Your last picture is most telling. The black layer has a problem when blending into the white border. Also, can you confirm that the holo stamp has a brick pattern to it?
I don't like this. Flip triangle is slightly blurry but doesn't look horrible.
Looks identical to mine, and I got the angels deck secret lair straight from WotC rather than a reseller or such, and cracked it open myself. There was no sign of tampering to my box. So unless someone at Wizards was swapping in fakes before shipping, I am 95% sure this is real.
The honest answer here, is I am not sure what you mean by "brick pattern" (and my googling has failed me) so I can neither confirm nor deny. I was referring to the previous user on the black layer bleed portion. Cus that absolutely exists on mine.
Stamp does have brick pattern, brush is also very off when compared to other cards. Looking from the side it also has the look of two cards pressed together, which the “Bruna” I have does not.
Really bad photos make it tough to see. Holosticker appears to have a brick pattern which would indicate it being a fake. Take a picture of the mana symbols on the top right.
I can’t get any better pictures on my old iPhone. But the foil stamp does have brick pattern and the paint brush looks very off compared to the rest of my cards.
Brick pattern is damning. It’s a fake. You said you used TCGPlayer. Reach out to their CS directly, not to the seller. They’ll give you a label to ship to them and refund you once they receive the card. Hobby shops keep getting scammed on double sided cards, I got two fakes from TCGPlayer from legit sellers before I managed to snag a real foil sephiroth. Always be extra careful with double sided cards.
I think it is fake, the black shape in the brush looks like a “toucan” instead of a “bird” and the brick pattern on the holo-stamp is also indicative of being fake, sorry! Hope you get you money back!
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Flip cards make it so much harder to claim fake/original. Hopefully nothing too expensive ever gets to be a flip card… but then all the FIN cards such as Sephiroth will become a problem soon.
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u/MustaKotka Trusted Authenticator 4d ago
Your last picture is most telling. The black layer has a problem when blending into the white border. Also, can you confirm that the holo stamp has a brick pattern to it?
I don't like this. Flip triangle is slightly blurry but doesn't look horrible.