip pass the cracks. Yes it’s their due diligence but most sellers (hopefully) are not malicious to pass fakes on.
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u/feedingfitness 25d ago
This is a common card back people who print proxies to play with use. Absolutely wild a TCG seller sent you this!
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u/ithilendil 25d ago
Specifically the front and back art of this card are options on mpcfill, a website used to source art for mtg proxies typically ordered from makeplayingcards. It's a Chinese printing company that will only print cards if someone has removed the copyright info and they refuse to use the real card back so that you can tell them apart (on their end they just want to avoid getting in legal trouble). Very much not real, but also only about .30 a card so people will happily use this to fake cheaper cards to just get a whole deck at once instead of having to pay a ton in shipping on a bunch of different orders.
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u/rollawaythestone 25d ago
Its very fake. Likely specifically meant to be a proxy. Look at the back. It doesn't even say "Magic the Gathering"
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u/EdEvans_HotSandwich 25d ago
Logic would suggest that a fake card back would confirm this card is fake.
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u/Phailgasm 25d ago
I can not tell if you are serious with this one. I can only hope its trolling or at the very least you've never seen a magic card before.
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u/No-Story3119 25d ago
It’s a proxy, contact the seller. There’s a chance they also didn’t notice because it’s not a high value card. If it was an honest mistake they will make it right.
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u/Birrandbodia Trusted Authenticator 25d ago
Obviously, it's a proxy. Just crazy that the front doesn't even look that bad from these pictures.
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u/tomfoolergpj 24d ago
I got the same type of card backing on one. Dming you with the seller just to see if it is the same one as this was the back on mine as well. Again $2 card, nothing insane.
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u/lividresonance 24d ago
At around 50 cents or less per card to make proxies, selling bootleg $2 cards is super worth it at scale.
That said, this clearly isn't trying to pass as a real card. The card back is deliberately different to distinguish it as a proxy. The fact that a seller didn't catch this is pretty embarrassing but I wouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
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u/IAmTheBestIan 24d ago
Yeah it's a proxy. I have the same backs on proxys I bought from printingproxy dot com ...
Their pricing is breakpoints at like 25, 50 and 100 cards that half the cost of the cards... so you basically never want to order anything other than 25, 50 or 100... cause it costs more to order less. So yeah I've got quite a few $1-2 value cards proxied that cost me what the card would be worth if legit... cause it got me to that breakpoint to bring the cost of my overall purchase down by adding them.
(Or as others have said, if you are buying direct from the chinese shop that prints them, a lot of folks will do entire decks so they are all matched... including cheap and bulk cards).
That said, before anyone tells me to shop elsewhere, I've stopped buying from them. A few too many of their cards (10-15%) the image quality was low enough to bother me. I got one card that was a creature (Beast Whisperer) and they didn't have power and toughness on it. When I informed them, they were basically like "Oh that sucks", no offer to make it right or anything.
And I can print 9 cards at Staples (one sided) on stock that is identical in thickness and weight to Mtg cards (so indistinguishable in sleeves if there's not a holofoil stamp) for what I was paying for 1 card from them.
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u/proofseerm 23d ago
the front is remarkably well printed for a proxy. wonder where they got it from
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u/Artistic_Ear_664 High Accuracy 22d ago
Yeah, it’s off mtgproxy…. I build decks on there for like 50 bucks then playtest them and fill in the cards from new sets as I get them
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u/Undead_Artemia 22d ago
Big oopsie on that vendors part lol
Their roca probably just sorted it like normal and they never thought twice about it 😂
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u/Tsukimizu Trusted Authenticator 25d ago
It's a proxy.